Huda regards water as a knowledgeable access point to learn from, and works with water as a method.
Aishath Huda (Huda) is an interdisciplinary artist working across painting, printmaking, and installation. She tracks the responses that happen in the interaction and transformation of the material, place, and event, to investigate the relationship between bodies and the environment in both local and the ecological terms. Huda regards water as a knowledgeable access point to learn from, and works with water as a method. Working with inks, sediments, particulates, residues, and pigments that are activated by water soakings, freezings, evaporations, and weather conditions, her recent work follows water’s time. It addresses the abstraction of water, limits of writing, climate literacy, and human and more-than-human relations.
Huda was born and raised in the Maldives. She received her MFA from the University of Illinois Chicago, and BFA from China Academy of Art, Hangzhou. She has exhibited nationally and internationally including at the South Asia Institute and Gallery400 (Chicago); Metafora (Barcelona); Santa Rosa Monastery (Sardinia); Diamonds La Gemma Dell’est (Zanzibar); Nehru Wangchuck Cultural Center (Thimphu); The Capital Library (Beijing); China Academy of Art Museum (Hangzhou); Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts (Xi’an); and the Maldives National Art gallery (Malé). She co-founded Fine Art Maldives, an artist organization based in the Maldives. Huda is currently based in Chicago, where she teaches painting as an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Illinois Chicago.