b. 1987 in Baltimore, USA; currently lives and works in New Orleans, USA
Abdi Farah began his art education at the Carver Center for Arts and Technology in Towson, Maryland. Farah received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009, graduating with honors. Farah has been fortunate to exhibit art across the country and internationally at institutions including: the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Margulies Collection, Miami, Florida; The Institute for American Universities in Aix En Provence, France; the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York; the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana; and the Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, Louisiana. Farah is a 2005 Presidential Scholar in the Arts, a recipient of the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship through the Yale Norfolk School of Music and Art, and a 2017 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture participant. In 2018 Farah received his MFA in painting from Tulane University in New Orleans where he continues to live and work.
