Sarah Rosalena (Wixárika) is a Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artist and weaver working between craft and technology. Throughout her career, she has built a reputation for breaking boundaries through hybrid textiles, ceramics, and basketry rooted in Indigenous cosmologies, made using both her hands and digital tools. She handweaves from her digital jacquard loom to her mother’s bead loom, mixing hand-dyed natural colors and materials, including cochineal and pine needles, with a synthetic, pixelated palette to create borderless textiles marked by her signature fray. She uses a 3D ceramic printer to generate woven clay forms that she later manipulates, distorts, and reweaves by hand. Working with software, she handcrafts beadwork–pixel per bead–whose surface mimics and disrupts the computer screen. 

Renowned for her groundbreaking work in digital jacquard weaving and 3D-printed ceramics, she continues to expand the possibilities of computational craft. She employs advancing technologies to collapse boundaries between high and low tech, human and nonhuman, ancient and futuristic, tradition and progress—unsettling power structures shaped by colonialism. Her recent survey exhibition, In All Directions, explored the geopolitical impacts of climate change, artificial intelligence, and extractive industries, envisioning futures outside these systems while evoking the expansiveness of land and cosmos, and reorienting us toward the infinite. 

She is Associate Professor of Computational Craft and Haptic Media in the Department of Art at UC Santa Barbara. Her work has been recognized with major awards such as the United States Artists Award (2025), the Artadia Award (2023), the Creative Capital Award (2022), the LACMA Art + Tech Lab Grant (2019), and the Steve Wilson Award from Leonardo, the International Society for Art, Sciences, and Technology (2018). She has had solo museum exhibitions with LACMA, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, and six exhibitions in the recent Getty Pacific Standard Time. She has multiple works in permanent collections at LACMA, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art.