Anoka Faruqee (b. 1972, Ann Arbor, MI) and David Driscoll (b. 1964, Steubenville, OH) are painters who began collaborating in 2012. Faruqee earned her Master of Fine Arts from the Tyler School of Art in 1997 and her Bachelor of Arts in Painting from Yale University in 1994. Driscoll received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ohio State University in 1987.

Faruqee is an alumna of the Whitney Independent Study Program and residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the PS1 National Studio Program. Her fellowships include the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and Artadia. Faruqee currently serves as the Director of Graduate Studies in Painting/Printmaking at Yale.

In 2016, Faruqee curated the major exhibition “Search Versus Re-Search: Josef Albers, Artist and Educator,” and directed a short film about Albers’ art and teaching for the 32 Edgewood Gallery at the Yale School of Art.

Faruqee’s work has been exhibited in the United States and abroad at venues such as Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria; Hall Art Foundation, Reading, VT; Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY; Schloss Derneburg Museum, Derneburg, Germany; MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY; Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR; and Björkholmen Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden, among others.

David Driscoll earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ohio State University in 1987. The duo recently had a solo exhibition at The Suburban in Milwaukee, WI, and participated in the 2019 DeCordova Sculpture Park Biennial in Lincoln, MA.

They live and work in New Haven, CT.