Farah Al Qasimi

Farah Al Qasimi’s work examines identity and self-expression through saturated colour and attention to detail. Shaped by her upbringing in the Middle East and her life in the United States, her multidisciplinary practice reflects a sensibility attuned to visual abundance and ornamentation, as well as the ways people construct meaning in everyday spaces. Working across photography and film, Al Qasimi avoid direct depiction, focusing instead on surfaces and tactile details that suggest presence without fully revealing it. Each composition shows how people express identity through choices big and small.

Al Qasimi’s work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Guggenheim New York and Abu Dhabi, and she has participated in residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, Delfina Foundation in London, and the Chinati Foundation in Marfa. In 2025, she was selected as a Guggenheim Fellow, awarded by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Al Qasimi’s forthcoming institutional solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art opens in January 2027.