Dr Sonya Dyer is an artist and writer from London, and a Somerset House Studios Resident. She was a finalist for the Arts Foundation Futures Award 2021, and 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 (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).
Dr Dyer is a lecturer in the Department of Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Andromeda Mission: Anarcha Prototype II, 2019, Dr Sonya Dyer. Photography credit: Jules Lister
Andromeda, 2021. Video still
The Betsey-Drake Equation, 2022. Video still
Three Parent Child, 2023. Installation view. Somerset House, London. Photography credit: Tim Blowditch
Lucy, 2023. Installation view, Somerset House, London. Photography credit: Tim Blowditch
Lucy, 2023. Installation view, Somerset House, London. Photography credit: Tim Blowditch
hybrida composita, 2024. Photography credit: Pheonix Tanner.
hybrida composita, 2024. Photography credit: Pheonix Tanner.
Action Potential, 2023, Video still, installation view.
Action Potential, 2023. Video still
Action Potential, 2023. Video still.