Sarana Juarez Estrada

Sarana Juárez Estrada, from La Rioja, Argentina (1971), graduated as an Industrial Designer from the National University of Córdoba in 1995. Additionally, she studied furniture design, gardening, landscaping, botany, carpentry, restoration, Art History and Criticism, Pre-Columbian Art, basketry techniques, and was part of the first cohort of the Specialization in Contemporary Textile Art Practices (EPACT) at the National University of the Arts (UNA). Her most recent project, alongside Gabriela Antenzon, "Nadie quiere mi montaña" (Nobody Wants My Mountain), was selected in the site-specific call for the Centro Cultural General San Martín (2023). Her piece "RdT" was part of the collective exhibition "Rituals of Memory" at the Malvinas Argentinas Museum (CABA) in 2022. She presented her installation and performance "Agüita" at the BIT Biennial in 2022. She has had solo exhibitions such as her site-specific work "FLORADERA" (2016), a booth at ARTE ESPACIO San Isidro (2012/13/14/15), her mural "CONFLUENCIA," invited by Architect Julio Oropel to his Silver Medal space "WINE BAR" at CASA FOA 2014, and the mural "lágrimas" at the Patagonia Flooring Foundation (2015). She participated in Design Wood DARA (2016), Dara Design Parade Arroyo (2017), Dara "Dog Houses," and in Art Basel Cities Buenos Aires - "Eternity" by Maurizio Cattelan (2018). Her work was included in the AREATEC Biennial 2022, "Refugios" at Casa Oliveras in Parque Avellaneda (2022), and the Textile Art Biennial UMBRALES (2022). She participated in the PINTA MIAMI Fair in 2022. Married and mother of three, she resides in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.