Sarah Ujmaia is an artist and researcher living and working in Melbourne, Australia. Her practice is interested in the poetic, political and philosophical capacity of materials. Her research is informed by the wide-reaching impacts of forced displacement and cultural re-writing related to the diasporic experience. Interested by the epistemic weight carried in images and objects, her practice spans drawing, sculpture and installation. Her works are often the result of extensive experimentation with materials. 

Ujmaia has exhibited nationally and internationally including recent solo exhibitions Marmoreum (28°48’34.4”S 153°16’45.6”E) (2026) at Lismore Regional Art Gallery, Marmoreum (2024) at Gertrude Contemporary, Heliomancer (2023) at ReadingRoom, Of Particle and Wave (2023) at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Stars (2022) at TCB, and Caught Between the Tongue (2021) at Sutton Projects in Melbourne, and group exhibitions including New South Vol. 2: Recent Sculpture and Installation Art (2026) at Hazelhurst Art Centre, Primavera 2024: Young Australian Artists (2024) at MCA Australia, A Moment in Extended Crisis (2024) at UTS Gallery and Aotearoa Art Fair (2022) with Haydens in Auckland, New Zealand. Ujmaia was a finalist in the Incinerator Art Award in 2024, a finalist in the Darebin Art Prize in 2021 and submitted her PhD in Practice Lead Research with the Faculty of Fine art at Monash University in August, 2025.