Aya Haidar (b. 1985, lives and works in London) is a multimedia artist; her work focuses on the use of found and recycled objects exploring loss, migration, memory, labour, domesticity and womanhood.
Her hand-embroidered interventions onto culturally and historically specific objects, unfold silenced and authentic narratives around socially and politically engaged issues.
Aya Haidar graduated with a BA in Fine Art from the Slade School of Art, during which she completed an exchange program at SAIC (Chicago). She then went on to graduate with an MSc in NGOs and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Haidar’s work has been included in exhibitions at institutions such as Kettle’s Yard (Cambridge), The Whitworth (Manchester), Camden Arts Center (London), Cubitt (London), Museum of Contemporary Art, (Slovenia), New Art Exchange (Nottingham), Jeddah Arts Week 21,39 (KSA), as well as in Hans Ulrich Obrist and Hoor Al Qasimi’s Do It (2016), Shubbak Festival (London), INIVA’s A Place for Conversation (London), Mosaic Rooms (London), Frieze (London), Art Berlin contemporary (Berlin), Casa Arabe, (Madrid), Art Dubai (UAE), Abu Dhabi Art (UAE), V&A’s Record, Resist, Reframe (London), Tate’s Illuminating Cultures program (London).
Her work is internationally collected by private collections and institutions, most recently by the Guggenheim Museum.
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