HAMISHI FARAH

b. 1991, Melbourne, AU
Lives and works in New York, US
No Formal Training

SELECTED SOLO/DUO EXHIBITIONS

2025
Drawings from Airport Love Theme, Institut Funder Bakke, Silkeborg, DK

2023
Black Painting, Maxwell Graham / Essex Street, New York, US
London, UK, Arcadia Missa, London, UK

2021
Dog Heaven 2: How Sweet the Wound of Jesus Tastes, Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, Fribourg, CH

2020
Antagoni, Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles, US
Condo London, Arcadia Missa, London, UK

2017
White ppl think I’m radical (with Aria Dean), Arcadia Missa, London, UK

2016
Hamishi (retirement), Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, AU
Hamishi Art Fair (ft Zac Segbedzi), NADA w/ Minerva, New York, US

2015
Late Works (ft Helen Johnson), Offsite location and St John’s Primary School, Melbourne, AU
5th Melbourne Artist Initiated Biennale, Director’s office; Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, AU
Dog Heaven / Jailbait / for us by us, MonCheri, Brussels, BE

2014
‘It Didn’t Happen’, Minerva, Sydney, AU
albeit tho, blackartprojects, Melbourne, AU

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025
Undermining the Immediacy, MMK, Frankfurt, DE
transmediale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE

2024
Post Scriptum. A museum forgotten by heart, MACRO, Rome, IT
Yours Truly, Nahmad Contemporary, New York, US
Recital, Arcadia Missa, London, UK

2023
Hoi Köln, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, DE

2022
Hamishi Farah, Ser Serpas, SoiL Thornton, Maxwell Graham / Essex Street, New York, US
The ‘t’ is Silent, 8th Biennial of Painting, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Sint-Martens Latem, BE
Zombie Eaters, Murray Art Museum, Albury, AU
Scouring, Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York, US

2021
When there is no laughing matter, laughing matters, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, Lüneburg, DE
Die Einsamkeit des Satyrs, Christine Koenig, Vienna, AS
Shining in the Low Tide, Uncle Brother, Hancock, NY, US
Still Time, Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris, FR

2020
myselves, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, US

2019
Noise!, Frans Hals Museum, Harleem, NL

2018
obsequies, AALA Gallery, Los Angeles, US
The Private Collection of Water McBeer, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, New York City, US
GWTW, Martos Gallery, New York, US
Figure in a Landscape, Foxy Productions, New York, US
Various Others, Deborah Schamoni Gallery, Munich, DE

2017
New Black Portraitures, Rhizome.org (online)
At this stage, Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles, US
Too Busy To Think, Artspace, Auckland, NZ
Situational Conflict/Conflict Situations, 13th st Repertory Theatre, New York City, US

2016
Snap, Compliance Division, Portland, US
Sauersazobomb, Offsite location, Berlin, DE
Reena’s Bedstuy Glove Affair, 165 E Broadway, New York, US
Project 1049, Gstaad, CH
Pet Shop Cookie, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, AU
Paintings Roughly Reflecting on Humans, Viewed by Cows, Cowshed in Tenna, Safiental, Swiss Alps, CH
Painting. More Painting, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, AU
Missed Connections, Julia Stoshek Collection, Dusseldorf, DE
In Concert, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, AU
Hell Broth, Firstdraft, Sydney, AU
Freud’s Mouth, Cooper Cole, Toronto, CA
City Cafe Andante, Chi Art Space, Hong Kong, HK
Biennale de Rennes, Liffre-Rennes, FR

2015
Poems 1990-2001 (with Harry Burke), S.A.L.T.S, Basel, CH
Let The Cobbler Stick To His Last, Offsite Location, New York, US
Invitations, 5th Melbourne Artist Initiated Biennale, Director’s Office, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne Studios, Gertrude
Contemporary, Melbourne, AU
Inferiority Complex 1883, abandoned Toyota Celica interior in Fitzroy, Melbourne, AU
I Refuse to Participate in Failure, Spreez, Munich, DE
Home School, Composition Gallery, Portland, US
Hanaswarts, 2-4 duckett St Brunswick, Melbourne, AU
Fun House, Minerva Offsite, Melbourne, AU
Casual Conversation Verging on Harassment, Minerva, Sydney, AU
Care (with Aurelia Guo), Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, New York; and War, Wyndham Art Gallery, Werribee, AU
5th Melbourne Artist Initiated Biennale, Director’s office, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, AU

2014
The Aggregate and the Algorithm, Tristian Koenig Gallery, Melbourne, AU
Real Life Human Resources, Firstdraft, Sydney, AU
Work, Slopes Projects, Melbourne, AU
Notes to GB, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, AU
Bien ou Bien, Mon Cheri, Brussels, BE
spec- (w/ Airmax 97), Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, AU
All At One All of the Time, RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne, AU
A4 PDF, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, AU

2013
Surfers’ Paradise, DFO Shopping Centre @ South Wharf Promenade, Melbourne, AU
BYOB, RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne, AU

SELECTED TALKS/EVENTS/PROJECTS

2025
On a Painting by Hamishi Farah with Tobi Hasslet, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE

2020
Artist lecture at Reading University, Reading, UK

2017
Artist-in-residence/Interim Director, Artspace, Auckland, NZ
Artist lecture at Goldsmiths University of London, UK

2016
Reading for Publishing House, Gstaad, Switzerland
Co-founder and Mentor at Fitzroy Clubhouse YBA Records
Home School lecture, Portland, US
Redlands Art Prize (w Daniel Boyd + Mikala Dwyer), Sydney, AU

2014-16
Gertrude Contemporary Studio Residency, Melbourne, AU

2015
5th Melbourne Artist Organised Biennale, Gertrude Contemporary Director’s Office, Melbourne, AU,
Spring 1883 musical performance w Thomas William, Black Vanilla, Sydney, AU
Still Nomads lecture, Signal Art Spaces, Melbourne, AU
I Miss You Already 2 reading (w Harry Burke), Mathew Gallery, New York, US
Care reading, Interstate Projects, New York, US
After The Eclipse reading, Flutgraben, Berlin, DE
Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Gallery, AU
Art Forum lecture, Victorian College of the Arts/Melbourne University, AU

2014
Australia Council New Work Grant, AU

2013
Surfers’ Paradise residency + exhibition (with Joe Hamilton), DFO @ South Wharf, Melbourne, AU

PUBLICATIONS

2020
Airport Love Theme, guest edited by Hannah Black, Book Works, London, UK

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem (NL)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (AU)