CV
b. 1982, Los Angeles, CA USA
Lives in Los Angeles, CA USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 layer by layer, Make Room, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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, 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
2027 Future Focused: Art for the Planet, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, USA
2027 Malady of the Infinite, Newark Museum of Art, Newark, USA
2027 Invention into Existence, Henry Art Museum, Seattle, USA
2026 Data At Hand: Data Physicalizations of Earth and Space, Mills College, Oakland, USA
2026 Motherboards, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, USA
2026 Video Craft, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, USA
2026 Woven Pixel, Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, USA
2026 You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA
2026 Clutch City, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, USA
2025 Grounded, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
2025 British Textile Biennial, Lancashire, UK
2025 You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, USA
2025 Against Outerspace, Beall Center for Art + Technology, UC Irvine, USA
2025 Prospect 2025, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, USA
2025 Digital Weaving: Innovation Through Pixels, Digital Weaving Norway, Sunvolden, Norway
2025 Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, USA
2024 La Trienal, El Museo del Barrio, New York, USA
2024 Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, 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, MCASB, 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
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
2026 City of Los Angeles Independent Master Artist Project (COLA)
2025 United States Artists Award
2023 Artadia Award
2023 Stanford Arts Residency
2022 Creative Capital Award
2022 Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation Art Prize
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
MAC3 Mohn Art Collection
Raclin Murphy Museum of Art
COMMISSIONS
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, David Geffen Galleries
Clockshop, Los Angeles Historic State Park
LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
2026 Indigenous Technology Roundtable, Leonardo ISAST
2026 The Future in Balance: AI, Humanity, Sustainability, International Conference on Indigenous Knowledges, Systems, Wisdom & Technology, Tsinghua Southeast Asia Center Indonesia
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 Panel, Roberts Projects
2024 Indigenous Knowledge, Sustainable Future Panel, 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 Panel, LACMA
2023 Is AI the End of Creativity—Or a New Beginning? Panel, 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 Rodriguez 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 Gutierrez 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, UCLA ART|SCI Center, California Nanosystems Institute
2015 Weaving the Screen, Immersive Lab Gray Area, Zurich Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2026 Kay, Hannah Sage. Sarah Rosalena on her new LACMA Commission, The Art Newspaper
2026 Schneider, Alexander. 50 Works 50 Weeks: Sarah Rosalena’s “Threading the Infinite: Omnidirectional Terrain, LACMA
2026 Crow, Kelly. “Top Ten” A First Look at the $720 Million Overhaul of Lacma, L.A.’s Buzziest Museum, WSJ
2026 Hotchkiss, Sarah. At San José Museum of Art, Technology Is Women’s Work, KQED
2026 Fleming, Tersea. Against Outer Space at the Beall Center for Art + Technology, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles
2025 Finkel, Jori. The Textile Artists Bringing Fiber Art into the Future, W Magazine
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
2025 Vanderhoop, Carrie Anne. Weaving Code, Clay, Pine Needles and Stars, Basketry +, National Basketry Association
2025 Kueneke, Liz. Code Red, Selvedge Magazine
2025 Button, Sally. British Textile Biennial 2025: The Future Was Always There, Corridor 8
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
CATALOGUES
2026 Gonzalez, Rita. Sarah Rosalena’s Shifting Terrains, COLA 2026, Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles
2026 Ferree, Joel. (Ed). A Report on the LACMA Art + Tech Lab 2014-205, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2026 Connelly, John. (Ed). Blood of the Nopal, Sangre de Nopal, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara
2026 Lieja Quintanar, Daniela and Heiman, Taila. (Eds). All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace, CalArts
2024 Kaino, Glen and Yoshitake, Mika. (Eds). Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, Hammer Museum
2024 Tsatsos, Irene Georgia. (Ed). From the Ground Up: Nurturing Diversity in Hostile Environments, Armory Center for the Arts
2024 Lipschutz, Yael. (Ed). Invisibility: Powers and Perils, OXY ARTS
2024 Hamil, Sarah. (Ed). Care and Climate Justice, Gallery at the Heimbold, Sarah Lawrence College
2023 Paulsen, Kris. (Ed). 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 Yank, Sue Bell (Ed). Sarah Rosalena: For Submersion, Clockshop
2023 Moura, Rodrigo and Temkin, Susanna. (Eds). Reframing La Colección, El Museo de Barrio
PUBLISHED ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
2026 Artist Reflections, A Report on the LACMA Art + Tech Lab 2014-205, LACMA
2026 Revisiting Pixels and Letters, All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace, CalArts
2025 Distruptive Terrain, Noema Magazine, Issue VI, Berggruen Institute
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