Dr. Sonya Dyer is an artist and writer from London. She is a Somerset House Studios Resident and was aUK Associate Artist at the DelfinaFoundation and a finalist for the Arts Foundation Futures Award in 2021. She is an alum of Whitney Museum of American Art: Independent Study Program. Dyer’s practice reimagines where the centre is located in narratives of the future. Recent projects include 13 Ways of Looking (Herbert Museum and Galleries, 2021), Art Night London (2021), Rewriting The Future, (Site Gallery, 2019) Or, Dark Fecundity, (The Centre for Afrofuturist Studies, USA, 2018), and The Claudia Jones Space Station (BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and The NewBridge Project, Newcastle, 2017). Dyer is also a writer and commentator on art and culture. Hailing Frequencies Open (HFO), her current body of work, combines social justice with speculation, fantasy with the political.