Adam Farah-Saad / free.yard

born, raised, lives and works in London, UK. 


Contact

freeyardhq@gmail.com / @free.yard


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS / COMISSIONS

2024 Bold Tendencies 2024, London, UK  (Upcoming) 

'the face of you, my substitute for love' - Adam Farah-Saad & Elvis Universe, Metroland Studios, London, UK (Upcoming)

2023 Frieze London with Public Gallery, London, UK

Vidéodrame - Capc Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France 

Ways of Living 3.0 - Arcadia Missa, London, UK

NOBODY GETS TOO MUCH HEAVEN NO MORE - Woodsy's, London, UK

B-SIDES (THE RE-UP / PSYCHOCRUISING FAITHFUL MIX) - Public Gallery, London, UK

2022 Ridley Road Project Space at Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival, London, UK

City Entwined - Paradise Row Projects, London, UK

2021 MELTDOWN - Ridley Road Project Space, London, UK

‘Right About Now’, Arts Council Collection - No.9 Cork Street, London, UK

Xtrade Poster Show - Ridley Road Project Space, London, UK

WHAT I’VE LEARNED FROM YOU AND MYSELF (PEAK MOMENTATIONS / INSIDE MY VELVET ROPE MIX) - Camden Art Centre, London, UK

free.yard Sauces for London’s Kitchen - commissioned by Panel, Glasgow, UK

2020 YESN’T Part I & II - Galerie Sultana, Paris, France

NEW VIEWS ON SAME-OLDS - Exhibition Space of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria 

Brent Biennale 2020 / LUX Artist Moving Image Commission – Brent, London, UK

2019 MEDICATED SUMMERS / BENEFITS TRAP / ENDS PORTALS - flatness.eu, Online

NAE Open – New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK

The Range - Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK

2018 ‘BREATHLESS’ Mixtape [ONLINE]

Le Colt est Jeune & Haine – DOC, Paris, France

PRAISE N PAY IT / PULL UP, COME INTO THE RISE – South London Gallery, London, UK

There’s Something in the Conversation that is More interesting than the finality of (a title) – The Showroom, London, UK

A History of Drawing – Camberwell Space, London, UK

2017 Rush – Auto Italia, London, UK

Mothership - Exo Exo x Clearview, Paris, France

2016 Kind of Flossy – Assembly Point, London, UK

The Shift – Flat Time House, London, UK

I Would’ve Done Anything For You / Gimme More! – The Plug, London, UK

2015 Asymmetric Grief – Arcadia Missa, London, UK


SCREENINGS / SOUNDINGS

2023 One Time Only (O.T.O), FOLD, London, UK

2019 Experimenta Mixtape #7, BFI Southbank, London, UK

Hanging Out, Artists’ Moving Image Festival 2019, LUX Scotland, Glasgow, UK

Mascara Film Club 06, Mascara Bar, London, UK

Low magic II - Center for Contemporary Arts, Prague, Czech Republic

Frictions.2 Screening – DIY Space for London, London, UK

SCREENING: LIZ JOHNSON ARTUR, ADAM FARAH, DEBORAH FINDLATER, JOSIANE POZI – PeckhamPlex, London, UK

Low magic – Corridor Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2018 BREATHLESS Mixtape Launch/Listening Session - 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning, London, UK


RESIDENCIES / AWARDS

2021 LOEWE FOUNDATION / Studio Voltaire Award, London, UK

Artist Residency, Camden Art Centre with Metroland Studios, London, UK

2018 Formerly Called, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK

2017 South London Gallery Post-Graduate Artist Residency 2017/18, London, UK

Holding Space Artists Associate Programme, The Showroom, London, UK


TALKS / PANELS / PERFORMANCES

2022 What is dead, what do we let die: An evening of readings, Studio Voltaire, London, UK

2021 ‘Reflections (Care Enough)’ for One In The Other programme at Camden Art Centre, London, UK 

2020 Sanguine August – for ICF ‘Blue Skies Conversations’ with Elijah Maja, Ibrahim Cissé, Dominique White, Adam Farah

(Un)mapping the City: Music Videos and Beyond, LCC Screen School, London

free.yard Visiting Artist Talk, Royal Academy Schools, London

2019 ‘ODE-ING / MOMENTATIONS / WHAT DO U CALL IT, ART?’ BFI LFF Experimenta Debate 2019, ICA, London

ChisenhaleHz Roundtable Discussion w/ Morgan Quaintance, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK

‘Network + Contact’ devised by Taylor Le Melle, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK

Photoworks Public Programme at Offprint, Tate Modern, London, UK

2018 ‘notes towards some notes towards an ends theory’, Performative Lecture, Goldsmiths University, London

‘A REMIX MOMENT OF FUTURE, WHATEVER’, Performative Lecture, South London Gallery, London

A History of Drawing Symposium, Camberwell College of Arts, London

2017 Learning in A Public Medium - series of workshops with Conal McStravick at The Showroom, London

The Conch: A Forum for Critical Discussion at South London Gallery, London

2016 Lipstix and Lipsynx Performative Workshop with Raju Rage for Dream Babes, Auto Italia, London, UK


CURATORIAL

2022 Brent Biennial 2022, London, UK


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

2023 Tate, UK

2020 Arts Council Collection, UK


PRESS / INTERVIEWS / PUBLICATIONS

2023 Time Out, The Future of London Art: Adam Farah-Saad

Frieze, Ben Broome Among ‘His People’ on a Micro-Tour of ‘Focus’

Frieze, Public Gallery Wins the Focus Stand Prize 2023 at Frieze London

émergent, In the Studio with Adam Farah-Saad 

B-SIDES (THE RE‑UP / PSYCHOCRUISING FAITHFUL MIX)

2022 Queer Diasporic Futurity by Flatness 

Art Monthly Issue 455, On Grief and Grieving by Morgan Quaintance

2021 Mousse Magazine No.78, ‘Words Can’t Hold the Feels: Adam Farah’ by Amy Jones

The White Pube, 3 for 1 at Camden Art Centre

Flash Art Magazine Issue 337, I WANT YOU TO SHOW ME (BAGLIO ANTICO MIX). A conversation with Adam Farah

Art Monthly Issue 451, Profile by Larne Abse Gogarty

Frieze Magazine Issue 224, review of ‘WHAT I’VE LEARNED FROM YOU AND MYSELF…’

Studio International, review of ‘WHAT I’VE LEARNED FROM YOU AND MYSELF...’

2020 Art Review, Jesse Darling on Adam Farah

Taylor Le Melle Responds to MEDICATED SUMMERS / BENEFITS TRAP / ENDS PORTALS for flatness.eu

2015 How To Sleep Faster #6 ed. Arcadia Missa, ‘Eternal Flame’ by Binghao Wong


TEACHING POSTS

2020 Lecturer, BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins

2019 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London

Associate Lecturer, MA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins

2018 Visiting Lecturer, BA Design for Arts Direction, London College of Communication

Visiting Lecturer, BA Drawing, Camberwell College of Arts

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