Sara Jimenez explores the material embodiment of deep transcultural memories. As a Filipinx-Canadian artist, she is interested in materializing existing global narratives around concepts of origins and home, loss and absence. She works in installation, video, collage, sculpture, and performance, to create visual metaphors that allude to mythical environments and forgotten artifacts. She is a collector and alchemist. Among other things, she collects familial narratives, abandoned objects, debris, compost, colonial texts and photos, maps and textiles. Through material experimentation, she combines and rearranges elements from her collections to complicate pre-existing narratives of place, lineage and temporality.

Jimenez received her BA from the University of Toronto (2008) and her MFA from Parsons the New School for Design (2013). Selected exhibitions include the Pinto Art Museum, El Museo del Barrio, Rush Arts Gallery, BRIC Gallery, BronxArtSpace, FiveMyles Gallery, The Brooklyn Museum, The Bronx Museum and Smack Mellon, among others. She has performed at numerous venues including The Dedalus Foundation, The Noguchi Museum, Jack, The Glasshouse and Dixon Place. Selected artist residencies include Brooklyn Art Space, Wave Hill’s Winter Workspace, a full artist fellowship to The Vermont Studio Center, the Bronx Museum’s AIM program, Yaddo, BRICworkspace, Art Omi, Project for Empty Space, LMCC’s Workspace and Bemis (upcoming). She is the recipient of the Cecily Brown Fellowship and has been listed as Smack Mellon’s “Hot Picks” in both 2018 and 2019. Her work was recently acquired as part of the permanent collection of the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice. Selected awards and grants include NYFA’s Canadian Women's Artist Award, as well as Canada Council for the Arts’ Explore and Create Grant. Jimenez teaches at Parsons the New School for Design, New York University and BMCC, and mentors graduate students at the Vermont College of Fine Art and the School of Visual Arts.

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Practice Lecture Series: Sara Jimenez

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