Adam Farah-Saad / free.yard
born, raised, lives and works in London, UK.
Contact
freeyardhq@gmail.com / @free.yard
hello@public.gallery / public.gallery
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS / COMISSIONS
2024 Air de repos (Breathwork) - Capc Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
Bold Tendencies 2024, London, UK
'the face of you, my substitute for love' - Adam Farah-Saad & Elvis Universe, Metroland Studios, London, UK
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
SELECTED PRESS / INTERVIEWS / PUBLICATIONS
2024 FAD magazine, Things Don’t Change as You Expect. Value and Ideas #108
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