Nadia Sajjad

Canada

Bio

Living and moving between the East and the West, Nadia Sajjad is interested in the notion of identity and categorization among different social structures.

She experiments with different media such as ceramic, printmaking, fabric art and multimedia installation to depict the complication of identity through the notion of misplacement and social ranking. Sajjad has a background in carpet design and graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. She was one of the Emily Carr Award recipients in 2013. She has recently focused on exploring cultural identity and belonging through collaborating with artisans with diverse Backgrounds.

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