Upcoming
Between the Bylines, group show at Stone Gallery, Boston University, MA, September 2 – December 2026
Markers, a solo show at Cruise, Minneapolis, MN, September 2026
Architecture Otherwise: Building Civic Infrastructure for Collective Futures, Sharjah Architecture Triennial, UAE, November 2026 – April 2027

Bio
Sa’dia Rehman (all pronouns) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator focusing on race, empire, and labor. They center familial history to expand on harm and survival in an ongoing project tracing their family’s displacement in the late 1960s from an area on the Indus River due to the building of a hydroelectric dam. In 2023, Rehman premiered their three-year project on grief, memory and displacement at the Wexner Center for the Arts in their solo show the river runs slow and deep and all the bones of my ancestors / have risen to the surface to knock and click like the sounds of trees in the air. Rehman has collaborated with the Global Imagination of Racial Justice at the University of California, Santa Barbara for a commission linking narratives of the California Mission Dams and Pakistan’s Tarbela Dam. In 2021 Rehman was selected by the Ohio Arts Council as an Artist to Watch. Rehman has exhibited work at venues including the Tate Modern (London, UK), National Museum of Art (Oslo, Norway), Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, Ohio), The Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia, PA), Governors Island (New York), Queens Museum (NYC), Smack Mellon (Brooklyn, NY), Kentler International Drawing Space (Brooklyn, NY), Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU (NYC), and Pakistan National Council of the Arts (Islamabad), among others. Rehman received the Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Fellowship and the Meredith Morabito and Henrietta Mantooth Fellowship. Rehman was awarded residencies at the ArtLab at Harvard University, Film/Video Studio at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Art Omi, Abrons Art Center, KODA, Asian American Arts Alliance, Edward Albee Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and NARS Foundation. Their work was featured in Aperture, Bomb, The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times, Harpers, The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, Colonize This! Young Women of Color On Today’s Feminism, Breakthru Radio and HyperAllergic.