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CV


b. 1982, Los Angeles, CA USA
Lives in Los Angeles, CA USA

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025         Unending Spiral, BLUM, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2025         Star Rose, Rose Star, Sargents Daughter, NYC, NY, USA
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 EXHIBITIONS

2025         Grounded, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
2025         British Textile Biennial,  Lancashire, UK
2025         Prospect 2025, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, USA
2025         You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, USA
2025         Digital Weaving: Innovation Through Pixels, Digital Weaving Norway, Sunvolden, Norway
2024         La Trienal, El Museo del Bario, New York, USA
2024         Breath(e), Hammer Museum, Getty Pacific Standard Time, Los Angeles, USA
2024         Mapping the Infinite: Cosmologies Across Cultures, LACMA, 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         Machines of Loving Grace, REDCAT, 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         Signal Fires, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, 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
2024         Siggraph 2024 Art Gallery, Denver, 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 AND RESIDENCIES
2025        United States Artists Award
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


COLLECTIONS

Columbus Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Raclin Murphy Museum of Art


COMMISSIONS
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, David Geffen Galleries
Clockshop, Los Angeles Historic State Park
Google Canvas


LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
2025          Unraveled Grids: Weaving Digital Resistance, Digital Weaving Norway Conference
2025          Shaping and Reshaping, Center for Craft
2025          Digital Leaders Panel, LACMA
2024          Dear Genius: Women, Art, and Technology, Roberts Projects
2024          Indigenous Knowledge, Sustainable Future, Fowler Museum
2024          Elizabeth Povinelli and Sarah Rosalena In Conversation, Wexner Center for the Arts
2024          Sarah Rosalena: Textiles and Modern Tech, Science Fridays, National Public Radio
2023          LACMA Time-Based Media Colloquium, LACMA
2023          Is AI the End of Creativity—Or a New Beginning?, Zócalo Public Square
2023          Artist Talk, Stanford Arts, Institute for Human-Centered AI
2023          Artist Talk, Visiting Artist Series, CU Boulder, Art Department
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, Getty Pacific Standard Time, Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara City College
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, 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, Textile and Costume Council, 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, Design Media Arts
2015          Weaving the Screen, Immersive Lab Gray Area, Zurich Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology


CATALOGUES
2024        Kaino, Glen and Yoshitake, Mika. Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, Hammer Museum
2024        Tsatsos, Irene Georgia. From the Ground Up: Nurturing Diversity in Hostile Environments, Armory Center for the Arts
2024        Lipschutz, Yael. Invisibility: Powers and Perils, OXY ARTS
2024        Hamil, Sarah. Care and Climate Justice, Gallery at the Heimbold, Sarah Lawrence College
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, LACMA
2023        Sarah Rosalena: For Submersion, Clockshop
2023        Reframing La Colección, El Museo de Barrio


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2025        Gelt, Jessica. New LACMA building to get  monumental artworks to join “Urban Light” and the Rock, Los Angeles Times
2025        Stromberg, Matthew. Ten Shows to See this July, Hyperallergic
2025        Buhe, Elizabeth. Sarah Rosalena, Star Rose, Rose Star, The Brooklyn Rail
2024        Yoshitake, Mika. Spiraling Temporalities, Hyundai Artlab
2024        Griffin, Jonathan, Five Shows Not To Miss During PST ART, Frieze
2024        Nelson, Kate. Indigenous Futures, National Geographic
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 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
2022        Riefe, Jordan. Frieze Frame, Los Angeles Magazine
​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



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