Riaz Mehmood

Riaz Mehmood is a multidisciplinary artist who uses video, photography, and computer programming as his primary means of expression. His practice often visits themes of multiple and fluid identities, geographical, psychological, and cultural displacement, magic realism, and the development of knowledge. His ancestral home is a small village located between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Mehmood immigrated to Canada in 2000 as a professional engineer and decided to pursue a career in the arts. Mehmood holds an MFA from the University of Windsor (2012) and completed the Integrated Media program at the Ontario College of Art and Design (2005). He has participated in several international and national artist residencies and workshops, and has earned numerous grants, scholarships, and awards over the years. Mehmood has also been involved with several artist-run centres, and served on the boards of SAVAC (Toronto) and articule (Montréal). He is currently on the Board of Directors of Latitude 53. His works have been shown nationally and internationally, including most recently at the Art Gallery of Alberta in the solo exhibition Ghazal—Songs for Home.