Farah Mohammad (b. 1993, Karachi, Pakistan) is a printmaker, installation artist, and educator based in NYC. Some of her most recent works have been monotypes, sculptural woodcut prints, and etchings of architectural structures that symbolize resilience. Her process of creating prints, where she breaks images down into shapes around which she builds the main subject, enables her to take an emotional inventory of their personal symbolism.

Through printmaking Mohammad combines anthropological research with her fascination with urban architecture. She draws inspiration from images she captures of spaces undergoing change. Through her work she creates a visual reality for herself, where her past and present, her Pakistani and her American identities can all coexist.

Mohammad received her BA from Bennington College and her MFA from Columbia University. Her exhibition highlights include a solo exhibition at Nyama Fine Art, New York, and group exhibitions at the Moss Art Center, Blacksburg, VA; Print Center New York (PCNY), Half Gallery, EFA’s Blackburn 20|20 Gallery, The Jewish Museum, ChaShaMa, Field Projects, and Local Project Art Space, all in New York. She was the Artist in Residence at the Cornerstone Studios (2022-2023) and was also the recipient of the LMCC Arts Center Residency (2023) the Keyholder Residency at LESP (2021-2022), the EFA Blackburn Print Excellence Award (2021), and the Lucas T. Carlson Grant at Columbia University (2020). Most recently Mohammad was awarded the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Printmaking Fellowship (2023) and the MacDowell Fellowship, NH (Summer 2024). Mohammad’s work is in the permanent collection at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

During my IEA residency, I worked on a project where I fused traditional and contemporary print media. I brought in hand-drawn positives that I used to make large scale screen prints. These are the largest screen prints I’ve printed, and I am grateful to Myles and Thomas for helping me produce them. I then layered imagery onto the screen prints with dye-sublimation and laser engraving.

Farah applying PolyNatural to her large format screen prints, I.

Farah applying PolyNatural to her large format screen prints, II.

Farah holding up one half of her large format diptych screen prints.

Farah looking over her completed prints produced during her residency.