Sara Jimenez explores the material embodiment of deep transcultural memories. As a Filipinx-Canadian artist, she is interested in materializing narratives around ideas of origins and home, loss and absence. She works in installation, collage, sculpture, and performance, to create visual metaphors that allude to mythical environments and reimagined artifacts. Among other things, she sources familial narratives, marginalized histories, abandoned objects, colonial texts and photos, and textiles. Through material experimentation, she combines and rearranges these elements to complicate pre-existing concepts 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 El Museo del Barrio, BRIC Gallery, Cornell University, Miriam 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 is 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 mentors graduate students at the Vermont College of Fine Art, and the School of Visual Arts.