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Ahmad Shukri Mohamed’s signature work lies in his meticulous technique of collage, assemblage and printmaking. On offer here is a canvas piece illustrating the upper part of the Statue of Liberty accomplished through the process of haphazard layering, creating texture and visual dimension in green, black and red. Located at the lower part of the canvas is a repetitive mirrored image of the word ‘YEAH’. Ahmad Shukri Mohamed is one of the founding members of the art collective Matahati which held a major exhibition titled Matahati Ke Matadunia in Los Angeles, United States of America (2009). One of his iconic works of ‘chloroformed’ butterflies won him First Prize in the Malaysian Art Open at Galeri Petronas in 1994. He was trained at the Universiti Teknologi MARA graduating with a BFA in 1991, the year he won the Minor Award in the Young Contemporary Artists exhibition at the National Art Gallery. He also won the national-level Philip Morris Asean Art Awards in 1999. He has been invited for prestigious exhibitions such as the Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates in 2003, the Asian Art Biennale in Bangladesh in 2001 and the Asean Art Show at Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan in 1994. In 2003, he was selected for the Rimbun Dahan artist’s residency. He had his first two solo shows titled 939495969798 and Ahmad Shukri at Art Salon, Kuala Lumpur in 1998 and 2001 respectively and in 2005 when the gallery was renamed XOAS Gallery in an exhibition called Fitting Room. His other solo shows include Boy & Girl (2002), Virus (2003), Warning: Tapir Crossing (2007) and Golden Gate (2012).