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, decoy, unearthing and hiding become playful devices to immerse viewers in a ‘delirious discourse’ where personal archives and collective experiences converge.
She also also runs print, radio and curatorial project LUMIN.
AWARDS
Arts Council Wales Perspectives Fellowship 2024Pushcart Prize Nominee 2023
British School at Rome Fellowship 2023
g39 Freelands Fellowship 2022-24
Arts Foundation Futures Award for Visual Artists longlist 2022
Paul Hamlyn Award for Visual Artists 2021
Literature Wales New Writers Award 2020
Rising Star Wales Writers Award 2020
SOLO EXHIBITION
2025
Forthcoming, Llantarnam Grange, Cwmbran
Forthcoming, The Big Pit Mining 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
2019
Tiny Bubbles in the Wine, HOAX, online
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
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
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
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
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
2023
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
HerStories / Shelf Life, Iniva
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
Women in Publishing Symposium panelist, Bangor University
2019
guest critic, Arts Review Show, BBC Radio Wales
Dis/establishing the Archive, Archiving Gender symposium paper presentation, Cardiff University
2018
Decolonising the Starving Artist, Gentle/Radical’s Imagination Forum #4, symposium at Sustainable Studios, Cardiff
TINY BUBBLES IN THE WINE
2019. film, text (5min loop)
shown at SHIFT, Cardiff, HOAX and group show ‘I watched in amazement’ at The Mosaic Rooms, London
Association-based writing and collaged film exploring how trauma is told through Filipino traditions of oral history and secrets. the film explores how repetition of ‘signs’ can unlock the untold - through intuitive links between the mother’s story, cultural traditions and David Medalla’s Cloud Canyons.
