About

Sadia Fakih’s colourful and intricately detailed collage-drawings explore cultural hybridity, displacement, intersectionality, and the Surreal. Semi-autobiographical, her pieces delve into the idea of an alter-ego and of personal mythology building, expressing her place (or displacement) as a South-Asian feminine in the West. She explores the transitional spaces that erupt when imposing identities collide.

Influenced by classic Indo-Persian miniature painting, Sadia merges cultural mythologies, emphasizing the feminine, ornament, as well as the esoteric.

The fragmentation and non-linearity with the work's mythological and art historical references re-imagine pre-conceived conventions of identity, resisting a West vs. East binary view.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