Park Guell, 2020, Spray paint, Ink, Sharpie, pen on Arches watercolor paper, 8 1/2 x 11 inches

By Sa'dia Rehman (Queens, NY)

Sa'dia Rehman (b. Queens, NY) 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 drawing, Rehman pulls apart and puts together "images of consumption"- family photographs, mass media and art historical images. In addition to Rehman's archive, Sa'dia's core materials includes hand-cut stencils, charcoal, graphite, erasers, spray paint and ink.

Recently Rehman was nominated as a "Woman to Watch" by the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She has shared her work nationally and internationally at venues such as Kentler International Drawing Space (2020), The Kitchen (2018), Aicon (2018), Center for Book Arts (2015), Local Projects (2015), Queens Museum (2012), Brooklyn Museum (2010) and Pakistan National Council of the Arts, Islamabad (2006), among others. She 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). She has been awarded residencies at the NARS Foundation (2019), Edward Albee Foundation (2018), Byrdcliffe Woodstock (2018), Vermont Studio Center (2018), Rasquache Residency (2016), ASI/LMCC & Creative Capital (2011) and AIM Bronx Museum (2008). Her work has been featured in the NYTimes, Harper's, Art Papers and ColorLines. She is the 2020-2021 Center for Art and Social Engagment Fellow at the Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio.