Sarah MacKinnon CV

A multi-disciplinary artist from Los Angeles living in Athens, Greece, working in painting, drawing, and mixed media. Previously employed as a UX designer in tech which informs artwork exploring the pervasive presence of technology and the modern anxieties it creates.

E X P E R I E N C E

Wisp Labs October 2022
October 2022
Resident

Participated immersive hybrid art/technology residency resulting in a full take over of Communitism, a neoclassical arts space in central Athens. Our work explored the broken nature of the internet and how when something isn’t working, humans get the opportunity to “not work” as well.

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Techno-Logia Hub
September 2022
Associate

The purpose of TECHNO-LOGIA Hub is the dissemination of research regarding the relationship between art and technology, and the promotion of the relevant research art/work produced at the School of Fine Arts and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Athens.

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Phoenix Athens Gallery
Nov 2021 - Mar 2022
Resident

Focused on the exploration of different materials to create a final show that examined internal and external worlds through the lens of technology and nature.

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UX + UI Design Director
2007 - Current
Consultant

Working the last 15 years in the internet, designing apps and websites for large organizations (Amazon, etc.) as well as small startups, with a focus on design systems and behavioral psychology around user decision making online.

E X H I B I T I O N S

Solo show: procure
Vortuna Creative Space
May 2024

“procure” is an examination of consumption, value, and exchange. What does it mean to want to buy, and how does this desire exist independently from the objects we “add to cart?” How does shopping impact our community, environment, and inner worlds when we feel and act on the desire to consume? This body of work aims to examine the anxiety around the ‘power’ of purchasing, mirrored by the fact that the works themselves are available for sale, critical statements that can be fully appropriated with the swipe of a credit card.

Solo show: Weaving
Phoenix Athens Gallery
Mar 2022

Weaving visually explored the intersection of nature’s chaos and the ‘progress’ of technology and how both Greece and the US have dealt with the repercussions. Mud, sticks, and stones echoed off of iPhones and computers revealing that everything can be both a tool and yet without the right circumstances, also completely useless (including the art itself).

G R O U P

Dead Darlings, “Kill Your Darlings” Art Auction, TAF + Cream Athens, December 2023
Wisp Labs, Communitism, Athens, October 2022
Art & Soul Gallery, Mykonos, Summer 2022
Art Gallery Naxos, Naxos, Summer 2022-Current
Art 23, Athens, June 2022
Time of Art Gallery, Athens, May 2022

E D U C A T I O N

The Painting Experience
2020 - Current

NYU
BA, Medieval Aesthetics Magna Cum Laude

UCLA
Associates Degree
Design Communication Arts