Sa’dia Rehman (they/them) explores how contemporary and historical images communicate, consolidate and contest ideas about race, empire and labor. Their work explores structures of the family, the nation, the border. Rehman questions how we live within these systems and how they impact who we are and desires to rearrange them and take them apart. They center familial history to expand on harm and survival.
Rehman has exhibited at Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, OH), Fabric Workshop & Museum (Philadelphia, PA), Queens Museum and Pakistan National Council of the Arts. They were awarded residencies at the Film/Video Studio at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Art Omi, Abrons Art Center, Asian American Arts Alliance and Edward Albee Foundation. Their work was featured in Aperture, Bomb, The Brooklyn Rail, The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism, Breakthru Radio and HyperAllergic. Rehman is currently a visual artist fellow at the ArtLab at Harvard University.
This period is designed for development and presentation of a body of work supported by a written thesis in consultation with resident faculty, visiting artists and critics during the semester. A final exhibition of work will be evaluated by a jury of Painting Faculty Members.
