Bio
Sa’dia Rehman (b. Queens, NY) has shared her work internationally and nationally at venues such as the Jersey City Museum (2010), Grey Noise Gallery (2008), Exit Art (2007) and Queens Museum of Art (2005). Rehman was selected to participate in Artists Summer Institute 2011, a program sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in collaboration with Creative Capital. She has participated in residencies at the Bronx Museum of Art (2008) and National Gallery of Art, Islamabad, Pakistan (2006). She works with themes such as isolation, shame and hidden social boundaries, which are depicted through formal strategies like repetition of patterns and accumulation of words. Her installations, sculptures, and works on paper explore cultural assimilation and expose subjects that are considered taboo such as sexuality, power hierarchies and normative ideals around gender. Rehman grew up in such a community where these taboos were hidden yet aggressively maintained.
Curriculum Vitae
Exhibitions
2011
*Two Moon Art House & Cafe, Brooklyn, NY
(dis)located, Art for Change, NY, NY
2010
What’s Your War?, Load of Fun Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Metamorphosis: Sa’dia Rehman and Gazelle Samizay, The Guild Art Gallery, NY, NY
Hair Tactic, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
2009
Good Looking: Vision and Society in Contemporary Art, Grey Noise, Lahore, Pakistan
Domestic Policy, The Guild Art Gallery, NY, NY
2008
AIM: Artists in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of Art, NY, NY
Fire Walkers: Contemporary Artists from India, Pakistan and the Middle East, Stux Gallery, NY, NY
Exploding the Lotus, Arts and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL
2007
Iconography, Red Saw Gallery, Newark, NJ
Sultana’s Dream: SAWCC 10th Anniversary Visual Arts Show, Exit Art, NY, NY
Intersections, Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement, NY, NY
Homecoming, National College of Art, Islamabad, Pakistan
Changing Climate, Changing Colors: 24 Contemporary Muslim Artists, Abrons Arts Center, NY, NY
2005
Fatal Love: South Asian American Art Now, Queens Museum of Art, NY, NY
Living for the City, Centre international de Expositions de Larouche, Canada
Living for the City, Jack Shainman Gallery, NY, NY
Artwallah Festival 2005, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Once Upon A Time: Visions by Alumnae/i Artists, Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY
Territories: 7th Annual Visual Arts Exhibition, Gallery Artsindia, NY, NY
2002
More Milk, Lighter Skin, Better Wife, Bridge Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, NY
2001
Stained and Tainted, Mooney Center, The College of New Rochelle, NY
* asterisk represents solo show
Residencies
2008
Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of Art, NY
2006
National College of Art, Islamabad, Pakistan
Lectures/Panels
2008
First Saturdays Artist Series, Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY
2007
Subversive Sisters, Richmix, London, United Kingdom
Sultana’s Dream, Visual Arts Panel, Exit Art, NY, NY
South Asian Women’s Creative Collective Fundraiser, Asian American Writers Workshop, NY, NY
Art Department Alumni Panel, The College of New Rochelle, NY
Education
2006
The City College, City College of New York, NY
M.A., Art History and Museum Studies
2002
The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
B.A., Studio Art and Art History
Bibliography
Ali, Atteqa. The Nation (December 2006).
Chandra, Kiran. “Fatal Love: South Asian American Art Now,” EGO Magazine (May 2005).
Finnerty, Amy. “South Asia as Ethnic Background, Artistic Foreground,” The Wall Street Journal
(March 22, 2005), Arts and Leisure Section.
Hernandez, Daisy and Bushra Rehman (ed.), Colonize This! Young Women of Color On Today’s
Feminism, New York: Seal Press, 2002, xviii.
Hershenson, Roberta. The New York Times, (August 29, 2004) Westchester section.
Lentini, Lara Kristin. Art Papers, “Changing Climate,” July/ August 2007.
Medina, Jennifer. “In a Museum Bathroom, A Tool of Hygiene Becomes Art,” The New York Times
(March 14, 2005) Metro Section, B6.
Melwani, Lavina. “A Space of Their Own,” Anokhi Vibe (Fall 2004), 114-116.
Melwani, Lavina. “The Unsuitable Girls Grow Up,” Little India (Oct 2007).
Mills, Michael. “East Wind A Blowin’,” Miami New Times, (April 2008).
”Readings: [Assimilation] On the Down Low,” Harper’s Magazine (August 2005), 20.
Rehman, Bushra, “Our Little Secrets,” ColorLines Magazine (Summer 2005), 48-51.
Riley-Lopez, Erin. How Soon is Now?: Artist in the Marketplace 28 (cat), Bronx Museum Of Art,
June 1 – August 18, 2008.
Rockfield, Gary, “An Artist’s Life,” CNR Quarterly (Summer 2007), 14-15.
Sultana’s Dream: SAWCC’s 10th Anniversary Visual Arts Exhibition (cat), Exit Art,
August 4th – September 1st, 2007.
“To Spotlight Talents of Alumni Artists,” El Aguila Del Hudson Valley (August 25-September 7, 2004), 22.
Thikurode, Meenakshi, “Metamorphosis,” Whitewall: Contemporary Art and Lifestyle Magazine
(August 17, 2010).