EDUCATION
2005 MFA Visual Arts, York University, Toronto ON
2000 BEd with Teaching Certificate, University of Ottawa, Ottawa ON
1998 BA International Development, University of Toronto, Toronto ON
UPCOMING
2026 Niagara Artists Centre, St.Catharines, ON, Canada
2026 Grenfell Gallery, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Corner Brook NL, Canada
2026 Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC, Canada
2027 Two Rivers Art Gallery, Prince George, BC, Canada
2027 Dorisy McCarthey Gallery, University of Toronto, Scarborough, ON, Canada
2028 Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 I Am My Mother’s Daughter, The Reach Gallery, Abbotsford, BC, Canada
2023 I Am My Mother’s Daughter, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, Canada
2022 I Am My Mother’s Daughter, Campbell River Art Gallery, Campbell River, BC, Canada
2019 The Ground Above Us (collaboration w/ Charles Campbell & Bradley Dick), Legacy Gallery, Victoria BC, Canada
2018 Sentirse en casa, Casa Cultura Los Colores Gallery, Medellin, Colombia
2016 Being Home, Flux Media Gallery, Victoria, BC
2016 Being Home, The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna BC
2015 Being Home, Comox Valley Art Gallery, Courtenay, BC
2008 Remember, Ministry of Casual Living, Victoria, BC
2008 Endless Tether, Struts Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick
2008 Alone Together, Niagara Artist’s Company, St.Catharines, ON
2008 Fray, Gallery TPW, Toronto, ON
2007 Endless Tether, Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2006 Farheen HAQ, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC
2006 Breach, Trinity Square Video Gallery, Toronto, ON
2005 Image Bar, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, ON
2005 Endless Tether, Lennox Contemporary Gallery, Toronto, ON
2004 Breathing Space, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
2002 Who Knows, Gallery at the Mac, Victoria, BC
COLLABORATIONS/PERFORMANCES
2024 Hamara Badan installation ceremony with Harpreet Leekha, Pavan Leekha, Jashan Leekha, Meva Leekha, Gagan Leekha, Matilde Cervantes, Fariha Ahmed, Sandeep Johal, The Reach Gallery, Abbotsford, BC, Canada
2023 Shukriya TENEW, Eid feast and Ivy pull on Jim Family residence, Tseycum territory, North Saanich, BC, Canada
2022 Paxala/Shifa. Tea ceremony, plant medicine exchange in collaboration with Muneera Wallace, Cory Cliffe & Vanessa Sharkey, Liǧʷiłdax̌ʷ territory, Campbell River, BC
2018 Hamara Badan. Performative installation of sculpture. TRUCK GALLERY, Calgary AB
2018 Saltwater March. Participatory ceremony on Lekwungen territory with Tiffany Joseph & Fearless Collective, Victoria BC, Aug 5,
2016 Remembering Our Mothers. Participatory ceremony on Lekwungen territory with Gerry Ambers, Flux Media Gallery, Victoria, BC, Nov 18.
2016 Cradle, Table, Feast. Participatory performance on Sylix territory. Alternator Centre for Arts, Kelowna, BC, July 15
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Contemplating Change, Open Space, Victoria, BC, Canada
2023 Maternal Interior, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan
2022 Shaping Relationships, Tethered Together, Maltwood Gallery, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
2022 Hope, Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC
2021 A Practice in Gestures, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC
2020 Digital Shift Gathering, Flux Gallery, Victoria BC
2019 Tender Works, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, BC, Canada
2017 AlterNation, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC
2017 Wild West, Contemporary Calgary, Calgary, AB
2017 Ground Signals, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC
2012 Fashionality, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, ON
2011 Collected Resonance, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC (catalog)
2010 Pulse Interval, Open Space Gallery, Victoria, BC (catalog)
2010 Simplified Bodies, IMA Gallery, Toronto, ON
2010 The Video Body, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, BC
2010 Strange Days, Drawing Room Gallery, Lahore, Pakistan
2009 The Seen and the Hidden, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York City, NY
2009 The Emperor’s New Clothes, Talwar Gallery, New York City, NY
2008 Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, Miami, FL
2008 Adrift (2 person show), Forest City Gallery, London, ON
2008 Donkey Skin, Modern Fuel, Artist Run Centre, Kingston ON
2007 Embodied Terrain, Gallery Gachet, Vancouver, BC
2006 Homecoming, National Gallery of Art, Islamabad, Pakistan
2006 In-Between, (2 person show), Truck Gallery, Calgary, ON
2006 Seeker, Sentry, Sage, Maltwood Gallery, Victoria, BC
2005 Dance of Pattern, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, ON
2005 The Living Stitch (5 year public art installation), Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
2005 Fatal Love, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
2005 Subject(ive) Aesthetics, A Space Gallery, Toronto
2004 Wrapped in Code (2 person show), Gallery 1313, Toronto
2004 GUARDIAN (performance) Toronto Alternative Art Fair International (TAAFI)
2004 Sacred/Profane, Redhead Gallery, Toronto
2004 Artwallah, Barnsdall Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 ExplorAsian, Roundhouse Community Art Centre, Vancouver, BC
2003 PRISM, The Advocate Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Artwallah, The Advocate Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 The Tiger Returns, Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2003 Art in Exile, Artropolis, Vancouver, BC
2002 Cultural Intersections, Federation Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2002 BC Festival of the Arts, Surrey, BC
2002 Artwallah, The Advocate Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SELECT SCREENINGS
2024 Water Deskhan Ziibi, artLAB Gallery & Doris McCarthy Gallery UofT Scarborough, ON
2024 TILT Movement on Film Series, University of Utah, Aug 2024, Utah USA
2016 12 Gates Video Art Festival, June 2016, Philadelphia, PA
2015 Flux Media Gallery, MediaNet Screening, Integrate Art Crawl, Aug 2015, Victoria BC
2015 New Films, South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, Dec 5
2010 Mid-Life Shelf Life, VTape Screening, Toronto, ON
2010 Sites for Seeing, Struts Gallery, Sackville, NB
2009 The Factory, Hamilton Media Artist Centre, Hamilton, ON
2008 Toronto Alternative Arts and Fashion Festival, Toronto, ON
2008 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Paris, France
2007 6th Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2007 Regent Park Film Festival, Toronto, ON
2007 Dreamwalker Dance Company screening, Rivoli Theatre, Toronto, ON
2006 Women’s Voices for Change, Victoria International Arts Symposium, Carnegie Building, Victoria, BC
2006 Achtung Baby! Tranzit Ateliery, Slovakia
2006 Actung Baby! Ludwig Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Hungary
2006 Actung Baby! Casa Tranzit Haz, Romania
2006 Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto ON
2006 Espresso Bongo, Vancouver Island College of Art, Victoria, BC
2006 Far and Wide, Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver, BC
2006 Edges Festival, Victoria, BC
2005 Tamasha! Design Exchange, Toronto
2005 New Toronto Works, curated by Pleasuredome, Toronto, ON
PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA COVERAGE
2017 “The Personal Is Spiritual is Political” Farheen Haq with France Trepanier, BlackFlash Magazine, Spring/Summer 2017
2012 "Crossing Channels: Essays on Contemporary Media Art in British Columbia" (Catalogue), Medianet, Victoria, BC
2012 Bernbaum, Joel, Interview, http://www.belfry.bc.ca/shows-archive/red/
2011 Smart, Amy, Times Colonist, Sept.22, 2011
2011 "Collected Resonance" (Catalogue), Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
2009 "The Seen and the Hidden" ( Catalogue), Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY
2008 Grison, Brian, "Farheen HaQ: Unravelling Identity through Video", Focus Magazine, Victoria, BC, May, p.38-41
2008 Littleton, Lori, "Full Circle" The St.Catharines Standard, Fri. May 9, 2008
2008 Wren, Carolyn, "Alone Together" Exhibition Essay, Niagara Artists Company, St.Catharines, ON
2008 Root, Deborah, "Farheen HaQ: The Landscape of Impermanence" Exhibition Essay, Gallery TPW, Toronto, ON
2006 "In-between" (Catalogue), TRUCK Contemporary Art & EMMEDIA Gallery, Calgary, AB
2006 Goldman, Paula, "Imagining Ourselves", New World Library, Novato, CA
2006 Husain, Sarah, "Voices of Resistance", Seal Press, Emeryville, CA
2006 "Seeker, Sentry, Sage: Shades of Islam in Contemporary Art", (Catalogue), University of Victoria, Victoria BC
2005 Goddard, Peter, "Small Space Big Impact", The Toronto Star, Jul.24, 2005
2005 "Endless Tether" , ArtFlack 2, web review: http://www.artflack.ca/issues/2005-02.html
2005 "Fatal Love" (Catalogue), Queens Museum, NY, NY
2005 Goddard, Peter, "Religious argument made at wrap speed", The Toronto Star, Apr. 7, 2005
2005 Farquharson, Catherine, "Getting Personal: Women explore subjectivity", NOW Magazine, Toronto, Feb. 10-16, 2005
2005 "Subjective Aesthetics:, Asian Canadian Art News http://www.asiancanadian.net/2005/01/subjective-aesthetics.html
2004 Ahmed, Huma, "Pakistani Artists to Figure Prominently in Artwallah", Sept. 2004
2004 "Sacred/Profane" (Catalogue), Toronto, ON
2004 Sawatsky, Adam, The New VI arts coverage (TV) Artist Interview, Aug.5, 2004
2004 Welch, Wendy, "Urban Prayer", Monday Magazine, Aug. 26, 2004
ARTIST LECTURES
2023 Panel Discussion for Rungh Magazine Zine Launch, online, Nov 9.
2023 Artist Talk, University of Victoria, Visiting Artist lecture, Visual arts dept.
2023 Artist Panel, Tracing Contours: Canadian South Asian Contemporary Arts 1990s – 2020s, Libby Leshgold Gallery, online . Feb 9.
2021 Women’s Work, Artist Panel Discussion (online) Richmond Art Gallery, Oct 16
2019 Artist Talk, University of Victoria, Visiting artist lecture, Visual Arts
2016 Artist Talk, South Asian Women's Creative Collective, New York, NY
2016 Artist Talk, Vancouver Island School of Art, Victoria BC
2014 Artist Talk, Medianet & Intercultural Association Youth Media Camp
2013 Artist Interview with Gregor Craigie (CBC), Belfry Theatre, Victoria BC, Feb.9.
2011 Artist Panel Discussion, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria BC
2011 Artist Talk, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria BC
2011 Artist Talk, VideoLab, Open Space, Victoria BC
2010 Artist Talk, Open Space Gallery, Toronto ON
2008 Artist Talk, Niagara Artists Company, St.Catharines, ON
2007 Artist Panel Discussion, Victoria, BC
2007 Artist Talk, Trinity Square Video Gallery, Toronto, ON
2006 Artist Talk, University of Victoria, Victoria BC
2006 Artist Talk, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna BC
2006 Artist Talk, MediaNet, Victoria BC
2006 Artist Talk, Vancouver Island School of Art, Victoria, BC
2006 Artist Talk, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, ON
2006 Artist Talk, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, ON
2005 Artist Talk, Queen’s Museum of Art, NY
2004 Artist Interview, CTRL:Controlling Bodies, Controlling Spaces Conference, McGill/Concordia, Montreal QC
2004 Artist Talk, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
2004 Artist Lecture, Feminist Research Group Conference, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON
2004 Artist Lecture Error 404: File Not Found: Communication & Culture Conference, York University, Toronto ON
2004 Artist Lecture Intersections: Art History Graduate Conference, York University, Toronto, ON
2004 Artist Lecture Erogenous Zones: Sociology Graduate Conference, York University, Toronto ON
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2014 -2020 Artist Educator, Artemis Place for Girls, Victoria BC
2014 Juror, Media Arts Grants, Canada Council for the Arts
2013 Assessor, Canada Council for the Arts
2012 Juror, BC Arts Council
2013 Art Educator, "Drawing in Nature" Professional Development Workshop for Facilitators, Honeymoon Bay, BC
2013 Art Educator, "Traces" Professional Development Workshop for Teachers, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, BC
2012-- Programming Committee, Open Space, Victoria BC
2012 Art Educator, "Beyond Likeness" Professional Development Workshop for Teachers, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, BC
2011-12 Board Member, Open Space, Victoria BC
2011 Art Educator, "Collected Resonance" Professional Development Workshop for Teachers, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, BC
2005-06 Studio Instructor, Vancouver Island School of Art, Victoria BC
2005 Volunteer, AntiMatter Underground Film Festival, Victoria, BC
2005 Juror, Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grants, Toronto ON
2004 Curator, "Interscapes" Gallery 401, CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto ON
2004 Workshop Facilitator, "Art in the Woods", Victoria BC
2003-05 Programming Committee, South Asian Visual Artists Collective, Toronto ON
2003-05 Studio Instructor, York University (Electronic Art, Drawing, Theory), Toronto ON
AWARDS, GRANTS & RESIDENCIES
2024 Artist in Residence, Altar Residency, Jaipur, India
2023 BC Arts Council Professional Developent Artist Grant
2023 CRD Arts Grant for Community Art
2023 Rungh Magazine Archive Creation Residency
2020 Canada Council for the Arts, Concept to Realization Grant
2020 BC Arts Council Pivot Grant
2020 City of Victoria Arts Grants for Community Art
2017 Canada Council for the Arts, Media Arts Research & Creation Grant
2017 BC Arts Council Professional Development Grant
2015 Canada Council for the Arts, Media Arts International Residency Grant
2014 Sobey Art Award nominee
2014 BC Arts Council Visual Arts Grant
2012 Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant
2009 Canada Council for the Arts Media Arts Grant
2009 BC Arts Council Media Arts Grant
2007 BC Arts Council Media Arts Grant
2007 BC Arts Council Visual Arts Grant
2006 Artist of the Year, South Asian Visual Arts Collective, Toronto, ON
2006 Sarick Purchase Prize, York University, Toronto, ON
2006 Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant
2006 BC Arts Council Grant
2004 BC Arts Council Visual Art Senior Award Scholarship
2004 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2003 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Grant
2003 DuMaurier Artist Grant
2002 Artwallah Visual Artists Travel Award
2000 Millenium Scholar
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