Sobia Ahmad

Sobia Ahmad was born and raised in Pakistan and moved to the United States at the age of fourteen. She holds an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University (2024), a B.S. in Community Health (2015), and a B.A in Studio Art (2016), both from the University of Maryland College Park. Her work has been reviewed in several major publications such as Al Jazeera English, The Washington Post, and The Huffington Post and has been included in multiple collections. She has exhibited internationally—including at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (Ithaca, New York), Craft Contemporary (Los Angeles), Queen Mary University (London), Museum of Craft and Design (San Francisco), and the Women Filmmakers Festival at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, D.C.). Her work has been supported by Washington Project for the Arts’ Wherewithal Research Grant (2025)The Pittsburgh Foundation’s Exposure Artist Grant (2024-2025), and Allegheny County’s Art revival Grant (2022). She has attended SOMA Summer Residency in Mexico City (2024), Halcyon Arts Lab’s yearlong socially engaged art fellowship (2019-2020) and has exhibited her work in a solo exhibition at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design in Washington D.C. (2019). Ahmad is a 2024-2026 fellow at Hamiltonian Artists in Washington D.C.