Dr. Sonya Dyer

Dr Sonya Dyer is an artist and writer from London, and is a Somerset House Studios Resident. She was a finalist for the Arts Foundation Futures Award 2021, and is an alum of the Whitney Museum of American Art: Independent Study Program.

Dyer’s practice explores where the centre is located in fictional narratives of the future. She explores how subjectivities and alliances are formed across cultures and temporalities, creating radical futures through unexpected connections.

Recent exhibitions include Action>Potential (2024), Alchemy Festival of Film and Arts, The Ready Room (2024), Primary, Three Parent Child (2023), Somerset House, The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, Whitstable Biennial (both 2022), Directions: Forward, Karst Gallery (2021), Thirteen Ways of Seeing, Herbert Museum and Art Galleries (2021), Art Night London (2021), Rewriting The Future, Site Gallery (2019), Or, Dark Fecundity, The Centre for Afrofuturist Studies, USA (2018), Another World is Possible, CAMP, Copenhagen (2018) and The Claudia Jones Space Station, (BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and The NewBridge Project, Newcastle, (2017).

Dyer is a lecturer in the Department of Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London.