“Adham Faramawy’s work probes and punctures conventional ideas of trash and toxicity, instead proposing forms of sociality in the messy breakdown of boundaries and borders refuting and refusing eco- facism’s fantasies of cleanliness and control.” Edwin Coomasaru (historian of modern and contemporary art)

Adham Faramawy is an artist who works across media including moving image, sculptural installation, performance, print, painting and wall-based works engaging concerns with materiality, touch, and toxic embodiment to question ideas of the natural in relation to marginalised communities. 

They have had screenings and performances at the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate Modern and Tate Britain, London, Serpentine Gallery, London and Lafayette Anticipations, Paris.

They have exhibited at Ama House, Athens, Focal Point Gallery, Southend, Chapter Gallery, Cardiff, Goldsmiths CCA, London, Somerset House, London, Buffalo University Gallery, Buffalo, the Bemis Center, Omaha, Niru Ratnam Gallery, London, and Cell Projects, London.

They were shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award 2017 and 2021, were the recipient of the Frieze London Artist Award 2023 creating the video ‘And these deceitful waters’, and did a year long residency at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge where the resultant commission ‘The Cyclamen and the Cedar’, was the first video work inducted into the collection.

Adham Faramawy is represented by Niru Ratnam Gallery, London.