Department/College/UnitArts Division

TitlePhD Candidate

AffiliationGraduate

Web SiteSarah

Mail StopFilm and Digital Media

Biography, Education and Training

Sarah Bird (she/her) is an artist-researcher and Ph.D. candidate in Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz, focusing on ethical arboreal-human relationality. A Fellow of the UCSC Climate Action Lab and 2024 Visiting Artist-Scholar at Justus Liebig University, (Giessen, Germany), Bird created a public art event in San Francisco titled Being/Tree in which the true-scale form of a California coast redwood tree was projected in light on San Francisco’s Ferry Building in 2024.Trees/Place at Justus Liebig University, an installation using place as method, will be on view until mid-2025. Other recent projections include Trees in Place/ A Strategy for Noticing at Town Hall, Wellfleet, MA and Earth-Sun Attunement at AADK/Centro Negra in Blanca, Spain. Bird's work was featured at the 2017 Venice Biennale and is the subject of the feature documentary Giants Rising (2024). www.sarahbirdstudio.com