Sara Ludy
sara.ludy@gmail.com
Education
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1998 - 2003
BFA New Media, Presidential Scholarship
Solo Exhibitions
2022 - Swimmer’s Canyon, Art Mur; Montréal, QC
2022 - /home, Sara Ludy & Niko Princen, Panke Gallery; Berlin, DE
2021 - Future Fair, via bitforms gallery; New York, NY
2020 - Starmesh, 150 Media Stream; Chicago, IL
2019 - Unearth, bitforms gallery; New York, NY
2019 - Remodel, Contemporary Arts Center/Strike Anywhere Gallery; Cincinnati, OH
2019 - Deeptimesurfacetime, http://www.linkcabinet.eu/; Online
2017 - Climates, Lincoln Park Conservatory, ESS; Chicago, IL
2016 - Irreality (w/ Mark Dorf), CP Projects Space; New York, NY
2016 - Subsurface Hell, bitforms gallery; New York, NY
2015 - Beyond the Trees: Wallpapers in Dialogue with Emily Carr, Vancouver Art Gallery; Vancouver, BC
2014 - Place, http://room.thecomposingrooms.com; Online
2014 - Dream House, Ditch Projects; Springfield, OR
2013 - SPHERES 1-20, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery; New York, NY
2012 - WALLPAPERS, The Sunday Painter; London UK
2012 - Sara Ludy + Nicolas Sassoon, Lossless Gallery; Calgary, Alberta
2012 - Rooms, klausgallery.net; Online
2011 - Diaporamas, Hex Gallery; Kansas City, MO
2011 - WALLPAPERS, 319 Scholes; Brooklyn, NY
2011 - Walkthroughs, bubblebyte.org; Online
Group Exhibitions
2024 - Health & Wellness, Night Lights Denver; Denver, CO
2024 - Close Reading, Office Impart; Berlin, DE
2024 - SMALL V0ICE, Honor Fraser; Los Angeles, CA
2023 - Sandbox Mode, Office Impart; Berlin, DE
2023 - Chain Reaction, Feral File; Online
2023 - Code Chronicles, bitforms gallery; New York, NY
2022 - Weather, Mirror Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2022 - Screen Strokes, Pequod Co.; CDMX
2022 - Freedom of the Form, Sevil Dolmacı Art Gallery; Istanbul, TR
2022 - Digital Baroque: History Meets Algorithm; 4ART
2022 - Digital Combines, Honor Fraser Gallery; Los Angeles, CA
2021 - Fragments of a Hologram Rose, Feral File; Online
2021 - Parfum Liquid, Galerie Galerie, Online
2021 - no holiday is forever, International Waters; Brooklyn, NY
2021 - Pieces of Me, Transfer Gallery; Online
2021 - Abstract Art in the Age of New Media, Museum of Contemporary Digital Art; Online
2020 - The Tree of Life; bitforms.art/thetreeoflife/
2020 - Well Now WTF?; wellnow.wtf
2020 - Psychic Plumbing; Canary; Los Angeles, CA
2019 - Topographic Resolutions II; Kuiper Projects; Brisbane, AU
2019 - STACKED; Artsakh Paseo; Glendale, CA
2019 - CHICAGO NEW MEDIA 1973 - 1992; Ars Electronica; POSTCITY Linz, Austria
2019 - Phantom Horizons; Galerie B, City Library; Stuttgart, DE
2019 - Between Clouds and Screensavers; Toy Returns; Fremantle, Western Australia
2018 - CHICAGO NEW MEDIA 1973 - 1992; Gallery 400; Chicago, IL
2018 - JK - New Media; Max Frisch Bad; Zurich, CH
2018 - Otra visita a la escultura; Laboratorio Arte Alameda; Ciudad de México, MX
2018 - I Was Raised on the Internet; Museum of Contemporary Art; Chicago, IL
2018 - Memory Palace; Circle Contemporary; Chicago, IL
2018 - Portals_Thresholds; Reinberger Gallery - CIA; Cleveland, OH
2018 - Stream Capture; MCAD; Minneapolis, MN
2017 - At the Mercy of; LVL3 Gallery; Chicago, IL
2017 - Wallpapers at New Forms Festival, Center for Digital Media; Vancouver, BC
2017 - bitforms Summer Show; bitforms gallery; New York, NY
2016 - Dreamlands, Whitney Museum of American Art; New York, NY
2016 - The real-fake.org 2.0, Bronx Art Space; Bronx, NY
2016 - bitforms gallery 15 Year Anniversary Exhibition; Minnesota Street Project; San Francisco, CA
2016 - Robots Building Robots, Hedreen Gallery at Seattle University; Seattle, WA
2016 - An Honest Mimic, Field Contemporary; Vancouver, BC
2016 - The Domestic Promise Land, Atelier Clerici; Milan, IT
2016 - Geographically Indeterminate Fantasies: The Animated Gif as Place; http://pcgalleries.providence.edu/GIF/, Online
2016 - Speed Show LA: Manifesto; IPC Bang Internet Cafe; Los Angeles, CA
2016 - Low, Lyles & King; New York, NY
2015 - Real Things About Real Things, American Medium; Brooklyn, NY
2015 - First Look: Brushes, Co-presented by Rhizome + New Museum; rhizome.org, Online
2015 - OXI MORE ON, Lyon Biennale, Espace Verney-Carron; Lyon, FR
2015 - Wallpapers for Facade Fest, Vancouver Art Gallery; Vancouver, BC
2015 - NewNewspeak, C-Space; Beijing, CN
2015 - Memory Burn, bitforms gallery; New York, NY
2015 - Unhide, Smart Objects; Los Angeles, CA
2015 - WITCHCRAFT, Initial Gallery; Vancouver, BC
2015 - Les Nocturnes Du Mac, X + 1; Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, QC
2015 - Prava Festival, Pike + Rose; Bethesda, MD
2015 - Three Rooms, Gabriel Rolt; Amsterdam, NL
2014 - Premium Bundle, Bronx Art Space; Bronx, NY
2014 - Unoriginal Genius, Carroll Fletcher; London, UK
2014 - Sanssoucci Realty, http://www.sanssoucirealty.com/; Online
2014 - Women in Digital, The Hospital Club; London, UK
2014 - WALLPAPERS, Safe Space at Drake Hotel for Nuit Blanche; Toronto, ON
2014 - Net Trash, DLECTRICITY; Detroit, MI
2014 - WALLPAPERS, New Forms Festival; Vancouver, BC
2014 - Dream Home, Hackney Wicked Festival via Arebyte; London, UK
2014 - ULO: Part 1, Interstate Projects; Brooklyn, NY
2014 - Synthetische Vernünftig, LEAP; Berlin, DE
2014 - The New Romantics, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center; New York, NY
2014 - Internet Aware, The Gallery at Ace Hotel (via Rhizome); New York, NY
2014 - Networks, White Box (via Appendix Space); Portland, OR
2014 - Full Screen, Xpo Gallery; Paris, FR
2014 - Mutations, http://mutations.gallery; Online
2014 - Liquid Crystal Palace: Recent Works with Jeremy Blake, Honor Fraser; Los Angeles, CA
2014 - Anne Eastman, Sara Ludy, Yuri Masnyj, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery; New York, NY
2013 - PostPictures, bitforms gallery; New York, NY
2013 - Different Domain, The Royal Standard; Liverpool, UK
2013 - The 5th Dimension, Ricou Gallery; Brussels, BE
2013 - Museum of Internet - Selfie; Online
2013 - Salient, Twelve Around One at The Dye House, London, UK
2013 - :::ZIP THE BRIGHT:::, Kenderdine Art Gallery; Saskatoon, SK
2013 - Notes on a New Nature, Arti et Amicitiae; Amsterdam, NL
2013 - Rigid Bodies, rigidbod.tumblr.com; Online
2013 - #SVAES, Postmasters Gallery; New York, NY
2013 - Decenter Armory, decenterarmory.com/network; Online
2013 - Involution, Otras Obras; Tijuana, MX
2013 - DVD DEAD DROP Vol. 5, Museum of Moving Image; New York, NY
2013 - :::ZIP THE BRIGHT:::, Trinity Square Video; Toronto, ON
2012 - Brooklyn Night Bazaar, 45 N. 5th Street; Brooklyn, NY
2012 - The Black Lodge, Interstate Projects; Brooklyn, NY
2012 - Space|Place, womanorial.com; Online
2012 - IRL, Western Front; Vancouver BC
2012 - WALLPAPERS, New Forms Festival; Vancouver, BC
2012 - Visual Rhythm, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art; Boulder, CO
2012 - BY_YOU_BY_ME_BY_WE, Twelve Around One; London, UK
2012 - #D, Bronx Art Space; Bronx, NY
2012 - Body Manipulations, The LAB; San Francisco, CA
2012 - Oslo 10, Bcc 9: DAS EI OHNE SCHALE; Basel, Switzerland
2012 - Someone singing like calling your name, Saamlung Karaoke Lounge; Wanchai, HK
2012 - Apocalyptic Shift, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center; New York, NY
2012 - Swoon Magazine Release Party, Secret Project Robot; Brooklyn, NY
2012 - GIFS 4 LIFE, Internet Cafe; Galway, Ireland
2012 - Responsive Eyes, Jacob's Island; London, UK
2012 - PRIMO ANNIVERSARIO, The Sunday Painter; London, UK
2012 - DESKTOP VIEWS, desktop-views.com/; Online
2012 - To Point Oh, littlepaperplanes.com; Online
2011 - Notes on a New Nature, 319 Scholes; Brooklyn, NY
2011 - BYOB São Paulo, Cinemateca Brasileira; São Paulo, Brazil
2011 - Random Rotations, The Berkeley Art Museum; Berkeley, CA
2011 - Format, The Luminary Center for the Arts; Saint Louis, MO
2011 - BYOB Linz, Underpass; Linz, AT
2011 - Repetition is a Form of Change, Artisphere; Arlington, VA
2011 - The Armory Show, Rhizome at The New Museum; New York, NY
2011 - Getting Closer, Fe Arts Gallery; Pittsburgh, PA
2010 - BYOB LA, Gayle & Ed Roski MFA Gallery at USC; Los Angeles, CA
2010 - Dream Machine, Fabrien Fryns Fine Art; Los Angeles, CA
2003 - Anti-Spacesuit - The Dirty Future, Gallery 2; Chicago, IL
Screenings
2021 - Rebirth and Resolution; The Holden Gallery; Manchester, UK
2020 - Portals; Online; Gallery 400 - UIC
2019 - Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation; REDCAT; Los Angeles, CA / The Block Museum of Art; Evanston, IL / Pioneer Works; Brooklyn, NY
2018 - Ungrund Video Screening; Coaxial; Los Angeles, CA
2018 - Spirit Ground; Secret Project Robot; Brooklyn, NY
2017 - Edge of Frame: After Nature; Close-Up Film Center; London, UK
2017 - PLAY; Blindside Gallery; Melbourne, AU
2015 - Rooms/Phantom Horizons, Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien; Berlin, DE
2014 - Just Jam, Barbican Centre; London, UK
2013 - Calculated Movements, Pacific Cinémathèque; Vancouver, BC
2013 - Video Snack, 56 Bogart Studios; Brooklyn, NY
2013 - The World is !Flat, Denver Theatre District; Denver, CO
2013 - New Aesthetics: Constancy of the Internal Principle, National Centre for Contemporary Arts; Yekaterinburg, RU
2013 - INTERNET VIDEOS, presented by Fach + Asendorf Gallery @ PAF Festival; Olomouc, CZ
2013 - Net Artist Music Videos, 7 Days of Sound Festival; London, UK
2013 - My First 3D, Microscope Gallery; New York, NY
2013 - Short Visits to Different Worlds, Frame Arts Warehouse; Winnepeg, MB
2012 - COMPRESSION, Trinity Square Video; Toronto, ON
2012 - Exciting Virtuals, Melina; Dráma, Greece
2012 - Dinca Vision Quest, Thalia Hall; Chicago, IL
2012 - Video Violence, Kunsthaus Dresden; Dresden, DE
2011 - Action! Part 2, Ghost Gallery; Seattle, WA.
2011 - Stations Balnéaires, by Sabrina Ratté; Montréal, QC
2011 - Action! International Film Club, Dazed Live Festival; London, UK
2004 - Game Video, Heaven Gallery; Chicago, IL
2002 - Reconfiguring Pop, Gallery 2; Chicago, IL
2002 - Discount Cinema; Chicago, IL
Performance
2021 - Canyon Composition, ESS Chicago; Online
2018 - O3, AV Performance, Rooftop Institute; Wan Chai, Hong Kong
2016 - Desert Rose, AV Performance, Lampo @ The Graham Foundation; Chicago, IL
2016 - O2, AV Performance, Public Functionary; Minneapolis, MN
2015 - O1, AV Performance, Dinca Vision Quest, Co-Prosperity Sphere; Chicago, IL
2014 - Live visuals for Nullsleep, LWLVL Festival; Brooklyn, NY
2010 - AV Performance w/ Shazzula, Show Cave; Los Angeles, CA
2010 - AV Performance, Choate/Becklin Residence; Los Angeles, CA
2010 - AV Performance w/ Suzy Poling + Jimi Cabeza de Vaca, Hyperion Tavern; Los Angeles, CA.
2010 - AV Performance, Bohemian Society; Los Angeles, CA.
2010 - Bitch Swamp, Mastadon Mesa; Los Angeles, CA
2003 - AVSD Performance, Museum of Contemporary Art; Chicago, IL
2003 - Thin Skin Exhibition - AVSD, Chicago Cultural Center; Chicago, IL
Artist Lectures + Workshops
2023 - D+M Visiting Lecture Series, Rhode Island School of Design; Providence, RI
2022 - Talking Galleries, The Digital Future: How Can New Technology Move Art Forward?"; New York, NY
2021 - NFT Aesthetics, Rhizome; Online
2019 - Frieze Talks w/ Rachel Rossin + Daniel Birnbaum, Frieze NYC; New York, NY
2018 - DIALOGUE, Rooftop Institute; Wan Chai, Hong Kong
2015 - Virtual Experiments in the Real World, Art Association of Jackson Hole; Jackson, WY
2014 - Visiting Artist Talk, University of Colorado Boulder; Boulder, CO
2013 - Visiting Artist Talk, University of Oregon Eugene; Eugene, OR
2012 - Pro-Am: Art and Culture on the Internet, Western Front; Vancouver, BC
2012 - Visiting Artist Talk, Alberta College of Art and Design; Calgary, Alberta
2012 - Conversations at the Edge: A Space In-Between, Gene Siskel Film Center; Chicago, IL
Residencies
2023 - Wildxyz; Online
2018 - Wavefront Artist Exchange, via ESS + Soundpocket; Hong Kong
2016 - FD13; Minneapolis, MN
Awards
2019 - Nina Frenkel Award for Faculty Excellence, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Lecturer
2016 - 2020 - Experimental 3D and VR Practices, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Commissions
2022 - Tumbleweeds, Sunrise/Sunset series; Whitney Museum of American Art
2021 - Astral Garden, Digital Animation; Maison Valentino
2021 - Under~Between, Music Video; Dialect
2020 - Atlantis, Music Video; Kass Richards
2019 - Lifewtr Series 7: Art Through Technology
2018 - Fire Mountain + Sky Ruby, Animations; Niio
2017 - Time We Have, Music Video; Steve Hauschildt
2016 - Flora Powers, TNJ Bouquet; Berlin Biennale
2016 - Glass Dragons 1 + 2, Animations; Daata Editions
2015 - Vapors, Website; New Hive
2013 - House on Fire, Music Video; Outfit
2013 - Blue Dither Square, Website + Textile Design; Sidian, Ersatz + Vanes
2012 - Stelle Negli Occhi, Sound piece; Website intervention for Art Licks, curated by bubblebyte.org
2012 - Another Day, Another Time (w/ Austin Meredith), Music Video; Plink Flojd
2011 - nobelprize.no
2011 - Parallelograms.info
Selected Publications
2023 - Spike Magazine, Issue 77 - Field Guide to AI
2023 - Digital Art by Christiane Paul, 4th Edition: ISBN-13: 9780500204801
2021 - Santa Fe Moment, Volume 3: Suspension
2020 - Precog Magazine, Volume 5: Bubble Orchestra
2019 - MAKE Literary Magazine, Issue #18: Mad Science
2018 - 50 Contemporary Women Artists: Groundbreaking Art from 1960 to Now, ISBN13: 9780764356537
2016 - Leaders of the New Media Pack, Cultured Magazine, Feb/Mar
2016 - Be Magazine #23, Künstlerhaus Bethanien GmbH
2014 - Pre > Post-Internet, 02 n70 Magazine
2013 - The New Romantics, Metaverse Creativity, Vol 3 Number 1 + 2, ISSN 2040-3550
Selected Press
2022 - Lucid Dreamer by Joe Noland: Outland
2021 - Exploring Consciousness and Materiality: Conversation with Sara Ludy; Danae
2021 - What is NFT Art; Chicago Tribune
2021 - Beeple Brings Crypto to Christie’s; The New York Times
2021 - How Crypto-art Might Offer Artists Increased Autonomy; Hyperallergic
2020 - Artist Sara Ludy on Lucid Dreaming, VR and the Digital Sublime; Taupe Magazine
2019 - Critics’ Picks; Artforum
2018 - Dreams and Virtual Reality are Ideal Collaborators: An Interview with Artist Sara Ludy; Niio
2017 - 'Like Art': 7 Masterpieces of Social Media that will make it into the History Books; Artnet
2017 - Climates by Alex Jen; Experimental Sound Studio
2016 - Imaginative Flowers, Designed by Artists – and Available to Order; The New York Times, T Magazine
2016 - Artist of the Week: Sara Ludy; Artslant
2016 - Turning the Digital into the Material, with Feng Shui; Hyperallergic
2016 - Critics’ Picks; Artforum
2016 - Enter a “Subsurface Hell' in Sara Ludy's New Show; The Creator’s Project
2015 - Sara Ludy's abstractions probe the psychic charge of Photoshop; Rhizome
2015 - Interview with Intelligentsia Gallery 智先画廊; Intelligentsia Gallery
2015 - Just Beyond the Trees; Vandocument
2015 - Artist and Curator Ajay Kurian's NADA New York 2015 Picks; Artspace
2015 - WITCHCRAFT: Craftsmanship, personal mythologies and spiritual queries in the digital realm; Rhizome
2014 - Tour Digital Real Estate Inspired by Lucid Dreams; The Creator’s Project
2014 - Pan Gifs; Tom Moody