Anna Siow Usadi
Goldsmiths MFA Award
2026
Anna Siow Usadi is an artist and mechanical engineer, whose practice examines how human notions of progress, time and nature have led to climate breakdown. Her work employs science fiction as both a critical and generative tool, reflecting on the systems that organise contemporary life while imagining alternative possibilities.
Usadi’s works utilise sculpture, installation, text and moving image to conjure up speculative scenarios with non-human protagonists. Through these posthuman encounters—whether through the lens of an artificial intelligence network, unicellular life or inanimate substances—the artist highlights the dependency of humans on past, present and future matter. Drawing on geological and evolutionary processes of recycling, symbiosis and renewal, Usadi’s works treat matter as dynamic and responsive. The installation becomes a site where imagined activity takes place.
Goldsmiths MFA Award
The Goldsmiths MFA Award is a partnership between Acme, Goldsmiths, University of London and Jane Hamlyn. Aiming to provide a bridge between art school and professional practice, the award includes a generous bursary, rent-free studio space and a mentoring programme. Recipients of Acme’s Early Career Awards Programme work from shared studios in order to encourage an environment of peer support and critical dialogue.
