✯ zines
✯ ceramics
✯ photography
✯ radio
✯ plus more
SARAH NGỌC LƯU (she/they) is an artist and educator currently living in Portland, OR. She gravitates towards many disciplines, but loves photography, ceramics, zines and making prints the most. Her work has touched on themes of her mixed Vietnamese-Chinese identity, intergenerational cycles and ancestral lineages. She explores outside those topics by pulling inspiration from her lived experiences being born and raised in San Jose, CA surrounded by a vibrant arts and music culture.
Her current interests revolve around the experiences of her Vietnamese-Chinese diaspora. Approaching memory as a primary source, she is interested in how people remember. Focusing on family archives that have migrated across lands and oceans, she is interested in the roles distance and survival play in the preservation of ancestral lineages and the reconstruction of home.
She received a BA in Studio Art, Preparation for Teaching from San Jose State University in 2024 and is currently an MFA candidate in the Art and Social Practice program at Portland State University.
Her favorite food is her grandmother’s Bánh Bao and she can rollerskate backwards. She knows how to speak 5 languages and considers herself a professional in egg-frying of all forms.
contact:
stuffbysar@gmail.com