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Sarah Rosalena

She // Her // Hers

Digital Craft

Los Angeles, California

A woman with brown eyes and dark hair with bangs parted in the center. She stands in front of a loom and looks into the camera with a serious expression.

Photo by Star Montana.

I combine technologies to blur binaries between ancient and future, high and low tech, human and nonhuman, through hybrid forms rooted in Indigenous cosmologies, re-interpreted through digital tools and my hand.”
Sarah Rosalena (Wixárika) is a Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artist working between traditional handicraft traditions and emerging technology. She is Assistant Professor of Art at UC Santa Barbara in Computational Craft and Haptic Media. She was recently given the Creative Capital Award; the LACMA Art + Tech Lab Grant; the Artadia Award; the Steve Wilson Award from Leonardo/the International Society for Art, Sciences, and Technology; and the Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Art Prize. She has had solo exhibitions with LACMA, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Clockshop, and Blum & Poe Gallery. Rosalena’s work is in the permanent collection at LACMA, the Columbus Museum of Art, and the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art.

Donor -This award was generously supported by Katie Weitz, PhD.

This artist page was last updated on: 01.30.2025

A rectangular weaving hung on a white wall. The weaving is a design of rainbow-tiled boxes separated by erratic patches of black, with a few threads dangling from the bottom.

Exit Grid by Sarah Rosalena, 2023. Hand-dyed wool, cotton yarn, 52 × 41 inches.

Photo by Elon Schoenholz.

A bottle-shaped object made from grass fibers woven into thin strips. The bottle has open decorative loops on the sides, curving out from the central vessel.

Earth and Pine by Sarah Rosalena, 2023. 3D-printed stoneware, pine needles, reed, 15 × 16 × 28 inches.

Photo by Ruben Diaz.

An elaborate black-and-white beaded textile. Tightly woven at the top, it unravels into long beaded strands.

Exit VAR! by Sarah Rosalena, 2022. Glass beads, thread, 23 × 4 inches.

Photo by Ian Byers-Gamber.