Sadikisha Saundra Collier
BROOKLYN’S RENAISSANCE WOMAN
About the Artist
Sadikisha Saundra Collier is a native New Yorker, born and raised in Bedford Stuyvesant. Sadikisha is a multimedia artist, but is primarily known and recognized as a Master printmaker. Her work ranges from prints, paintings, collages, computer graphics, and stained glass. She also expresses herself through video editing and fashion design.
Collier’s work is in the collection of Ed Bradley of 60 Minutes, The Honorable David Dinkins, The Honorable Councilman Al Vann, Whitney Houston, Carver Bank, Thelonious Monk Jr., Valerie Bell-Bey, and a host of others.
Sadikisha has exhibited with such notable artists as Jacob Lawrence, Tom Feelings, Otto Neals, more Bob Blackburn, Ernest Crichlow, Ann Tanksley, Ted Gunn, Vincent Smith, Varnette Honeywood and many others.
She was the president of the Fulton Art Fair, the oldest African American art fair in New York, from 2011-2014. Her work has been sold at Sotheby’s auction house and exhibited at the Schomburg Center. Collier is a Producer at BRIC and her artwork has been featured on the hit show “New York Undercover.” She is included in “Who’s Who in America”, a member of 100 Black Women, The National Conference of Artists, The Jamaica Arts Coop, and Where We At Black Women Artists.
Sadikisha has also been a 2003 Nubian Women’s Circle of Art Award Honoree and a finalist in two projects with the MTA Arts for transit (Utica Avenue A train and Franklin Ave. Shuttle).
She was commissioned to design two images for A&B carpets, which were distributed in stores throughout the U.S. She also designed 24 bookmarks for A&B books.
Sadikisha’s artwork reflects her love of family, music and recording her life experience on our planet earth as an African-American woman. Presently, Sadikisha is working on a “Healing” series.
