Contact:
nadia.ahmed918@gmail.com
instagram @nadiaahmed
About:
Nadia Ahmed (she/her) is a Pakistani-American performance artist, sculptor, and arts administrator currently based in Seattle, WA. She moved from Los Angeles to Seattle in 2014, where she studied Art History and Three-Dimensional Forum at the University of Washington. Nadia’s exhibition history includes Out of Sight, The High Wall, ACES, Studio Current, and Elsewhere Museum. Her work has been covered in City Arts Magazine, Seattle Weekly, The Daily, and Bricolage Literary & Visual Arts Journal. With a focus on community building and racial equity, Nadia has worked as an educator, programmer, curator, marketer, and fundraiser at multiple nonprofits and arts-based organizations. She is currently working as Communications Specialist at the City of Seattle’s Office of Arts & Culture. Nadia also serves as Director of Actualize, a community building non-profit that provides emerging artists free studio-space in downtown Seattle.
Through materials like beeswax, video, text, and found objects, Nadia’s work explores the human relationship to time, as well as how this intertwines with our relationships with ourselves, each other, and the space around us. Embracing time as a medium, she uses her artwork to explore the failure, pain, and distortion of memory. Stemming from her personal life, her work carries aspects of isolation, diaspora, discomfort, and grief. Something valuable that Nadia gets from her own work is a chance to connect with people in an exposed and intimate way.
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