artist bio

Sarai Montes is a diasporic Oaxacan (Ñuu Savi) and Salvadoran multidisciplinary artist, born and raised in the East Bay Area with an interest in printmaking, film 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. Through her art she explores themes of transnational identity, Indigenous resistance, and Indigenous feminism. 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 in San Francisco, CA.