20 years in digital.
12 years in light.
One studio.
Aiminath Sulthana, known as Dhona, is a Maldives-born, London-based visual artist, creative technologist, and director of Dhona Ltd. Her relationship with technology began in 2004 with 3D Max and AutoCAD in the Maldives. By 2006 she was working as a journalist for national television and radio — already operating across digital infrastructure at a time when most people in her field were not.
She discovered projection mapping in 2012, taught herself Quartz Composer and then Mad Mapper, and has spent the years since developing one of the most technically grounded immersive art practices in the UK. Fluent in HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript and GLSL — and an early adopter of generative AI workflows across code, image and language models — she approaches every tool with the literacy of someone who understands what she is asking it to do. The difference between using AI well and using it blindly is knowing what you're asking for.
Her own works have been presented at the Maldives National Art Gallery, Somerset House, Whitechapel Gallery, Phillips Hong Kong, HOFA Gallery Mayfair, Coastal Currents Festival, and the Geneva Mapping Festival. In 2025 she received the HOFA Digital Award in partnership with Phillips London Gallery. In 2026 her work Birds Blade was selected as a finalist at the Digital Art Awards in the Moving Image category and exhibited at Phillips Hong Kong — a crossover into the international fine art world entirely on her own terms and under full intellectual ownership.
In parallel, she spent a decade engineering demand generation infrastructure, API integrations, and MarTech architecture at enterprise scale — reporting directly to C-suite within ventures backed by Vista Equity Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Telefonica and YFM Equity Partners, across Western Europe, North America and APJ. That rigour — the systems thinking, the precision, the ability to build things that actually work at scale — lives in everything she makes now. It is not separate from the art. It is the reason the art works.
"My practice is driven by the translation of internal visions into the physical realm — specifically the intersection of biological grace and computational logic."
For years I have been captivated by a recurring question: what does it mean for something to be simultaneously present and absent? Light answers that question better than any other medium. It can define a space and dissolve it in the same breath. My work does not decorate spaces — it reframes them. I use custom shaders, spatial mapping systems, and live audio-reactive programming not as tools, but as a language. Every installation is a sentence I have been trying to say since I first pointed a projector at a wall in 2012 and watched the room change.
collaborations & residencies.