Furmaan Ahmed (1995) is a multi disciplinary artist from Glasgow who creates installation works that act as sites of emotional knowledge exchanges for POC queer and trans bodies. They are a recent graduate from Central Saint Martins who has already worked with galleries and community projects such as Gossamer Fog, Jupiter Artland, Tate Modern and Southbank Centre.
Furmaan also has a collaborative practise as an image maker, set designer and art director where they have photographed and collaborated with artists such as Willow Smith, SOPHIE, Sasha Velour, Kate Moss and David Lachapelle.
In their installation works and image making, Ahmed explores their dual identity as a transgender muslim and how the queer brown body manifests in the institutional world. With a passion for the British gothic architectural style and the mysticism of islamic ornamentation, Ahmed questions codes of historical design to reimagine fantasy worlds through the creation of communal shrines, monuments, gardens and water fountains to look to a future that is more inclusive for black, brown and queer people.
With a deep interest in ecology and the botanical, Ahmed explores the fantastical and the rubrics of order and reason to emancipate the marriage of technology, wellbeing and the natural world.
Furmaan creates these digital and live worlds as a sites for community engagement, queer brown hybridity and communal healing.
Furmaan also has a collaborative practise as an image maker, set designer and art director where they have photographed and collaborated with artists such as Willow Smith, SOPHIE, Sasha Velour, Kate Moss and David Lachapelle.
In their installation works and image making, Ahmed explores their dual identity as a transgender muslim and how the queer brown body manifests in the institutional world. With a passion for the British gothic architectural style and the mysticism of islamic ornamentation, Ahmed questions codes of historical design to reimagine fantasy worlds through the creation of communal shrines, monuments, gardens and water fountains to look to a future that is more inclusive for black, brown and queer people.
With a deep interest in ecology and the botanical, Ahmed explores the fantastical and the rubrics of order and reason to emancipate the marriage of technology, wellbeing and the natural world.
Furmaan creates these digital and live worlds as a sites for community engagement, queer brown hybridity and communal healing.
Ahmed's sources.
https://metalmagazine.eu/en/post/interview/furmaan-ahmed
https://www.instagram.com/furmaan.ahmed/
https://furmaanahmed.com/
Productions that I assisted on (2019.)
Ahmed's portfolio that followed after our time in Glasgow.
2019 - 2021
2019 - 2021
CV
SHOWS
2020 - CSM DEGREE SHOW 1, London (postponed)
2020 - Glasgow International Festival, Glasgow (postponed)
2020 - Saatchi Art Gallery, Other Art Fair, London (postponed)
2020 - Gossamer Fog, London
2019 - Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm
2019 - St Marks Chapel, Brighton
2019 - Lethaby Window Gallery, London
2018 - Hundred Years Gallery, London
2018 - Tate Modern, London
2018 - Deptford Old Police Station, London
2017 - Tate Modern, London
2013 - Govanhill Community Baths Trust, Glasgow
COMMERCIAL
2020 - HULU TV - LOLA & TEDDY WALTON
2020 - DORIAN ELECTRA - Hervisions & Quazar Magazine
2020 - SASHA VELOUR - Bricks Magazine
2020 - CLERMONT TWINS - Metal Magazine
2020 - DAZED BEAUTY - Guia Bertorello
2019 - SOPHIE - The Art School
2019 - SOPHIE - Nile Rodgers Meltdown Festival at Southbank Centre (with Ciaran Moore)
2019 - JUPITER RISING FESTIVAL - Jupiter Artland
2019 - DOUGLAS DARE
2019 - GLAMCULT MAGAZINE - Alabama Blonde
2019 - HANA
2019 - WILLOW SMITH
2019 - SOPHIE - Remix Album Product Campaign
2019 - VOGUE ITALIA
2019 - LAUREN HARRIES
2019 - OFFICE BEAUTY MAGAZINE
2019 - BRIGHTON FASHION SHOW - St Marks Chapel
2018 - ANOTHER MAN MAGAZINE - Flint James Mcdonald
2018 - KATE MOSS’s HALLOWEEN - MOMO’s (with Timothy Gibbons)
2018 - ROMANTI CRASH FESTIVAL - Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh Arts Festival
2017 - PANSY MAGAZINE - Flint Jamers Mcdonald
RESIDENCIES & COLLABORATIONS
2020 - Quiet Down There - Artist in Residence
2020 - Rising Residency, Jupiter Artland (Panellist )
2019 - Kathleen Reilly, Gallery SO, London
2016 - Vox Pop, The Poetry Club, Glasgow
Additional Experience
2019 - David Lachapelle, Los Angeles (Assistant)
2019 - Simon Costin, London (Assistant)
2019 - William Farr, London (Assistant)
2020 - CSM DEGREE SHOW 1, London (postponed)
2020 - Glasgow International Festival, Glasgow (postponed)
2020 - Saatchi Art Gallery, Other Art Fair, London (postponed)
2020 - Gossamer Fog, London
2019 - Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm
2019 - St Marks Chapel, Brighton
2019 - Lethaby Window Gallery, London
2018 - Hundred Years Gallery, London
2018 - Tate Modern, London
2018 - Deptford Old Police Station, London
2017 - Tate Modern, London
2013 - Govanhill Community Baths Trust, Glasgow
COMMERCIAL
2020 - HULU TV - LOLA & TEDDY WALTON
2020 - DORIAN ELECTRA - Hervisions & Quazar Magazine
2020 - SASHA VELOUR - Bricks Magazine
2020 - CLERMONT TWINS - Metal Magazine
2020 - DAZED BEAUTY - Guia Bertorello
2019 - SOPHIE - The Art School
2019 - SOPHIE - Nile Rodgers Meltdown Festival at Southbank Centre (with Ciaran Moore)
2019 - JUPITER RISING FESTIVAL - Jupiter Artland
2019 - DOUGLAS DARE
2019 - GLAMCULT MAGAZINE - Alabama Blonde
2019 - HANA
2019 - WILLOW SMITH
2019 - SOPHIE - Remix Album Product Campaign
2019 - VOGUE ITALIA
2019 - LAUREN HARRIES
2019 - OFFICE BEAUTY MAGAZINE
2019 - BRIGHTON FASHION SHOW - St Marks Chapel
2018 - ANOTHER MAN MAGAZINE - Flint James Mcdonald
2018 - KATE MOSS’s HALLOWEEN - MOMO’s (with Timothy Gibbons)
2018 - ROMANTI CRASH FESTIVAL - Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh Arts Festival
2017 - PANSY MAGAZINE - Flint Jamers Mcdonald
RESIDENCIES & COLLABORATIONS
2020 - Quiet Down There - Artist in Residence
2020 - Rising Residency, Jupiter Artland (Panellist )
2019 - Kathleen Reilly, Gallery SO, London
2016 - Vox Pop, The Poetry Club, Glasgow
Additional Experience
2019 - David Lachapelle, Los Angeles (Assistant)
2019 - Simon Costin, London (Assistant)
2019 - William Farr, London (Assistant)