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Uma Breakdown

Uma is an artist, writer, and award winning game designer interested in animals, horror, and psychic/cybernetic structures which support/inhibit solidarity. Everything she makes is about some combination of love, grief, hallucination, and an excess of joy. With her collaborator Belladonna Paloma, she also makes video games about the divine and occult providence of transfemme existence. Uma lives and works in Gateshead, overlooking the North Sea.

Recent exhibitions include: The Joy of Destruction for Backlit (Nottingham, 2023), Hinterlands at Baltic (Gateshead 2022), and her first solo exhibition/game series Earth A.D. co-commissioned by and touring across Wysing Arts Centre (Cambridge, 2022), FACT (Liverpool, 2023), and Quad (Derby, 2024).

Uma was shortlisted for the Adam Reynolds Award (2020) and The Arts Foundation Award (2023). She is am a proud trustee for Broken Grey Wires, the Liverpool based arts organisation concerned with the depiction of mental health illness.