Firoz Mahmud
firozmahmud.com
www.otafinearts.com/en/artists
Born in Khulna, Bangladesh
Education
2011: PhD on Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
2008: Research on Contemporary Art, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo
2007: Masters of Fine Arts, Tama Art University, Tokyo
2005: Research on Contemporary Art, Fine Art Department, Tama Art University, Tokyo
2003: Research, Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten (Royal Academy of Arts), Amsterdam
2001: MFA, Dhaka University, Institute of Fine Arts, Dhaka
1997: BFA, Painting, Dhaka University, Institute of Fine Arts, Dhaka
1993: Pre-BFA, Painting, Dhaka University, Institute of Fine Arts, Dhaka
Prize / Fellowship / Grant
2011: Asian Art Council (ACC)/ Staar Foundation, New York
2010: Short listed, Jiro Yoshihara Memorial Project 2009 mini, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan
2009: `Prize- Art project Ideas`, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
2007: Research project Grant from Arts Networks Asia (ANA), Singapore
Kaiseikai Foundation Grants, Tokyo & Asia Open Art Forum, Tokyo
2003: Fellowship, Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands
2000: Berger Young Painters Award, Dhaka
Best Prize for Experimental painting, Institute on Fine Art, DU, Dhaka
1999: ’Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grants’, Canada
1998: ‘Countess Enid Driscoll-Spa. Prize’, Royal Over-seas League, London, U.K.
1997: Khalaghar National Art Prize, Dhaka
1995:‘Shilpachariya Zainul Gold Medal’ (All Media Best), Institute of fine art, Dhaka
1991,92,93,94: Best prize in each media, Annual Art Exhibition, Fine Art Institute, Dhaka University
Artist Residency / Camp
2011: International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP ), New York
2010: Curatorial workshop under Vasif Kortun at ICA- Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo
2009: Artist Residency at OZU Culture Center, Umane/Rome, Italy
2000: Kolkata Nandonik, Kolkata, India (Camp)
1997: National Art Gallery, Dhaka , Bangladesh (Workshop)
Solo Exhibition: (selected)
2012: `Dismal Cry of Heritage`, Skoto Gallery, Chelsea, New York
2011: `Dismal Cry of Heritage`, Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, Dhaka
2011: `Toss of the Loss of Blessing of their Disguise` -Billboard & Subways in New York
2011: `Traitor of Faith`, International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York
2011: `Lamentation in Two Lies`, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
2010: `Yatta! Anzen! B.A.D. Museum of Contemporary Art Yuga Gallery Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
2010: `Sucker`wfp21`, Chinritsukan Gallery, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
2010: `Whatever They are Scolded Your Star is Safe`, Asbestos Art Space and city billboards, Bandung, Indonesia
2009: `Belief = Be live`, OZU Sapce, Umane, Italy
2008: Chimera Project, Bugis MRT & Junction, Singapore
2007: ‘Flying Pixels from flying man’, BV & STVCV project, Khulna Vision TV & Dhaka intercity Bus service , Bangladesh
2006: Dis-tinc-tion’, Plaza Gallery, Tokyo
2005: ‘MAnifeSTATION/ layer report 27, 27’, Setagaya Arts Foundation, Tokyo (Curator:Akira Tatehata)
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo (Curator:Akira Tatehata, CAT./text)
2003: ‘GreenDelta’ & ’Level ID` ProjectruimteOost & Nord, Rijksakademie V.B. Kunsten, Amsterdam
2003: `PepsiMISTERYcola’, Mediaschip, Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
2003: `Laughter’ , Das Spielhaus, Berlin
2003: `Floss`, Mayor Plaza, Madrid
2003: `Chimera -Who’s Who’, Hub spots, Amsterdam, Glasgow & Edinburgh , UK
2002: ‘Memoir012345678901’, La Gallery, Alliance Francaise de Dhaka
2001: ‘When Situation Happens’, Zainul Gallery, Institute of Fine Arts, Dhaka
2000: `Domineering Domination’ Institute Of Fine Arts, Dhaka
1999: “Quest of Authenticity”, Alliance Francaise, Dhaka
Group Exhibition (selected)
2011: 12 artists from Bangladesh `40 years of Independence` at City Center, Agartala, India
2011: `Step Across This Line`-Contemporary art from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, Asia House, London (Curator: Deeksha Nath)
2011: Salon at Olive Street Garden: elmar hermann and firoz mahmud by ISCP, New York
2011: Summerlight vii, Westbeth Gallery, New York
2011: Open Studios at International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP ), New York
2011: TransCultural Exchange: Where Art and the World Convene, Boston, Massachusetts
2011: Discussion/screening `Dialogues in Asian Contemporary Art` at Location One, New York (Moderated by Leeza Ahmedy)
2011: VIP International Contemporary Art Fair, Exclusively online Fair, represented by Ota Fine Arts
New Address, New Works, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
2010: Hakase-Tenrankai, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
2010: Screening, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto (Curator Yuko Hasegawa)
2010: Transformation, Project Space 1, Tokyo Geidaiand Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (Curator: Yuko Hasegawa)
2010: 1st Aichi Triennial, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan (Curator:Akira Tatehata,Peter Luigi Tazzi, Jochen Volz)
2010: RE/Mapping Matsudo, Matsudo Art project 2010, Chiba (Curator:Isom Jamal Winton)
2010: I want you !, Mori Art Museum`s Center Gallery, Tokyo (curator Hasegawa Yuko & Others Judges...)
2010: Short listed, Art project 2009mini`, Jiro Yoshihara Memorial project, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan
2009: `Art project Ideas`, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima (Curator: Yukia Kamiya)
2009: `Cities and walls ` 5th Tashkent Biennial, Uzbekistan
2009: 4th Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial (Dynamo Art Project), Nigata, Japan
`personally political - contemporary sensation` , kunsthausTacheles, Berlin (Curator:Barbara Fragogna)
`6x609` Rochester Contemporary Art Center, New York
2009: 9th Sharjah Art Biennial-`Provision for the Future`, Sharjah Art Museum, UAE (Curator: Esabel Carlos /Jack Persekian)
2008: 11th Cairo Art Biennial, `the Other`, Arts Palace, Cairo, Egypt (Curator: Ehab Ellaban )
2008: Firoz Mahmud, Tokuro Usui, Arryan Snowball, Union Gallery, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
2008: Sovereign Asian Art Exhibition, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore
2008: 13th Asian Art Biennial Bangladesh, National Art Gallery, Dhaka
(`Anomalies` Art project with Sawa Hiraki, Hiroharu Mori and Ozawa Tsuyoshi)
2008: 'Spirit of Travel': LVP, The Landmark Atrium, Hong Kong
2008: Tumon Sands Plaza, Tumon, Guam
30AAPA, Star Hill Center/LV, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2008: `When Switch off Mobile…talk Eloquently’ Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo (Curator: Ozawa Tsuyoshi/Tsuruta Yoriko)
2008: `..cret Auction`, Command N/KANDADA space, Tokyo
2008: Sovereign Asian Art Prize, The Landmark Atrium, Hong Kong
2008: ShContemporary08, Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai, China
2008: `Machi to Ato’, Art Project, Kojima Art Plaza, Tokyo
2007: `Visualizing onto dream` project, BRAC NGO elementary school,Khulna , Bangladesh
2007: `Sotsuten`, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo
2007: `KOTONOBA’-Sustainable Art Project exhibition, Kyu-Iwasaki-Tei Museum, Tokyo
2007: Contemporary Art from Bangladesh, Art Nexus, Beijing, China
2007: National Art Gallery (Shilpakala Academy), Dhaka
2007: Asian art , Sovereign Art Foundation, Hong Kong (Curator/Nominator: David Elliot)
KINKO, Nihon Ginko Walking Art Museum, Tokyo
2006: Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial (Curator: Fram Kitagawa/Hau Honru), Nigata, Japan
2006: `Asian Youth Artists`, Changwon Sungsan Art Hall, Korea (2005)
2006: Art Kawasaki, JFE/Th!nk, Kawasaki (2005) (Curator: Osamu Watanabe/ISHII Kousei)
2006: ROSL Selection, East West Gallery, London, UK (Curator: David Solomon)
2005: Fuchu Art Museum, (Curator: Motoe Kunio), Tokyo
2005: Witte de With, center for contemporary art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2005: `Japonder’, Setagaya Art foundation, Tokyo
2004: ‘East Meets West’ -Asian Contemporary Art, Arte Communication, (Curator: Chang Tsong- Zung), Venice, Italy
2003: Open Atelier, Rijksakademie VBK, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2003: S.M.A.K. The Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art – Ghent, Belgium
2003: River side Gallery, North Carolina, USA
2002: Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh, Dhaka (2000)
2002: 10 Contemporary Artists of Bangladesh’, National Art Gallery, Dhaka
2002: Auction of paintings/Art exhibition, ICDDR,B, Dhaka
2002: 10 Contemporary Artists from Bangladesh (Curator: Francisco Ippolito), Metropolitan-
Gallery Mostings& Byggeriets Hus, Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark
Young Art, Bangladesh National Art Gallery, Dhaka (1998, 96 & 94)
2001: Kolkata Nandonik, Calcutta, India. (2000)
2001: `Contemporary Art of Bangladeshi `, Chuwa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2001: Galerie-F reiraum, Waltrop & Bonn, Germany
2001: East- West Gallery, London, U.K.
2001: `Contemporary Japan & Bangladeshi Art`, Art Space Rashinban, Tokyo, Japan
2001: `Reflection 2’ Birla Academy of Art, Calcutta, India
2001: `Contemporary Artists from Bangladesh` Gallery Kusabue, Nagoya, Japan
1998~2000: Berger Exhibition, Zainul Gallery, Dhaka
1998~2000: National Art Exhibition, Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka
1998~2000: Contemporary Bangladeshi Art exhibition, G Beijing, China
1998~2000: Art Space Rashinban, Tokyo, Japan
1998~2000: `Reflection 2’ Birla Academy of Art, Calcutta, India
1998~2000: Galerie-F reiraum, Waltrop & Bonn, Germany
1998~2000: Gallery Kusabue, Nagoya, Japan
1998~2000: India-Bangladesh artists exhibition, Kolkata Nandonik, Kolkata
1998~2000: East- West Gallery, London, U.K.
1998~2000: Royal Over-seas League, London, Concurse RNCM, Manchester
1998~2000: Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland
Teaching/ Workshop Given/ Artist Talk
2011: Dialogue in Asian Contemporary Art, Location One, New York
2011: Salon at Olive Street Garden:elmar hermann and firoz mahmud by ISCP, New York
2011: TransCultural Exchange Conference, Boston
2008: Artist talk & screening, Department of Fine Art , Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
2008: Workshop for local communities at Kozima Art Plaza, Tokyo
2007: Workshop,`Visualizing onto dream` project, BRAC NGO elementary school,Khulna , Bangladesh
2003: Artist talk, Rijksakademie Ban Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
2003: Lecture, UODA University, Dhaka
1997~1999: Teaching, Narajanganj Fine Art Institute, Dhaka
Publications Featured In [Articles/Reviews/Catalog] (Selected )
Art Collector, `Lamentation of Firoz Mahmud`, Eiichi Hosokawa, Release No. 2011/06/25, No-28, Tokyo, Japan
Art Asia Pacific, Bookmark Firoz Mahmud , 21 June, New York
http://www.artasiapacific.com/Blog/BookmarkFirozMahmud
Tokyo Art Beat, Sorrowful Cries of Heritage, on `Lamentation in Two Lies`, Chisako Izuhara, 2011-5-29, Tokyo
`Firoz Mamud`s Lamentation in Two Lies` Art-iT, May, 2011
ArtGene, Appeal to the stupidity of war, weapons made of beans, Owa Kazama Hayato , 2011-5-17, Tokyo
Art-Index review, New Address, New Works, Feb, 2011
The Graffik, Sorrowful Cries of Heritage, 2011-5-31, Tokyo
La maja descalza, `El arte y las ciudades es el tema de la Trienal de Aichi 2010` publicado en: arte, 21.08.2010, Spain
The Daily Independent, `Bangladeshi Artist Exhibits in Japan`, page-12 & 13, 4 Sep-2010, Dhaka, Bangladesh
News Today, Daitsuke Awata, `Bangladeshi artist Firoz's organic and phenomenal artworks in international arena`, 30.10.2010
DNP Museum Artscape Magazine, Lucy Birmingham ,`Focus, Arts and Cities: Aichi Triennale 2010`, Japan,
BUNKA, Jimoto ishikishita jujitsu no Sakuhin, Aichi Triennale2010 hokoku, Mainichi Shimbun, 7 Sep, 2010,Tokyo;
Asahi Shimbun, Toshi no Shukusai no Shogeki, Aichi Triennale 2010, Sep, 2, 2010, Tokyo ,Japan
RE:Arts, Lucy Birmingham , `Contemporary art helps revive a city`,on Aichi Triennale, Japan Times, P-15, Aug 13, 2010, Tokyo
Catalog-Provision for the Future, Sharjah Biennale, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE;
TV Nagoya interview on Firoz Mahmud and Aichi Triennale, 20 August, 2010, at 18.30,
Aichi Triennale Kyo Kaimaku, Azayakani machi o irodoru, Torienare nairankai, (Opened the the door of Aichi Triennale),
page:1 & 3 , August 21, 2010, The Mid-Japan Economist, Nihon Chuo Keizai Shimbun, Nagoya, Japan,
Flush Art, Aichi Triennale, Arts and Cities, Summer Edition, 2010,
Sharjah Live TV on 17 March,09, Sharjah, UAE; /
Provisions for the Future, Sharjah Biennial09, Art Forum Magazine,2009,/
Sunita Menon,`I`m so Happy to see so many artists`-Art lovers gather for Sharjah Biennale,Gulf News,P-4,3.20.2009, Dubai, UAE
Peter Lewis, `Firoz Mahmud`, Slush /Seconds Feb, 2009 issue, Leeds, UK, /
AGENDA KUNSTBUS `Agenda Firoz Mahmud`, http://www.kunstbus.nl/cgi-bin/kunstagenda.cgi?na am=¸roz.../
http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/ bien/sharjah_biennial/2009/tour/museum
RSS Daily World News, Sharjah Biennale 9" by Valerie Grove , Sharjah_Biennale_9 article. 03/26/2009, UAE
ART iT, July 7,2008 `Exhibition review-When you switch off the mobile, painting start to talk eloquently`, Tokyo, Japan,(www.) ,
The Mainichi Newspaper, Gameni Monogatari o Tojikomeru’ by Kishi Keiko, Page-4,/2008.6.24, Tokyo , Japan;/
The monthly ‘The Window of Arts’, Eiichi Hosokawa, August 2008, page 32, Tokyo, Japan
Bijutsu Thecho (BT) `Sustainable project ’, Tokyo, Feb-2008,/
FE, Asian Art, Hong Kong;’Frame’,/’StarMag’-Sep,2007,/,’Prestige’,p-416~421, Hong Kong, Sep2007; Nov,2007 p-70;/ Gallery, P-42, Vol.261, Jan 2007, Tokyo, Japan;/
Catalog & Book of Echigo –Tsumari Art Triennial 2006, Nigata/Tokyo, published by Art Front Gallery, Japan;/
Ca-Fe Autumn publication & catalog.,/ “Kawasaki Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition ”,Kawasaki, October 2005,P-17;/
Arjan Reinders, “Veel behaaglijk werk op de Rijksakademie”, Het parool, Nov. 30, 2003, Amsterdam, P-8 ;/
“Rijksakademie van Beeld.Kunsten 2003”(booklet), Edited by Erick Beltran ,Dec 2003, RVBK, Amsterdam, p-23/
Trine Ross, “fri kunst fra Bangladesh”, Politiken, Copenhagen, Denmark; 5, December, 2002, P-6/
Sadeq Khan, “Oktoberfest of Paintings at La Galerie”, Holiday, Dhaka, Oct 18,2002, P-4/
Ulandssekretariatet LO/FTF Council, kunstnerne og forfatterne, “Kalantorer Roopkalpa Overgangsbilleder. Smtidskunst fra Bangladesh” (book), Denmark, ISBN 87-90858-18-2, 2002, p-23 & 37, 40-41;/
Fayza haq , “A world of colourful images, figures and semi abstract nations”, The Daily Star ,culture, Oct.4, 2002, Dhaka, P-12;/
Mustafa Zaman,“Memories of Firoz Mahmud”, Dhaka courier, Dhaka, 18 Oct., 2002, VOL.19 issue 12, P-36 ;/
Moinuddin khaled, “ei somoer dosh Shilpi”, Jugantor, Dhaka, 3 may, 2002, p- 7;/
Fayza haq, “phantasmagoria of everyday life”, Star, weekend magazine, Dhaka, VOL-5 Issue 239, p-29;/
Syed manzoorul islam, “Firoz Mahmud’s paintings and drawings”, The Independent, Dhaka, 8 April, 2000, P-,/
TH, “Firoz Mahmud, Bangladesh”, Overseas, ROSL Magazine, London, UK, VOL. 84 No.4, Dec 1998 feb1999 ISSN 00307424,
Shamim Ahsan & Tina Umnia, “Showcasing New Talent”, Star, weekend, Dhaka, Dec.8, 2000, P-4;/ MD. Jahangir Alam, Firoz Mahmud’s Art depicts world of Tyranny”, Evidence, Dhaka, March 10, 2000, VOL.18th yr, No 1, P- 36;
Collection
National Gallery of Fine Arts, Bangladesh, LO-FTF Council, Copenhagen, USIS-United States Information Service, Dhaka, Grameen Bank, Danish Society of Labors Copenhagen, Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten Amsterdam, Ota Fine Arts Tokyo
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