Residencies and Fellowships

2024 New York State Council on the Arts Support for Artists Grant, New York, NY

2024 Artist in Residence, COPE NYC, Brooklyn, NY

2023 Fellowship for Utopian Practice, Culture Push, New York, NY 

2023 Artist in Residence, COPE NYC, Brooklyn, NY

2021 Sex Ed, Holly & The Neighbors, Chicago, IL

2020 Artist in Residence, Black Widow Books, Chicago, IL

2017 Copy Shop Residency, Endless Editions, New York, NY

2017 Pan Stage Artist in Residence, Pantocrátor Gallery, Suzhou, China   

2016-2017 Artist in Residence, Inside Out Museum, Beijing, China

2016-2017 Artist in Residence, The Learning Project Elementary School, Boston, MA

Solo and two person exhibitions

2022 Our Solitary Masses with Ann Lewis, Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY (curator: Elleree Erdos)

2018 Sara Zielinski: Prints from This Doll’s House, Childs Gallery, Boston, MA
2017 This Doll’s House, Ink Miami Art Fair, with Childs Gallery (Boston), Miami, FL

2017 Mama’s Birthday, Pantocrátor Gallery, Suzhou, China

2016 Saudade, National Parliamentary Library, Tbilisi, Georgia; Renaissance Hotel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Zakim Center, Boston, MA (collaboration with Karen Lee Sobol)

2015 This is Just to Say, Find & Form, Boston, MA

2015 Only in Heaven, 282 East 7th Street, New York, NY 

2014 New Works by Sara Zielinski, OKW, Boston, MA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 No Justice Without Love, Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice, New York, NY (curator: Daisy Desrosiers)

2023Making Place: Histories & Heritage and Politics & the Body, Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY (curator: Sofía Shaula Reeser-del Rio)
2022 We Should Record This, Dekalb Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Political Intimacy: The R3turn, Recess Art, Brooklyn, NY

2021 Messaging Nature, Fort Point Art Center, Boston, MA
Closet to Quarantine: Queer Art Then and Now, Childs Gallery, Boston, MA

Brushes with Cancer Midwest, Twist Out Cancer, Chicago, IL
What Stands Before Us, Childs Gallery, Boston, MA
Reflections, Childs Gallery, Boston, MA

2020 Dreaming of Equality, Reynolds Gallery, Stockton, CA

2019 At Home, Childs Gallery, Boston, MA

Published by the Artist, International Print Center New York, New York, NY

Ink Miami Art Fair, with Childs Gallery (Boston), Miami, FL
2018 No Place Like Home, Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA

Ink Miami Art Fair, with Childs Gallery (Boston), Miami, FL
Ghost in the Machine, Shoestring Press, Brooklyn, NY
WILD!, Shoestring Press, Brooklyn, NY
Ideas Get Dressed, Sapar Contemporary, New York, NY (curator: Emma Ferrer)

Life is a Beautiful Place: A Radical Collaboration, Childs Gallery, Boston, MA 

Shoestring Salon, Shoestring Press, Brooklyn, NY

HOME(less), Hebrew Union College Museum, New York, NY (curator: Laura Kruger; catalog)

2017 The Nude in Print, Childs Gallery, Boston, MA
2016 We Like It So Much, Childs Gallery, Boston, MA

The Boston Drawing Project, Carroll and Sons, Boston, MA

Ink Miami Art Fair, with Childs Gallery (Boston), Miami, FL 18 Mangers, 282 East 7th Street, New York

2015 The Annual Exhibition: Prints and Drawings, Childs Gallery, Boston, MA USEA

City Hall Exhibition, Scollay Square Gallery, Boston, MA
Ink Miami Art Fair, with Childs Gallery (Boston), Miami, FL
Community Colors, Harriet Tubman Gallery, Boston, MA

2014 Ink Miami Art Fair, with Childs Gallery (Boston), Miami, FL

Folk, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA

Under the Influence of Fluxus, Mobius, Cambridge, MA

Proof of Purchase, Samsøn Gallery, Boston, MA

2012 Portrait Show: 32 Interpretations of the Portrait, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA

Sweet Fuckups & Happy Accidents, Shoestring Press, Brooklyn, NY

Choices, 41 W 87, New York, NY
30 Under 30, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA

2011 Wish You Were Here 11, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Expanded Print, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, New York, NY

Installations and Interventions

2023 Rikers Memorial Plaques, New York, NY

2018 Drawing from an Anatomy Book, stART Up Art Fair, San Francisco, CA

2016 Artists for Political Sanity, founder and participating artist, across the United States

So Close to Home, Hallway Hijack, 66 Rockwell, Brooklyn, NY (collaboration with Abby Walworth, curated by Brooklyn Rail Curatorial Projects)
Teddy Bear Picnic, Carroll Park, Brooklyn, NY
Tekoá, Brooklyn, NY (collaboration with Connor Stankard)

Performances and Panels

2022 We Should Record This, solo performance, Dekalb Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Serving IV Mierle Laderman Ukeles, performer, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago IL
2018 The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist panel participant, stART Up Art Fair, San Francisco, CA

Curatorial

2024 Two By (Small woodworks), The Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY 

2022 Painting Dolphins: Environmental Approaches to Creativity, Pratt Institute Library, Brooklyn, NY 

2019 Real: the world we see it, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL

Ideal: the world as we want it, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 

Publications and writing

2021 Bed Zine: Issue One, included artist, Created/Edited by Tash King Vancouver, Canada
2020 MDC is torture, creator, published by Shoestring Press, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Coloring Book for Court, in collaboration with New Sanctuary Coalition, New York, NY 

2017 Seven Super Sexy Super Short Stories, creator, published by Endless Editions, New York, NY

2015 - 2017 Sara Zielinski Interviews series, published by The Huffington Post

Press

2022 Bed Zine - Creatives explore their relationships with their beds, by Madeleine Morley, WePresent, 20 May, 2022

2018 Sapar Contemporary Explores the Creative Process of Fashion, by Michael Wolf, Art Zealous. 28 March 2018

Audrey Hepburn’s Granddaughter is Venturing into the Fashion World, by Alexandra Whittaker, InStyle.com. 26 March 2018
Audrey Hepburn’s Granddaughter Unveils Curated Fashion Exhibit, by Sarah Spellings, The Cut, New York Magazine. 22 March 2018

The Childs Gallery: A Doll’s House, by Candace Reyes, Artistry Magazine. 21 February 2018

2017 Miami Art Week Day 2: Ink Miami and Scope, by John W. Arvanitis, The Take Magazine. 8 December 2017

2016 Artists for Political Sanity: An Anti-Trump Artist Collective, by Taylor Dafoe, Blouin ArtInfo. 4 October 2016

Carroll Park “Trashed” by Local Artists, Pardon Me For Asking. 14 May 2016 Corridors of Power, by James S. Kunen, Columbia Magazine. September 2016 

Rustavi 2. 24 March 2016 (television clip)
Saudade, Pirveli Arxi. 24 March 2016 (television clip)

MusicBox.ge, March 2016

Indigo Magazine GE, March 2016

2015 How Can I Show My Work If a Gallery Won’t?, by Sara Estes, Burnaway: The Voice of Art in the South. 7 September 2015
Art Talk: Sara Zielinski, by Richard Baiano, The StyleBoston Blog. 22 June 2015
Sara Zielinski Interviews Sara Zielinski, by Sara Zielinski, The Huffington Post. 4 March 2015