Sarah Jacky (b. 1992) is a Zurich-based artist working across drawing, video, and installation. Influenced by her background in architecture and years spent living in Latin America, her practice emerges through long-term encounters with territories undergoing ecological and social transformation.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026 Somos tierra, aire, fuego, agua, Casa de Creación, Buritaca, CO
2025 Einsichten, Kupper Modern, Zurich, CH
2023 Einsichten, Photobastei, Zurich, CH
2022 I see you see, Parat, Zurich, CH
2021 No Fear In Trying, ArtTausch, New York, US
2021 Diplom Redux, Kunsthaus Glarus, CH (covid cancelled)
2020 true grid irl, unanimous consent, Zurich, CH
2019 HOHOHO, KALI Gallery, Lucerne, CH
2019 13.Jungkunst, Halle 53, Winterthur, CH
2018 Kunstpause, Lakeside Promenade, Zug, CH
2018 Multispecies Salon, Manifesta 12 (Performance with MFA students and exhibiting artist Uriel Orlow), Palermo, IT
RESIDENCIES
2026 La Sierra Artist Residency, Buritaca, Magdalena, CO
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2019 Hirschmann-Grant, Lucerne, CH
2019 ZHdK-Avina Fund for Students, Zurich, CH
2011 Youth Cultural Award, 1st Prize Category Art, Frauenfeld, CH
PUBLICATIONS
2026 Sarah Jacky together with Ursula Biemann, Hernando Chindoy and Iván Darío Vargas Roncancio, Devenir Universidad: An Artistic Articulation of an Unfolding Institution of Higher Education in the Andean-Amazon, in: CosmoVision Arts
2021 Dear Ambiguity, Zurich University of the Arts
2020 Rückzug, Literarischer Monat, Issue 40
2017 Sarah Jacky & Oliver Burch, Agripelago, in: Architecture of territory: Communes, ETH Zurich Studio Topalovic
PUBLIC TALKS AND COLLABORATIONS
2023 Co-Habitations-Project, We Are Aia (Workshop with We Are Aia invited artist Yusuf Orhan), Zurich, CH
2019 Artist Talk, KALI Gallery, Lucerne, CH
2017 Co-Founder Chakana Project, Zurich, CH / Tamshiyacu, PE
2016 Intern, Studio Smiljan Radic, Santiago de Chile, CL
EDUCATION
2026 MA Art History in a Global Context, University of Zurich, CH
2020 MA Fine Arts, Zurich University of the Arts, CH
2018 BSc Architecture, ETH Zurich, CH
2013 Preliminary Course Photography, Lofoten Folkehøgskole, Kabelvåg, NO
2010 Highschool Exchange Year, CEMA, Mérida, MEX