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