Sara Serratos

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Sara Serratos (n. Estado de México) es una artista interdisciplinaria, educadora de arte y curadora originaria de Hidalgo, México—en territorios Ēxcān Tlahtōlōyān y Hñähñu—y actualmente radicada en Salt Lake City, Utah, en tierras Timpanogos, Shoshone, Goshute y Ute. Migró a Utah a los 26 años, la misma edad que tenía su bisabuelo, operador de locomotora, cuando perdió la vida en un accidente minero en lo que alguna vez fue Rains, Utah. Su práctica artística investiga el lenguaje, el paisaje, la vivienda, la identidad, la migración y los sistemas de poder, así como las implicaciones socioambientales y económicas de la arquitectura. Inspirada por el arte precolombino y su propia experiencia migratoria, trabaja con fotografía digital y analógica (35 mm, 6x6 y 4x5), video, cine, escultura, instalación, performance, impresión 3D, texto y pintura, transformando objetos cotidianos en reflexiones sobre vigilancia, preservación, impacto socioambiental y alimentación ancestral. Serratos ha creado tres cuerpos de obra cohesivos: Paisana (2025-2026), Who Sustains Our Tables? (2022–2025), y Madriguera de Cemento (2015–2017) que cuestionan e inspiran el diálogo. Su trabajo ha sido exhibido en plataformas digitales y fisicamente en en Estados Unidos en Utah en espacios como el Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Springville Museum of Art, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Material Gallery, Finch Lane Gallery, Gittins Gallery, Urban Art Gallery, Shaw Gallery, Consulado de México en Salt Lake City, y en México en el Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Proyecto Escrituras Experimentales, el CENART, el MUCA y durante el XXXVIII Encuentro Nacional de Arte Joven en el Instituto Cultural de Aguascalientes. Ha presentado exposiciones individuales como Paisana (Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 2026), Who Sustains Our Tables? (en Bountiful Davis Art Center, 2025, y en Alvin Gittins Gallery, 2023) Mystic Tongues and Ears Struggle with Our Structured Brain (Finch Lane Gallery, 2023), Madriguera de Cemento (ENPEG “La Esmeralda”, 2017) y Préstamo de espacios (BiquiniWax, 2018). En 2025 se le otorgó la Beca para el Avance Individual del Artista por el Utah Division of Arts and Museums; durante 2024-2025 fue Artista en Residencia en el Utah Museum of Contemporary Art; en 2019 recibió el tercer lugar en la exposición LatinArte Our Roots con la obra Godalupe. Su trabajo ha sido publicado en revistas como The Utah Review, 15bytes, Salt Lake City Weekly, TERREMOTO, Chiquilla Electrónica y Revista Inverosímil. Actualmente se desempeña como Directora de Exhibiciones y Educación en Bountiful Davis Art Center y Directora de Programas en Artes de México en Utah. Su proyecto Restaurantes Mexicanos en Salt Lake County cuenta con el apoyo del Assemblage Art Fund Grant (2025–2026), otorgado por UMOCA y The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Sara Serratos (b. Estado de México) is an interdisciplinary artist, art educator and curator originally from Hidalgo, Mexico—on Ēxcān Tlahtōlōyān and Hñähñu territories— now based in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Timpanogos, Shoshone, Goshute, and Ute lands. She migrated to Utah at the age of 26, the same age her great-grandfather, a locomotive operator, was when he lost his life in a coal mine accident in what was once Rains, Utah. Her artistic practice investigates language, landscape, housing, identity, migration, and systems of power, as well as the socio-environmental and economic implications of architecture. Inspired by Pre-Columbian art and her own migratory experience, she works across digital and analog photography (35mm, 6x6, and 4x5), video, film, sculpture, installation, performance, 3D printing, text, and painting, transforming everyday objects into reflections on surveillance, preservation, socio-environmental impact, and ancestral nourishment. Serratos has created three cohesive bodies of work Paisana (2025-2026), Who Sustains Our Tables? (2022-2025) and Madriguera de Cemento (2015-2017) that challenge and inspire dialogue. Her work has been exhibited both online and in physical venues in the United States, particularly in Utah, at institutions such as the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Springville Museum of Art, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Material Gallery, Finch Lane Gallery, Gittins Gallery, Urban Arts Gallery, Shaw Gallery, and the Consulate of Mexico in Salt Lake City. In Mexico, her work has been presented at the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, CENART, MUCA, and during the XXXVIII Encuentro Nacional de Arte Joven at the Instituto Cultural de Aguascalientes. She has presented solo exhibitions, including Paisana (Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 2026); Who Sustains Our Tables? (Bountiful Davis Art Center, 2025, and Alvin Gittins Gallery, 2023); Mystic Tongues and Ears Struggle with Our Structured Brain (Finch Lane Gallery, 2023); Madriguera de Cemento (ENPEG “La Esmeralda,” 2017); and Préstamo de espacios (BiquiniWax, 2018). In 2025, she received the Individual Artist Advancement Grant from the Utah Division of Arts and Museums; from 2024 to 2025, she was an Artist-in-Residence at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art; and in 2019, she received third place at the LatinArte Our Roots exhibition for the work Godalupe. Her work has been published in outlets such as The Utah Review, 15bytes, Salt Lake City Weekly, TERREMOTO, Chiquilla Electrónica, and Revista Inverosímil. She currently serves as the Exhibitions and Education Director at the Bountiful Davis Art Center and as the Program Director at Artes de México en Utah. Her project, Restaurantes Mexicanos en Salt Lake County, is supported by the Assemblage Art Fund Grant (2025–2026), awarded by UMOCA and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.