Bio / CV
Sara Alonso’s artistic practice sits on the threshold between the real and the dreamlike. Working from found images, photography and printmaking, she builds visual narratives in which fragments of her own reality emerge and dissolve into landscapes of surreal atmosphere.
Her work dwells on the ephemeral nature of time: a universe at once timeless and everyday, in which every element intensely inhabits its own symbolic space.
Living far from her home country infuses her work with a sense of perpetual transit, a territory of indeterminacy that speaks to Ijeoma Umebinyuo’s lines in “Diaspora Blues”, which describe never being enough for either place: the one of origin and the one of residence abroad.
From this liminal position, Alonso investigates how the everyday sustains the relationship between time, identity and memory. Through digital collages and visual assemblages, her images work as vestiges of lived experience that float between different moments, where the present and the absent intertwine in a play of evocation and loss.
Exhibitions
UP COMING:
A Contract with Light
June 2028
Glasgow Print Studio / Glasgow, UK
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CURRENT:
Ñam, Ñam (Yum, Yum)
Part of: Is There No Place Like Home?
MUSAC (Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León)
Feb. 2026 - Feb. 2027
León, Spain
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The Love of Print: 50 years of Glasgow Print Studio
18th Nov. 2022 - 12th March 2023
Kelvingrove Art Museum / Glasgow, UK
Camiños Creativos (Creative Ways)
11th Nov. 2022 - 9th April 2023, Museo Centro Gaiás /
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
LIMEN
Sara Alonso + Francisco Javier Alonso
Sala Consulado del Mar, Diputación de Burgos
Feb. 2022 / Burgos, Spain
LATITUDES: Recent Work from RSA Award Winners
Group exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy,
“Padrenuestro”
22nd January 2021 - 17th March 2021 / Edinburgh, UK
Pilgrimage (Sacred and Secular)
Group exhibition, Govan Old Parish Church
19th May 2018 / Glasgow, UK
Creative Reactions
Group exhibition, Science & Art
17th May 2018 / Glasgow, UK
Kid Wonder
Member’s corner. Glasgow Print Studio
Sept. 2017 / Glasgow, UK
Southside Salon
ArtPark, House for an Art Lover
Group exhibition. Part of the Southside Fringe
May 2017 / Glasgow, UK
Not Alone,
or an attempt to stay in the present
Solo exhibition, iota UNLIMITED STUDIOS
April 2017 / Glasgow, UK
Praying Point
#24hourwindow
King Street,
Curated by NADFLY
Nicola R Atkinson and Caspar J Wilson
21 July - 20 August 2016 / Glasgow, UK
RSA OPEN EXHIBITION 2016
Selected work “Hotspot”
Group exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy.
16 July - 30 August 2016 / Edinburgh, UK
A Camel is a Horse
Group exhibition, Tranmission
25 June - 24 July 2016 / Glasgow, UK
Tin Roof Zine Fair
Tin Roof Dundee Arts Collective
Part of the Print Festival Scotland
June 2016 / Dundee, UK
“Feroces” El Pez Globo
Group exhibition, Galería Serendipia
October 2015 / Madrid, Spain
The Peep Show of Hearts
McLellan Galleries. MLitt Fine Art Practice Degree Show
Glasgow School of Art,
Sept. 2015 / Glasgow, UK
(...) Part 2
Part of the MLitt Fine Art Practice
Glasgow School of Art
Group exhibition, iota UNLIMITED STUDIOS
June 2015 / Glasgow, UK
A Contract with Light
June 2028
Glasgow Print Studio / Glasgow, UK
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CURRENT:
Ñam, Ñam (Yum, Yum)
Part of: Is There No Place Like Home?
MUSAC (Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León)
Feb. 2026 - Feb. 2027
León, Spain
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The Love of Print: 50 years of Glasgow Print Studio
18th Nov. 2022 - 12th March 2023
Kelvingrove Art Museum / Glasgow, UK
Camiños Creativos (Creative Ways)
11th Nov. 2022 - 9th April 2023, Museo Centro Gaiás /
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
LIMEN
Sara Alonso + Francisco Javier Alonso
Sala Consulado del Mar, Diputación de Burgos
Feb. 2022 / Burgos, Spain
LATITUDES: Recent Work from RSA Award Winners
Group exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy,
“Padrenuestro”
22nd January 2021 - 17th March 2021 / Edinburgh, UK
Pilgrimage (Sacred and Secular)
Group exhibition, Govan Old Parish Church
19th May 2018 / Glasgow, UK
Creative Reactions
Group exhibition, Science & Art
17th May 2018 / Glasgow, UK
Kid Wonder
Member’s corner. Glasgow Print Studio
Sept. 2017 / Glasgow, UK
Southside Salon
ArtPark, House for an Art Lover
Group exhibition. Part of the Southside Fringe
May 2017 / Glasgow, UK
Not Alone,
or an attempt to stay in the present
Solo exhibition, iota UNLIMITED STUDIOS
April 2017 / Glasgow, UK
Praying Point
#24hourwindow
King Street,
Curated by NADFLY
Nicola R Atkinson and Caspar J Wilson
21 July - 20 August 2016 / Glasgow, UK
RSA OPEN EXHIBITION 2016
Selected work “Hotspot”
Group exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy.
16 July - 30 August 2016 / Edinburgh, UK
A Camel is a Horse
Group exhibition, Tranmission
25 June - 24 July 2016 / Glasgow, UK
Tin Roof Zine Fair
Tin Roof Dundee Arts Collective
Part of the Print Festival Scotland
June 2016 / Dundee, UK
“Feroces” El Pez Globo
Group exhibition, Galería Serendipia
October 2015 / Madrid, Spain
The Peep Show of Hearts
McLellan Galleries. MLitt Fine Art Practice Degree Show
Glasgow School of Art,
Sept. 2015 / Glasgow, UK
(...) Part 2
Part of the MLitt Fine Art Practice
Glasgow School of Art
Group exhibition, iota UNLIMITED STUDIOS
June 2015 / Glasgow, UK
Awards
Royal Scottish Academy Award
Pandemic: A personal response to COVID-19
Royal Scottish Academy,
June 2020 / Edinburgh, UK
Residencies
alFaRa Gráfica
August 2016 / La Encina de San Silvestre,
Salamanca, Spain
Dumfries House
April 2015 / Dumfries, Scotland