Sarah Ujmaia is a first-generation Chaldean artist living and working on unceded Wurundjeri lands. Her practice is largely informed by the wide-reaching impacts of forced displacement and cultural re-writing related to the diasporic experience. Applying translational processes, she regenerates motifs, images and linguistic structures in her material-led approach to object making. Recent solo exhibitions include Marmoreum (2024), at Gertrude Contemporary, Heliomancer (2023), at ReadingRoom, Of Particle and Wave (2023), at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Stars (2022), at TCB, and Caught Between the Tongue (2021), at Sutton Projects. Ujmaia was a finalist in the Darebin Art Prize (2021) and is currently a PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow in the Faculty of Fine Art at Monash University.