Sara Stern

Sara Stern is an interdisciplinary artist from New York City. Her recent projects prod varied histories of landscape and urban development with speculative fiction. Stern has exhibited and screened her work in the US and internationally, at venues including SculptureCenter (Long Island City, NY), Anthology Film Archives (New York, NY), the Museum of the Moving Image (New York, NY), Ortega y Gasset Projects (Brooklyn, NY), Essex Flowers (New York, NY), and the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore (Singapore). Stern received a BA in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard College and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University.

She is the recipient of a Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant, the Fountainhead Fellowship in Sculpture + Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University, and several residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. In recent years, Stern has participated in the Fire Island Artist Residency (Cherry Grove, Fire Island, NY), the Artist Residency at the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center (West Rutland, VT), the Harvestworks New Works Residency (New York, NY), and The Watermill Center Artist Residency Program (Water Mill, NY). Stern is currently a participant in Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Arts Center Residency program on Governors Island.