Sara Jimenez
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art
Music and Art
EMAIL: sjimenez@bmcc.cuny.edu
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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.
Expertise
Degrees
MFA, Parsons the New School for Design (2013)
BA, University of Toronto (2008)
Courses Taught
Research and Projects
SELECTED SOLO & 2-3 PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2021
Roots Burrow Through Stones and Hard Facts, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2020
Revivival, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY
A Setting, FiveMyles Plus/Space, Brooklyn, NY
The Scenery is Never Monotonous, Art in Buildings, West 10th st. Window, NYC
2019
Here We Land, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
2018
Sudden Lull, Terrific Gale, Dead Calm, The Alice Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Itinerant Maladies, La Bodega Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016
Abyssal, FiveMyles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Remnants, Wayfarers Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Absent Presence, The Pinto Art Museum, Antipolo City, Philippines
2011
Anonymous Contemplations, Phillips de Pury, New York, NY
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & FAIRS
2020
Art Off-Screen, International outdoor exhibition, https://neumeraki.com/art-offscreen
Instagram’s Shadow, Online exhibition, 42 Social Club, http://www.midnightsociety.org/instagram
Creating in COVID, Online exhibition, curated by Rachel Kay
Intersections: The Union Square Show, 7 East 14th st., Curated by Luciana Solano
2019
For the Record Political / Personal / Historical, Beard and Weil Galleries, Watson Fine Arts, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
Narrative Threads, Project for Empty Space, Newark, NJ
Object Subject: NYC Feminist Film Week, Anthology Film Archives, NY, NY (Tatlo)
2018
100 Works, Electropositive, Brooklyn, NY
Venus Occults Jupiter, Love Apple Farm, in partnership with Art-in-Buildings, Ghent, NY
Endless Days, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China (Redell & Jimenez)
E/AB ArtFair, Michael Steinberg Fine Art / Eminance Grise Editions, New York, NY
Golden Hour, Historic Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, GA
FEELINGS: A Feminist Art Film & Video Festival, Syracuse, NY (Redell & Jimenez)
Giving Up the Ghost, Rush Arts Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Historical Amnesia, BronxArtSpace, Bronx, NY
2017
UPROOT, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
Songs for Freedom, JCC Harlem, NY, NY
Intertwined, Chashama Gallery 470 Vanderbilt Ave., Brooklyn, NY
(under)REPRESENT(ed), Aronson Gallery, Parsons the New School for Design, NY, NY
Bronx Calling: The Fourth AIM Biennial, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
Kamias Triennial, Manila, Philippines (Tatlo)
Promises, 55 Meserole Ave, New York, NY
Land/Form, Usagi Gallery, New York, NY (Redell & Jimenez)
Re:search, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, BMCC, New York, NY
2016
BRIC Biennial, Volume II: Bed Stuy and Crown Heights, BRIC, curated by Elizabeth Ferrer, Brooklyn, NY
Flux Art Fair, Rush Arts Gallery, Marcus Garvey Park, New York, NY
Flesh: Exercises Beyond Erotica, Voltz Clarke Gallery, NY, NY
2015
personal:interpersonal:connected, Sardine Gallery (Redell & Jimenez), Brooklyn, NY
2014
Crossing Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum, Curated by Eugenie Tsai, Brooklyn, NY (Tatlo)
Luminaria, San Antonio, Texas (Redell & Jimenez)
Electric Walls, On the Ground Floor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Redell & Jimenez)
Standing Outside the Closed Door, ABC No Rio in Exile, 292 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (Redell & Jimenez)
Seeing the Sky, Maxon Mills, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY (Redell & Jimenez)
Art and Lounge, Newark Liberty International Airport, Curated by Lital Dotan and Eyal Perry, Newark, NJ
Re: purpose, The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (in conjunction with) FiveMyles Gallery, Curated by Amanda Reid and Ali Rosa-Salas, Brooklyn, NY
Other Worlds, Skylight Gallery, Curated by Jill Slaymaker, New York, NY
Almanac, Wayfarers Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
A ‘Womanhouse’ or a Roaming House? “A Room of One’s Own” Today, A.I.R. Gallery, Curated by Mira Schor, New York, NY (Redell & Jimenez)
Winter Salon, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013
The Name, The Nose , Museo Laboratorio – Ex Manifattura Tabacchi, Curated by Raul Zamudio, Citta
Sant Angelo, Italy (Redell & Jimenez)
La Bienale: Here is Where We Jump, El Museo del Barrio, Curated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado and Raul Zamudio, New York, NY (Redell & Jimenez)
The Intelligence of Things, The Kitchen, Parsons Graduate Thesis Exhibition, curated by Wendy Vogel and Jess Wilcox, New York, NY
Dimensions Variable: Multiracial Identity, Rush Arts Gallery, Curated by Gabriel de Guzman, New York, NY
Morph, Fowler Art Center, Curated by Jade Yumang and AM DeBrincat, Brooklyn, NY (Redell & Jimenez)
Make it Work, CAA Regional Exhibition, NY CAMS Gallery, Curated by Barbara Pollock, New York, NY (Redell & Jimenez)
2012
XX, Strange Loop Gallery, New York, NY
PERFORMANCES
2020
The Scenery is Never Monotonous, Art in Buildings, West 10th st. Window, NYC
2019
Wail, Participant Inc. Gallery, NY, NY
Unseen Portraits, Art in Odd Places: Invisible, NY, NY
Weighted Wait, Dedalus Foundation, Brooklyn, NY (Tatlo)
2018
Inherited Weight, BronxArtSpace, Bronx, NY (Tatlo)
2017
Nostalgic Fatigue (Interlude), Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
2016
Gender/Power’s Composition IV Performance, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Ernesto Pujol’s 9-5, More Art and Arts Brookfield, New York, NY
Notes On Performance: The E MOTION AL Architecture of the Body, Songs for Presidents Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
What Might Be Left to Say, 645 Willoughby Ave., Brooklyn, NY
Tracing Presence, The Hallows, Brooklyn, NY
2014
The Affordable Art Fair, Recent Graduate Exhibition, curated by Gabriel de Guzman
Maria Blaisse’s Breathing Sphere Performance, The Noguchi Museum, Queens, NY
Heart, Voice, Song: Three Meetings Performances, The Museum of Art and Design, collaboration with Or Zublasky, Sable Elyse Smith, Simone Tyson, New York, NY
What Remains, FiveMyles Gallery, New York, NY
Lola, CAGE, New York, NY (collaboration with Angeli)
Crush and Release, Dixon Place, Curated by Yulia Tikhonova, New York, NY
Lisa Kirk’s Left Behind, Performed Marina Abramovic as the Grim Reaper, 24-hour performance, Invisible-Exports Gallery, New York, NY
2013
In Spirit…, Strange Loop Gallery, New York, NY (Tatlo)
Ernesto Pujol’s Time After Us, Crossing the Line Festival, French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), New York, NY
The Space Between Us, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY (Redell & Jimenez)
The Department of Accumulated Thoughts, Art in Odd Places Festival: Number, 14th street, curated by Radhika Subramaniam, New York, NY (Tatlo)
New Museum – Streetfest: Ideas City, Art in Odd Places: Number, curated by Radhika Subramaniam, New York, NY (Tatlo)
2012
Keeping it in the Family, The Glasshouse, Curated by Eyal Perry and Lital Dotan, Brooklyn, NY (Tatlo)
Performing Restraint, Parsons the New School for Design, New York, NY (Tatlo)
Question for Revolution and Universal Brotherhood, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery, Curated by Jessica Posner, Lauren Denitzio, and Isaac Richard Pool, New York, NY (Redell & Jimenez)
Against the Grain, Strange Loop Gallery, New York, NY (collaboration with Cupid Ojala)
Publications
Honors, Awards and Affiliations
RESIDENCIES
(upcoming)
BEMIS, Omaha, Nebraska
2019-2020
LMCC Workspace Residency, NY, NY
Feminist Incubator Project, Project for Empty Space, NY, NY
Art OMI, Ghent, NY
2018
Art, Artist, and You, Children’s Museum of Manhattan, NY, NY
BRICworkspace Residency, NY, NY
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2016
Opossum House, Eugene, Oregon
The Vermont Studio Center, Full Scholarship, Johnson, Vermont
AIM, Artist in the Marketplace Program, NY, NY
2015
Wave Hill’s Winter Workspace Residency, NY, NY
2014
Visiting Artist Residency, Brooklyn Art Space, NY, NY
2013
Wassaic Project Fellowship, Wassaic, NY (Redell & Jimenez)
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2014
Periphery Projects, Strange Loop Gallery, New York, NY (co-curated with Jade Yumang)
2013
Presenting Futures, Mandrake, Los Angeles, CA (Redell & Jimenez)
2010-2011
Salon, 110 west 14th street, New York, NY (co-curated with Gary Gissler)
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2021
Canada Council for the Arts: Explore and Create
2020
NYFA Canadian Women’s Artist Grant 2020
Foundation for Contemporary Art COVID-19 Emergency Grant
2019
Smack Mellon’s Hot Picks Artist
Art Omi’s Cecily Brown Fellowship
2018
Smack Mellon’s Hot Picks Artist
2016
Full Artist Fellowship, The Vermont Studio Center
2013
Chaim Gross Scholarship
2012
The New School University Merit Award (2012-2013)
2010
New Yorkers for Better Neighborhood Grant, Citizens Committee for New York (F.I.R.E.)
Additional Information
Website: http://www.sarajimenezstudio.com/
