Sara Magenheimer

Artadia Awardee
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Sara Magenheimer is an artist preoccupied with language whose work spans filmmaking, video installation, writing, performance, collage, sound and sculpture. She is based in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Timeshare gallery, LA; the University Art Museum in Albany, NY, New Museum, NY; the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, OR; The Kitchen, NY. Her videos have been widely screened, including the Flaherty Seminar, Oberhausen Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the New York Film Festival, Images Festival, Anthology Film Archives, EMPAC at RPI, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. She was the recipient of a 2014 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant, 2015 Artadia Award, the Prix De Varti at the 2015 Ann Arbor Film Festival, a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2020 and awarded a Rauschenberg Residency on Captiva in 2021. Magenheimer authored Notes on Art and Resistance A–Z after the 2016 U.S. presidential election. In 2019 Wendy’s Subway published Beige Pursuit, Magenheimer’s first book. Magenheimer is an Associate Professor of New Media at SUNY Purchase College and faculty in the Moving Image discipline at the Bard MFA Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.

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