Sara Garzon

Sara Garzon

Sara Garzon is a curator and writer living between Mexico City and New York. Sara is a PhD candidate in Art History at Cornell University, specializing in modern and contemporary Latin American art. In her research, Sara focuses on themes of decoloniality, temporality, and indigenous ecocriticism. Sara has served as a Jane and Morgan Whitney Curatorial Fellow and a Lifchez-Stronach Curatorial Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and an Audience Engagement Associate at the Brooklyn Museum. In addition to her museum work, Sara has also curated a number of exhibitions including Not Everything that Shines at Museo Antropológico y de Arte Contemporáneo in Guayaquil (MAAC, 2019); Gestures of Power at Profound Studio, Brooklyn, NY (2018); and Nobilitas: Of Royal Blood and Other Myths at KB Espacio de Arte in Bogotá, Colombia (2017), to name a few.

Sara has contributed to several exhibition catalogs, anthologies, journals, and art magazines, including DASartes Magazine, Ocula Magazine, Terremoto, Hyperallergic, and others. Her most recent editorial project, Worldmaking Practices: A Take on the Future was published thanks to the support of Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, and her article “Manuel Amaru Cholango: Decolonizing Technology and the Construction of Indigenous Futures” was awarded Best Essay in Visual Culture Studies 2020 by the Latin American Studies Association (LASA).

Sara was invited to be a curator in residence at Casa GIAP, a residency on “Creative Ecologies and Decolonial Futurities” in Chiapas, Mexico (2019); the Emerging Curators’ Workshop at Para Site in Hong Kong (2019), and was part of the Science and Technology Society at the Delfina Foundation in London (2020).