Sara Blokland (1969, NL) is a visual artist, independent researcher, and curator focused on photography. Her work explores the complex dynamics between photography and (post)colonial cultural histories. Blokland holds a BA in scenography and photography from the Rietveld Academy, an MFA from the Sandberg Institute, and an MA in Film and Photographic Studies from Leiden University.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Kumho Museum in Seoul and the Stedelijk Museum, and is part of several collections such as the Stedelijk Museum, the Netherlands Photo Museum, and the ABN AMRO collection. She has published the artist book Van Waarde (2008) and co-edited Unfixed: Photography and Post-Colonial Perspectives in Contemporary Art (2012). As a curator, she has worked on exhibitions such as "Unfixed" (2009), "Srefidensi" (2015-2017), and "Contemporary Caribbean Perspectives" (2020).
Sara currently teaches photography and research at Art Academy Utrecht, is a practice supervisor at the MA Photography and Society at the KABK, and is a lecturer at the minor “Creative Strategies for Societal Change” at Leiden University.