Sara Stern
Bio: Sara Stern is an interdisciplinary artist from New York City. Working across video, moving image installation, sculpture, performance, printmaking, and photography, she casts buildings, objects, histories and sites as characters in experimental narratives. Stern received her BA from Harvard University and her MFA from Columbia University. She has screened and exhibited her work in the US and internationally, at venues including SculptureCenter, NY; Anthology Film Archives, NY; the Museum of the Moving Image, NY; The Jewish Museum, NY; MuseumsQuartier, Vienna; and the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore. She was the 2017-2018 Fountainhead Fellow in the Department of Sculpture + Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she continues to teach as a Co-Director and Core Faculty member of the VCUarts Summer Studio Program. Stern is the recipient of a 2018 Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant and a 2018-2019 Visual Arts Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA.
Thesis Exhibition
L to R: Night Talk (variable loop, Three-channel HD video installation rear projected onto solar shades, 2017); Night Talk (variable loop, Three-channel HD video installation rear projected onto solar shades, 2017); Night Talk (variable loop, Three-channel HD video installation rear projected onto solar shades, 2017); COMPANY (13:18 min, looped, HD video, color/sound, concrete and cast iron stove leg seating, weathered steel walls, credits video, Installation view at SculptureCenter, 2018)