Sa’dia Rehman and Jean Shin in Conversation

Sa’dia Rehman (they/them) explores how contemporary and historical images communicate, consolidate, and contest ideas about race, empire, and labor. Rehman has exhibited work at venues including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Queens Museum, Kentler International Drawing Space, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU, and Pakistan National Council of the Arts, among others. Rehman received the Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Fellowship and the Meredith Morabito and Henrietta Mantooth Full Fellowship and was awarded several residencies. Rehman’s work has been featured in the Brooklyn Rail, New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, Hyperallergic, Colorlines, and Art Papers. Learn more on Sa’dia Rehman’s website.

Known for her large-scale installations and public sculptures, artist Jean Shin transforms discarded objects into powerful monuments that interrogate our complex relationships with material consumption, collective identity, and community engagement. She often works within a community, collecting large amounts of an everyday object or material while researching its history of use, circulation, and environmental impact. Through this laborious and participatory process, Shin creates art that inspires communities to confront social and ecological challenges. Her body of work includes several permanent public artworks commissioned by major agencies and municipalities, most recently a landmark commission for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Second Avenue Subway in New York. Learn more on Shin’s website.