Sarah Al-Sarraj

Sarah Al-Sarraj is a visual artist and cultural worker based between Pittsburgh (US) and London (UK). Her work centers on worldbuilding as a creative and critical process, where painting and immersive technologies are understood as portals to other worlds. Predicated on the belief that our world was designed in service of imperial violence, she builds new lifeworlds rooted in land, spirit, and ancestry. Currently working with game engines, she is interested in appropriating military simulation technologies to build uncolonisable realms inspired by Global Majority knowledge systems and emerging quantum thought.

Her creative practice is informed by working at organisations such as Forensic Architecture, the Inclusive Mosque Initiative, and Healing Justice London. She has shown her work in the UK and internationally. She frequently collaborates with the Mechatronic Library, a collective of intersectional feminist worldbuilders and immersive artists. Her first solo show opened at Two Queens Gallery in 2024 and toured to Mimosa House, the World Museum, and Longsight Art Space. She has held presentations at the UK’s National Space Centre and the World Museum. She was selected as a finalist for the CIRCA Prize 2025. Al-Sarraj is currently undertaking her MFA at Carnegie Mellon University.