Sarah Turner // sarah.turner206@gmail.com // sarahsarahturnerturner.com // @sarahsarahturnerturner
Artist & Curator
Co-Founder of Mobile Projection Unit
// currently based in Santa Fe, NM
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Education
Alfred University, MFA, Electronic Integrated Arts, 2023
University of Oregon, M.S. Arts and Administration, 2014
Lynchburg College, B.A. History, 2012
Professional Experience
2023 - Present Meow Wolf Inc., Production Manager, Show Audio/Video/Lighting Team, Santa Fe, NM
2017 - Present Video & Performance Artist, Freelance
2021 - 2023 Alfred University, Teaching Assistant, Video & Sound, Alfred, NY
2018 - 2023 Mobile Projection Unit, Creative Director & Video Designer, Portland, OR
2019 - 2022 Art Consultant & Producer, Portland, OR
2019 - 2021 Production Designer, TV, & Film, Portland, OR
2018 - 2019 Disjecta Contemporary Art Gallery, Associate Director, Portland, OR
2016 - 2018 Open Signal: Portland Community Media Center, Art + Social Impact Curator, Portland, OR
2016 - 2017 Houseguest Residency, Curator & Program Manager, Portland, OR
2015 - 2016 Hollywood Theatre, Public Programs Coordinator, Portland, OR
2014 - 2015 Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Lead Preparator, Boone, NC
Awards & Residencies
2024 Signal Culture Residency, Loveland, CO
2024 Web3 Residency at The Beach, Santa Fe, NM
2023 FEED Residency, Erie, PA
2022 Ford Family Foundation, Program Grant
2021 Creative Exchange Lab, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (OR)
2021 Laboratory New Media Residency (WA)
2021 Caldera, Golden Spot Residency, (OR)
2021 Ford Family Foundation, Capital Grant
2021 Sou’wester Arts Residency (WA)
2020 Precipice Fund, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
2020 Sou’wester Arts Residency (WA)
2020 NWFC & Portland Art Museum Re:Imagine Fund Grant Recipient
2020 Future Prairie Digital Residency
2019 Regional Arts & Culture Council, Project Grant
2018 Precipice Fund, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
2017 Researcher in Residence, Signal Culture (NY)
2014 Arts and Advocacy for the Lesbian Community Award
2013 American Alliance of Museums Fellow
2012 Outstanding Achievement in Museum Studies (VA)
Selected Artistic Experience
2025 SAMA, Video Art & Projection Design, Third Angle Productions, AWOL Theatre, Portland, OR
2025 But…You’re A Dolphin!, Boathouse Microcinema Screening, Portland, OR
2025 But…You’re A Dolphin!, 63rd Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor Michigan
2025 Through the Looking Glass, Group Show, The Beach, Santa Fe, NM
2025 Fantasy Download, audio/video performance, El Rey, Santa Fe, NM
2025 But…You’re A Dolphin!, DIAMETRALE Film Festival B-Sides, Innsbruck, Austria
2025 But…You’re A Dolphin!, Electric Spring Festival, Huddersfield Experimental Short Film Screening, Huddersfield, UK
2024 But…You’re A Dolphin!, Open Screening, No Name Cinema, Santa Fe, NM
2024 But…You’re A Dolphin!, Pebbles Underground Film Festival, Online Film Screening
2024 Fantasy Download, audio/video performance, Slut Pop Art Show, Santa Fe, NM
2024 Fantasy Download, audio/video performance, Ghost, Santa Fe, NM
2024 Fantasy Download, audio/video performance, Wavefield, Buschwick, NY
2024 NFTs at The Beach, GUI/GOOEY Exhibition, Group Show, Plexus Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2024 But…You’re A Dolphin!, 17 Days Screening Series, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
2024 HIGH BEAMS, Group show, Horny Toad Experimental Art Festival, Madrid, NM
2024 Fantasy Download, audio/video performance, Immersion Festival, Urbana, IL
2024 Pussy Portal: Enter the Chat, Chroma Art Film Festival, Group Show, Miami, FL
2024 But You’re A Dolphin!, Cyber Bunk, Group Show, Wholesale Saloon, Santa Fe, NM
2024 Fantasy Download, audio/video performance, Risk/Reward Festival, PICA, Portland, OR
2024 Closing Party: NFTs at The Beach, Immersive Web3 Installation, The Beach, Santa Fe, NM
2024 Investor Brunch: NFTs at The Beach, Presentation & Immersive Web3 Installation, The Beach, Santa Fe, NM
2024 NFTs at The Beach, VIP Launch & Immersive Web3 Installation, The Beach, Santa Fe, NM
2024 Pussy Portal: Enter the Chat, Muestra de Cine Erotico y PosPorno de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia
2024 Drone Ensemble, A Tribute to Phil Niblock, by SFNO & Palmerie, ICA, Santa Fe, NM
2024 Sarah + Sweetly, noise performance, The Beach, Santa Fe, NM
2024 SOS Broadcast by Ethereal Wavelength Society, The Beach, Santa Fe, NM
2024 Pussy Portal: Enter the Chat, Oodaaq Festival, Rennes, France
2024 Pussy Portal: Enter the Chat, Hallucinea Festival, Paris, France
2024 Pussy Portal: Enter the Chat, Dream Machine International Film Festival, LA, Winner of Best New Media Film
2023 Grief Kink, Vartiosaari Artists RY Vilm Screening, Vartiosaari Island, Finland
2023 Dimension Door, Group Show, WaveField, NYC
2023 Miss Cleetoris’ Telesquirt Thotline, The Wrong Biennial, Art Television
2023 Open Screening, No Name Cinema, Santa Fe, NM
2023 Santa Fe Noise Ordinance, Halloween Show, No Name Cinema, Santa Fe, NM
2023 Pussy Portal, live performance, Desert Island, Portland, OR
2023 Pussy Portal, Crisis Daddy Tour, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
2023 Pussy Portal, Crisis Daddy Tour, The Studio, Troy, NY
2023 Pussy Portal, Crisis Daddy Tour, FEED, Erie, PA
2023 Pussy Portal, Crisis Daddy Tour, Buffalo Hostel, Buffalo, NY
2023 FANTASY DOWNLOAD, Solo MFA Thesis Exhibition, Alfred University, Turner Gallery, NY
2022 Pussy Portal live performance, Chaturbate, (online)
2022 Pussy Portal live performance, Transient Visions, Binghamton, NY
2022 Pussy Portal live performance, Open Screening, Alfred, NY
2022 Emergence: Mobile Projection Unit @ Kelley Point Park, Portland, OR
2022 Grief Kink, Sister Midnight Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Grief Kink, Dark Room Festival, London, UK
2022 Grief Kink, Lino Kino: ThrownTogetherness, BOK Building, Philadelphia, PA
2022 Grief Kink Multi-Channel Installation @ Mobile Projection Unit: ThrownTogehterness, Portland, OR
2022 Clam Jam @ Wieden + Kennedy, Solo Show, Portland, OR
2022 The Extended Ear: An Artist’s Book Fair, @ Carnation Contemporary, Group Show, Portland, OR
2022 Grief Kink, Digital Athens Art Festival, Athens, Greece
2022 Deep Flicker @ Turner Gallery, Group Show, Alfred, NY
2021 Letters to Earth @ Venice VR Virtual Biennale, Portland Art Museum
2021 Portland Winter Light Festival @ Portland Art Museum
2021 Sea Creatures, Epic Ephemera Series @ Portland Art Museum
2021 Sea Creatures @ Ignite! Festival, Astoria Visual Arts
2021 Sea Creatures @ Laboratory New Media Projection Festival, Spokane, WA
2020 Against the Current @ TBA Festival, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
2020 Che La Luna @ Venice VR Virtual Biennale, Portland Art Museum
2020 Phases of the Moon 3 @ Portland International Film Festival, Portland, OR
2020 Phases of the Moon 2 @ Portland International Film Festival, Portland, OR
2020 Phases of the Moon 1 @ Portland International Film Festival, Portland, OR
2020 Moon Phase @ Portland Winter Light Festival, Portland, OR
2020 Channel 1 @ First United Church, Portland, OR
2020 Womb Room @ Art at the Cave, Group Show, Vancouver, WA
2019 TV Cloud, Future is Bright, White Owl, Portland, OR
2019 .:GROUNDING:. Installation & Performance, Marfa Open Fest, Marfa, TX
2019 Flux @ NEARUR, Ken Kesey Farm, Group Show, Eugene, OR
2019 Neo Mythos Projection Mapping, Open School East, Portland, OR
2019 Vertex Lounge, Bacon Ball, Portland, OR
2019 Glitchcast, Bacon Ball in collaboration with Luna Sea, Portland, OR
2019 Spring Equinox Video Altar, Boathouse Experimental Studio Space, Portland, OR
2019 ::GROUNDING:: Aura Reader, Spaceness Festival, Seaview, WA
2018 “Plant It” Music Video Visuals and TV Install, Portland, OR
2018 Winter Solstice Video Altar, Boathouse Experimental Studio Space, Portland, OR
2018 TV SEA GARDEN, Shift Festival, OR
Curatorial Experience
2021 Mobile Projection Unit, Epic Ephemera: Breaking Ground, featuring Pamela Z & Keyon Gaskin, Portland Art Museum
2021 Mobile Projection Unit, Epic Ephemera: Signals, featuring Rick Silva, Nicolas Sassoon, & Pulse
Emitters, Portland Art Museum
2021 Mobile Projection Unit, Epic Ephemera: Myths & Rituals featuring Laura Camila Medina, Carolina Bazo, Tabita Rezaire, maximilliano, & Hiba Ali, Portland Art Museum
2020 Mobile Projection Unit, Ela Fala Dance Collective, Portland, OR
2020 Mobile Projection Unit, Arresting Power, featuring Jodi Darby, Portland, OR
2020 Mobile Projection Unit, been here, co-curated by ariella tai, Portland, OR
2020 Mobile Projection Unit, Black Art Ecology Project featuring Sharita Towne & Hasan Mahmood, Portland, OR
2019 Mobile Projection Unit, Nacer, featuring Ruben Garcia Maruffo & Juracan, Portland, OR
2019 Mobile Projection Unit, Many Worlds, featuring Jaleesa Johnston & Megan McKissack, Portland, OR
2019 Mobile Projection Unit, Illuminated Voices, featuring Sabina Haque & Victoria Wells, Portland, OR
2019 Membrane featuring Ashlin Aronin, Peripheral Forms, S1, Portland, OR
2018 Post Analog, Sarah Goodman & Paloma Kop, Grapefruits, Portland, OR
2018 Transit by manuel arturo abreu, Open Signal, Portland, OR
2018 hoe dor by ariella tai, Open Signal, Portland, OR
2018 SATURATE(D), Open Signal, Portland, OR
2017 Annexation and Assimilation, Exploring the Archives East of 82nd featuring Sabina Haque, Open Signal, Portland, OR
2017 You Are Here featuring Portland Immersive Media Group, Pioneer Courthouse Square (Houseguest), Portland, OR
2017 Unity Gain Vol. 1 featuring PCC Sonic Arts and Portland Immersive Media Group, Open Signal, Portland, OR
2017 New Media Fellowship Exhibition featuring Hannah Piper Burns and DB Amorin, Open Signal, Portland, OR
2017 Narrowcast, Open Signal, Portland, OR
2017 Two Worlds and Nowhere featuring Irina Boboia, Open Signal, Portland, OR
2016 S.A.D. Park by Ralph Pugay and Ariana Jacob, Pioneer Courthouse Square (Houseguest), Portland, OR
2016 PMOMA by Libby Werbel, Pioneer Courthouse Square (Houseguest), Portland, OR
2016 Exchange by Parallel Studio, Pioneer Courthouse Square (Houseguest), Portland, OR
2016 VR Spa by Portland Immersive Media Group, Portland Community Media, Portland, OR
2016 Glitch by Peripheral Forms, Portland Community Media, Portland, OR
2014 The Feminist Museum, LaVerne Kraus Gallery, Eugene, OR
2014 Influx: A Night of Performance Art @ Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
2014 InTouch: A Student Art Exhibition about the 5 Senses, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
2014 InTune: A Night of Music by U of O Students, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
2013 Women’s Stories, Women’s Lives, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
Curated Events and Projects
2020 Pink Noise v, Livestream, Portland, OR
2019 Pink Noise iv @ Holocene, Portland, OR
2019 Warm Waves, Xhurch, Portland, OR
2019 Altar Ego, Desert Island Studios, Portland, OR
2019 Vern Avola, Live on Pink Noise Radio, Freeform Portland, OR
2019 Treneti, Live on Pink Noise Radio, Freeform Portland, OR
2019 Pink Noise iii @ Boathouse, Portland, OR
2019 Trine, Live on Pink Noise Radio, Freeform Portland
2019 Jamondria Harris, Live on Pink Noise Radio, Freeform Portland
2018 Crystal Quartez, Live on Pink Noise Radio, Freeform Portland
2018 Dolphin Midwives Live on Pink Noise Radio, Freeform Portland
2018 Superpositions @ Disjecta
2018 A/V Party Featuring Flowerpulse, Avola, and drc//erc @ Disjecta
2018 Night Country: Expanded Cinema @ Disjecta
2018 Sounds et Al Series @ Disjecta
2018 Pink Noise ii @ DIY Space, Portland,OR
2018 Night Lights, Amy Chiao & Chloe Cooper @ Open Signal
2018 Night Lights, Portland State University @ RACC
2017 TV Takeover @ O’Malley’s Saloon and Grill
2017 A/V Party featuring Sean Christensen & Fern Wiley, Indira Perczek, DB Amorin & Carl Diehl, Avola @ Open Signal
2017 A/V Party featuring Thomas Fang, Location Services, Sue-C, Ajo @ Open Signal
2017 A/V Party featuring Nolan Thomas, Megan McKissack, Darcy Neal, Patricia Wolf, Hannah Piper Burns, Sea Moss @ Open Signal
2017 A/V Party featuring Winnie Black, Erin Cooper & Doya, Dolphin Midwives, Matthew Henderson @ Open Signal
2017 A/V Party featuring Lu Yim, Sidony O’Neal, Maya Vivas, Hannah Krafcik, Pepper Pepper, They Gamble @ Open Signal
2017 Pink Noise @ DIY Space (Portland, OR)
2017 Me Dissociating: a meme show @ Erickson Gallery
2017 Night Lights, Ezekiel Brown @ RACC
2017 Night Lights, Dave Colangelo @ RACC
2017 Night Lights, Stephanie Mendoza @ RACC
2017 Night Lights, Pepper Pepper @ RACC
2017 Night Lights, Kalimah Abioto @ RACC
2017 Night Lights, Laura Heit @ RACC
2016 Night Lights, Arianna Gazca @ RACC
2016 Night Lights, Renee Sills @ RACC
2015 Ungrund Collective: Be Nature @ Hollywood Theatre
2015 Mario Kart (Multi Channel Installation) @ Ace Hotel, Portland, OR
2015 VHS Game Night Throw Back @ Ace Hotel, Portland, OR
Guest Lecture & Panelist
2022 “Introduction to Ableton” Workshop for Associate Professor Heidi Jensen at Alfred University
2021 Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) BFA Critique Juror
2021 “Augmenting the World with Light: Projection Mapping with Mad Mapper” Workshop at C.E.T.I.
2021 “Augmenting the World with Light: Projection Mapping with Mad Mapper” Workshop at Portland State University
2020 “The Aesthetics & Affordances of Massive Media: What Happens when a building becomes a screen?” with Dave Colangelo & Gabriel Menotti, SPUI25 & Amsterdam University Press
2020 “Mobile Projection Unit & Pink Noise: Guerrilla Femme Art in Portland, OR,” VIDICON, online
2020 “Outdoor Projection & Spatialized Video,” Lewis & Clark College, with Assist. Professor, Yaelle Amir
2020 “Outdoor Projection & Spatialized Video,” University of Buffalo, with Adjunct Professor Dave Mosier
2020 “Outdoor Projection & Spatialized Video,” University of Colorado - Boulder, with Assist. Professor Jeanne Liotta
2020 Lake Oswego Public Art, New Commission Panelist, Lake Oswego, OR
2018 “The Business of Art,” The Arts Center, Corvallis, OR
2018 Night Lights, Outdoor Projection Artist Panelist, Regional Arts and Culture Council
2017 “Outdoor Projection & Spatialized Video,” Portland State University, with Assist. Professor Dave Colangelo
2017 HDLA Sound Art Residency Panelist, Portland Community College, Music & Sonic Arts Department
2017 Night Lights, Outdoor Projection Artist Panelist, Portland, OR
2017 New Media Fellows, Artist Residency Panelist, Portland, OR
2016 “Outdoor Projection & Spatialized Video,” Portland State University, with Assoc. Professor Julie Perini
2016 Caldera Artist Residency Panelist, Portland, OR
2016 “Artist Residencies & Public Art,” University of Oregon, with Assoc. Professor Julie Voelker-Morris
2016 Night Lights, Outdoor Projection Artist Panelist, Portland, OR
2016 New Media Fellows, Artist Residency Panelist, Portland, OR
2016 Houseguest, Artist Residency Panelist, Portland, OR
Freelance Art and Creative Event Production
Montavilla Jazz Film Festival, Program Management & Consultation, 2020-2021
Marfa Open Festival (TX), Strategic Planning & Consultation, 2020
Open Signal Festival Lead Management, 2019
Art of the Rural, Rural Generation Summit Coordinator, 2019
Freelance Lead Preparator, Open Signal, 2018-2020
Residencies Managed
2016-2018 New Media Fellowship @ Open Signal
2016-2017 Houseguest @ Pioneer Courthouse Square
2016-2018 Night Lights Artist Residency @ Open Signal
2016 PulsAiR Artist Retreat @ Hollywood Theatre & Sou’Wester Lodge
Workshops Programmed
2017 Open Signal, Interactive Video and Music Programming with Sue Slagle
2017 Open Signal, Video Processing with Eric Mast
2017 Open Signal, Experiments in Glitch with DB Amorin
2017 Open Signal, Found Footage Video with Jodi Darby
2017 Open Signal, Advanced Video Installation with Stephen Slappe
2016 Open Signal, Alternative Approaches to New Media with Carl Diehl
2016 Open Signal, Video Installation with Stephen Slappe
Artist Talks Programmed
2018 Open Signal, New Media Fellowship: Alan Page & Manuel Arturo Abreu, Artist Talk
2018 Open Signal, New Media Fellowship: Matthew Henderson, Artist Talk
2017 Open Signal, Night Lights Presenting Artists: Pepper Pepper, Stephanie Mendoza, Chloe Cooper and Amy Chiao, Julia Calabrese, Ezekiel Brown,
2017 Open Signal, Night Lights Fellowship: Kalimah Abioto, Artist Panel
2017 Open Signal, New Media Fellowship: Nanda D’Agostino & Ariella Tai, Artist Talk
2016 Open Signal, Jessie Rose Vala, Artist Talk
2016 Open Signal, Kevin Noonan, Artist Talk
2016 Open Signal, New Media Fellowship: Hannah Piper Burns & DB Amorin, Artist Talk
2016 Open Signal, Dave Colangelo, Artist Talk