ASAD FAULWELL | SLEEP 5

Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai

Asad Faulwell (b. 1982, USA) graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2005 and Claremont Graduate University in 2008. While at Claremont he was awarded the prestigious Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant.

The repetition of images and the quasi-religious imagery he employs give his works an air of devotional shrines whilst the brightly colored, elaborate, repetitive arrangements are reminiscent both of Henri Matisse’s decorative patterning as well as Faulwell’s own Iranian Islamic tradition of geometric design.

Faulwell has participated in numerous solo exhibitions including, An Unrealized Dream, Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York (2020); Climbing a Disappearing Ladder, Lawrie/Shabibi Gallery, Dubai (2019); Phantom, Denk Gallery, Los Angeles (2018); Shapeless Shackles, Bill Brady Gallery, Kansas City (2016); Obelisk Movements, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, (2014).

Recent group exhibitions include, Common Bonds, UCSB Art, Design and Architecture Museum, Goleta, California (2019); Insight/Foresight, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas (2019); Human Nature, The Pit, Los Angeles (2019), Unexpected Encounters, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (2018); In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art, LACMA, Los Angeles (2018) and The Collector’s Room, The Epsten Gallery, Kansas (2017).

Faulwell’s work is part of many private and public collections including Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles; Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA), Orange County; UCSB Art, Design and Architecture Museum, Goleta; Ulrich Museum, Kansas; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City ; The Pizzuti Collection, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; The Oppenheimer Collection at Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas; The Franks-Suss Collection, London; The Rubell Family Collection, Miami; The Nerman Family Collection: Morton G. Neumann Family Collection, New York; and The Deighton Collection, London. 

Faulwell lives and works in Newport Beach, California.