Sara Garzón is a Colombian curator and writer based in New York City. She specializes in contemporary Latin American art focusing specifically on issues relating to Decoloniality, Indigenous technologies, Ecocriticism, and Global South solidarity politics. Sara earned her M.A. in Art History and Archaeology from The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU (2015), and her Ph.D in the History of Art and Visual Studies at Cornell University (2022).
Sara has been the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships including the Andrew Harris Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Vermont (2021-2022), the Jane and Morgan Whitney Curatorial Fellowship (2020-2021), and the Lifchez-Stronach Curatorial Internship (2014-2015) both at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Sara has curated exhibitions in the US, Europe, and Latin America, and is currently the curator of the interdisciplinary project South to South: A Meeting on African and Afro-Diasporic Technologies (2023-2024), which is organized in collaboration with Pivô in São Paulo, Centre d'art Waza in Congo, and the Humboldt Forum in Berlin. Before that, Sara served as guest curator of The Rise of the Coyote (2022), a practice and research-based program that looked at Indigenous technologies, futurity, and plant intelligence.
Sara has contributed to peer-reviewed journals, art magazines, and exhibition catalogs. Her article “Manuel Amaru Cholango: Decolonizing Technology and the Construction of Indigenous Futures,” was awarded best essay in Visual Culture Studies 2020 by the Latin American Studies Association (LASA).
