Sarah Madeline

Sarah Madeline is a Canadian artist, writer, and programmer based in Southern California, United States. Madeline was chief editor and contributing writer for SCAN, a contemporary art publication at the University of Manitoba. She later became head curator at The Sunroom Artspace in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Treaty 1 territory. She has since moved to California to continue her practice.

Madeline’s work investigates the interconnected relationship between materials, technical processes, and their contexts within physical and digital spaces. Her ongoing research of found objects, images, and natural matter reflects on remnants and preservation, which are central to her practice. Through browser-based and born-digital archival work, Madeline strives to harness a balance between examining the past and anticipating the future.

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Selected Exhibitions + Screenings

  • 2024Bract, CODAME, New Art City
  • 2023Iterations, The Wrong Biennale
  • 2021Salvaged, Hallucinea Film Festival, Paris, France
  • 2019Protein, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, Canada
  • 2018What Composites Hold, BFA Honours Show, Winnipeg, Canada
  • 2018Still-Likeness, Platform Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts, Winnipeg, Canada
  • 2018Great and North, Palazzo Loredan - Istituto Veneto Di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice, Italy
  • 2017The Art of Theft, GOSA, Winnipeg, Canada
  • 2016Magpie, Starving Artist Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada

Publications

  • 2018Madeline, Sarah. "Bringing Female 'Otherness' to the Centre in Isolated Landscapes: Video by Prairie Women Through Luce Irigaray's Post-Feminism." SCAN Contemporary Art Journal no. 5 (2018).
  • 2017Madeline, Sarah. "Laura Letinsky's Photography: Remnants of Presence." SCAN Contemporary Art Journal no. 3 (2017).

Editing

  • 2018Co-editor for SCAN Contemporary Art Journal, Issue no. 5
  • 2017Co-editor for SCAN Contemporary Art Journal, Issue no. 3

Curatorial Projects

  • 2018Nazlı Dinçel: Between Relating and Use, head curator, hosted at The Sunroom Artspace for Nuit Blanche, Winnipeg, Canada
  • 2018Passage, co-curator, The Sunroom Artspace, Winnipeg, Canada
  • 2018Effort Vs. Chance, co-curator, The Sunroom Artspace, Winnipeg, Canada
  • 2018Portals, co-curator, The Sunroom Artspace, Winnipeg, Canada

Curatorial Collaborations

  • 2018Dissonance, head curator, Actually Milk Collective hosted at The Sunroom Artspace, Winnipeg, Canada
  • 2018Spectator / Boundary Net, co-curator, Nuit Blanche, Winnipeg, Canada

Education + Awards

  • 2018BFA (Hons) University of Manitoba
  • 2015UMSU Scholarship
  • 2014Isbister Scholarship in Fine Arts