Nick Farhi (born 1987, New York, NY)
Developing a wonky and uniquely a-skewed visual grammar through the labor of painting, both still and moving life, are made at deliberately unusual scale. Through large scale representational oil paintings, tonalities and cultural universalities within western societies are emphasized and anthropomorphized.
Through an interplay between visual research, (spanning from found imagery and utilizing video and photography stills) to an internal intuition for figuration, Farhi delivers various addresses on daily life through mark making and painting the surreal nature of our collective surroundings.
Farhi has critiqued and spoken at universities and institutions including the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Columbia University School of the Arts. His writing and poetry have been published by the Yale School of Architecture’s Paprika! Magazine and the 2023 MODA Critical Review Journal of Columbia University. Various works live in the permenant collections of notable public institutions including the ICA Miami, The Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Collection Ringier, among others.