Aida Wilde
Aida Wilde is an Iranian born, London based printmaker/visual artist and educator. 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 gentrification, education & equality.
Wilde’s indoor and outdoor installation work features various slogans and iconograph and ‘pop’ themed artwork. 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 and HKwalls. 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 and Foundation of Applied Arts at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London (2004 – 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 Gallway Ireland (2016) Her Credit Crunch poster has been exhibited in Victoria & Albert Museums touring exhibition, A World To Win: Posters of Protest & Revolution (2014-2016).
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 have been exhibited in Somerset House and Saatchi Gallery (2019).
She has also been working collaboratively with The Other Art Fair (2017-20) in both at an Artist/Project Space feature and currently in a curatorial capacity for the forthcoming exhibition; 20/20 A Brief Survey.
An active artist within the Hackney Wick community, Aida’s been creating responsive works to the dramatic changes in the area for a number of years, which resulted in her curating the street artists takeover of the Lord Napier project, as well as the coinciding urban community exhibition Save Yourselves (2016) and is the founder of Print Is Power & Sisters in Print (2013-present) an ongoing series of community workshops and projects built around the theme of print & social commentary posters.
