Farsad Labbauf is a multidisciplinary Iranian-born artist based in Jersey City, New Jersey. Shortly after immigrating to the United States in 1979, he enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts as well as a degree in Industrial Design. His work is shaped in part by theories in quantum physics, Monistic belief systems, and a sustained engagement with metaphysical inquiry. These foundations inform the distinct linearity of his figurative paintings, in which his worldview becomes a framework for exploring subjects that span the deeply personal—such as portraiture—to wider global themes including the charged terrains of politics, cultural imperialism and the shifting constructs of collective identity.
Labbauf’s practice has been recognized internationally, with participation in more than sixty group exhibitions worldwide, including the Saatchi Gallery in London and the Ex Aurum Museum in Pescara, Italy. He has presented solo exhibitions in New York, Boston, Amsterdam, Tehran, and at the Esfahan Museum of Contemporary Art. His works are represented in prominent public and private collections including the Newark Museum of Art; the Salsali Museum and Afkhami Collections in Dubai; Saatchi Gallery in London; the Carsten de Boer Art Collection in Amsterdam; and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Esfahan. Labbauf is the recipient of the 2025 Individual Artist Fellowship Award from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts / Mid Atlantic Arts.
