Sameer Farooq

Sameer Farooq is a Canadian artist of Pakistani and Ugandan Indian descent. With a versatile approach that shifts between sculpture, photography, documentary film, and anthropological methods, he investigates strategies of representation to expand the ways through which museums have looked at the past through traditional forms of collection, interpretation, and display. Farooq foregrounds community-based models of knowledge production and an array of contemplative practices in order to suggest new ways of narrating our cultural histories. He has held exhibitions at institutions around the world including the Jaou Biennial Tunis (2024), Venice Architecture Biennale (2023), and Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden (2023).