Sarah Phenix is a visual artist living and working in Oakland, California.
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Sarah Phenix is interested in connecting others through her relationship to the environment through analog film and photography, sculpture and painting. She received the Bridges Fellowship from BAVC Media and worked with Other Cinema in assisting in running their 16mm archive. Her work has been shown and screened at Southern Exposure, Roxie Theater, The Mills Museum, and more. Her work has been featured in Analog Cookbook, Stereogum and Another Earth. She currently co-directs an analog production company, Rainbow Tunnel, hosting film workshops, screenings and creating independent film projects in the Bay Area.
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Education
BA Sociology at Mills College
BFA Art Studio at Mills College
Tintype, Alternative Processes Student, 2019 -2021
Awarded BAVC Emerging Filmmakers Fellowship, San Francisco, CA, Spring 2022
Mentorship Program with Southern Exposure, San Francisco,CA Spring 2022
Awarded the JOYA AIR Residency, Veléz Blanco, Almería, Spring 2023
Student of the Lansdcape and Memory program at MADE Program Academia di Belle Arti “Rosaria Gagliardi” Siracusa, Italy, Summer 2023
Awarded the Photographic Prize for Creative Excellence in Studio Art at Mills at Northeastern, 2023
Work
Co-Founder of Rainbow Tunnel Films - a Bay Area based production company
May 2021 to Present
Archivist at Other Cinema
March 2019-2021
Artist Talks
2022
January
Book & Job Gallery, The Ecstasy of Proximity : “Randy,” San Francisco, CA
Screenings
2023
May
Roxie Theater, Buckle up Baby, San Francisco
The LINE, “Randy,” Los Angeles
2022
November
Roxie Theater, Write it in the Sky, San Francisco
June
Rainbow Tunnel Film Night, Memory, 16mm, Oakland CA
May
Burnt Oak Gallery, Memory, 16mm, Oakland CA
Group Exhibitions
2023
May-July
MADE Academia di Belle Arti “Rosaria Gagliardi,” Thesis Exhibition, Siracusa, Italy
April-May
Bass & Reiner, Pyramid Scheme, San Francisco CA
March-April
Mills Museum, Opening Hands, Oakland CA
2022
September - October
The Great Highway Gallery, Within & Without, San Francisco, CA
August-September
Southern Exposure, Half Light Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
May
Queens, Voyeur Group Show, San Francisco, CA
December - January
Book & Job Gallery, The Ecstasy of Proximity : “Alaska,” San Francisco, CA
2021
March - May
Image Flow, The 5th Annual Alternative Process Exhibition : "In Vitro,” Mill Valley, CA
February
Adobe Books, "Self Series: an Introduction to Counter Collective," San Francisco, CA
2019
November
Tiny Telephone Gallery Show, "A Birth of Clarity" San Francisco, CA
Features & Press
2023
Quadro Magazine, “Spring Rebirth” with Anna Monet Jewelry
Another Earth, What Makes a Lake?
Stereogum, The Saxophones - Desert Flower
Aquarium Drunkard, Credit Electric Interview
2022
Analog Cookbook, Rainbow Tunnel Films Interview
Nowhere Diary, Spring Volume I
Black FLower Publishing, The Promise of Sprng
Brooklyn Vegan Magazine
2021
June
Brooklyn Vegan,“She Buys Herself Flowers,” Brooklyn NY
April
Sunbow Zine, “I Dreamt We Left This Place Review,” Oakland CA