SA'DIA REHMAN

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b. Queens, NY
 
Selected Solo* and Two-Person Exhibitions
2020     The Land of Promise, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
              The Cost of Entry, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY* 
2019     Sa’dia Rehman, Pol y Grace, Barcelona, Spain* 
              The Here and the Hereafter, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY Old Westbury*
2017     Sa’dia Rehman and Nayeon Yang, ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus, OH
2014     Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time, Twelve Gates Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2010     Metamorphosis: Sa'dia Rehman and Gazelle Samizay, The Guild Art Gallery, NYC

Selected Performances
2020     The Story of the Tracings of all the Persons Before Us and After Them, NewEar Festival, Fridman Gallery, NYC
2019    The Story of the Tracings of all the Persons Before Us and After Them, Ctrl+Shft Collective, Oakland, CA
2018    TELL-47, Bureau of General Services - Queer Division, NYC
             The Story of the Tracings of all the Persons Before Us and After Them, Corrugate Gallery, Columbus, OH 
             Map of my Home: Memory, Maps, Movement, Alwan for the Arts, NYC
2016    The Community as Studio, Asian/Pacific/American Institute, NYU, NYC

Selected Group Exhibitions 
2020     Paper Routes, National Museum of Women in the Arts, DC 
              Artists to Watch, Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH 
              #SpeakingThroughMasks, ABCnoRio, NYC
2019     Residing at The Growlery, San Francisco, CA 
              Vessel Memories,
The Border Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
              Trajectory, Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
              Here, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2018     Her Garden, A Mirror: (Chitra Ganesh solo exhibition), The Kitchen, NYC
              Thought Bubble, Aicon Gallery, NYC 
2017     Studio Open 2, The Carnegie, Covington, KY
              Thesis, Urban Art Space, Columbus, OH
              Rasquache Residency Exhibition, Jose Martinez Galeria, Toledo, OH 
2016     The Video Program, Gateway Film Center, Columbus, OH
              Rasquache Residency Exhibition, Mexico Solidarity Network, Chicago, IL
              Sheherzade's Gift, The Center for Book Arts, NYC              
2015     digi-Eye, Sony Theater, Los Angeles, CA
              Berlin Film Screening, SkyLab, Columbus OH   
2014     Through the Looking Glass, Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ 
2013
     Her Stories: Fifteen Years of the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC), Taubman Museum, Roanoke, VA
2012
     Salaam Bombay: Beauty & Chaos in the Urban Environment, Art Asia Miami, FL
              Her Stories: Fifteen Years of SAWCC, Queens Museum of Art, NYC
2010     Hair Tactic, Jersey City Museum, NJ
2009     Good Looking: Vision and Society in Contemporary Art, Grey Noise, Lahore, Pakistan
              Domestic Policy, The Guild Art Gallery, NYC
2008     Artists in the Marketplace, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NYC
              Fire Walkers: Contemporary Artists from India, Pakistan and the Middle East, Stux Gallery, NYC
2007     Sultana’s Dream: SAWCC 10th Anniversary Visual Arts Show, Exit Art, NYC
              Intersections, Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement, NYC
              Homecoming, Pakistan National Council of the Arts, Islamabad
              Changing Climate, Changing Colors: 24 Contemporary Muslim Artists, Abrons Arts Center, NYC
2005     Fatal Love: South Asian American Art Now, Queens Museum of Art, NYC
              Living for the City, Jack Shainman Gallery, NYC
              Artwallah Festival, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA                   

Residencies
2020-21 Abrons Arts Center Visual Artist AIRSpace Residency, NYC
2019       The Growlery, San Francisco, CA
                New York Art Residency and Studios (NARS) Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
                Trestle Arts, Brooklyn, NY
2018       Edward Albee Foundation, Montauk, NY
                Woodstock Byrdcliffe, NY 
                Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT 
2016       Rasquache Residency, San Francisco Coapan, Mexico
2011       Artist Summer Institute by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council & Creative Capital, NYC
2008       Artist in the Marketplace, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NYC
2006       National College of Art, Islamabad, Pakistan

Awards and Recognition
2020-21 Fellow, Center for Art and Social Engagement, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
2020       Women to Watch recipient, National Museum of Women in the Arts, DC
2019       Artist Honoree, Trestle Arts, Brooklyn, NY 
2018       Meredith Morabito and Henrietta Mantooth Fellowship, Woodstock, NY (Byrdcliffe AIR)
                Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Professional & Development Research Grant, Columbus, OH (Vermont Studio Center)
2017       Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant nominee, NYC
2016       Ann Hamilton Travel Grant, Columbus, OH

Lectures/Panels   
2020      Panel, Intersect Chicago with the Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
               Artist Talk, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
2019      Artist Talk, Amelie Wallace Gallery, SUNY Old Westbury NY
2017      Artist Talk, Ohio State University, Mansfield, OH
               Respondent, Asian Contemporary Art Week: Field Meeting 5: Projects, NYC
               Artist Talk, ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus, OH
               Panel Chair, Queer Places, Practices and Lives III, OSU, Columbus, OH          
2016      Artist Talk, Sheherzade’s Gift, The Center for Book Arts, NYC
2013      Featured Artist, Co-Lab, Basement Bhangra, Le Poisson Rouge, NYC
                Featured Artist Corona: An Ode to Queens, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, NYC
2012       Featured Artist, National Convention of The National Arts Education Association, NYC
2008       Artist Talk, First Saturdays Artist Series, Brooklyn Museum, NYC
2007       Artist Talk, Subversive Sisters, Richmix, London, United Kingdom,
                Organizer and moderator, Sultana’s Dream: Visual Arts Panel, Exit Art, NYC 
                Artist Talk, Art Department Alumni Panel, The College of New Rochelle, NY
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Education 
2017     The Ohio State University (OSU), OH, M.F.A, Visual Art
2006     The City College, City College of NY, M.A., Art History and Museum Studies
2002     The College of New Rochelle, NY B.A., Art History and Studio Art 

Teaching 
2019            Visiting Critic, Parsons School of Design, NYC
2017            Adjunct, Digital Imaging (Adobe Suite and Laser cutting), OSU, Columbus, OH
2016            Teaching Fellow, 2D Design (Adobe Suite emphasis on Premiere/Final Cut), OSU, Columbus, OH
2015-2016  Teaching Fellow, Drawing (Video animation), OSU, Columbus, OH

Bibliography
2020       Voon, Claire, "The Metamorphosis of Paper in the Hands of Women Artists," Fine Books and Collections, Winter 2021.
                "Artists Explore the Transformational Qualities of Paper in Upcoming Exhibition," Fine Books and Collections, July 30, 2020.
                Downing, Andy, "'Paper Routes' finds creators spinning common material into artistic gold," Columbus ALIVE, July 30, 2020.
                Bell, Andrea, "Sa’dia Rehman: the Here and the Hereafter" (review), Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, Volume 6,                      pg 195-198, July 2020
                Ehrlich, Isabel, "Nicht Langer Schweigen (No longer silent)," Siegessäule, July 2020. 
                Wahi, Jasmine. “Flying While Brown” The Cost of Entry (brochure), Kentler International Drawing Space, February, 2020.
2019       Kotik, Charlotta. Trajectory: 20 years of Five Myles (brochure), October, 2019.
                Yi, Hyewon. The Here and The Hereafter (brochure), September, 2019.
                Hernandez, Daisy and Bushra Rehman (ed.), Colonize This! Young Women of Color On Today’s Feminism, 2nd edition 2019, xxiv.
                Sultan, Iman, “Three Queer Artists Explore Identity and Disrupt Borders with their art,” Hyperallergic, May 8, 2019.
2018       Art Uncovered with Kimberly Ruth, Breakthru Radio, May 15, 2018.
2017       Bissonauth, Natasha, "New Directions in Queer and Feminist South Asian Diasporic Critiques," Association for Asian American      
​                Studies Roundtable, Portland, OR, April 2017.

2016       Sheherzade’s Gift, (cat) Center for Book Arts, July 13- September 22, 2016.
                Abichandani, Jaishri, “Sheherzade’s Gift,” Art Asia Pacific, Summer 2016. 
2015       McClure, Leah, “MFA students’ work displays outside the gallery,” The Lantern, August 25, 2015.
2013       Jenkins, Mark, “On Being a Woman,” Washington Post, March 29, 2013.
                Reddy, Sita, "Be/Longing: Art in Washington DC," Saffron Art Blog, April 13, 2013. 
2014       Jaggery Lit: A DesiLit Arts and Literature Journal, Spring 2014
2010       Thikurode, Meenakshi, “Metamorphosis,” Whitewall: Contemporary Art and Lifestyle Magazine, August 17, 2010. 
                 Mendell, Jonathan, “First Friday Becomes a Hair Day at Jersey City Museum,” The Jersey Journal, February 27, 2010.
2009        Gershenson, Olga and Barbara Penner, Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009.
2008        Riley-Lopez, Erin. How Soon is Now?: Artist in the Marketplace 28 (cat), Bronx Museum Of Art, June 1 – August 18, 2008.
                 Mills, Michael. “East Wind A Blowin’,” Miami New Times, April 2008.
2007        Melwani, Lavina. “The Unsuitable Girls Grow Up,” Little India, Oct 2007.
                 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.
                 Lentini, Lara Kristin. “Changing Climate,” Art Papers, July/ August 2007.
2006        Ali, Atteqa. The Nation, December 2006.
2005        “Readings: [Assimilation] On the Down Low,” Harper’s Magazine, August 2005, 20.
                  Rehman, Bushra, “Our Little Secrets,” ColorLines Magazine, Summer 2005, 48-51.
                  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.
                  Medina, Jennifer. “In a Museum Bathroom, A Tool of Hygiene Becomes Art,” The New York Times, March 14, 2005.
2004        “To Spotlight Talents of Alumni Artists” El Aguila Del Hudson Valley, August 25- September 7, 2004, 22.
                  Melwani, Lavina. “A Space of Their Own,” Anokhi Vibe, Fall 2004, 114-116.
                  Hershenson, Roberta. The New York Times, August 29, 2004.
2002         Hernandez, Daisy and Bushra Rehman (ed.), Colonize This! Young Women of Color On Today’s Feminism, 2002, xviii.

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