education
2008 - MFA The George Washington University
2000 - BFA Arizona State University
selected exhibtion history
Selected Solo and Two-person Exhibitions
2023 - Nada Art Fair, Everybody, New York, NY
2022- Soft Shoulder, Everybody, Tucson, AZ 2019 - States of Matter: Sara Hubbs, Nassem Navab, Monica Durazo, Yun Gee Park Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2018 - redux: sara hubbs / will bruder, Modified Arts, Phoenix, AZ
2009 - Partner Play, Callalilai, Brooklyn, NY
2008 - As Is, MFA Exhibition, The Dimock Gallery, The George Washington University, DC
2006 - Waxed, The Chocolate Factory, Phoenix, AZ
2005 - Oye Mujer – Drawings from Cuba, The Phoenix Theater (curator Roberta Hancock)
Sara Hubbs - Prints, The Cathedral Center for the Arts at Trinity Cathedral, Phoenix, AZ
2004 - Desert Series, Cakewalk, Phoenix, AZ (curator Scott Andrews)
Sara Hubbs & Susan Syrznicki, Goldspot Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2003 - Post Motion, Cervini Haas Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2002 - Modified Arts, Phoenix, AZ
2003 - Sara Hubbs - New Work, Modified Arts, Phoenix, AZ
Casa Grande; Arizona Nouveau, Central Arizona College Art Gallery, Coolidge, AZ
2002 - Sara Hubbs, The Monorchid, Phoenix, AZ
The Backyard Series, Off Madison Avenue, Tempe, AZ
Sara Hubbs, LUX Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
1999 - Metamorfosis: Form, Movement, Metaphor, Step Gallery at Arizona State University, BFA Thesis, Tempe, AZ
Selected Group Exhibitions (1997-2022)
2023 - Domestic Detritus, Brea Gallery, Brea, CA (curator Kim Mckinnis and Heather Bowling)
2022 - Object Lounge Program, Collar Works, Troy, NY (juried by the Material Girls) Painting at Night, Collar Works, Troy, NY, (curator Judith Braun)
Odd Room, Millville Studios, Tucson, AZ
Anniversary Show, Practical Art, Phoenix, AZ (curator Lisa Olsen)
2021 - Painting at Night, Artlink Contemporary Art Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN, (curator Melanie Cooper Pennington for The Artist Mother Podcast)
Femme Vitale, Wavelength Space, Chattanooga, TN (curator Raquel Mullins and Leah Dalton)
Care, Virtual Exhibition, (curator Kaylan Buteyn of Artist/Mother Podcast, co-curator Benz Amataya of Dear Artists) Small works show, Practical Art, Phoenix, AZ
2020 - The Arizona Biennial, The Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ (juror Joe Baker)
Picturing 2020, Virtual Exhibition, The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Instagram Takeover, MOCA Tucson, invited by curator Laura Copelin, Tucson, AZ
Future Timelike Infinity, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR (curator Michael Endo)
Pots! Pots! Pots!, Tiny Town Gallery, Tucson, AZ (curator Amanda Beekhuizen)
2019 - Notes from the Motherfield, live storytelling performance at the Tucson Jewish History Museum, produced by Kore Press, Tucson, AZ
Luminosity: 2nd Annual Sculpture Garden Exhibition, Yun Gee Park Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2018 - The Tryennial, hausq, Tucson, AZ
Glow!, MOCA Nomad at Triangle L Ranch, Oracle, AZ (curator Ginger Shulick Porcella for MOCA Tucson)
Drawings, Paintings, Maybe a Sculpture 2, Everybody Gallery, Tucson, AZ
Online Exhibition, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 - Tertulia, Breakout Studios, Collaboration with Mele Martinez, Tucson, AZ
2013 - Debris Field, The Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, NY (curator Lisa Dahl)
2012 - First Truth, Camel Art Space, Brooklyn, NY (curators Sara Jones & Sara Hubbs)
Trash Talk, Spattered Columns at Arts Connects, New York, NY (curator Lisa Dahl)
2011 - Now. Here. This., 3 Art, Online Exhibition, www.3-art.org
2010 - No Customs, Sama Tower, Abu Dhabi (curators Kevin & Jennifer McCoy)
2009 - Two Degrees of Separation, Gallery Satori, New York, NY (curator Eun Young Choi)
Fearless Dreaming, House of Organic, New York, NY (curator Abigail Doan)
Her Work is a Red Herring, Dinnerware Contemporary & The Screening Room, Tucson
Brooklyn Artillery Art Fair, WGA & Castle Braid, Brooklyn, NY (curator Mariko Tanaka)
little creatures, McCaig–Welles, Brooklyn, NY (curator Dove Hays)
Our House, Lumenhouse, Brooklyn, NY (curator Aurora Robson Coles)
Bushwick Open Studios, Arts In Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Arts In Bushwick Benefit Auction, Hosted by Lumenhouse, Brooklyn, NY
Lumenhouse Benefit Auction, Lumenhouse, Brooklyn, NY
Wagmag Benefit Auction, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2008 - (EJECT 2) Segundo Festival de Videoperformance de la Ciudad de Mexico, Ex-Teresa
Arte Actual, Mexico City (juror: Pancho Lopez)
Academy, Conner Contemporary, Washington, DC (curators Jamie Smith, Leigh Connor)
Girlish Ways; The Next Generation of Female Artists, The Bobby Fisher Memorial Building, Sponsored by ArtCadeForum.com and the Pink Line Project, Washington, DC Annual Awards Show, The George Washington University Luther W. Brady Art Gallery (juror Victoria Reis, Executive Director of Transformer Gallery) (3rd Prize)
Conversations – MA/MFA Collaboration, The George Washington University, Smith Hall of Art, Essay available by Rachel White, Washington, DC
2007 - The Cooper Union School of Art Summer Residency Program 2007 Exhibition, New York, NY
MFA Biennial, The Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
Annual Awards Show, The George Washington University Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, (juror, Artist Renee Stout), Washington, DC
Graduate Student Show, The Dimock Gallery, Washington, DC (curators Anne Ellegood and Kristin Hileman)
Not Dead Yet: Sculpture at The George Washington University, The Dimock Gallery, Washington, DC
2006 - The Secret Show, The Chocolate Factory, Phoenix, AZ
Art Detour, The Chocolate Factory, Phoenix, AZ
2005 - Displacement, The Chocolate Factory, (curator Leandro Soto) Phoenix, AZ
Printmaking at Armstrong-Prior Studios with John Armstrong, Phoenix, AZ
2004 - Hispanic Women’s Corporation show of Latina Artists from Arizona, Phoenix Civic Plaza, Phoenix, AZ
Biennale Internazionale Dell’Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy
2003 - Hispanic Women’s Corporation Show of Latina Artists from Arizona, Phoenix Civic Plaza & Calvin Charles Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ (curator Scott Andrews)
El Taller Experimental de Grafica, Printmaking, La Habana Cuba
1997-2002 - Fiber Reactions III, Step Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (juried exhibition)
Graduate and Undergraduate Painting Show, Harry Wood Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (juried exhibition)
Undergraduate Painting and Drawing Exhibition, Step Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Undergraduate Show, Harry Wood Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Blu-Lite, MARS Art Space, Phoenix, AZ
Stilled-Life; Cadaver Studies, Lionel Rombach Gallery, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Bibliography
2022 - New Glass Review 42, The Corning Museum of Glass
Bishop, Deborah, Artistic Alchemy, Luxe Interiors + Design, Sept/Oct
Online feature interview, Hopper Prize Finalists
Pere, Alexandra, Pandemidiarios: Tales of Southern Arizonans Survival, The Tucson Weekly, July 28
Votang, Thao, Review: Sara Hubbs: Soft Shoulder at Everybody, Tucson, Southwest Contemporary, March 15 O’Connell, Lauren R., Soft shoulder, exhibition essay
2021 - Tresp, Lauren, Sara Hubbs, Inhale/Exhale, Southwest Contemporary, Vol. 3, Aug 21, selected by Curator Julio Cesar Morales
Amataya, Benz & Kaylan Buteyn, Care, Dear Artists Project Presents, Exhibition Catalog
2019 - Shomaker, Kristine, Meet the Tucson Art Collective: Stew-dio Visit, Art and Cake, December 19
2018 - Regan, Margaret, “Springtime Abstractions,” Tucson Weekly, April 19
2014 - Dahl, Lisa, “Trash Talk”, Exhibition Catalog, Spattered Columns: Art Connects New York
2009 - Grady, Emma, “Fearless Dreaming: Art and Fashion at House of Organic,” December 11
Campbell Dodd, Kathryn, “Bird in The House,” November 5
Luse, Mimi, “Brooklyn Artillery Art Fair”
Abigail Doan, “Ecco Eco,” July 10
2008 - White, Rachel, “Rachel White on Sara Hubbs,” MFA/MA Conversations Exhibition Essay
AWARDS, GRANTS, RESIDENCIES &WORKSHOPS
2023 - Pilchuck Glass School, Summer course with Helen Lee, Session 4: Parental: Nurture as Practice, Stanwood, WA (forthcoming) 2022 - Pilchuck Glass School, Summer course with Beth Lipman, Session 3, Family Ties, Stanwood, WA
Finalist, The Hopper Prize, Spring 2022 2021 - Pandemidiarios, The Confluence Center, The University of Arizona, Pandemic Mother Map, Tucson, AZ 2019 - Research and Development Grant, The Arizona Commission on the Arts and The Arizona Community Foundation, The Gift, Phoenix, AZ
2018 - stART Mini Grant, The Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona, for Stew-dio Visit project,
Nominated for the Arlene and Morton Scult Contemporary Forum Artist Award, The Phoenix Art Museum,
2010 - VSC Artists Grant, The Vermont Studio Center Residency, Johnson, VT
2007 - The Cooper Union School of Art Summer Residency, New York, NY
2007 - The Morris Louis Fellowship, The George Washington University, Washington, DC
1998 - Arizona Board of Regents Full Tuition Waiver, Arizona State University
1997 - The Eirene Lamb Fine Arts Award, The University of Arizona
1996 - Arizona Board of Regents Full Tuition Waiver, Merit based, The University of Arizona
CURATED EXHIBITIONS & COLLECTIVE EVENTS
2022 - spinne, a ritual performance by Kristin Bauer, Millville Studios, Tucson, AZ
Odd Room, Millville Studios, Tucson, AZ
2021 - Guest Artist, Doodle with Me, with Ryan Hill and Mark Mitchell in Pia Camil’s Autonomous Space, Moca Tucson & Instagram Live
2020 - Welcome lunch event for MOCA Tucson Artist in Residence Santina Amato, hosted by Yerin Kim with Stew-dio Visit, Tucson, AZ
2019 - Closing Ceremony, a collaboration with The Institute of Thoughts and Feelings and Ryan Hill with Stew-dio Visit. An evening of performances, readings, and dinner featuring: Timo Fahler & Micaela Tobin, Emily Stebbins, Adrienne Garbini and Alex Decarli, Lara Schoorl and Zeenat Nagree, Tucson AZ
2018 - Nate Myers with music from Karima Walker, Dinner and performance hosted by Val Sipp with Stew-dio Visit, Tucson, AZ Leslie Martinez, Raheleh Minoosh Zomorodinia, Moses Tan, & Sadie Shaw, Art show and dinner hosted by Wesley Creigh with Stew-dio Visit, Tucson, AZ
Kid Congo Powers & Artist Ryan Hill, Art/music show and artist talk hosted by Sara Hubbs with Stew-dio Visit, Tucson, AZ
Alberto Auguilar, Artist talk & brunch hosted by Nazafarin Lotfi with Stew-dio Visit, Tucson, AZ
The Dinners Project, Stew-dio Visit participated in a nationwide dinner platform created by Creative Capital, hosted by Yerin Kim with Stew-dio Visit, Tucson, AZ
2018 - Founding member of Stew-dio Visit, Artists Collective, Tucson, AZ
2016 - Tucson Makers: Inspired by Women, Co-curated speakers for the event for AIGA Tucson at MOCA Tucson. Speakers: Kitty Brophy, Mamta Popat, Teresa Rosano, Alex Jimenez, Denise Uyehara
2012 - First Truth, Camel Art Space, Co-curated with Sara Jones, Artists: Gina Beavers, Dove Hays, Janelle Iglesias, Sara Hubbs, Sara Jones, Siobhan McBride, Danielle Myseliwiec, Brooklyn, NY
2009 - Lumenhouse Benefit, Planning Committee, Brooklyn, NY
2008 - The Undergraduate Show, Juror, The George Washington University, Washington, DC
LECTURES, PANEL DISCUSSIONS, WORKSHOPS
2022 - Artist Talk, Professional Practices class, Professor Carlos Rene Pacheco, Minnesota State University, Moorhead (Zoom) 2021 - Show & Tell, Recipients of the Pandemidiario Grant from The Confluence Center for Creative Inquiry: Dolores Rivas Bahti, Ruben Moreno & Sara Hubbs, The University of Arizona (Zoom & FB Live)
Artist talk and Hot Shop Demo with Paul Anders-Stout, The Sonoran Glass School, Tucson, AZ 2020 - Arizona Biennial Artist Panel Talk for The Contemporary Art Society with artists Saskia Jorda and Alan Bur Johnson, Moderated by curator Julie Sasse, Tucson Museum of Art (Zoom event)
Guest Critique Panel, 3rd year design, Monuments projects, Professor Jacki Twardowski, The Illinois Institute of Technology, (Zoom event)
2019 - Yun Gee Park Gallery, Artist’s discussion with Ryan Hill, Assistant Deputy Director of MOCA Tucson, States of Matter: Sara Hubbs, Nassem Navab, Monica Durazo
2018 - The Tucson Museum of Art, discussion with Yerin Kim and performers and the Southern Arizona Psychological Association
2016 - Panelist, New Works Grants, Tucson Pima Arts Council (TPAC), Tucson, AZ
2017 - Tertulia, Panel discussion with Mele Martinez & Angelina Ramirez, Breakout Studios, Tucson, AZ
Panelist, Operational Budget, The Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona
2009 - Round-Table Discussion, Her Work is a Red Herring, Dinnerware Contemporary, Tucson, AZ
2007 - The George Washington University, Paper or Plastic, Ding Ren & Sara Hubbs
2006 - Arizona State University, Recent Work, Tempe, AZ
2004 - Cakewalk Gallery, The Arizona Series, Phoenix, AZ
2003 - Cervini Haas Gallery, Post Motion, Scottsdale, AZ
BOARD AND COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS
2019-present
Owner of Millville Artist Studios, Barrio Millville, Tucson, AZ
2018-2020
Ambassador Council, MOCA Tucson
ASSISTANT-SHIPS
2018 - Performer, People Scape by Yerin Kim at The Arizona Biennial, Tucson Museum of Art
2012-13 - Studio Assistant, Lisa Yuskavage, New York, NY
2008 - Gallery Assistant, Slate Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2008 - Assisted Artist Mary Coble at performance, “Blood Script,” Pulse Art Fair, New York, NY 2007
Assisted Artist Siobhan Rigg with performance for Options, Washington, DC
1999–01 - Studio Assistant to Artist Beth Ames Swartz, Paradise Valley, AZ
COLLECTIONS
Central Arizona College, Coolidge, AZ
AZ Suncor Corporation, Tempe, AZ
Numerous private collections