SARA GARZÓN

Sara Garzón is a Colombian curator and writer based in New York City. She specializes in modern and contemporary art focusing specifically on issues relating to decoloniality, Indigenous new media art, and Global South solidarity politics. Sara earned her M.A. in Art History and Archaeology from The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU (2015), and her Ph.D in the History of Art and Visual Studies at Cornell University (2022).

Sara has been the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships including the Andrew Harris Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Vermont (2021-2022), the Jane and Morgan Whitney Curatorial Fellowship (2020-2021), and the Lifchez-Stronach Curatorial Fellowship (2015) both at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Beside institutional appointments, Sara has curated exhibitions in the US, Europe, and Latin America, and is currently the curator of the research project “South to South: A Meeting on African and Afro-Diasporic Technologies” (2023-2024), which is organized in collaboration with Pivô in São Paulo, Centre d'art Waza in Congo.

Sara has contributed to several exhibition catalogs, anthologies, peer-reviewed 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 the 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). Since then, she was contributed articles and exhibitions review to e-flux, Hyperallergic, Ocula Magazine, and others including anthologies and exhibition catalogs such as Latin American Ecologies forthcoming with K-Verlag, Theory in the New Humanities series from Bloomsbury, 2024, and Ximena Garrido-Lecca Botanical Readings: Erythroxylum Coca published by Temblores Publicaciones in Mexico City. Sara is currently working on her book project titled: 1992: 500-Years of Anti-Colonial Resistance.