About

Sadia Fakih’s work explores cultural hybridity,  displacement, intersectionality, and the Surreal. 

In her collage-drawings, she merges cultural mythologies of influence, with an emphasis on the feminine, ornament, as well as the esoteric. Influenced by classic Indo-Persian miniature painting, Sadia explores her own myth-making in the transitional spaces that erupt when imposing identities collide.

The fragmentation and non-linearity with the work's mythological and art historical references re-imagine pre-conceived conventions of identity, resisting a West vs. East binary view.

Her parents immigrated to Canada from Karachi, Pakistan in the mid 1970s. She was born in Nova Scotia and grew up in Ontario. Sadia received her BFA in Painting at the Alberta University of the Arts, and her MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She currently resides and works in Calgary, Canada.