Aishath Huda (Huda) is an artist from the Maldives, who regards water as a method to register the interactions, responses, and transformations of the material, body, and event. Guided by her lived experience of growing up with the force of water, and attuned to what her materials hold (including their memories, constraints, differences, and embedded time), Huda's paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, and installations articulate connections and distinctions to witness the ecological relationship between bodies and environments. To facilitate this, she works with Chinese ink, sediments, particulates, residues, and pigments that are activated by processes such as painting, submerging, freezing, folding, and exposure to weather conditions.

Huda received her MFA from the University of Illinois Chicago, and BFA from China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, where her thesis project, The Bedlam, received the Lin Fengmian Gold Award. 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.




Recent:
home—bodies Podcast 
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1oBjpDLTy7Fz3PyOpyQZyg?si=csPwvQFXRwmDg4j0ke9SDQ 
MFA Thesis Talk https://vimeo.com/816320334
“hold,” Dhauru Maldives https://dhauru.com/post/living/24685
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