Sameer Farooq
(Visual Artist)
Sameer Farooq is a Canadian visual artist of Pakistani and Ugandan Indian descent. He holds an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Farooq has exhibited internationally and reviews dedicated to his work appear in Art Forum, Canadian Art, BBC Culture, Hyperallergic, among others. Farooq is a 2021-22 fellow at the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University and was long listed in 2018 for the Sobey, Canada’s preeminent art award.