Adjunct Faculty, IMA Low Res; multidisciplinary artist

Sarah Zarina Hakani is a South Asian multidisciplinary artist working in bookbinding, printmaking, and sound. With a background in neuroscience and Islamic studies, she explores how sonic and linguistic repetition (in known and unknown languages) impacts memory formation and consolidation. Sarah is interested in the space between repeated actions and how it contextualizes, morphs, illuminates, invalidates, hides underneath, or towers over what comes before and after it. She leans into the rhythmic, itinerant, and playful possibility of pattern recognition and the resulting projective nature of truth and non-truth, alike. 

Sarah has been in residence at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Anderson Center, SVA RisoLAB, and more, and co-founded a creative publication that amplifies the narratives and art of queer, Black, and Shi’a Muslims. Currently, she works in inclusive technology, designing and building products that are accessible, consentful, and trauma-informed, and teaches Exploratory Making & Critical Experiences in the IMA Low Residency Program at Tisch.