Jan Agha
Furr Yeah!!!
Mar 26 — Jul 26, 2026
Ping Pong Gintoneria and Sunway Express are proud to present Furr Yeah!!!, a solo exhibition by British-Pakistani artist Jan Agha. Opening 26th March 2026 during the week of Art Basel Hong Kong 2026, the exhibition will be on view until 26th July, 2026. Known for his raw, humorous, and deeply personal visual language, Agha’s work fuses echoes of Persian academic traditions with a contemporary irreverence that feels both devotional and defiant.
Jan Agha’s universe of iconography is a canon mythology of our time. His figures, painted in thick oils and raw mixed media, oscillate between the sacred and the comic, the mystical and the absurd. Drawing on Persian traditions yet refusing cultural conformity, Agha carves out a hybrid pantheon of deities that are at once fleshly and spiritual, humorous and tragic.
His gestures are devotional in their intensity but rebellious in their refusal to conform. Figures emerge ecstatic, anguished, and fleshly, provoking questions about violence, nihilism, and impulse. This hybrid iconography resists singular cultural references, instead forging a personal scripture — not sacred in doctrine, but sacred in its refusal to conform.
About the Artist
Born in Pakistan, Jan Agha studied Fine Art at the University of Hertfordshire before completing his MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, London. He has exhibited internationally, with solo and group shows in Tokyo, London, and across the UK, and was Artist in Residence at Acava Studio, Spode Museum in May 2025.
Articles
Arthur Hacker / City / May 21, 2022
Crossing Hong Kong’s Harbour / City / January 26, 2018
Gerard d’Alton Henderson / City / May 19, 2017
Hong Kong in the 1970s / City / October 5, 2016
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