“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.
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