Sadie Barnette
2024 Eureka Fellow
Photo by Damien Maloney
Sadie Barnette’s multimedia practice illuminates her own family history as it mirrors a collective history of repression and resistance in the United States. Her drawings, photographs, and installations collapse time and expand possibilities.
Barnette is from Oakland, CA, and holds a BFA from California Institute of the Arts and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego. She is the recipient of numerous grants and residencies, including Studio Museum in Harlem, Artadia, Art Matters, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and UC Berkeley’s Black Studies Collaboratory. Her work is in the permanent collections of institutions such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the de Young Museum in SanFrancisco, Oakland Museum of California, Brooklyn Museum, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Solo commissions include SPACE/TIME at SFMOMA (on view through June 2023), Family Business at San Jose Museum of Art (opening March 2023), and a permanent, site-specific installation at the Los Angeles International Airport (forthcoming in 2024).
Barnette is represented by Jessica Silverman in San Francisco and lives and works in Oakland.
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