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BIOGRAPHY

Interdisciplinary sculpture artist Sara Dittrich (b. Cincinnati, Ohio 1991) uses musical thinking to illuminate the dynamic and unconscious rhythms of the body and environments with diverse mediums that often include sculptural objects, musical performance, printmaking, video, and interactive electronic technologies. Her art is heard and felt in real time, a feature that Nat Trotman, Curator of Performance and Media at the Guggenheim, called “the liveness” of Dittrich’s work. Dittrich’s studio practice is located in Baltimore, Maryland where she has lived and worked since receiving her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2014. Her work has been exhibited and performed with numerous venues including the Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; DiverseWorks, Houston, TX; and the Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE. She studied under Dominik Lang at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague in 2013. She has also been awarded artist residencies including Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (2015); the Vermont Studio Center Fellowship (2015); and Sculpture Space (2015). In 2018-2019, she was a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. She is the recipient of a 2017 Mary Sawyers Baker Artist Award, and was a 2017 Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize Finalist.

EDUCATION
2014 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
BFA summa cum laude, Interdisciplinary Sculpture
Spring 2013 Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, Czech Republic

SELECTED AWARDS, HONORS, RESIDENCIES
2024 Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize Semi-Finalist, Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts, Baltimore, MD
2023 Art & Technology Advisor, Illuminating Seeds: Highlighting ancestral and local knowledge through art and science, National Geographic Society Grant Recipient, Baltimore, MD; Lancaster, PA; Nueva Toltén, Chile
2021 Independent Artist Regional Award, Maryland State Arts Council, Baltimore, MD
2018-19 Visual Arts Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2017 Mary Sawyers Baker Artist Award, Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, Baltimore, MD
2017 Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize Finalist, Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts, Baltimore, MD
(Jurors: Clifford Owens, Artist, New York, NY; Ruba Katrib, Curator, SculptureCenter, Long Island, NY; Nat Trotman, Curator of Performance and Media, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY)
2015 Public Vote Finalist (Time-based), ArtPrize Seven, Grand Rapids, MI
2015 Residency, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
2015 Residency, Sculpture Space, Utica, NY
2015 Residency/Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2014 Chairs Award (travel grant), Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2013 Beers Contemporary Award for Emerging Art, BEERS London, London, UK

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 In slowness there is fullness, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH
2022 Release, Practice Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2021 Keeping Pace, Honfleur Gallery, Washington, DC
2020 The Tender Interval, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX (curated by Ashley DeHoyos)
2019 The Labor of Listening, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2017 Score for Room, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
2017 Body as Metronome, Workhouse Arts Center, Lorton, VA (curated by Jaynelle Hazard)
2017 Arrhythmia of the Body, Stone Tower Gallery, Glen Echo Park, Glen Echo, MD
2015 Symphony of Gestures, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
2013 Your World is Bigger Than You, Pinkard Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Awaken, Holtzman MFA Gallery, Towson University, Towson, MD
2023 Bodies We Inhabit, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Jessica Duby)
2023 A Shared Sense of Time, The DC Arts Center, Washington DC (curated by Jeffry Cudlin)
2022 The Heart Isn’t Heart-Shaped, Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Farmville, VA (curated by Alex Grabiec)
2022 LIGHTS OUT, The Brentwood Arts Exchange, Brentwood, MD (curated by Spencer Dormitzer)
2021 How We Are Healing, Keswick Wise & Well Center Gallery, Baltimore, MD (curated by Sarah B McCann)
2021 A New Provincetown Print Exhibition, The Mary Heaton Vorse House, Provincetown, MA (curated by Gene Tartaglia, the Steward of The Mary Heaton Vorse House and Chris McCarthy, CEO, Provincetown Art Association and Museum)
2021 GMT, White Columns Online, New York, NY (curated by Sahal Hassan)
2021 Bodies We Inhabit: Contemporary Perspectives in Ecofeminism, Latela Curatorial, Washington, DC (curated by Jessica Duby)
2021 Movements, Moments, Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA (Juror: Eames Armstrong)
2020 Women in the Arts, Latela Curatorial, Washington, DC
2020 Now See Hear, Make Studio, Baltimore, MD
2020 Flat File Exhibition, Institute for Contemporary Art, Baltimore, MD
2020 On the Verge, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD (curated by Thomas James)
2019 The Mother of Invention, School 33, Baltimore, MD
2019 The FAWC Fellows, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
2018 12x12, MONO PRACTICE, Baltimore, MD
2018 Baker Artist Awards Exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (curated by Claudia Mattos)
2017 Sondheim Prize Finalists’ Exhibition, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
2017 Show 44: Wave Pool, Field Projects Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Katrina Slavik)
2017 House Work, 437A, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Skye Gilkerson)
2016 Art Maryland, Howard County Center for the Arts, Ellicott City, MD
(Juror: Christopher Bedford, Director, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD)
2016 Moonlighters: A Labor of Love, Gallery Unicorn, Lutherville, MD (curated by Carolyn Shayte)
2015 EMULSION, Gallery O on H, Washington, DC
2014 (Two-Person Exhibition) Guide to Uncertainty, KIV Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (with video artist, Jiří Žák)
2014 TEN, Cindy Rucker Gallery & Culturehall, New York, NY
2013 2nd BMRE Exhibit, University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD
2013 Gardener or Sculptor, Alšova Jihočeská Galerie, Hluboká nad Vltavou, Czech Republic
2013 Situational Comedies, Area 405 Gallery, Baltimore, MD

PERFORMANCES, SCREENINGS
2022 Re-Fest, CultureHub, New York, NY
2021Stay Art Home Screening, Kapallorek Art Space, Seri Iskandar, Perak, Malaysia
2021The 47th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon, The Poetry Project, New York, NY
(in collaboration with poet Gabriel Kruis)
2019 2nd Tri-Annual MSAC Artist Registry Juried Exhibition, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
2019 Animations on the Big Screen, Parkway Theater, Baltimore, MD
2019 Collective Wisdom, Revolutions Per Minute Film Festival, UMass Boston, Boston, MA
2017 Entropy, Rhizome DC, Washington, DC (curated by Anne-Sophie Coiffet)
2015 Luhovaný Vincent Multi-genre Festival, Luhačovice, Czech Republic
(in collaboration with artist Jiří Žák)
2014 Town Hall Video Wall, Artisphere, Arlington, VA
2014 Presentism, Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA (curated by Ruth Dusseault)
2013 Simultaneous Action, ABox, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2012 Sonar New Music Ensemble:“In Memoriam of Elliott Carter”, St. Pauls Church, Baltimore, MD
(in collaboration with composer Benjamin Buchanan)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021 Roger, Janine. “In conversation with Interdisciplinary Artist, Sara Dittrich.” cultureVOLT, December 19, 2021.
2020 Kirschner, Noelani. “Portrait of the Artist: Sara Dittrich.” The American Scholar, August 17, 2020.
2019 Gonzalez Martin, Natalia. "Interview with Sara Dittrich." Floorr Magazine, Issue 19, April 4, 2019.
2019 Wood, Ann. "Sara Dittrich finds the rhythm of sculpture and the Earth." Provincetown Banner, Feb. 21, 2019.
2018 Artworks. Season 6, episode 611. Maryland Public Television, January 5, 2018.
2017 McCabe, Bret. "Escape Artists: The 2017 Sondheim Finalists in Review." Bmore Art, June 19, 2017.
2015 Becherer, Joseph. "ArtPrize 2015 Venue Review." MLive, September 25, 2015.
2015 "Video Focus: Interview with Sara Dittrich." Stigmart Artpress, 11th ed., February 11, 2015.

LECTURES, PRESENTATIONS
2024 Visiting Critic, Interdisciplinary Sculpture Thesis Undergraduates, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, April 25.
2024 Panelist, Interdisciplinary Sculpture, Interactive Arts, and Architectural Design MICA Alumni Panel, Baltimore, MD, March 21.
2022 Visiting critic - Interdisciplinary Sculpture Thesis Undergraduates, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, December 8.
2021 Studio Visitor, NARS Foundation Artist in Residency Program, Brooklyn, NY, October 27.
2021 Artist Talk, Performance and Protection, Latela Curatorial, Washington, DC, April 21.
2020 Panelist, Materiality & Women Who Work with their Hands, Latela Curatorial, Washington, DC, October 13.
2020 Lecture and Undergraduate Critiques, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, October 1.
2020 Artist Talk, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX, September 30.
2018 Artist Talk, MICATalks, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, February 16.
2018 Artist Talk, YWAM One School for Artists, Baltimore, MD, August 13.
2017 Artist Talk, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, July 8.
2015 Artist Talk, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE, March 5.
2014 Lecture, “Linking Everyday Rhythms to Artworks Through Robotics” Cafe Neu Romance International Robot Performing Arts Festival, Prague, Czech Republic, November 27.
2014 Artist Talk, Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Czech Republic, Nov. 10.
2014 Artist Talk, Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Czech Republic, October 7.