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Nick Farhi

Born in 1987, Nick Farhi lives and works in New York, NY.

"Through the labor of painting, I am wrought with ideas from waking life, especially where I live in New York City. I am on a quest to cinematize the still life genre, and to make paintings that are more so about moving life and the aspects of loss and gain, and that beautiful rhythm of life. A city sidewalk, a moving mallet of a xylophone, the cascading of color and emotion that these very general things share in common."

Nick Farhi (b. 1987, New York) is an artist, poet, and theorist. Recent exhibitions include Golsa, Oslo and Marlborough Gallery, London. Farhi has a forthcoming exhibition at The Jewish Museum, New York. Farhi has critiqued and spoken on panels 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. Developing a wonky and uniquely a-skewed visual grammar through the labor of painting, Farhi creates large scale representational oil paintings. Through an interplay between visual research, (spanning from found imagery and autobiographical photography) to an internal intuition for figuration, Farhi delivers various addresses on daily life through calculable mark making.