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Muhammad Zaman

American, born Bangladesh, 1990

Muhammad Zaman (center) with Public Art Projects Coordinators Zack Boehler and Eric Jones in front of Zaman's mural Our Colors Are Beautiful, 2018. Photograph by Tom Loonan.

Artist Muhammad Zaman’s wide-ranging projects—from works on paper and paintings to Our Colors Make Us Beautiful, his largest work at the time of its creation—are all grounded in language. His compositions come together through an organic accumulation of thought fragments in the three languages that inform his identity: English, the language of his adopted home; Bengali, the language of his homeland; and Arabic, the language of his religion.

Last updated 2019