Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento

Clancco  ||   11 May 2007


Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento is an artist, writer, and legal practitioner interested in the relationship between art and law. His main areas of focus are intellectual property, law and film, and nonprofit organizations, with a particular emphasis on contemporary art.

His work has been shown in international exhibitions, including Mexico, Germany, and Spain, and nationally in Dallas, New York City, and Los Angeles. He has published essays and projects in Five Continents and One City Exhibition (catalogue essay, Mexico), Capital Art: On the Culture of Punishment (catalogue essay, US), Cabinet Magazine (US), Law Text Culture (Australia), and Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left. For more information on projects, please see our Projects page as well as our Locations of CLANCCO Projects page.

Sarmiento has taught in a number of universities and art schools, among them Hofstra University, Harvard University, the University of Southern California, and CalArts. He has participated in panels and symposiums at a number of institutions, including The New York State Council on the Arts, The International Center of Photography, Pratt Institute, Harlem Arts Alliance, The Bronx Museum's Artist in the Marketplace Program, The Yale School of Management, The School of Visual Arts, The Vera List Center for Arts and Politics at The New School, Columbia University School of the Arts, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Columbia Law School, Cornell Law School, Harvard University, and the Centre Sociologie de l'Innovation, Ecole des Mines de Paris.

He received his BA in Art from the University of Texas-El Paso, and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. He was also a Van Lier Fellow at the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program in Studio Art in 1997-98. He received his J.D. from Cornell Law School in 2006. He is currently Associate Director for Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts in New York City and Adjunct Instructor of Clinical Law at Brooklyn Law School, as well as a mentor with the Kennedy Center's Arts in Crisis program.



Email: sergio_sarmiento@clancco.com