aisha tida
Artist Bio
aisha tida ( عائشة تیدا / « eye-sha tee-dah ») is a Tunisian-Khmer-Chinese interdisciplinary artist, eldest daughter, and self-taught cook based between Houston and Tunisia. Working at the intersection of social practice, craft, storytelling, and material research, her work is rooted in the layered histories of diaspora and migration, particularly the quiet, often invisible ways those histories live on in objects, rituals, tastes, and everyday choices. Raised far from both homelands, her practice is shaped by a sense of longing and a desire for connection, exploring identity and belonging through everyday materials and shared experiences.
Her practice emphasizes connection and collectivity through sculptural and socially-engaged projects, spanning fiber-based forms, recipe-writing, pattern collecting, and glossary-building. Her work lies at the intersection of art, design, and intentional gathering and is grounded in the themes of personal identity and cultural inheritance, art as social practice, and the making and breaking of patterns through collaborative processes.
aisha tida received her BFA from Cornell University (2016), served as the artist-/educator-in-residence at El Warcha Collaborative Design Studios in the Medina of Tunis (2019-2020), and trained in the hybrid postgraduate art-in-context program TASAWAR Curatorial Studios (2019-2021) before returning to Texas in late 2020.
When aisha is not in her studio at BOX 13 ArtSpace in Houston, you may find her “studying" in the aisles of her favorite markets or dreaming up recipes for the Diaspora Dumplings Archive with friends, family, and strangers.
