Solo Exhibitions

Not O.K., Arts Factory, Vancouver, September 2021
Blind Romance, B1 Gallery, Vancouver, February 2021
Love, Madness, Arts Factory, Vancouver,  August 2019
Casually Indifferent, Arts Factory, Vancouver,  July 2018
Collection of Obscure Sorrows, Electric Umbrella, Nanaimo,  April 2012

Group Exhibitions

Boobies + Wieners 7, Arts Factory, Vancouver, February 2020
CLÜB 90's SHOW, James Black Gallery, Vancouver, October 2019
Electric Lust, STR/KE Movement, Vancouver, August 2018
Existence, Lululemon Lab, Vancouver, March 2017
AYL + QFWFQ Forever, tag Contemporary,Vancouver,February 2015
It could have been…, Concourse Gallery, ECUAD, Vancouver February 2015

Awards

Advanced Studio Award, VIU, 2011
Photography Award, VIU, 2011
Artist Recognition Award, VIU 2011

Media

CiTR's Current Affairs Collective: “Episode August 22, 2019.” Interview by Annie Rueter. Audio blog post. 22 Aug. 2019.
Snagcast: “SNAGCAST Ep. 28 - Girl Gang." Interview by Nick Pound and Katie So. Audio blog post. 18 Feb. 2019. 
Influenced: “Episode 7: Mental Health and Selling Emotion." Interview by Jacquie Shaw. Audio blog post. 8 Feb. 2017.

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Education

BFA, Emily Carr University, 2015
BA, Vancouver Island University, 2011

Not O.K.

September 17 2021 / Arts Factory Society

NOT O.K. was an 8-piece series of paintings that explored the evolution of relationships through the lens of isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic.

This one-night pop-up exhibition tackled feelings long believed to be buried, the millennial realization that it’s okay to not be okay, and that the whole generation probably needs therapy. These larger-than-life selfies were activated with AR during the exhibit to encourage audience interaction.

LOVE, MADNESS

August 23 2019 / Arts Factory Society

As ephemeral as the media it represents, artist Sára Molčan presented a series of sixteen paintings looking at the way our careful curation of self and desire to remain ambivalent impacts our relationships. Exhibited for one night only before disappearing like your favourite Instagram stories.

Paintings were activated by AR using EyeJack (available on iOS/Android).

Casually Indifferent

July 20-22 2018 / Arts Factory Society

Social media presence has become an endless performance, impacting how we identify with ourselves and our relationships. 

Is the self a fundamental lie? Have we trained our hearts to be cold and calculating? How does trauma factor in to the way we curate ourselves? What happens when our perpetual editing exits the virtual realm? 

These are questions artist Sára Molčan addresses in her new series of paintings, using her own redaction and self-restriction as a jumping point to examine the larger cultural question of curation. 

Casually Indifferent encapsulates how our relationships and connections are impacted when the pressure to “be yourself” permeates society and self-worth is measured in virtual likes.

Collection of Obscure Sorrows

April 2012 / Electric Umbrella

An exploration of the strange and dirty side of love, Collection of Obscure Sorrows focuses on the way we lose ourselves in relationships. Highlighting the underbelly of romance, the figures lose themselves in one another, becoming a single mess of limbs.