Firoz Mahmud (ফিরোজ মাহমুদ) is a Bangladeshi visual performer based in Japan. He was the first Bangladeshi fellow artist in research at Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Mahmud’s statute has been exhibited at the considering biennales: Sharjah Biennale, the first Bangkok Art Biennale], at the Dhaka Art Summit, Setouchi Triennale (BDP), the first Aichi Triennial], the Congo Biennale, the first Lahore Biennale], the Cairo Biennale, the Echigo-Tsumari Triennial], and the Asian Biennale.
He was an awarded a guarantee from the Asian Cultural Council (ACC) in New York. Guggenheim Museum’s UBS Global Art Initiative and Asia Society invited him for the symposium “Continuous Horizons: Contemporary Art for Asia”, No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia Programs. In 2019, Mahmud was nominated for the French COAL prize which was hosted and artworks screened at Centre Pompidou in Paris.
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