Dalila Sanabria

Dalila Sanabria is a Chilean Colombian American artist from central Florida, living and working between New Haven, Connecticut, and New York City. Her work—primarily sculpture, installation, and video—references domestic sites and sacred architectures. Sanabria accumulates organic materials and kinetic technologies as catalysts to explore displacement, permanence, and belonging.

She received her MFA in sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art where she was a Gilbert Fellow. Her solo and group exhibitions include the Latinx Project at New York University; the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in Salt Lake City, Utah; Sweet Pass Sculpture Park in Dallas, Texas; Ortega y Gasset Projects in Brooklyn, New York; Roman Susan Gallery in Chicago, Illinois; Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, Louisiana. Her work has been written about in Art in America, Terremoto Magazine, Oxford University Press, and more. She has also been the scholarship recipient attending residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and ACRE. Currently, she is the 2024-2025 artist-in-residence for the Latinx Project at New York University and a participant of the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program (IATP) at Jack Shainman Gallery, NY.