Brooklyn, NY
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. Jimenez has exhibited at 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 been an artist in residence at organizations including 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). Her work was recently acquired as part of the permanent collection of the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice. She has received grants from NYFA for the Canadian Women’s Artist Award and from Canada Council for the Arts.
