S A R A H R O S A L E N A
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
2024 Breath(e), Hammer Museum, Getty Pacific Standard Time, Los Angeles, USA
2024 From the Ground Up, Armory Center for the Arts, Getty Pacific Standard Time, Los Angeles, USA
2024 Sangre de Nopal, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Getty Pacific Standard Time, Santa Barbara, USA
2024 Invisibility, Powers and Perils, Oxy Arts, Getty Pacific Standard Time, Los Angeles, USA
2024 Born Digital, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, USA
2024 Groundlings: Care and Climate Justice, Heimbold Visual Arts Center, Bronxville, USA
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
2023 Stanford Arts Residency
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
2024 Transposing A Form - Stacked, Columbus Museum of Art
2024 Spiral Arm Red, Raclin Murphy Museum of Art
2022 Transposing A Form, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2021 Above Below, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
ARTIST TALKS
2024 Elizabeth Povinelli and Sarah Rosalena In Conversation, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, USA
2024 Science Fridays, National Public Radio, New York, USA
2023 LACMA Time-Based Media Colloquium, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
2023 Is AI the End of Creativity—Or a New Beginning?, Zócalo Public Square, Los Angeles, USA
2023 Artist Talk, Stanford Arts, Institute for Human-Centered AI, Stanford, USA
2023 Artist Talk, Visiting Artist Series, CU Boulder, Art Department, Boulder, USA
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
CATALOGUES
2023 Paulsen, Kris. Sarah Rosalena: In All Directions, Columbus Museum of Art
2023 Tigermann, Bobbye. Weaving Code: Intersection of Textiles and Technology, Coded: Art
Enters the Computer Age, 1952-1982, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2023 Sarah Rosalena: For Submersion, Clockshop
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2024 Povinelli, Elizabeth. Summoning the Ancestors: The Relational Science of Sarah Rosalena’s Decolonizing Aesthetics, LACMA
2024 Caplan, Lindsay. Sarah Rosalena: In All Directions, The Brooklyn Rail
2023 Messman, Laura. At Museums and Galleries, a Spirit of Togetherness, New York Times
2023 Kent, Charlotte. Art and the State of Water, The Brooklyn Rail
2023 Vankin, Deborah. Getty invests more than $17 million in 2024’s art and science-themed Pacific Standard Time, Los Angeles Times
2023 Stromberg, Matthew. Ten Shows to See this June, Hyperallergic
2023 Hakopian, Mashinka Firunts. Ancestral, The Brooklyn Rail
2023 Stromberg, Matthew. Ten Shows to See this January, Hyperallergic
2022 Monahan, Reza. Sarah Rosalena- Intersectional and Intergalactic Art Making Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, SCI ARC
2022 Wagley, Catherine. Top Ten Booths at Frieze LA, Artsy
2022 Liou, Caroline Ellen. Satisfyingly Tactile Art at Frieze Los Angeles, Hyperallergic
2021 Conner, Allison Noelle. Sarah Rosalena Brady at Blum and Poe, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles,, Issue 24
PUBLISHED ARTICLES
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