About

AIDA [Wilde] is an Iranian born, London based printmaker/visual artist and Educator and is the founder of Print Is Power (2013) and Sisters in Print (2016) Projects. Wilde’s pre-dominantly, screen printed installations and social commentary posters have been featured on city streets around the world and are responsive commentary works on displacement, education & equality. Her Fine Art studio-based serigraphs are well collected throughout the world and push the boundaries in contemporary printmaking today. Her outdoor billboard and public art installations include, Shangri-La at Glastonbury Festival, Wood Street Walls, Adblock, Bristol’s Berg Arts Project, Croydon Rise Festival, Honk Kong Walls, Nuart Aberdeen, Art In Ad Places NYC and Build-Hollywood (Jack Arts) & UNCLE. Her HASHTAG series has been used in subversive projects with Brandalism in Paris to highlight climate change in response to the COP21 Summit, as well as the global project Subvert The City, the world’s first coordinated international ad takeover. Wilde’s academic career includes, associate lecturer, course director and alumni, on the Surface Design course and Foundation For The Applied Arts at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London (2003- 2015). Aida’s fine art serigraphy has been exhibited widely nationally and internationally. Her residency at the Women’s Art Library at Goldsmiths titled Empowered PrintWorks (2015) was exhibited as part of the WARM Guerrillas: Feminist Visions exhibition in Minneapolis’s Grain Belt Botteling House Gallery (2016). In recent years Wilde has continued to build on her seminal body of work exhibited in her solo show HABROS, Sheffield. Wilde was key exhibitor & speaker at Design Galway Ireland (2016) Her Credit Crunch poster was acquired (2009) and exhibited in the Victoria & Albert Museum’s touring exhibition, A World To Win: Posters of Protest & Revolution (2014-2016) curated by Catherine Flood. More recently exhibiting in Vienna’s Fine Art Academy, in Dark Energy, Feminist Organizing, Working Collectively (2019) and collaborating with Help Refugees UK “Choose Love” on a number of projects that was exhibited in Somerset House and Saatchi Gallery (2019). In 2020, Aida was commissioned & acquired by the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge to create one of her Iconic CHOOSE LOVE boat pieces of works for the Museums major exhibition, Defaced! Money, Conflict, Protest, curated by Dr. Richard Kelleher that opened in October 2022. Also in 2020 during the London lockdown, Aida worked on the international cross culture exhibition disCONNECT, a collaborative project with Schoeni Projects and Hong Kong Walls creating a pandemic related immersive installation which was installed in London, Clapham in July 2020 & a tenement building in Hong Kong October 2020. Aida has been working collaboratively with The Other Art Fair (2017-20) in both at an Artist/Fair Features Project’s and in October 2021 co-curated/presented, 20/20: A Brief Survey, as part of their Featured Programming, that included 39 national & international artists as well as a curated featured event & workshop programming for the Other Art Fair [London] in the Truman Brewery. Aida is an active artist within the Hackney Wick community for 16 years, where she creates responsive works to the dramatic changes that have been happening in the area, also curating the 2016, 48 hour artist take over of the Lord Napier pub during Hackney Wicked Festival as well as the coinciding urban community exhibition ‘Save Yourselves’ in October of the same year. Instagram: aida_wilde/ Print is Power BigCartel:  aidawilde.bigcartel.com 2025 Exhibitions/Projects: March- OTHER Pt 1 Survival [Solo Show/Curation]  & THE STORIES OF OTHER,  Project Space take-over byNasty Gallery London,Corner Space, 123 Bethnal Green Road,  East  London, United Kingdom [Space supported by Formd.co.uk] March- The Auction 25, Terrence Higgins Trust, Christie’s, London, United Kingdom  April- REVIVAL, Well Hung Gallery [Group Exhibition], Hoxton, London, United Kingdom May– NAE OPEN 2025, New Art Exchange [Group Exhibition], Nottingham, United Kingdom July- “BAJIHOOD”, Aida Wilde + Apna Haq, [Triptych Outdoor public Installation] Commissioned by Flux Rotherham for Gallery Town project, 33 High Street, Rotherham, UK July- Street Art from New York to Joigny [Group Exhibition], Curated by Butterfly & David Chaumet, Joigny, France August– INVENTORY: Performing The Archive 2009-2023, with support by  Felstead Art, Trampery, London [Solo Show] September– Small But Mighty, Royal Society Of Printmakers, Bank Side Gallery, London [Group Exhibition] September– Lasting Impressions: Women Printmakers, 1900-Now, Victoria & Albert Museum, South Kensington, London  [Group Exhibition] September- KEEP GOING in Association With London Paste-Up festival + Art House Project, House Of Anneeta, London [Group Exhibition] Workshops: March– OTHER Banner Stories, Corner Space, East London March– OTHER, Sufficiently Radical Poster Making in collaboration with Jordan Taylor, Corner Space, East London April– Other Banner Stories with Apna Haq, Gallery Town Project, Flux,  Rotherham, United Kingdom July– Past, Presence, Locomotion for S&DR 200 Festival, Collaboration with Refugees Futures Stockton, ARC Stockton August– Past, Presence, Locomotion for S&DR 200 Festival, Collaboration with Friends of Stockton & Darlington Railway, Dolphin Centre, Darlington Publications: La Contemporaine, Matériaux pour l’histoire de notre temps no.155- LE FÉMINISME PAR L’AFFICHE, Le See Red Woman’s Workshop, Londres, 1974-1990 As Seen On The Streets Of London; [ A Street Art Travel Guide]  Giulia Blocal Riva 2024 Exhibitions/Projects March– Sorry All Out Of Fucks To Give Right Now, Aida Wilde, Show/Book Launch, Felstead Art Society, London July– UPRISING, Group exhibition, Nasty Gallery, London September– Tools of The Trade, Group Exhibition,  All Caps Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands October– Sneakerness Convention,  Tool Of The Trade x All Caps Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands Talks: The Dis-Empowerment Of Women In The Arts, Nasty Gallery, London Publications: Sorry All Out Of Fucks To Give Right Now, Aida Wilde [Artist Book] Published by Print Is Power Workshops: October– “Paris 1925” Print Workshop, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 2023 Exhibitions/Projects: January – Defaced! Money, Conflict, Protest, Exhibition, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge January- Creative Resilience; Scene But Not Heard [Group Exhibition] Yard Life Gallery, SWG3, Glasgow March- The Silence Of The Veil- AIDA WILDE X UNCLE for International Women’s Day 2023, Public Intervention, London, Bristol & Manchester June- Nuart Aberdeen Festival- REWILDING, Collaborative Public Instillation, Crooked Lane, Aberdeen June- Constant Pressure [A Visual Exploration of Identity, Activism and Collaboration] Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois  USA November- BAD COFFEE X AIDA WILDE= LOUSY COFFEE, Collaboration project in support of Hackney Quest + Mind In The City November- The Big Issue, Limited Edition Art Wrapping Paper Project- Nationwide Campaign Talks: Nuart Plus Conference: Love, Labour & Loss, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen Inspiring Talks: Art On The Streets [Panel Discussion] Camden Inspired 2023, Camden Collective, London Workshops: Nuart Aberdeen- REWILDING – Northfield Academy, Aberdeen Nuart Aberdeen- REWILDING – Dyce Academy, Aberdeen Nuart Aberdeen- REWILDING – St Machar Academy, Aberdeen Reclamation Nation- Camden Collective- London Publications: Nuart Journal: TRESPASS Issue- Visual Essay, The Silence Of The Veil Constant Pressure, Exhibition Catalogue, Rockford Art Museum The Big Issue [Issue 1590] 2022 Exhibitions/Projects: March- Auction 2022 with Terrence Higgins Trust with The Auction Collective, Christies, London September- The Modest Magnificent [Group Exhibition] WellHung Gallery, Hoxton Arches, London September- Art Of Ping Pong x Civic (Barnsley) x CHOOSE LOVE, Exhibition & Charity Auction, Civic, Barnsley October- Defaced! Money, Conflict, Protest, Exhibition, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge November- Creative Resilience; Scene But Not Heard [Group Exhibition] Yard Life Gallery, SWG3, Glasgow December- Breaking Bread…..& Soup, A Public Intervention, Hackney Wick, London Publications: City Of Women-Tools For Occupying Space by Sara Kärpänen Nuart Journal IV- Reconnect- Dream Boat II Defaced! Money, Conflict, Protest (Exhibition Catalogue) Edited by Richard Kelleher, published in association with Holberton Publishing Consumer Activism [Promotional Culture And Resistance] Eleftheria J. Lekakis, published by University of Sussex Podcasts & Talks: New Art, New Perspectives: Currencies- Fitzwilliam Museum Alternative London Podcast: Conversation About Life, Art & East London Women Of The Wick: Nasty Women Revive: Panel Talk Conversation Recording Nuart Journal VI Launch; Presentation for Dream Boat II – Money Talks, Basement Space, London Nuart Journal VI Launch; Presentation for Dream Boat II, Money Talks- [Virtual] Urban Creativity Conference, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal Workshops: Paper Dreams- The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Defaced! Museum Lates Event, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Paper Dreams- for Fitzwilliam Museum Society, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 2021 Exhibions/Projects: January-March- Dotting The I’s & Crossing The T’s at The Depot (Group Exhibition) Old Street, London March- Auction 2021 with Terrence Higgins Trust with The Auction Collective, London March- LEGACY for Art In Ad Places (Public Instillation) New York, USA March- HELL HATH NO FURY, Mural, Hackney Wick/ Fish Island, London June- If You Can’t Beat’em, Mural, Pearl Hackney Wick, London July- Small Wonders (Group Exhibition) Well Hung Gallery, Hoxton, London August- ‘STUCK UP’ Project (Curated Selection by Martyn Reed)  Outdoor Public Artworks for Nuart Aberdeen [Nuart festival] Aberdeen, Scotland August- Digs at The Depot Shoreditch (Group Exhibition), Shoreditch, London October- 20/20 A Brief Survey, The Other Art Fair-(Featured Programming) Curation/Exhibiting for The Other Art Fair LDN, Truman Brewery, London November- Change Everything- Group Exhibition, The Depot, London Commissions/ Acquisitions Dream Boat II [2021] Commissioned & acquired for Permanent Collection, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, United Kingdom Publications: Nuart Journal, Issue V: Lockdown.  Notes From A Phantom ( A Visual Essay) May 2021 The Word Is Art (Paper Back Edition) Michael Petry, Thames & Hudson 2021 Workshops: September- Reclamation Nation Poster Making workshop- The Festival Of Home- Museum Of The Home, London November- Changed Priorities Ahead: Paste-up workshop at The Depot, London November- Radical Tea-towel screen print workshop, Museum Of The Home, London November- The Bristol Belonging Banner Making Workshop, for Shangri-La Art/ Lost Horizon HQ, Bristol Panel Talk: November- Change Everything at The Depot mediated by Anthony Burrill, London 2020 April- I’M The Queen…..Skate Board Collaboration with Lucy Adams x LovenSkateJuly- disCONNECT (LDN);  A ‘Locked-Down’ Artist Takeover. Schoeni Projects x Hong Kong Walls, Clapham, London September- LOUSY MURAL with Build Hollywood (Jack Arts/Jack Agency) Curated by Olly Walker, Shoreditch, London October- disCONNECT (HK)  A ‘Locked-Down’ Artist Takeover. Schoeni Projects x Hong Kong Walls, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong November- Changed Priorities Mural for The Depot, Old Street, London December- Dotting The I’s & Crossing The T’s at The Depot (Group Exhibition) Old Street, London Publication: The Street Art Manual by Bill Posters, Laurence King 2020 Workshop: Pandemik Panik Room poster workshop, Hackney Wick, London- June 2020 2019 January- Urban Creativity Lund: “Daddy I Want To Be A Street Artist When I Grow Up” Seminar: Pufendorf Institute, Lund University, Sweden March- The Other Art Fair: Creative Giants [Analogue/Digital] Space, Exhibition, London March- HK Walls Festival: External & Internal Installations, The Club House, Wan Chai, Hong Kong March- Print Is Power presents Reclamation Nation Hong Kong- Poster Making Workshop, HK Walls, The Clubhouse, Wan Chai, Hong Kong March- Dark Energy. Feminist Organizing, Working Collectively, Group Exhibition, Xe Exhibition Room of Fine Arts Vienna, Eschenbachgasse, Vienna March- Reclamation Nation- Poster Making Workshop with the NMS Dr.Bruno Kreisky Schule, Fine Arts Academy Of Vienna, Vienna July- Choose Love/ Help Refugees, Group Show Curated by Print Club London, Somerset House, London July- Glastonbury Festival, Shangrila-La, Disruption Bureau, Fun With Flags Workshop & Installation July- Still Life & White Gold, Selected Fine Art Editions, Felstead Studios, Hackney Wick, London July- Who Are We, Group Show, Hackney Wicked DIY Open Studios, Trampery, Hackney Wick, London August- Cash Is King 2 [Group Exhibition]  Aida Wilde For Help Refugees/Choose Love, Saatchi Gallery, London October- British Textile Biennale, T-Shirt: Cult, Culture, Subversion, Blackburn Cathedral, Blackburn October- This Must Be The Place,  V&A Friday Late: Panel Discussion “What is the future of creative space?”, Stour Space, London November- A Space Is A Space; Something Written Or Recorded. Group exhibition, Instagram App Publication: Cash Is King 2 {Money Talks} by Bob Osborne and Carrie Reichardt, 2019 2018 January-March- OUTSIDER,  ShangrilArt x Bruton Art Factory,  Group Exhibition , Somerset, UK February- Decolonising Feminist Art Archives (Decolonise Translation) Poster Workshop, Centre For Feminist Research, Goldsmiths University March- The Other Art Fair LDN,  Project Space, Print Is Power X Sisters In Print (Print Workshops & Exhibition), Victoria House, London April- Creative Economy Networks [Research, Policy & Exchange] UK>Brazil. Talk: Creative Networks Hackney Wick, London May- Moniker Art Fair [NYC] Nelly Duff Gallery,  New York, USA May- CRAZE, Art No Cube, Group Exhibition, Culvery City, Los Angeles , USA May- Revolution Festival, Outdoor Art Work Installation, Timisoara, Romania July- Art On The Postcard, The Other Art Fair, Bristol September- My Mother’s Aspirations: Print is Power Workshop, St Werburghs, Bristol September- Art On The Streets, Talk, London September- LESS HOMES 4U, Rise Festival, Outdoor Installation, St Georges Walk, Croydon, London September- My Mother’s Aspirations, Billboard Installation, Commission by AdBlock Bristol, Berg Arts Community Billboard Project, St Werburghs, Bristol September- Dignity At Work, Print is Power Workshop, with the Union of Domestic workers, UNITE, London October- The Word Is Art By Michael Petry, Thames & Hudson, Book Nov-December- INTERVENTION- Group Exhibition, Hackney Creative Social Club, Dalston, London 2017 November- OUTSIDER,  ShangrilArt x Bruton Art Factory,  Group Exhibition , Somerset, UK October – ROWDY & WILDE, Clifton Fine Art, Bristol October- The Other Art Fair with Shangrila (Art), London September- HOME/Interior Show at The House Of Parakeet, BlackHeath, London July- Left Outside Residency: Two day “Street” residency which included site specific work and Roaming trolly, Hackney Wick, London July- Splice (Post) Three Month Artist in Resident. Installation & Prints, Shoreditch, London June- Shangri-La, Galstonbury Festival March- Subvert The City, (Subvertisers International) the world’s first coordinated international ad takeover & over 60 creative actions in 38 cities in 18 countries around the world. Talks/Panel Discussions/ Workshop November- Print Is Power (Talk) UEL Fine Art Guest Lecture Series, University Of East London, London April- Adidas x Refinery29 Run Club- Talk (The Accidental Everything). Adidas Women’s London Studio, 152 Brick Lane, London April- Protest Factory, Speaker/ Panel discussion (The Accidental Everything) organized by the Finnish Institute in London & The Artist Association MUU. Stour Space, London May- The Art of Resistance- Panel discussion and workshop, Red Gallery, London May- Workshop: Reclamation Nation, Red Gallery, London 2016 December- Christmas Bizzare Exhibition- Well Hung Gallery, Hoxton, London November- Weapon of Choice, Paste Up Instillation. Bite Club. Galway, Ireland November- Design Galway ’16. Talk: The Accidental ArtiVist. Galway, Ireland November- Design Galway ’16. Unfolding the Wilde: Solo show. Galway, Ireland October- Co-Curration. Quality Street, outdoor instillation. Hackney Wick, London October- Curration & Art Direction: Save YourSelves, Hackney Wick, London October- A World to Win: Posters of Protest & Revolution. The William Morris Gallery, London October- Bag of Tricks, Green Rooms Hotel, London August- Dust to Dust Project: Video/Art Direction August- Co- Curraton & Art Direction. The Burning of Homoginazation (A Hackney Wick Funeral) Hackney Wicked closing ceremony. Hackney Wick, London July- Curration & Outdoor instillation. Lord Napier Pub: “Shit House To Pent House”. Hackney Wick, London March- WARM Guerrillas: Feminist Visions- Grain Belt Bottling House Gallery, Minneapolis, USA 2015 November- Brandalism Project- Paris November- A World to Win: Posters of Protest & Revolution, Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery, UK November- Paste Modernism- Ambush Gallery, Sydney, Australia November-Empowered Print Works: Women’s Art Library Residency Exhibition, Goldsmiths University, London September- A World to Win: Posters of Protest & Revolution, The National Print Museum, Dublin January- Revolution, Wall Street Gallery, Los Angeles January- Art Foyer Project, Get Living London, East Village E20 (Former Athletes Village)- London January- Converse Cons x Footpatrol Zine Project- Footpatrol, Soho, London 2014 November– Meanwhile Back In The Wick- Prompt Gallery, London November– A world to Win: Posters of Protest & Revolution- The McManus: Art Gallery & Museum, Dundee November– Textile Festival by Concordia Design- Poznan, Poland October– Wawa Design Festival- Textile Show, Poland June- HABROS- Bradbury & Blanchard, Sheffield – Solo Show May- A World to Win: Posters of Protest & Revolution- Victoria & Albert Museum, London May– Suburbs Of Sin- Fun Factory, London March– Greetings from Shoreditch- Fun Factory at Donau115, Berlin March- Hysteria at Maison Bertaux- London (Hysteria Collective- Aida, Shuby & Collagism) February- End of The World: Emperor Yes single launch, London 2013 December– This Is Not A Xmas Show- Fun Factory, London December– Winter Group Show- Bradbury & Blanchard Gallery, Sheffield November– Print is Power-Reclamation Nation- Back To The 80’s, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (Print Workshop) October– Hysteria at the Vestibule- Instillation (with Shuby & Collagism) London September– Over The Rainbow, Bradbury & Blanchard Gallery, Sheffield August- VNA Issue 23- Faile Cover Release, Reed Space, New York August- VNA Issue 23- Faile Cover Release, Lazarides, Rathbone- London August- Roll Over Play Dead- High Roller Society, London July– Whitecross Street Party- The Lion From Zanzibar: Outdoor Instillation, London April– Pick Me Up: Contemporary Graphics Festival- Inaugural Flower show: Nelly Duff Gallery, Somerset House, London March– Cosmos- Emperor Yes single launch, Top Office Machines, London 2012 September– You Are Here- London Framing Workshop, London June- Love Box Festival- Banger Art: Nelly Duff Gallery, London June- Banger Art- Nelly Duff Gallery- St.Peters Est, London May– Wild Food Kitchen- Instillation– London March- Pick Me Up, Contemporary Graphics Festival- Nelly Duff: Zoo Somerset House, London 2011 December– Season Ticket- High Roller Society- Shoreditch Underground Art Fair- London (Wallpaper Instillation & Group Show) August– Hackney Wicked Art Festival- Outdoor Instillation, London 2010 January– New Year New Danger- HighRoller Society London 2009 December– Mutate Britain: One Foot In the Grove – Under The West Way, London May– Line Steppers – Birmingham For enquiries and commissions please contact: [email protected]