Sa’dia Rehman is a transdisciplinary artist whose work is fueled by a critical exploration of Muslim American identity and how it intersects with race, power and gender. Through performance, video, installation and large-scale wall drawing, Sa’dia obsessively pulls apart and puts together “images of consumption”, including: family photographs, mass media and art historical images.
Sa’dia Rehman is a transdisciplinary artist whose work is fueled by a critical exploration of Muslim American identity and how it intersects with race, power and gender. Through performance, video, installation and large-scale wall drawing, Sa’dia obsessively pulls apart and puts together “images of consumption”, including: family photographs, mass media and art historical images.
Born in Queens and currently residing in New York. She was the second international resident at Pol & Grace. Sadia, was in residence at the hotel from September 15th to 30th, 2019, making an intervention on the headboard of room 402 and an exhibition.
Sa’dia Rehman explores how contemporary and historical images communicate, consolidate and contest ideas about race, empire and labor. Through techniques such as wall drawing, cut outs and assemblage, Rehman pulls apart and puts together images from family photographs, historical records, and mass media to interrogate their resonances. Her main materials include hand-cut templates, xeroxes, carbon, graphite, erasers, spray paint and ink.
Apart from the usual intervention on the wall of the room, she inaugurated an exhibition, which like the mural, made sweep of her experience in Barcelona, identifying with a sober and unifying discourse, different moments of her days in the city, with transversal elements such as the floor tiles or vegetation. For these works he used a series of techniques such as the use of stencil, acrylic, brush and a chromatic range of black and white.
Education:
The Ohio State University (OSU), OH, M.F.A, Visual Art
The City College, City College of NY, M.A., Art History and Museum Studies
The College of New Rochelle, NY B.A., Art History and Studio Art
