Explore the slippages of mediums with Max Lamb and Farah Al Qasimi at SCAD deFINE ART artist talks

Join Max Lamb and Farah Al Qasimi for two artist talks as they each speak on their new exhibitions, presented as part of SCAD deFINE ART 2026. Noted for his ceaseless inventiveness, Lamb has become one of the most well-regarded designers of his generation, showcasing versatility across a range of materials while confronting some of the most complex challenges of our era. Al Qasimi’s photographic installations and music videos explore rituals of self-presentation and their ties to identity, memory, and belief formation. At this artist talk, Lamb shares insights on his craft and boundless creative practice. Then, discover how Al Qasimi blends digital and analog techniques and channels her fascination with ghost stories into her multidisciplinary work.

This event is free and open to the public and presented as part of SCAD deFINE ART 2026.

About the artists
Max Lamb (b. 1980, St. Austell, Cornwall, England) lives and works in London. Lamb’s works are collected by numerous public institutions around the world, including the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York; the Design Museum Gent in Belgium; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Odunpazarı Modern Museum in Eskişehir, Turkey; the Denver Art Museum; and the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany. In 2018 he presented his first institutional solo show Max Lamb: Exercises in Seating at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Working across mediums of photography, film, and music, Farah Al Qasimi (b. 1991, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates) interrogates the hierarchies of information and emotion inherent in the internet, embracing a multiplicity of screens and printing techniques including large-scale vinyl imagery. Many of her video works feature anthropomorphized narrators, informed by her interest in the complexity of storytelling and value-building in children’s cartoons. Through a highly collaborative practice, she has worked with hand-sewn puppets, falcons, African land snails, exorcists, and, most recently, a Jack Sparrow impersonator. Her work is held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; and the Guggenheim Museum, New York and Abu Dhabi. She has participated in residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, Delfina Foundation in London, and the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas.