Sara V. Suárez
Los Angeles, CA – Email
Exhibitions & screenings
2023 Wedge Gallery, Burbank, CA
2023 Brea Gallery, Brea, CA
2023 Materials & Applications, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Oversight, Coaxial Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Coaxial Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL
2021 Oxford University, Oxford, UK
2021 Rockaway Film Festival, Rockaway, NY
2021 Feeler Gauge Festival, online
2020 Film and Video Poetry Society, New York, NY
2019 LA Filmforum, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Alchemy Film & Video Festival, Hawick, UK
2019 FRACTO Experimental Film Encounter, Berlin, DE
2019 ICDOCS (Iowa City International Documentary Festival), Iowa City, IA
2019 NOFLASH Video Show, Brunswick, NJ
2019 Feminist Border Arts Film Festival, Las Cruces, NM
2019 Treefort Music Festival, Boise, ID
2019 Slamdance Film Festival, Park City, UT
2019 Spatial Awareness Network, Los Angeles CA
Grants & residencies
2023 Supercollider SciArt Ambassador Fellowship, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Artist in Residence, Iowa Lakeside Laboratory, Milford, IA
2023 Artist in Residence, Materials & Applications, Los Angeles, CA
2021 “Digital And/As Public Space” Virtual Residency, The Bentway Conservancy, Toronto, Ontario
2020 NAVEL ASSEMBLIES Collective Research, Los Angeles, CA
2019 CalArts Postgraduate Teaching Fellowship, Valencia, CA
2018 Student Fellow, The Flaherty Documentary Seminar, Hamilton, NY
Performances
2021 Collective Rest Portal, with virtual care lab at University of Toronto 4S Conference, Toronto, Ontario (virtual)
2019 Los Angeles Is Endless, Roundhouse Platform at WUHO Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Southlandsound, sound composition, Roundhouse Platform at Texas Tech University School of Architecture, Lubbock, TX
2019 body out of time, Pieter Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA
Presentations & public workshops
2023 place settings, Los Angeles, CA
2023 “Gathering Tides: A Dreaming Workshop (II-IV)” Materials & Applications, Los Angeles CA
2022 “Gathering Tides: A Dreaming Workshop (I)” Materials & Applications, Los Angeles CA
2022 Media Economies Design Lab, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO (virtual)
2022 Panel, “Visualizing Care: Digital Feminisms Between Archives and Networks,” Duke University, Durham, NC (virtual)
2022 Interactive Architecture Lab, University College London, London, UK (virtual)
2021 “Collective Rest Portal,” 4S Conference, University of Toronto (virtual)
2021 Emerson College Civic Media Lab, Boston, MA (virtual)
2021 Panel, “Public Programming: Simulation Symposium”, Texas Tech University College of Architecture (virtual)
2021 Panel, “Alternatives and Demands in Network Ruins,” Technoscience Research Unit, University of Toronto (virtual)
Press
Nathaniel Bahadursingh, “Materials & Applications hosts multi-sensory Day/Dream spatial project”, Archinect, 6/14/23
Ceci Moss, “How virtual care lab Builds Community in Online Spaces," Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, 11/29/21
Kelly Rappleye, “Virtual Care Lab Creates Remote Connection,” Artillery Magazine, 3/9/21
Related experience
2019-23 Senior Manager of Programs & Operations, Zócalo Public Square, Los Angeles CA
2023 Film Programmer, Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ Film Festival
2020-22 Co-Founder and Co-Organizer, virtual care lab
2020 Film Programmer, Slamdance Film Festival
2020 Research Facilitator, “Exploring Sleep & Dreams as a Collective Resource,” NAVEL ASSEMBLIES, Los Angeles, CA
2019-20 Adjunct Instructor/Postgraduate Teaching Fellow, CalArts School of Film/Video, Valencia CA
Education
2018 MFA, California Institute of the Arts
2015 BA, College of William & Mary