SARAH ROSALENA
b. 1982, Los Angeles, CA USA
Assistant Professor of Computational Craft, Department of Art, UCSB
SOLO EXHIBITION
2023 In All Directions, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, USA
2023 Standard Candle, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mount Wilson Observatory, CA, USA
2023 Pointing Star, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
2022 For Submersion, Clockshop, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2021 Above Below, Blum & Poe Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2018 Coyotes in Two Directions, ART | SCI Gallery, California Nanosystems Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2017 Strata Reiteration, Broad Art Center EDA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2023 To Your Eternity Art + Tech Biennial, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2022 Digital Awareness of Sustainable Futures, Espronceda/International Symposium for Electronic Art, Barcelona, Spain
2022 Fragile Fiber, Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation, Ojai, USA
2021 Freeport, Epoch Gallery, LA, USA
2021 Planet Earth, Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara, USA
2020 A2P, https://a2p.bitmark.com/v2
2019 Performative Computation, Navel Gallery, LA, USA
2018 Weak or No Signal, New Wight Gallery, LA, USA
2017 Feminist Climate Change, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
2017 Far Bazaar, Cerritos College, Norwalk, USA
2016 Lumia Canvas, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, SF, USA
2015 Point Line, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, Swissnex, SF, USA
2015 Night Light Multimedia Garden, SOMArts Cultural Center, SF, USA
2014 Teathers Us, de Young Museum, SF, USA
2013 Tonantzin Jams, Luggage Store Gallery, SF, USA
2012 Native Diaspora Now, Galeria de la Raza, SF, USA
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2023 Artadia Award
2022 Creative Capital Award
2022 Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Art Prize
2020 Craft Futures Grant, Center for Craft
2019 LACMA Art + Tech Lab Fellowship Grant
2018 Djerassi Artist Residency
2018 Steve Wilson Fellowship Award, Leonardo International Society for Arts, Sciences, and Technology
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
2022 Transposing A Form, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2021 Above Below, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
ARTIST TALKS
2023 From the Stars to the Land: Sarah Rosalena and Sandy Rodiguez in Conversation, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara
2023 Pointing Star with Lindsay Preston Zappas, CARLA Editor-in-Chief, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara
2023 Youth Circle: Sarah Rosalena and Porfirio Guiterrez in Conversation, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara
2023 For Submersion: Sarah Rosalena and Mercedes Dorame in Conversation, Clockshop
2023 Standard Candle: Sarah Rosalena and Lisa Messeri in Conversation, LACMA Art + Tech Lab, Mount Wilson Observatory
2023 Artist Talk, Public Speaker Series, Otis College of Art and Design
2022 Guided By Plants Panel: The Indigenous Oaxacan Diaspora, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Contemporary Art, Atkinson Gallery
2022 Craft Intersection Panel, El Museo del Barrio
2022 Space Art Panel: Cosmic Sensation, MIT Space Exploration Initiative, MIT Media Lab
2022 Visiting Artist Lecture with Mercedes Dorame, CalArts
2022 Art and Tech Panel: Tools for Subversion and Empowerment, Honor Fraser Gallery
2021 Art x Science x LA Panel, Getty Pacific Standard Time
2021 Generative Unfoldings Symposium Panel, MIT Media Lab
2021 Above Below, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2021 Art && Code, Studio for Creative Inquiry, Carnegie Mellon University
2021 Weaving and/as Technology, Olin College of Engineering
2021 Weaving: Four Perspectives Panel, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
2021 Above Below with curator Mika Yoshitake, Blum & Poe Gallery
2020 Visiting Artist Lecture for Carnegie Mellon University Art Department/Sculpture
2019 Sound as Extruded Form, Sound + Science Symposium, UCLA ART | SCI Center
2018 Coyotes in Two Directions, Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous
2018 Kinetic Works, Nanolab, California Nanosystems Institute
2017 Weaving and History of Women’s Labor in Technology, UCLA Arts, DMA
2015 Weaving the Screen, Immersive Lab Gray Area, Zurich Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 Sarah Rosalena: In All Directions, Columbus Museum of Art
2023 Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952-1982, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2023 For Submersion, Clockshop
SELECTED PRESS
2023 Art and the State of Water, The Brooklyn Rail
2023 Ten Shows to See this June, Hyperallergic
2023 Ancestral, The Brooklyn Rail
2022 Sarah Rosalena- Intersectional and Intergalactic Art Making
2022 Top Ten Booths at Frieze LA
2022 Satisfyingly Tactile Art at Frieze Los Angeles
2021 Sarah Rosalena Brady at Blum and Poe, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, Issue 24
2019 2019 Art + Technology Lab Grant Recipients
2018 This Year's Steve Wilson Fellowship Has Been Awarded to Sarah Rosalena Brady
PUBLICATIONS
2019 Shapeshifting the Colonial Object, Leonardo Vol. 52, Issue 5, MIT Press
2019 Science Delirium Madness 5.0, Leonardo, Vol. 52, Issue 3, MIT Press
SELECTED WORKSHOPS
2023 Weaving the Park, Clockshop
2017 Data Weaving, Scopelab, UCLA