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Education
2023
MFA in Sculpture, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2019
BFA in Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
BA in Portuguese Studies, secondary major
Awards, Activities & Residencies
2025
Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York City, NY
2024-2025
The Latinx Project, New York University, Artist-in-Residence, New York City, NY
2024
Sweet Pass Sculpture School, Dallas, TX
2023
Vermont Studio Center Sculpture Scholarship, Johnston, VT
2022
ACRE (Artist Cooperative Residency & Exhibition), Steuben, WI
Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Sculpture Scholarship, Snowmass, CO
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, BIPOC Scholarship, Deer Isle, ME
2021-2023
Jennifer and Dan Gilbert Fellowship, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2021
QUAID Gallery, Summer Artist-in-Residence, Tampa, FL
2019
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Scholarship
Talent Award, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Phi Kappa Phi Outstanding Student Award, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Eliza R. Snow Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellow, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Selected Exhibitions
2025
Familiar Textures, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2024
This will pass, The Latinx Project, New York University, New York, NY (Solo)
In Memory, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT
Sculpture School: Concrete, Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Dallas, TX
2023
Lamentations, Ortega y Gasset Projects, New York, NY (Solo)
Without Rise, Roman Susan Gallery, Chicago, IL (Solo)
Graduate Degree Exhibition, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Água Viva, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
La Quema del Diablo, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2022
Free for All, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Chair Show, First National Building, Detroit, MI
Brought to the Table, Saarinen House, Bloomfield Hills, MI
CPU Result, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
ALTARS, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2021
Reconcile, QUAID Gallery, Tampa, FL (Solo)
People Places Things, Project Gallery V, New York, NY
2020
Make America what America must Become, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, LA
Circle, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art Museum, Gimpo-si Gyeonngi-do, South Korea
Home as situation, Bolivar Gallery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Comforting Discomfort, Rio Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT (Two-person)
Bookworks, Utah Cultural Celebration Center, West Valley, UT
Presentations, Publications & Press
2025
Brigham Young University, Department of Art, Visiting Artist Lecture Series. October 2025 (Upcoming Fall)
The Latinx Project’s Graduate Student Working Group Symposium, "Perspectives on Aesthetics, Sexuality, and Geography," Keynote Speaker Address. New York University. March 2025.
2024
Morgan, Kendall. “Sweet Pass Sculpture Park says goodbye to Dallas with an artistic celebration,” The Dallas Morning News. November 14 2024. https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/visual-arts/2024/11/14/sweet-pass-sculpture-park-says-goodbye-to-dallas-with-an-artistic-celebration/
Sarradet, William. “Where is the Body? Recent Exhibitions in Dallas: Sculpture School Concrete at Sweet Pass Sculpture Park,” Glasstire: Texas Visual Art. November 2024. https://glasstire.com/2024/11/08/where-is-the-body-recent-exhibitions-in-dallas/.
Olmedo-González, Renato, Kristina Gibby, Milad Mozari, and Dalila Sanabria. “Panel Discussion: On Memory, Place and Displacement,” at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT, 24 Oct. 2024, https://utahmoca.org/event/memory-displacement-and-place/.
Guitiérrez, Laura, Catalina Tuca and Dalila Sanabria. “AIR Panel Discussion: This will pass,” at the Latinx Project, New York University, 17 Oct. 2024, https://www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/20242025/save-the-date-air-exhibition-program.
Chen, Sherry. “Review: ‘This will pass’ promises hope through Latin American mythology and history,” Washington Square News, New York University. October 2024. https://nyunews.com/culture/iequity/2024/10/21/sanabria-exhibition/
Roka, Les. “The act of memory as art: Current Utah Museum of Contemporary Art exhibitions offer impressive scope for viewer to absorb,” The Utah Review. October 2024.
Wichert, Geoff. “In Memory at UMOCA Challenges Our Understanding of Time and Art,” 15 Bytes: Utah Arts Magazine. August 2024. https://artistsofutah.org/15Bytes/index.php/in-memory-at-umoca-challenges-our-understanding-of-time-and-art/
Sato, Analisa. “Being Relevant: On the BYU Department of Art in the Twenty-First Century” in Latter-Day Saint Art: A Critical Reader, edited by Amanda K. Beardsley and Mason Allred, 571-593, (New York: Oxford University Press), 2024.
Sanabria, Dalila edited by Grace White. “Musings on Techno-Mysticism: Deviled Heroines, Queer Replicants and Anonymous Post-Metal Showmen.” Big Shed Blog. June 2024. https://www.bigbigshed.com/blog-june-24
2023
Conlon, Kate and Bouyang Hou. “Templates for Public Art: Volume 6,”Limited Time Engagement, Wassaic Project, Haunted Mills Ball, October 2023. https://www.limitedtimeengagement.com/templates-for-public-art-4
Min, So Jung. “Vermont Studio Center,” The One Art World. July/August 2023.
Lanzillo, Willian and Chris Baker. “Fountainswimming Issue II: Residue,” Cranbrook Academy of Art, April 2023
Latinx Student Group, “La Quema del Diablo,” Cranbrook Academy of Art. May 2023. Distributed at Printed Matter’s 2023 LA Art Book Fair.
2021
Garcia, Justin. “A family separated by deportation is at focus during Tampa art opening at QUAID Gallery,” Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. July 2021.
Robinson, Katrina Kay.“Justice Delayed: ‘Make America What America Must Become’ at the CAC New Orleans,” Art in America. April 2021.
2020
“The CAC New Orleans presents ‘Make America What America Must Become”, TERREMOTO Magazine, Mexico City, Mexico. September 2020.
Mortensen, Parker Scott. “Parallel Lines: Comforting Discomfort,” SLUG Magazine. February Issue 2020.
Hill, Scotti. “Sanabria and Barney Provide Doses of Whimsy and Discomfort at Rio Gallery,” 15 Bytes: Utah Arts Magazine. January 2020.