Firoz Mahmud is a Bangladeshi visual artist. He was the first Bangladeshi fellow artist in research at in Amsterdam. Mahmud's work has been exhibited at the following biennales including , , at the Dhaka Art Summit, Setouchi Triennale, , , , , , Asian Biennale. He was an awarded guarantee from in New York. Guggenheim Museum's UBS Global Art Initiative and Asia Society invited him for symposium 'Continuous Horizons: , No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia Programs. In 2019, Firoz Mahmud has been nominated for France-based which was hosted and artworks screened at Centre Pompidou in Paris.
He exhibited his stencil painting in his solo exhibition 'Lamentation in Two Lies' at the Ota Fine Arts in Tokyo in 2011. He exhibited solo exhibition 'NinKi: Legacies, Run over the Yamuna’ simultaneously with Nandan Ghiya at Exhibit 320 in New Delhi in 2015., Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art in Nagoya, Japan
Drawing
He used to practice detailed drawings documenting . In early 1990s he used to have his art studio in a dilapidated building of green groceries market around Dhaka New Market area where he made numerous drawings of workers, labors, vendors and slum-dwellers around the market. Most of the drawings he drew with pencil, pen and pastel on journals and sketchbooks which he also studied for paintings, some of which can be identified as preparatory to particular works such as at Methor Potti ` which he painted finally at , `Cooking for worker` and`Bookbinders`.
Photo based artwork
In 2017, the Soaked Dream photograph series was exhibited at Against Competition/Towards Mutual Aid in New York by at . Among his recent projects on the refugee families and displaced people were exhibited at in 2018 and .
Exhibition
Solo exhibition
Among Mahmud's solo exhibitions include at Ota Fine Arts in Singapore , Abinta Gallery of Fine Arts Dhaka .
Group exhibition & Art Biennales/Triennials
Firoz Mahmud exhibited large scale art projects or long spanned art series at the art biennale and triennial exhibitions he attended, including , , , , , Asian Biennale. Setouchi Triennale art festival, , ,. where is produced mostly community and people engaged artworks. Mahmud has exhibited at the Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New York, in Athens, Greece, Emery Community Arts Center in Maine, Kresge Gallery of Lyon College in AR, Art project screening at the Pompidou Center in Paris, , in Philadelphia, in Sharjah, UAE, Berkshire Art Museum in Massachusetts, Children's Museum in Manhattan, New York, , Norway.
Media
Art Asia Pacific magazine published an article on Firoz Mahmud's solo exhibition held at Ota Fine Arts in Singapore. Hong Kong based Art, design and lifestyle magazine COBO magazine published on Firoz Mahmud's exhibition titling , written by Selima Quader Chowdhury which published in January 2019. In 2013, Asia Society in Hong Kong invited him in a symposium 'Continuous Horizons: Contemporary Art for Asia, No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia Programs’ Co-organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Mahmud was featured on Japan Times and DNP magazine written by Lucy Birmingham. He exhibited his solo exhibition "Loss of the Toss is Blessing of Their Disguise," on at Dhaka Art Center in 2013. The Daily Star featured on his ongoing NinKi: Urgency of Proximate Drawing photograph when he had a solo exhibition at Dhaka Art Center.
Gallery representation
He is represented by Ota Fine Arts in Tokyo, Shanghai and Singapore and Exhibit 320 in New Delhi.
