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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, 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 2024
Pushcart 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


2024
Poetry Wales 60.2 Winter 2024

Xeno Futurism issue 2

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
 

WRITE FIFTY WORDS


2019. installation

group show. Work based on Vladmir Zykov’s process experiment ‘I was told to write fifty words’ (2008) using Amazon’s ‘mechanical turk’, with permission from the artist.

Communion, SHIFT, Cardiff

For I Was Told to Write Fifty Words, Vladimir Zykov employed the services of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (an online labour pool specializing in repetitive tasks paid piecemeal) to create a work conceived of but not written by himself. On the job board, he gave the simple instructions: “Write fifty words.” Offering a payment of one cent for every fifty words received, he was able to “write” each poem for one cent; the project was finished when Zykov had collected 500 sets of words, costing him a total of $5.00. The final work is completely unedited by Zykov.

Although Zykov touches on a number of issues here, most prominent is the concern with modes of production, labour, and value: What is the value of language? Can poetry be farmed out by proxy? Is there a mode of production for poetry that follows capitalist models? Almost Warholian, Zykov imagines a textual factory. His plan is far-reaching: eventually he hopes to commission a range of full-length works written in this manner, spanning every literary genre, from sci-fi to detective novels and cookbooks.

Sadia Pineda Hameed restaged ‘I was told to write fifty words’ in an exhibition setting, offering one penny as a fee, alongside participation in the group show. The following line was given to each participant to put onto their arts portfolio / CV if they wished: Group show. write fifty words, Communion, SHIFT. Cardiff, 2019. Commissioned by LUMIN. The restaging interrogated labour in the arts, considering what condition or environment might create a more equitable exchange, when monetary exchange within institutions fail to value labour sufficiently.

Images: Adam Lewis