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Isabel Winson-Sagan is an all-media artist, free range researcher, and perpetual art student. Often collaborating with her mother, the poet Miriam Sagan, they combine text & the graphic arts in all of their work. To view their portfolio, please visit Maternal Mitochondria. On her own, Isabel works in a variety of mediums, including installation, printmaking/book arts, photography, and new media.

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EXHIBITIONS
Our Home Gardens, Visual Arts Gallery at SFCC, Santa Fe, NM, 2026
Mother Memory, Wonzimer Gallery, L.A., CA, 2025
Woven Skies: SciArt from Air to Cosmos, SciArt Santa Fe, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM, 2025
Black & White, New Mexico Art League, Albuquerque, NM, 2025
The Last Breath: Death & Contemporary Art, WomensWorks.Art, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2024
3rd Annual Phonetography Show, The Center Gallery Fine Art, Truth or Consequences, NM, 2024
Invisibility: Existing on the Periphery, Women Made Gallery, Chicago/Online, 2024
FotoFocus: Stories of the Land, Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park, Hamilton, OH, 2024
Art & Activism, Axle Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, 2024
CURRENTS 2024 Art & Technology Festival, Santa Fe, NM, 2024
2nd Annual Antioch Alumni Art Exhibition, Herndon Gallery, Yellowspings, OH, 2024
Santa Fe Reads Community Art Show, Santa Fe, NM, 2024
Women in Art, Las Lagunas Art Gallery, Las Lagunas, CA, 2024
Annual Members’ Show, Foto Forum Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, 2022-2025
Selfhood, Strata Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2024
Pollux Awards, FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, 2023
Art of the West, Life in the West Art Gallery, Broomfield, CO, 2023
Divina Diosa, WomensWorks.Art, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2023
Storytellers, Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA/Online, 2023
Spectacular Landscapes, KBM Gallery, Riverside, CA/Online, 2023
Throwing Salt, Memento Mori Gallery, Lakewood, CO, 2023
Working Together: Collaborative Art, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA/Online, 2023
1st Annual Antioch Alumni Art Exhibition, Herndon Gallery, Yellowspings, OH, 2023
Lines & Other Forms, Dodomu Gallery, Online/Brooklyn, 2023
Words Matter, RI Center for Photographic Arts, Providence, RI, 2023
Text/Message, Shoebox Projects, Online/LA, 2023
24th International Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2023
The SPELL: The Magic of Words and Imagery, SFCC Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2022
*Lending Library of the Invisible, Santa Fe Public Library, Santa Fe, NM, 2022
Art of Water VI, James May Gallery, Online Exhibit, 2022
Shaping the Figural Gaze: A Response to “Bustes de Femmes,” Online Exhibit, 2021
Through the Eye: Women in Photography, WomensWorks.Art, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2021
*What We Wrote on the Water, Vital Spaces, Santa Fe, NM, 2021
*The Floating World, Grey Matter Float Spa, Santa Fe, NM, 2020
Feminist Art in the Trump Era, Axle Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, 2020
The Sacred & Liturgical Art Exhibition, Springfield Art Association, Springfield, IL, 2020
Women’s Works 33rd Anniversary, The Old Courthouse Arts Center, Woodstock, IL, 2020
On the Edge, Art League Rhode Island, RI, 2020
Eros and Thanatos, Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI, 2020
Speaking to the Imagination: The Contemporary Artist’s Book, Gerald Peters Projects Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2019
enGENDERing Change, Cloyde Snook Gallery, Alamosa, CO, 2019
Art as Advocacy: Promoting Equity and Social Justice for Women, Springfield Art Association, Springfield, IL, 2019
The Pantone Postcard Project, Axle Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, 2019
Bees and Wax, Tubac Center for the Arts, AZ, 2018
*Water Sound, Zephyr Community Art Studio, Santa Fe, NM, 2018
Thres/hold, Studio Kura Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan, 2018

*- denotes a solo show

WORK EXPERIENCE
Board of Directors member for CURRENTS Festival/Parallel Studios, 2021-2023
Teaching suminagashi workshops at events and privately since 2018.
-Lectures and Presentations
Pecha Kucha, “Seeing with Each Other’s Eyes,” SITE Santa Fe, 2022
Gerald Peters Gallery, Artist Talk, 2019
BAG (Book Arts of Santa Fe) Featured Artist Talk, 2019

AWARDS
2nd Place, Santa Fe Reads Community Art Show, Santa Fe, NM, 2024
Awardee of the 19th Edition of the Pollux Awards, Worldwide Photography Gala Awards, UK and Barcelona, 2023
“Best in Show,” Annual Members’ Show, Foto Forum Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, 2023
2020 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards, finalist in cover design for 100 Cups of Coffee by Miriam Sagan and Tres Chicas Press
Arts and Design Juried Student Showcase, “Best Woodcarving” award, Santa Fe Community College Visual Arts Gallery, 2018
-Artist Residencies
WOWArtSci, Taos, NM, 2023
Ayatana Artists’ Research Program, based in Ontario, Canada, 2020-2023, 2025
Studio Kura, Fukuoka, Japan, 2018
Herekeke Art Center, Questa, NM, 2016
Wildacres Retreat, Little Switzerland, NC, 2015

BIBLIOGRAPHY
In the Spotlight, Maternal Mitochondria, Women United ART MAGAZINE, Issue X Spring 2025
Goldberg, Julia, Walk Abouts, Santa Fe Reporter, September 18^th, 2018
Featured artists, Miriam Sagan and Isabel Winson-Sagan, Ninth Letter, July 23rd, 2018

INSTALLATIONS
Dormancy : Desiccation : Deluge, permanent installation, The Poetry Yard, Santa Fe, NM, 2021
Fairy Houses, permanent installation, Santa Fe Skies RV Park, Santa Fe, NM, 2018
Suminagashi in the Park, temporary installation, Santa Fe Railyard Park, Santa Fe, NM, 2018
Golden Cages, temporary installation, Santa Fe Skies RV Park, Santa Fe, NM, 2017
Haiku in the Hood, permanent installation, Santa Fe neighborhood, Santa Fe, NM, 2014

PUBLICATIONS
Magazines 2025: Cholla Needles, Women United ART MAGAZINE, Ninth Letter
Magazines 2023: The Hand Magazine, Issue 52
Border Line, cover art, Miriam Sagan, Cholla Needles Arts, 2023
Magazines 2021: Tiny Spoon
100 Cups of Coffee, cover art and interior illustrations, Miriam Sagan, Tres Chicas Press, 2019
From Ikisan Station, cover art, Miriam Sagan, Flutter Press, 2019
Flip-Flop, book design, Michael G. Smith & Miriam Sagan, Miriam’s Well Press, 2017
Magazines and online sites: Modern Literature, Les Femmes Folles, 2017
Spilled Ink, book design and photography, Miriam Sagan & Isabel Winson-Sagan, Miriam’s Well Press, 2016
Magazines 2016: Fourth & Sycamore, Origami Poems Project, Truck
Black Rainbow, cover art, Miriam Sagan, Sherman Asher Publishing, 2015
Swimming in Reykjavik, photography, Isabel Winson-Sagan & Miriam Sagan, The Moon Press, 2015
Magazines 2015: Rogue Agent Journal

EDUCATION
Certificate in Business Admin, Santa Fe Community College, 2025
A.A. in Intermedia Fine Arts & Certificate in Printmaking/Book Arts, Santa Fe Community College, 2021
B.A. in Religious Studies & Biological Anthropology, University of New Mexico, 2012
–Honors: Magna Cum Laude & departmental honors for thesis The Sacred in American Art: Shakers and Santeros.
Antioch College 2007-2008