(b. 1998, Dhaka, Bangladesh) is an artist based in London. Drawing from his memories and lived experiences, he creates image-based works and installations that explore and decode microhistories and their global impacts. His practice investigates communication, miscommunication, and adopts a reparative reading of the past. By creating spaces to revisit societal norms and traditions, and advocating for the recognition of adverse elements, Hoque imagines how we can act in society.

contact.laisulhoque@gmail.com
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2024  
An Ode to All the Flavours


2023  
The Purpose was to Document the Other Side


2024
I don’t Call Enough But I’m Here Now


2023  
I Wish I Could Tell You Exactly How I Feel






Education

2020 - 2022



MA in Contemporary Photography; Practices and
Philosophies
, Central Saint Martins, UAL, London

2016 - 2020



BA in English Literature, North South University, Dhaka


Awards



2025  East London Art Prize, Shortlisted
2024  CIRCA Prize, Finalist



Exhibitions and Screenings 

(* indicates solo)


2024The Purpose was to Document the Other Side, EXPERIMENTA 2024, Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore
2024An Ode to All the Flavours, a day-long Exhibition, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2024The Purpose was to Document the Other Side, Screened at Piccadilly Lights screen, London
(as part of CIRCA Prize)

2024The Purpose was to Document the Other Side, Screened at Limes Kurfürstendamm screen, Berlin (as part of CIRCA Prize)
2024The Purpose was to Document the Other Side, Screened at Essilor Luxottica screen in Cadorna Square, Milan (as part of CIRCA Prize)
2024An Ode to All the Flavours, Solo Exhibition, Kobi Nazrul Centre, London *

2024The Purpose was to Document the Other Side, Solo Screening, Project Banani 18, Dhaka *
2024The Purpose was to Document the Other Side, Solo Screening, Studio 6/6, Dhaka *
2024The Purpose was to Document the Other Side, Solo Screening, EkshoEk, Dhaka *
2024Shorts: Joyful Lands, Joyful Bodies, Chronic Youth Film Festival, Group Screening, Barbican Centre, London
2024I don’t Call Enough but I’m Here Now, Solo Exhibition, Oitij-jo, London *
2023Bhalo Basha, Group Screening, Toynbee Hall, London
2023ELO MELO Festival, Oitij-jo x Whitechapel Gallery, Group Screening, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2023Molasses Vases, Group Exhibition, hARTslane, London2022Ajker, Group Exhibition, Oitij-jo, London
2022 Degree Show, Central Saint Martins, 1 Granary Square, London


Press/Reviews

2024The Purpose Was to Document the Other Side on The White Pube by Zarina Muhammad

2024The Purpose Was to Document the Other Side: A Tale of Mediating Generational Gaps on
The Daily Star (BD) by Tasrifa Trisha




Writing


2023Time Is Moving At A Different Pace Back Home: Leaving Behind A Version Of Us, Small World City, Issue 01


Talk/Panel 


2024Exploration of “tradition” and “authenticity” in the context of hybrid cultures, An Ode to All the Flavours, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2024Joyful Lands, Joyful Bodies, Chronic Youth Film Festival, Barbican Centre

The Purpose was to Document the Other Side, 2023 

Digital Video, 15 mins


Press


The White Pube

The Daily Star (Bd)
  •       A short film by Laisul Hoque, capturing the artist's mother's journey to London. The film is recorded on a camera initially purchased by the artist's father in 2004 to document his European journey when he couldn't bring his family along. Informed by the exploration of intimate conversation, the film compares the artist's upbringing with that of his mother, addressing generational trauma and confronting emotional distance from his father. Through this documentary, the artist engages in the powerful act of curating their narrative together—vulnerable and emotional. It presents a compelling example of reclaiming personal and familial stories.

  •       By deciding to record and hold these footages in the camera that the artist’s dad used, the artist gives his mother a space to place her narrative, where originally it would be only his father’s and the artist's. At the end of the film, the artist hands the camera to his mother, providing her with a means to contribute to the narrative. 










In 2024, Hoque was named a finalist for the CIRCA Prize, with his video work screening at London’s Piccadilly Circus and on digital billboards in Berlin and Milan.

Above are photos of the screening view from London’s Piccadilly Circus. Images by Ayushi Channawar.  






Screening view of The Purpose Was to Document the Other Side at Barbican Cinema 2, 2024






Screening view of The Purpose Was to Document the Other Side at Zéruì, 2024