Lincoln, Neb.—Artist Sara Jimenez will present the next Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture on Thursday, April 30 at 5:30 p.m. in Sheldon Art Museum’s Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Jimenez’s work materializes invisible histories and a kaleidoscopic connectedness she has to her ancestors and their land. She works in installation, sculpture, collage and performance to create visual metaphors through fantastical environments and otherworldly, biomorphic objects.
Most of her research and inspiration comes from learning about the landscape and narratives from her genealogical roots in Southeast Asia, the Pacific and the ancient U.K. Jimenez’s practice uses poetic abstraction and color to disorient and trouble dominant ideas about people, places and time. Each project or series of works is sited in a specific set of historical narrative threads. Alongside her practice of researching ancestral intersectional histories, she also creates site specific installations that grapple with the legacies and landscapes of their particular locations.
Jimenez received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto and her Master of Fine Arts degree from Parsons the New School for Design in Fine Art. Selected solo exhibitions include Rachel Uffner Gallery, Smack Mellon and Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York City. Selected commissions include Cornell University (Ithaca, New York), Wave Hill (New York City) and MadArt Studio (Seattle).
Jimenez has also exhibited in exhibitions at museums including El Museo del Barrio, The Brooklyn Museum, and The Bronx Museum. Her work is part of the permanent collection of the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice. Selected awards and grants include NYFA’s Canadian Women's Artist Award, multiple Canada Council for the Arts’ Explore and Create and Travel Grants, and BRIC’s Colene Brown Art Prize. Jimenez is represented by Chozick Family Art Galley in New York City.
The School of Art, Art History & Design’s Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series brings notable artists, scholars and designers to Nebraska each semester to enhance the education of students. The series is presented in collaboration with Sheldon Museum of Art.
Underwritten by the Hixson-Lied Endowment with additional support from other sources, the series enriches the culture of the state by providing a way for Nebraskans to interact with luminaries in the fields of art, art history and design. Each visiting artist or scholar spends one to three days on campus to meet with classes, participate in critiques and give demonstrations.
For more information on the series, contact the School of Art, Art History & Design at (402) 472-5522 or e-mail schoolaahd@unl.edu.
