Usadi’s multidisciplinary works utilise sculpture, installation, writing 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. Inspired by Donna Haraway’s notion of the cyborg, Lynn Margulis’ work on symbiogenesis and the phenomenon of quantum entanglement, the work often imagines collaborations between multiple ‘characters’ to reflect the complexity of ecosystems.
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: algae morphs into combustion engines, termites collaborate with technology, or AI 3D-prints shells. Through these encounters, the work aims to reframe notions such as time, matter, agency and dependency.
Usadi (b. 1997, London) holds an MFA from Goldsmiths University of London and previously obtained a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. Recent exhibitions include a solo show, Hundreds of Millions of Years Destroyed, Efficiently, curated by MAMA (2025), Temporal Fictions at Piccalilli Gallery (2026) and Elsewhere, Elsewhen at SET Lewisham (2025).
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Hundreds of Millions of Years of History Destroyed, Efficiently, presented by MAMA, London, UK
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Goldsmiths MFA Degree Show, Goldsmiths University of London, UK
2026 Temporal Fictions, Piccalilli Gallery, London, UK
2025 The Rot, SE5 on public woodland, London, UK
2025 Memories of the Future, hARTslane, London, UK
2025 Ruderal 1, SE23 on public grassland, London, UK
2025 Elsewhere, Elsewhen, SET Lewisham, London, UK
2025 sitnaltA., The Handbag Factory, London, UK
2024 Redcar Summer Exhibition, Redcar Contemporary Art Gallery, Redcar, UK
2024 Expanded Bodies, no format Gallery, London, UK
RESIDENCIES
2026 High House Residency, Norfolk, UK
TEACHING / TALK / FEATURE
2026 Artist in Residence, St. Paul’s Girls’ School, London, UK2025 Arts in Motion with Anthony Gormley, BBC
AWARDS
2026 Winner of the ACME Early Careers Award for the Goldsmiths MFA2026
Winner of the Vice Chancellor’s Prize for the Goldsmiths MFA Degree Show
EDUCATION
2024 - 2026 Master of Fine Art, Goldsmiths University, London, UK2023 - 2024 Graduate Diploma in Art, Goldsmiths University, London, UK
2015 - 2019 Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, California, USA