Ayesha Hameed is a London-based artist and writer working across video, sound, textiles, performance, and text. Her practice explores the legacies of indentureship and slavery through the geographies of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Working through speculative and mnemonic approaches, she examines how media can transform the body into one that remembers. Recurrent motifs of water, borders, and displacement trace stories of migration, materiality, and the shifting relationships between human beings and what they imagine as nature.
Her recent exhibitions and commissions include Bonniers Konsthall, Kunstinstituut Melly, Zeitz MOCAA, the Liverpool Biennial, and the Dakar, Lubumbashi, Momenta, and Gothenburg biennials. She is co-editor of Futures and Fictions, published by Repeater Books in 2017, and co-author of Visual Cultures as Time Travel, published by Sternberg Press and MIT Press in 2021. Upcoming publications include Radio Brown Atlantis, to be released by the Center for Art, Research and Alliances; Black Atlantis, forthcoming from Strange Attractor Press and MIT Press in 2025; and a poetry collection with 87 Press in 2026.
Hameed teaches on the MFA in Art at Goldsmiths, University of London and is Professor of Artistic Research at Uniarts Helsinki.
