Sara Hendren

CURRICULUM VITAE

Born Little Rock, Arkansas
Lives and works in Los Angeles

Education

M.A., European History, University of California, Los Angeles (2003)
B.A., Studio Art, Wheaton College (1994)
Summer Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1991)

Awards

Fulbright Scholar, The Netherlands (2002-2003)
University Fellowship, UCLA (1999-2002)
Finalist, Pew Trusts Graduate Fellowship (1999)
James G. Jameson Essay Award, First Prize (1994)
Liquitex Excellence in Art Student Grant (1994)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008
Habeas Lounge CUNY Graduate Center Gallery
New York, NY
Intersection Outpost for Contemporary Art/Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock
Los Angeles, CA
Home Front/Get Out of Jail Free Marin Community Foundation
Novato, CA
Patriot Acts 18th Street Arts Center
Santa Monica
2007
Make Me a Beast Half as Brave Two-person show, Napoliello Gallery,
Hermosa Beach, CA (opens June 2007)
Whisper Down the Lane Swallow Artspace, Los Angeles
ANA 35 Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana
Get Out of Jail Free Visual Aid, San Francisco
ArtFutura 2007 Chicago Cultural Center
2006
Saturation and Surface Gallery 825, Los Angeles
Art of the Animal Griffith University, Queensland, Australia (online exhibition)
Little Joy Swallow Artspace, Los Angeles
2005
The Human Figure Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA
Petite Works Gallery 825/Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
Small Wonders Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles
1998
Four Emerging Artists Gordon College gallery
1994
Senior Thesis Show Wheaton College Adams Hall gallery

Bibliography

“Art Exhibit 'Acts' Out First Amendment Issues: Transcending Partisan Politics in 18th Street Art Center's 'Patriot Acts.'” Palisades Post, January 31, 2008
“Pajaros Profesores” [“Bird Teachers”] [artist profile] La Revista Mensual del Siglo XXI (Madrid), July-August edition 2007

Teaching/Lecture/Panels

Teaching Fellow, European History, UCLA (2000-2002)
Panel Moderator, Museum Curators Roundtable, Gallery 825 Los Angeles (2006)
Author and presenter, “Searching for a Lever: Jan Verkade and the French Symbolists” at The Low Countries: Crossroads of Cultures, International Consortium of Netherlandic Studies Conference, June 2002
Visual Arts Instructor, Whitinsville School (MA) (1994-1996)

Curatorial

Working the Rescue [paintings by Bradford Johnson] Gordon College (1998)

Research Background

Population Research Systems (education policy studies) Field Interviewer (part-time, contract) • October 2004–April 2005
The J. Paul Getty Trust, Arts Education Policy Researcher (contract) • September 2003–January 2004
“Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West,” a study funded by the National Science Foundation Researcher, National Archives in The Hague, Netherlands • June–August 2000
Harvard Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education Cambridge, MA Research Assistant •1996–1999

Community/Activism

Computer Lab Assistant, Tierra del Sol [day school for developmentally disabled adults] (August 2007–present)
Programming Liaison, Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (September 2007–present)
Chair, Program Committee, Los Angeles Art Association (May 2006–April 2007)
Volunteer Arts Instructor, My Friend's Place (youth shelter), Los Angeles (2002)