Sa’dia Rehman

Sa’dia Rehman is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores how contemporary and historical images—in public and private records—communicate, consolidate and contest ideas about race, power, and gender. Through performance, video, installation and large-scale wall drawing, Sa’dia obsessively pulls apart and puts together “images of consumption”— family photographs, mass media, and art historical images. In addition to Sa’dia’s archive, her core materials include hand-cut stencils, Xeroxes, charcoal, graphite, erasers, spray paint and ink.

Sa’dia has shared her work nationally and internationally at venues such as Twelve Gates Gallery (2019), The Kitchen (2018), Aicon (2018), Alwan for the Arts (2018), Center for Book Arts (2015), Local Projects (2015), Los Angeles Sony Theater (2015), Taubman Museum (2013), Queens Museum (2012), Brooklyn Museum (2010) and Pakistan National Council of the Arts, Islamabad (2006), among others. Sa’dia was a nominee of the 2017 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant, a recipient of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Grant (2018), Meredith Morabito and Henrietta Mantooth Fellowship (2018) and Ann Hamilton Travel Grant (2016). Sa’dia has been awarded residencies at the Edward Albee Foundation (2018), Byrdcliffe Woodstock  (2018), Vermont Studio Center (2018), Rasquache Residency (2016), ASI/LMCC & Creative Capital (2011) and AIM Bronx Museum (2008). Sa’dia’s work has been featured in the NYTimes, Harper’s, Art Papers and ColorLines. Sa’dia received her MA from City College, CUNY (2006) and MFA from Ohio State University (2017).