Photo credit: Eva Kolenko
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Sarah Filley is an artist and social entrepreneur based in Los Angeles, CA bringing design thinking to city scale. As CEO & Cofounder of Popuphood she advocates for micro-entrepreneurs, designs adaptive spaces, creative places, strategic policies, and innovative systems to accelerate inclusive, equitable, and sustainable growth for the cities of the future.
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My practice uses humor and technology in the service of wonder to re-engage citizens with the city as a platform, resulting in a dynamic reflection of social, economic, and historical forces; our dreams, hopes and deepest desires. I explore themes of preparedness and paranoia, extension and prosthesis (erotic, spiritual, ecological) through the lens of our present urban condition in sculptures, photography, and public works. As a consultant, my projects are artist driven and centered around previously excluded voices blended to engineer civic strategies building upon an emerging aesthetic of prosperity.
Public spaces are a micro-zones for shared or contested values around the common stewardship of resources, civic agency, and geographies of belonging. As an emerging area of praxis, my work blurs the line between art and urban design in public spaces to reclaim parts of ourselves, communicate belonging, transform, heal, offer solace, reveal our place in the universe.
Public spaces are a micro-zones for shared or contested values around the common stewardship of resources, civic agency, and geographies of belonging. As an emerging area of praxis, my work blurs the line between art and urban design in public spaces to reclaim parts of ourselves, communicate belonging, transform, heal, offer solace, reveal our place in the universe.
Her work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, (2012 Venice, IT and 2013 Chicago, IL), The Seattle Art Museum (SAM), Projects include urban prototypes, civic engagements, and radical placemaking and public works exhibited in museums and galleries nationally.
Performances / Public Engagement |
Exhibitions |
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Yerba Buena Center for Arts,
Yerba Buena Center for Arts, Exploratorium, Wonderarium, Surreal AfterDark, San Francisco, CA 2011 Uptown/Lake Merritt Community Benefits District, Mobile Plant Ambassador, Oakland First Friday, Oakland, CA 2011 Exploratorium, Wonderarium, Nomadic Communities AfterDark, San Francisco, CA 2010 SJ01 Zero1 Festival, Wonderarium, Green Prix, San Jose, CA 2010 Worth Ryder Gallery, Art Practice Dept.,University of California at Berkeley, Wonderarium, Knowledge Hacking, Berkeley, CA 2010 East Bay mini-Maker Faire, Wonderarium, Oakland, CA 2010 San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers, Wonderarium, SLURP! San Francisco, CA 2010 California Academy of Sciences, Wonderarium, ParkLife NightLife, San Francisco, CA 2010 |
Venice Biennale of Architecture, Spontaneous Interventions, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL 2013
Venice Biennale of Architecture, Spontaneous Interventions, US Pavilion, Venice, Italy 2012 Wonderarium, Outlandish, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA 2011 Knot series, photography, SFArtPad, Krowswork, San Fransisco, CA 2011 Survive This!, ShadowShop, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA 2010 Prayer Rope, Installation, It’s own Nothingness, Krowswork Gallery, Oakland, CA 2010 Wonderarium, Knowledge Hacking, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, CA 2010 Prayer Rope, EpiscoDisco, Grace Cathedral Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2009 Prayer Rope, installation, Spirit Rappings, Hamburger Eyes Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2009 Prayer Rope, Installation, Fresh Work, Kala Art Institute, Oakland, CA 2008 Prayer Rope, installation, Innovation & Imagination, Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Seattle, WA 2008 Camo Series (photos), The Camo Show, Dominican University of California: San Marco Gallery Curator: Stephanie Peak 2007 |
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She has co-created seminars for tactical urbanism and urban prototyping at California College of Arts, serves as an Advisory Board Member for Newaukee in Milwaukee, WI., sits on the Economic Development Working group for the Los Angeles Slate Z initiative, Business and Economic Development Advisory Committee for the California State Assembly, and served as a judge for the 2014 NEA Our Town Grant. As a participant in a prestigious roster of national organizations she has lent her creative approach to local economic development to international cities, national panels, and webinars. Popuphood was awarded participation in the 2012 Venice Biennale for Architecture US pavilion in Venice, Italy and in the 2013 Venice Biennale in Chicago, IL.
She is quoted in global reports like ArtPlace and PSFK along with the national press like the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Fast Company, The Huffington Post and some other places. |
