Exhibitions

Born in Honolulu, HI
Lives and works in Ojo Caliente, NM

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Whitney Museum of American Art Library, New York, NY


EDUCATION
2014 MFA in New Genres, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2008 BFA with High Distinction, Photography, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
2002 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
 

SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024  "Athena LaTocha / Sarah M. Rodriguez," Babst Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2023  "Field," The Valley, Taos, NM
2023  "Compression Index," Tara Downs Gallery, New York, NY
2019  "Mud," Garden, Los Angeles, CA
2016  "Lock-Up International," Istanbul, Turkey
2016  "Digestion Songs," Species, Atlanta, GA
2015  "Plots," Cudayh, Los Angeles, CA
2014  "Utopian Doghouse," Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles, CA
2013  "Any Peak Will Do," Important Projects, Oakland, CA
2010  "Prehistoric Future," Sight School, Oakland, CA
2008  "Garwood," Queens Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA
 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 "Altered States: Mysticism and Extraction in the Acid West," Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT (forthcoming)
2025  "Aron John Dubois, Sophia Heymans, Amelia Lockwood, Sarah M. Rodriguez, Noah Schneiderman, & Zoë Stiler," The Valley, Santa Fe, NM
2024  "gut flora," April April, Brooklyn, NY
2024  "The Return of Histoire Naturelle," Chez Max et Dorothea, Los Angeles, CA
2024  "Hiss," curated by Margaret Berman, Los Angeles, CA
2024  "Gut Flora," curated by Margaret Kross, April April, Brooklyn, NY
2024  "Greener Than Grass and Almost Dead," Klaus Gallery, New York, New York
2023  "Forest Spirit," The Valley, Taos, NM
2023  "a place above the water," co-curated by Maida Branch, The Valley, Taos, NM
2022  "Burning The Wheel of The Year," curated by Species ATL, Hi-Lo Press & Gallery, Atlanta, GA 
2022  "XX Perfect Souls, Bad Water," Knoxville, TN
2021  "Bloom," Paul Soto, Los Angeles, CA
2021-2025 "UCR Icons and Art," curated by Corinna Peipon, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA, 
2021 "Making Waves: Ocean Ecology and Craft," Craft in America, Los Angeles, CA
2021  "Le Hangar," La Maison Rendez-Vous, Brussels, Belgium
2018  "Ecoshamanism," Leroy's, Los Angeles, CA
2018  "Challenger Deep," Garden, Los Angeles, CA 
2017  "Sea Sick in Paradise," DEPART Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
2017  "Significant Otherness," Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
2017  "Overview," Samuel Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017 "CD SM KSS," Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2017  "The Butter Box,"  Falcon's Nest, Los Angeles, CA
2017  "Valegro," Mills College, Oakland, CA
2016  "Summer Sculpture Show," NowSpace, Los Angeles, CA
2015  "Sarah Two," Hester Gallery, New York, NY
2015   "Damaged, Broken and Rejected," The Dump, Los Angeles, CA
2014   "Slick Livin’," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2014  "EXOcise," Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles, CA
2014  "Art MFA Exhibition #1," New Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2014  "Women in Photography," Contact, Los Angeles, CA
2012  "Friends of Barry," Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011   "An Exchange with Sol Le Witt," Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art , North Adams, MA
2011   "Material Matters," As Is Exhibitions, Oakland, CA
2010  "There’s a Way in Which...," Playspace Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010  "SK10," Tompkins Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2010  "The Secret Welcome of Space and Its Prehistoric Future," Sight School, Oakland, CA
2009  "Task," Curated by Oliver Herring, Folsom Projects, San Francisco, CA
2009  "One to Many," Partisan Gallery, San Francisco, CA
 

RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2016  Shandaken Residency 
2014  Resnick Scholarship