Surabhi Saraf is a media artist, composer, and founder of the Centre
for Emotional Materiality. Her practice lives at the intersection of technology,
healing and activism. Surabhi is the recipient of the Eureka Fellowship Award by the
Fleishhacker Foundation (2015), the Djerassi Resident Artist Award (2012) and the
Artist + Process + Ideas Residency at Mills College Art Museum (2016). She has had
solo exhibitions at Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke in Mumbai and Hosfelt gallery
in San Francisco. She has performed at the Thessaloniki Contemporary Art Biennial,
San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, NETMAGE 10 International Live Media
Festival (Bologna), and Soundwave Biennial ((5)), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Her videos have been shown at TIMES
SQUARE, New York, Blanton Museum, Austin, the Hunter Museum of American Art
Chattanooga, TN and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Vojvodina, Serbia. Her work has
been featured in The New York Times, Time Out Sydney & Mumbai, the San Francisco Bay
Guardian, Blouin ArtInfo, Art Practical, and KQED Arts. Surabhi graduated from the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009 with an MFA in Art and Technology.
She was a 2019 Technology Resident at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, and 2020 resident
at HarvestWorks, NY. Surabhi is currently based in Brooklyn, NY.
