Fauzan Fuad (b. 1987, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) is a painter and multimedia artist who engages with the textures of urbanity and the poetics of the raw materials that architect contemporary life. Through painting, photographic capture and performance, Fauzan explores and reveals raw abstracted residue of personhood through vibrant abstractions spirited by the city, its mundanity, its subcultures and its heart. Surfaces and objects of metropolitan ubiquity are repositioned through expressive abstraction and play. Fauzan’s practice acts as an exquisite and elevated urban playground of fearless gesture, energetic pace and bright boundlessness.
Influenced by punk culture, vandalism, skateboarding and the visual language of the city, Fauzan draws on the marks, surfaces and subcultures of urban life. Familiar metropolitan forms are reworked through bold gestures, layered textures and processes of abstraction, transforming the overlooked residues of the city into dynamic visual fields. His practice brings together spontaneity, material experimentation and play, reflecting the restless energy and constant transformation of the environments he inhabits.
Fauzan presented his first solo exhibition at ChinaHouse, Penang, in 2018, followed by 44 at Zon Tiga, Kuala Lumpur, in 2020, and POV at Rissim Contemporary, Kuala Lumpur, in 2024. That same year, he participated in SUNYI, an artist residency programme organised by the National Art Gallery in Langkawi. His work has been included in exhibitions locally and internationally, including Cannot Be Bo(a)rded at Espace Commines, Paris (2017); SH/FT: Contemporary Visual Art at White Box, Kuala Lumpur (2019); the Gwangju International Art Fair, South Korea (2020); CONSTANT PRESENT at FINDARS Art Space, Kuala Lumpur (2021); and the Malaysia Emerging Artist Award 2022 Exhibition at HOM Art Trans, Kuala Lumpur. Fauzan lives and works in Kuala Lumpur.