Jimena Sarno

Jimena Sarno is an interdisciplinary artist and educator born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and based in Los Angeles. Focusing on spatial and sonic experience she works on installation, sound, sculpture and video. Through the material process of building environments and composing soundscapes she retraces the practical and aesthetic considerations of power.

Sarno’s work has been exhibited at MASS MoCA, Vincent Price Art Museum, Clockshop LA, 18th Street Arts Center, LACE, Human Resources, Grand Central Art Center, The Museum of Latin American Art, The Mistake Room, Visitor Welcome Center, PØST, The Luminary and Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea de Santiago De Compostela, among others. She has been awarded the Lucas Visual Arts Fellowship in Visual Arts, the California Arts Council Individual Fellowship, the California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists, the Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant and the Rema Hort Mann ACE Grant.

Sarno holds an MFA in Art with a Critical Theory Emphasis from UCI and a BFA in Art from UCLA. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at CSUDH.