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, The Vestibule, and Hedreen Gallery. She has been an artist in residence at Nii Modo and Inscape Arts, and is currently a resident artist at Actualize in Downtown Seattle. Her work has been covered in The Seattle Times, City Arts Magazine, the Seattle Weekly and more. 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.
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.
Look, Listen and Learn: Home (Episode 5)