Sarah Ahmad

Sarah Ahmad

Sarah Ahmad is a multi-media artist based in the American Southwest and Lahore. A Tulsa Artist Fellow from 2019–23 and 2024 SOVERIGNTY resident at SFAI, Ahmad has exhibited internationally—from Tulsa’s Gilcrease Museum and CUNY’s James Gallery to the Sharjah Museum (UAE) and Asia Triennial, Manchester. Her work has been featured in mainstream national media (USA Today, NPR’s Gallery America, PBS News Hour) and in art publications (ARTnews, Bomb, MIT). Past residencies include Otis College, Vermont Studio Center, and Virginia Creative Arts Fellowship. Her numerous awards include Andy Warhol Foundation’s Thrive Grant.

Ahmad’s practice positions immersive art as conduit making tangible transformative encounters with the earth. She confronts ¬¬¬the ‘nature gap’ experienced in marginalized communities: the effects of (dis)connection with the earth. Her current work rests at the intersection of contested land, ecotherapy, and personal narrative. Unexpectedly aligning rural US and South Asian regions reveals both geographic majesty and immense trauma absorbed by contested land and its inhabitants. She asks: how we might relate to land outside colonial, capitalist modes of living—a future of mutual care. Employing public art toward community healing, her installations create an eco|art-therapy fusion. They offer transcendent, regenerative spaces. Her fusion of Islamic Sacred Geometry with nature’s recurring patterns, illuminates the universal oneness that underlies existence.

Residency/Fellowship

2025 Community of Practice and 2024 Sovereignty

Website

www.sarahahmad.com
@sarah_ahmad_art

Location

Tulsa, OK