Amba Sayal-Bennett

(b. 1991, London) is a British-Indian artist working across drawing, projection, and sculptural installation. Her practice explores how methods of abstraction are exclusionary and performative, crafting boundaries between what is present, absent, and othered. She is interested in how abstraction has been used as an essentialising mechanism through its divorcing of context. Using translation, her works follow a migratory logic, tracing the movements of bodies, knowledge and forms across different sites, processes inherent to the diasporic experience.

Sayal-Bennett lives and works in London. She received her BFA from Oxford University, her MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, and her MA in History of Art from The Courtauld. She was awarded her PhD in Art Practice and Learning from Goldsmiths and has published her practice-based research with Tate Papers. Between January and March 2022, she was The Derek Hill Foundation scholar at the British School at Rome in Italy.

Recent exhibitions include Drawing Room Invites (upcoming solo), Drawing Room, London, (2024); Artist’s Rooms, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai (2024); Geometries of Difference, Somerset House, London (2022); Horror in the Modernist Block, IKON, Birmingham (2022); My Mother Was a Computer, indigo+madder, London (2022); and Tomorrow, White Cube, London (2021).