Sarah Rosalena (Wixárika) is a Los Angeles-based weaver and scholar working between craft and technology. Throughout her career, she has built a reputation for groundbreaking work in textiles, basketry, and ceramics rooted in Indigenous cosmologies and ecology, made with her hand and digital tools. Her work collapses binaries and borders between high and low tech, human and nonhuman, ancient and futuristic, biological and technological, between Earth and Space. She explores the geopolitical impacts of climate change, technoscience, artificial intelligence, and extractive industries, envisioning futures outside these systems while evoking the expansiveness of land and cosmos, and reorienting us toward the infinite. 

Renowned for her work in digital Jacquard textiles and 3D-printed ceramics, she continues to expand the possibilities of computational craft, unraveling technology through material intervention in voluminous forms. Her practice moves fluidly between a manual digital loom and her mother's bead loom, weaving hand-dyed natural materials, such as cochineal and forged pine needles, with a synthetic, pixelated palette to produce 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 custom software, she handcrafts beadwork–pixel per bead–whose surface mimics and disrupts the computer screen. 

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.