Basir Mahmood (b. 1985, Pakistan) is an artist based between Lahore and Amsterdam, working with video, film, and photography. His practice creates poetic sequences that weave together social and historical terrains of the ordinary with personal experience. Mahmood’s narratives often revolve around everyday objects, gestures, and events, exploring themes of identity, distance, memory, imagination, and the melancholy arising from social injustice and hierarchies of power.

He began his career with a fellowship at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (2011), and later joined the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (2016–17). His work has been recognized internationally with awards such as the Emerging Artist Award from Harvard University’s SAI (2015), the VISIO Young Talent Acquisition Prize in Italy (2017), the Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize in Portugal (2020), and the Ammodo Tiger Short Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (2021).

Mahmood’s works have been exhibited widely, including at Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), International Film Festival Rotterdam, Sharjah Biennial, Berlin Biennale, and Venice Biennale collateral exhibitions. His works are held in collections such as Queensland Art Gallery, M HKA Antwerp, Cnap France, FRAC Bretagne, In Between Art Film, Qatar Museums, and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.