Sonya Dyer

My project considers the possibility of growing older within the context of poly-crisis (ecological, migratory, economic), through the lens of speculative fiction.  

What structures of support can we find the social, intellectual and imaginative energy to create for the future? What might the forthcoming stage of this new epoch facing humanity need in order to create an anti-colonial, generative way of living together, for humans and non humans alike? What are the routes towards the ‘Star Trek’ style post-scarcity version of our future and how do we claim the imaginative space to create it? 

I will work on a script for my first long-form film work and am also planning on making a short film during my time on the residency. 

Dr Sonya Dyer is an artist from London, working primarily in moving-image and sculpture. 

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 Deptford X (2025),  hybrida composita, The Box (2025); We Have Reach, Usdan Gallery (2025), USA; Action>Potential, Alchemy Festival of Film and Arts (2024);  The Ready Room, Primary (2024); Three Parent Child, Somerset House (2023);  The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery (2022); Whitstable Biennial (2022); 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 (2018), USA;  Another World is Possible, CAMP (2018), Copenhagen; and The Claudia Jones Space Station, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and The NewBridge Project (2017), Newcastle-Gateshead.