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sadiaph@gmail.com
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b. 1995, London
based in the Ebbw Valley, Wales

Sadia Pineda Hameed is a Filipina Pakistani artist and writer whose work explores latent ways to speak about collective and intergenerational trauma through inherent anticolonial strategies of dreaming, telepathic communion and secrets. Using film, installation, text and performance, her work further imagines what future tools for resistance, value and communication springing from these strategies might look like.

Her practice is led by a process of cross-disciplinary semiotic and associative journeying in resistance to western processes of historicisation and displacement. Mythmaking, melodrama and decoy become playful devices to speak through a ‘delirious discourse’ where personal archives and collective experiences converge.

She also runs print, radio and curatorial project LUMIN.

AWARDS


Pushcart Prize Nominee 2024
Arts Council Wales Perspectives Fellowship 2024
Pushcart Prize Nominee 2023
British School at Rome Fellowship 2023
g39 Freelands Fellowship 2022-24
Paul Hamlyn Award for Visual Artists 2021
Literature Wales New Writers Award 2020
Rising Star Wales Writers Award 2020

SOLO EXHIBITION


2025
Agimat, Llantarnam Grange, Cwmbran

Signals, The Big Pit National Coal Museum, National Museum Wales, Blaenavon

2023
Ornaments of Prospect, Catalyst Arts, Belfast

2022
Billboards, Brent Biennial 2022, In the House of my Love, Metroland Cultures, Build Hollywood and Studio Voltaire, London

2021
it resonates like spalting wood, Arcade/Campfa, Cardiff

2020
The Song of My Life, Bluecoat, Liverpool

Local 37, MOSTYN, Llandudno

GROUP EXHIBITION


2024
HERE, NOW, Bay Arts, Cardiff

Here, at the edge, today, g39, Cardiff

Betwixt: Beneath, the Crypt Gallery, London

SMALL V01CE, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles CA

2023
Can publications be porous?, Stuart Hall Library, Iniva, London

British School at Rome Open Studios, Rome

2022
Open Milpa Lab: Living Room, Centrum Kultury ZAMEK, Poznan

Thinking Green, Glynn Vivian, Swansea

I Watched in Amazement, curated by HOAX, The Mosaic Rooms, London

2021
The Mobile Feminist Library: In Words, In Action, In Connection, MOSTYN, Llandudno

Jerwood UNITe open studios, g39, Cardiff

2020
(un)seen (un)heard, National Museum Cardiff

2019
Made in Roath Open, g39, Cardiff

A New Mecca, The Temple of Peace, Gentle/Radical, Cardiff

2018
Analogue, Three Doors Up, Cardiff

RESIDENCIES


2025
Tin House, Portland OR

2023
British School at Rome, Rome

2022
Centrum Kultury ZAMEK, Poznan

Casgleb, Peak Cymru, Abergavenny

2021
Unidee, Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella

Co-Tangent, Tangent Projects, Barcelona

Jerwood UNITe, g39, Cardiff

Catalyst Arts Spring online residency, Belfast

2020
Hinterlands, Peak Cymru

Hunan-Iaith, Ty Newydd National Writing Centre for Wales, Criccieth

2019
WARP Library residency, g39, Cardiff

New Writers Award residency, Ty Newydd National Writing Centre for Wales, Criccieth

Curatorial residency, SHIFT, Cardiff


PERFORMANCE


2025
Reimagining Women’s Unfinished Film in Wales, Image Works, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff

featured poet, Constellations Reading Series, Bishop and Wilde, Portland OR

2022
Link Rot, Jerwood Staging Series, Jerwood Arts

2021
Borrow Tomorrow, The Mosaic Rooms, London

PAMPHLET BOMB, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff

speculation, Jerwood UNITe open studios, g39, Cardiff

2020
return etc, Digithon Festival, arts headliner, Wales Arts Review

2019
featured poet, Where I’m Coming From, g39, Cardiff

Bearing Witness to Truth, National Museum Cardiff and Artes Mundi, Cardiff

2018
The Crypt, Gentle/Radical’s A New Mecca, The Temple of Peace, Cardiff

Decolonising Heritage with Gentle/Radical, Bay Arts, Cardiff, commissioned by the Eisteddfod & the National Trust

featured poet, Porridge, Theatre Deli, London

featured poet, Women & War: An Un-silencing, The Open University and Festival of Voice, Cardiff

PUBLICATION


2025
Xeno Futurism issue 2

2024
Poetry Wales 60.2 Winter 2024

Cwyr Zine issue 2

2023
Poetry Wales 59.1 Summer 2023

Interview, British School at Rome

2022
HON: Women Artists in Wales, H’mm Arts Foundation Press

UTYPIA, Oriel Davies Gallery

2021
Land of My Mothers: Is it Time to Hear Wales’ Feminist Voice?, Elephant Magazine

Merched yn Gwneud Celf zine, Eisteddfod

Poetry Wales 57.1 Summer 2021

DOUBLE, Takeaway #9

Imagining Internationally Connected Practice (consulting artist), Arts Council Wales

2020
Undefining the Artist, Wales Arts Review

Dismantling Structural Inequality in Your Cinema, BFI

LOVE Magazine, Love Diaries vol. 1

Evening, ZARF #14

2019
Tortang Tolang, Porridge Magazine: Comfort Foods

Site Ruin, Amberflora issue 6

Interview, Wide Vicinity

2018
Save Our Sculpture, Wales Arts Review

For you, after a film, Porridge Magazine issue 1

To (Un)speak Madness re: Derrida, Foucault, Artaud, LUMIN Journal 1

TALKS


2025
visiting artist, Cardiff Metropolitan - Fine Arts BA

guest artist, Arts Review Show, BBC Radio Wales

2024
artist talk, Peak Cymru and Llantarnam Grange

2023
artist talk, CASTRO Projects, Rome

visiting artist, Arts Council Wales’ Cynefin

visiting artist, Oriel Myrddin

2022
visiting artist, Cardiff Metropolitan - Fine Arts BA

visiting artist, Oxford University - Fine Arts MA

2021
artist talk, HerStories / Shelf Life, Iniva

artist talk, Home and Away, Gallery Simpson, Swansea

Dismantling Structural Inequality In Your Cinema, Glasgow Film Festival (2021), This Way Up Festival (2020)

guest, Boxoffice podcast

2020
panelist, Women in Publishing Symposium, Bangor University

2019
guest artist, Arts Review Show, BBC Radio Wales

Dis/establishing the Archive, Archiving Gender symposium, Cardiff University

2018
Decolonising the Starving Artist, Gentle/Radical’s Imagination Forum #4, symposium at Sustainable Studios, Cardiff
 

IT RESONATES LIKE SPALTING WOOD


2021. installation, three channel film, sculpture

solo show with Beau W Beakhouse. development supported by Arts Council Wales Stabilisation Fund.

Arcade/Campfa, Cardiff

May 29 – July 10 2021

For their first solo show as a collaborative duo, Beau W Beakhouse and Sadia Pineda Hameed organise, enact and reiterate spaces for interpersonal communication and speculation. The installation it resonates like spalting wood comprises tools for a mode of dialogue that attempts to exist outside colonial space; prioritising tactile and latent ways of speaking, sharing and planning.

Suspended in the gallery, three boards based on the Filipino game sungka revivify fluencies in this tactile, inherent language. The short configuration, original configuration and star configuration function to prime dialogue, facilitate play and signal respectively, allowing two players to express intimacies not possible in languages whose vocabularies inescapably perpetuate and express oppression: I have an abundance, you feel imbalanced, we repeat ourselves. Nearby a windfallen log, split and bookmatched, appoints a site for speculating together. In conversation with histories of settler colonialism, botanical imperialism and the arboretum, the redwood is moved again, now becoming a type of social space which remembers and incites. Accompanying these works is a three-channel film, another sequence of iterations through which place, temporality and fiction intersect. Lit by three torches, a figure maintains a canoe in stasis on a frozen lake, a staging that defamiliarises ideas of stillness, resistance and rest.

it resonates like spalting wood envisions the materials, means and possibilities of dialogue through traditional green woodwork, markings and enactment; resonant objects that share an unfamiliar, utopic green glow.