Firoz Mahmud
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Firoz Mahmud
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| Born |
September 5, 1974 Khulna, Bangladesh |
| Nationality | Bangladeshi |
| Education | Rijksakademie |
| Known for | Contemporary Art |
| Movement | NinKi: Urgency of Proximate Drawing, Layapa Stencil Painting |
Firoz Mahmud (ফিরোজ মাহমুদ,フィロズ・マハムド); born September 5, 1974) is a Bangladeshi artist. He works on installation, painting, drawing, photograph and other media of art. He has been working in a wide variety of media including installation, painting, drawing, photograph and other media of art. He has created several large scale installation art projects on particular concepts and thematic idea on his own country. His artworks were predominantly been green color with somewhat brown to re-imagine Bangladesh’s primary color or color of his land and soil which describe his native culture and history. He coined the term 'Layapa Art' (Layapa Stencil Painting)[24] for his unconventional method of oil painting which describes native history rendering with thick oil color on uneven canvases. He is creator of the NinKi: Urgency of Proximate Drawing Photograph (NinKi:UoPDp) [23], is a drawing photograph project to rhetorically rescue popular celebrities with geometric structure drawings or make photo image of the people tactically static.
He was one of the participant artists fellow at Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten (Royal Academy of Fine Arts) in Amsterdam.
Mahmud was born and raised in Khulna city. He is youngest of four brothers and sisters and was born into a cultural family. His father is a lawyer, poet, writer and social activist and mother a housewife. Mahmud moved to Dhaka to study at the Institute of Fine Art, University of Dhaka. After finishing his BFA and MFA from the institute he attended the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (Royal Academy of Fine Arts), Amsterdam under Dutch government fellowship in 2003/04. He was only Bangladeshi artist attended at Rijksakademie in Amsterdam after Runa Islam, the Bangladesh born British artist. He completed MFA at Tama Art University, Tokyo and received a PhD degree on Fine Arts from the Tokyo University of the Arts (東京藝術大学 Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku), Tokyo. He received a fellowship from Asian Cultural Council. as an Asian Cultural Council guarantees and attended in a residency program at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York in 2011.
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