Sara Alghesheyan

(b. 1993) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Sara Alghesheyan is a multimedia artist. She began making short films while pursuing her BA degree in Media and Film at the University of San Francisco (2019). She received an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University (2024). Alghesheyan has been awarded scholarships from the Higher Education Ministry (2014) and the Culture Ministry (2022) of Saudi Arabia, as well as a residency at the Misk Art Institute in Berlin (2023). She is also co-instructor of ART of the MOOC: Colors, Bodies, and Power, a collaborative lecture series with over 78,000 enrolled learners in 134 countries, produced by Duke University, Creative Time NY, University of the Arts Berlin, and the Mellon Foundation.

• Duke Deans Award for graduate students, Duke University, 2023
• BAI Residency Program, Misk Art Institute, 2023
• Path of Excellence Scholarship, Ministry of Culture, 2022
• Path of Excellence Scholarship, Ministry of Higher Education, 2014

• GRAVITATIONAL LENSING "FEMINIST FILM DIALOGUES" Oakland, California 06/2024
• MFA/EDA Thesis "Between Memories & Dreams" Duke University 03/2024
• Fonāna, FOAM Amsterdam, Netherlands, 11/2023
• I CAN SEE LAND, Sindbad, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 12/2023
• Expanded Cinema, Duke University, 11/2023
• Binghamton Experimental Film Festival, Binghamton, New York, 11/2023
• Art Spring Festival, Berlin, Germany, 06/2023
• Durational Portrait, Jeddah and Alula, Saudi Arabia, 02/2020
• Young Saudi Artists, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 11/2019
• USF Experimental Cinema Screening, San Francisco, CA, 12/2018