sadiaph@gmail.com
@sadiaph

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


Colwinston Award 2025
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


2025
Carreg Ateb: Vision or Dream?, part of Jeremy Deller’s The Triumph of Art, Mostyn, Llandudno

The Song of my Life, Queer East Film Festival, London

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
chrono trigger, Xeno Futurism issue 2

2024
Conditioned Space, Bay Arts

OH flag, Poetry Wales 60.2 Winter 2024

discus and when i was 19 i interviewed Patrick Shen on the phone, Cwyr Zine issue 2

2023
cinema, Poetry Wales 59.1 Summer 2023

Interview, British School at Rome

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

UTYPIA, Oriel Davies Gallery

2021

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

Merched yn Gwneud Celf zine, Eisteddfod

featured in Welsh Experimental Writing, Poetry Wales 57.1 Summer 2021

Cataloguing, 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

featured in LOVE Magazine, Love Diaries vol. 1

Evening, ZARF #14

2019
Tortang Talong, 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
artist in-conversation, Llandeilo Literature Festival, National Trust

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

 

SIGNALS


2025. super 16mm and archival super 8mm film with responsive light installation, pewter sculpture, aluminium cast sculpture

solo show.

The Big Pit National Coal Mining Museum, Blaenavon

31 May - 31 August

Through considering the collection, conversations and community of the museum with an anti-colonial, anti-capitalist and ecological lens, Sadia forms connections between Wales’ history of mining and strike, and resource extraction and labour movements worldwide today.

Sadia Pineda’s Hameed research began with an exploration of the legacy of tokens and other symbolic, covert strategies of resistance from the history of Welsh mining strikes; and how these can become symbols of international solidarity for mining strikes today. As the Welsh miners’ strikes and UK wide union action in the 1980s sought to fight for workers’ rights, the protection of land, culture and community, as well as complicate capitalist, expedient reinvestment from coal to rare earth metals - how could Wales’ history of mobilising and resistance be in solidarity with resistance today in the global south such as in the DRC, the Philippines, the South American ‘lithium triangle’ and others? How can the Big Pit National Coal Museum and its collection become a symbol or token in itself of international, anti-capitalist and anti-colonial solidarity?

Moving Sound (8min) is a speculative work set across 1980s and near-future Wales, shot on super 16mm. In the film, sounds of present day anti-colonial and anti-capitalist solidarities and strategies for mining strikes are transmitted from Soundcamp streamboxes to the past via an underground, time travelling broadcast. In the 1980s, workers build DIY receivers from Moving Sound portable audio devices, which they use to distribute the broadcast around sites of production and the everyday. Screened in the King Coal Experience (an immersive recreation of the Big Pit underground mine) amidst disused mining machinery, Moving Sound blurs fiction 16mm and real, archival 8mm footage from Sam Baraitser Smith into convert sonic action to explore how solidarities organise, converge and enact across geographies, temporality, fantasy and reality. 

Long Distance Calls is a series of sculptural string telephones in the style of commemorative silverware, with each pair joining the shared resistance of mining strikes in Wales and in the Global South. Inspired by Big Pit’s bell system - used by miners to communicate underground in code by touching two metal wires together - Long Distance Calls are votive talismans for organised, underground, quiet signals of international solidarity, that consider how commemoration can function to not only memorialise, but also incite collectivise resistance against colonial and capitalist resource extraction.

Tokens of Solidarity were designed and cast as part of a series of workshops in which artists created their own tokens of solidarity. The workshops were an invitation to speculate on how an object can hold alternative, potential and future value in its symbolism and materiality; and took inspiration from Big Pit’s collection of lamp checks, solidarity and union badges, mining scrip, Welsh socialist Robert Owen’s labour vouchers and the Filipino agimat (protection amulet). They are cast in aluminium, in solidarity with the land, people and striking workers being harmed and extracted from by colonial bauxite mining worldwide today. 

Thanks to Sophie Lindsey, Sioned Williams, Ceri Thompson, Dwaine Smith, Len Howell, Dai Powell, Charlie Upton, Matt Pritchard, Samara Addai, Angelina Radaković, Mort Drew, On8mil, Firebug Lighting, not/nowhere, Llantarnam Grange, Soundcamp and The Mosaic Rooms.

Signals is part of Perspective(s), a collaboration between Arts Council Wales and Amugeddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, supported by the Welsh Government.