Aida Wilde is an Iranian-born, London-based contemporary serigraph artist, educator and social commentator. She studied Surface Design and Foundation of Applied Arts at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. She has been a professional screen printer for the last twenty years and has been pushing boundaries of the screen-printing techniques and transforming this traditional art form into fine art. Her screen-printed installations and social commentary posters have been featured on city streets around the world and are responsive commentary works on gentrification, education and equality.
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. Her 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.
Aida Wilde’s print knowledge and experience have taken her from lecturing at London College of Communication in University of the Arts London, a residency at the Women’s Art Library at Goldsmiths University of London to most recently exhibiting at Vienna’s Fine Art Academy in Dark Energy, Feminist Organising, Working Collectively in 2019. Also, she is a regular collaborator and exhibitor with The Other Art Fair. Aida will be patriating in a curatorial capacity for the forthcoming exhibition 20/20 A Brief Survey.
As an active artist within the Hackney Wick community, Wilde has 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 in 2016. She is also the founder of Print Is Power & Sisters in Print, an ongoing series of community workshops and projects built around the theme of print & social commentary posters.
