HAERTIG GONZALEZ
ARTIST STATEMENT
I work in sculpture, installation, and text to examine how systems- capitalism, migration law, racial hierarchies, and labor- shape our lives and our environments. My practice grew out of my own family’s history, from migration to the United States to experiences of exploitation in industries like poultry processing. Through making, I look at how space, resources, and even the body itself can be commodified, and how this strips people of dignity and collective agency. Much of my work reuses everyday materials- luggage, kitchen cabinets, poultry equipment- reconfigured into forms that blur the line between body, commodity, and machine. These objects carry the weight of policy and history while also pointing to the absurdity of the systems that govern us. I see art as a way to name these contradictions and imagine alternatives. My recent projects focus on collective housing, ecological repair, and the possibility of more equitable systems of living. By transforming familiar materials and spaces, I aim to create room for reflection and for imagining futures built on care, resilience, and shared agency.
BIO
Sabrina Haertig Gonzalez is a Dominican-German multimedia artist based in New York. She earned her BFA from Cornell University in 2022, graduating among the top 1% of her class and being named a Merrill Presidential Scholar, one of 42 selected from over 15,000 undergraduates. At Cornell she also received the Rawlings Presidential Scholarship, the Edith Adams and Walter King Stone Memorial Prize, the Faculty Medal of Art, and served as Degree Marshal for her class. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions, including My Best Self at The Soil Factory (Ithaca, NY) and Connections II at the Fowler-Kellogg Art Center (Chautauqua, NY). In 2023 she became the youngest Co-Director of the Brooklyn-based curatorial collective Ortega y Gasset. She has also worked in the blue-chip gallery world as a photographer, and at a high-growth AI startup, where she explored the role of technology in sales analytics, surveillance, and markets. She is currently conducting research and developing new work around sustainable housing practices, architecture, and public installation.
