14 Facts About Firoz Mahmud

Firoz Mahmud was the first Bangladeshi fellow artist in research at Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.

Firoz Mahmud was an awarded a guarantee from the Asian Cultural Council in New York.

In 2019, Firoz Mahmud was nominated for the French COAL prize, which was hosted at Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Firoz Mahmud exhibited at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2006 in Nigata Japan, where he exhibited numerous wooden aeroplanes in the city of Tokamachi.

Firoz Mahmud was one of the finalist artists at The Sovereign Asian Art Prize in 2007 in Hong Kong.

Firoz Mahmud was invited to exhibit at the 9th Sharjah Art Biennial in 2009 where he exhibited a large sculptural installation, 'Halcyon Tarp' with Royal Bengal Tigers.

Firoz Mahmud exhibited a stencil painting in his solo exhibition 'Lamentation in Two Lies' at the Ota Fine Arts in Tokyo in 2011.

Firoz Mahmud exhibited a solo exhibition 'NinKi: Legacies, Run over the Yamuna' simultaneously with Nandan Ghiya at Exhibit 320 in New Delhi in 2015.

Firoz Mahmud mainly drew with pencil, pen and pastel on journals and sketchbooks which were studies for paintings.

Firoz Mahmud arranges families of those communities, makes sculptures of metaphoric eyeglasses with the help of those families and creates photographs.

Firoz Mahmud exhibited large scale art projects or art series at several art biennale and triennial exhibitions, including 1st Bangkok Art Biennale, 1st Lahore Biennial, Dhaka Art Summit, Sharjah Biennale, Cairo Biennale, Asian Biennale, Setouchi Triennale art festival, 1st Aichi Triennial, and Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial.

Firoz Mahmud has exhibited works from this art project in Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Africa.

Firoz Mahmud was featured in Japan Times and DNP magazine written by Lucy Birmingham.

Firoz Mahmud exhibited his solo exhibition "Loss of the Toss is Blessing of Their Disguise," on NinKi:Urgency of Proximate Drawing at Dhaka Art Center in 2013.