artist bio

Sarai Montes is a diasporic Oaxacan (Ñuu Savi) and Salvadoran multidisciplinary artist, born, raised and residing in the Bay Area with an interest in printmaking, photography and mixed media installations. She received a B.A. in Art Practice, Ethnic Studies and Film & Media Studies from the University of California, Berkeley and further developed her printmaking skills as one of two 2023-2024 printmaking apprentices at Mission Gráfica at the Mission Cultural Center. Currently, she is developing a new body of work as a ReGen grantee through Galería de la Raza that will exhibit in March 2025.

Through her art she explores themes of transnational identity, Indigenous resistance, Indigenous feminism and girlhood. Her work celebrates her communities while also highlighting collective struggles and social issues in order to push others to imagine a better world. Her communities, ancestral memory and the history of art as a tool for resistance all influence her work which embraces the idea of the personal as political.

Based on Ramaytush Ohlone Land.

San Francisco, CA.