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IAAC Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora 2014

 
Mustafa Faruki
Faruki
 

ARTIST STATEMENT
Mustafa Faruki is the founder and creative director of theLab-lab, a Brooklyn-based design practice dedicated to experimenting with the agents of desire, humor, irony, memory, piss, shit, hand-jobs and others in the making of high-quality architectural design for a wide range of (predominantly imaginary) clients. He has studied History of Art at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and Architectural Design at Columbia University.


 
BIO

EDUCATION

2010: M.Architecture, Graduate School of Architecture (GSAPP), Columbia University
2003: MA History of Art (Distinction), SOAS, University of London
2001: BA Architecture, Columbia University

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

TWO HEMISPHERES: Carriage House, the Gabarron Foundation, New York
OPEN DAG Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dale, NO, 2012
FOOL‘S JOURNEY. Curious Matter, Jersey City , 2012
23RD NATIONAL DRAWING & PRINT EXHIBITION Gormley Gallery, Notre Dame of Maryland University, Baltimore , 2012
ERASING BORDERS: 9TH ANN’L EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY INDIAN ART Crossing Art, Queens, 2012
INTERNATIONAL PRINT BIENNALE Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, UK, 2011
THE BLACK AND WHITE SHOW The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn, 2011
DISTANCE curated by Radius Twelve, Grady Alexis Gallery at El Taller Latino Americano, New York , 2011
SUBSERIES by Baukunst Studio, part of the "Festival of Ideas for the New City", New York, 2011
ESOTERICA: EMERGING ARTISTS The Buttondown, Glens Falls, NY, 2011
INJUSTICE FOR ALL Upstate Artists Guild, Albany NY, 2011
CUPIDITY Upstate Artists Guild, Albany NY, 2011
GAMES UAG, Albany NY, 2010
BLACK AND WHITE Lapham Gallery, Glens Falls NY, 2010
EYOS Columbia University GSAPP, New York, 2010

AWARDS, WORKSHOPS & RESIDENCIES

SELECTED ARTIST A-I-R Residency, Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dale, Norway, 2012 (March-April)
MERIT FELLOWSHIP Contemporary Artists Center at Woodside Residency Program, Troy, NY, 2012
SELECTED ARTIST International Print Biennale (organized by Parker Harris and Northern Print) 2011
SELECTED PORTFOLIO the Design Archive of the VanAlen Institute, New York, 2011
INDIVIDUAL ARTIST GRANTEE New York State Council on the Arts, 2011
KINNE FELLOWSHIP for Architectural Research in Mumbai, 2010
PARTICIPANT Workshop on Public Space In The Middle East, Columbia University Middle East Research Center, Amman, 2009
PARTICIPANT The Creative Thesis: Seminars on Thesis Writing in the Practice-Related Arts, Slade School of Fine Art, London, 2006
PARTICIPANT Brandalism, Summer Workshop at the Architectural Association, London 2003
HENRY EVANS FELLOWSHIP Columbia College, 2001Mustafa Faruki

WORK EXPERIENCE

A/E PROPOSAL COORINDATOR WASA/Studio A LLP, New York, 2012 –
DESIGNER Supermass Studio Landscape Design, New York, 2011 - 12
JUNIOR DESIGNER Sayigh Duman Architects, New York, 2011
INTERN DESIGNER Architecture CO, Summer 2011
VISITING CRITIC Mid-term Jury Design Review, Studio Gill & Schmid, Columbia GSAPP, 2010
TEACHING ASSISTANT CADD / Visual Studies Program, Columbia GSAPP, 2008 - 10
TEACHING ASSISTANT to Mike Jacobs, Introduction to Architecture, Columbia GSAPP, Summer 2008
DESIGN CONSULTANT Kaehler-Moore Architects, Greenwich CT, 2006 - 07
MUSEUM EDUCATION INTERN The Brooklyn Museum, 2001 - 02
RESEARCH CONSULTANT Art Commission of the City of New York, 2000 - 01

 
 
 
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