SARAH FAUX
Born in Boston, USA, 1986. Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, USA
EDUCATION
2015
Yale University, MFA Painting and Printmaking
2009
Rhode Island School of Design, BFA Painting, Honors
2008
Brown University, BA History of Art and Architecture, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Sweetbitter, Hales New York, New York, USA
2021
Whatever I See I Swallow, M+B, Los Angeles, USA
2020
Perfect for Her, Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2019
Clench and Release, M+B, Los Angeles, USA
2018
Pucker, Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai, China
11am Mirror Hole, Cuevas Tilleard, New York, USA
2017
Seether, Thierry Goldberg, New York, USA
2016
Gemini, Stems Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Hovering, Capsule Venice, Venice, Italy (curated by Manuela Lietti)
When We Become Us², Capsule Venice, Venice, Italy (curated by Manuela Lietti)
Malcriadas, Her Clique, Lisbon, Portugal
2023
Looking Like Fire, Sim Smith, London, England
Unfathomable, Althius Hofland Fine Arts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Deep! Down! Inside!, Hales Gallery, New York, USA
2022
I is Other, Lyles & King, New York, USA
Spring Antidote, Blanc Art Space, Beijing, China (organized by Capsule Shanghai)
2020
A Room of Her Own, How Museum, Shanghai, China
100!, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Body in Motion, Traveling Bodies, Stem Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
OrtaMiklos: 6 acts of confinement, Friedman Benda, New York, USA
2019
Pleasure in Precariousness, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, USA
A Seed's a Star, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Attached: Meghan Brady, Sarah Faux, Melissa Meyer, Anne Ryan, New York Studio School, New York, USA
Bed, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA, curated by David Humphrey and Kate Javens
Awaken, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, New York, USA, curated by Eileen Jeng Lynch
Mushrooms, Y2K group at 7 Franklin Place, New York, USA
2018
The Divine Joke, Anita Rogers Gallery, New York, USA, curated by Barry Schwabsky
Outside In, Francesco Pantaleone Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
#FFFFFFiguration, Nevven Gallery, Gothenberg, Sweden, curated by Jonathan Chapline
I am no bird, ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, USA
2017
Slip, three person show with Marcela Florido and Tschabalala Self, Stems Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Drawer, pop-up curated by Flat File, Deli Gallery, Queens, New York, USA
Close Quarters: 8 Representational Painters, 1969 Gallery, New York, USA
Small Painting, COUNTY, Palm Beach, FL, USA
2016
Regrouping, Edward Thorp Galllery, New York, New York, USA
Forward, ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, USA
Touching in the Dark, yours, mine & ours gallery, New York, USA (two-person show with Mandy Lyn Ford)
When We Become Us, Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Scale a Wall, Cuevas Tilleard, New York, USA
Four Artists, Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York, USA
WACKing the Piñata, ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, USA
30 under 30ish, Victori + Mo, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Beyond the Gaze: Women Painting Women, Garis & Hahn Gallery, New York, USA
Young Frankensteins, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, USA
2015
NO NOTICE, Newtown Creek Barge Park, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Receptive Fields, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, New York, USA
Saatchi Art Presents Surface Tension, Pop-up show at Parasol Projects, New York, USA
Artemisia, Cuevas Tilleard Projects, New York, USA
The Rhode Island School of Design Alumni/Faculty Show, Studio 53, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, USA
Elaine!, Wanusay, Montreal, Canada
Yale MFA Painting & Printmaking, Garis & Hahn Gallery, New York, USA (curated by David Humphrey)
Summer Group Exhibition 2015, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, USA
The Ramble, The Range, Saguache, USA
Richard Said, Fjord, Philadelphia, USA
Take it Easy, Dubrovnik Contemporary, Dubrovnik, Croatia
2015 but who's counting: Yale MFA Thesis, Green Hall Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, USA
2014
Junction, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, USA
Mental Furniture, contributed a PDF to Petrella's Imports @ Night Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
MFA 2015, Green Hall Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, USA
Boston Young Contemporaries, 808 Commonwealth Gallery, Boston, USA
I'll Miss Your Garbage, Molasses Books, Brooklyn, New York, USA
About the Body, Gallery 1989, Larchmont, New York, USA
Shelter, with Chuck Webster, Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, USA
First Year Show, Green Hall Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, USA
2013
Sense-Data, Shoot the Lobster, New York, USA (curated by RK Projects)
Splendor in the Grass, Green Hall Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, USA
Dying on Stage: New Painting in New York, Garis and Hahn Gallery, New York, USA (curated by Kyle Chayka)
Slippery Slope, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, USA
2012
Streamlines, KANSAS, New York, USA
Brucennial 2012, Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, USA
2011
DANK, two person show with Tatiana Berg, Tompkins Projects, Brooklyn, USA
2009
My Space, Gelman and Dryfoos Gallery, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, USA
ART FAIR SOLO PROJECTS
2019
Sarah Faux, Solo Project at Frieze NY, Frame Section, New York, USA (presented by Capsule Shanghai)
RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2020
The Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China
2018-2019
Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder, New York, USA
2017
Cuevas Tilleard Projects, Lamu, Kenya
Yaddo, Artist’s Residency, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
2014
Gloucester Painting Prize and Residency, Yale School of Art, Gloucester, USA
2012
Yaddo, Artist's Residency, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
2009
Woodstock-Byrdcliffe Guild Artist-In-Residence, Woodstock, New York, USA
2008
Ox-bow School of Art Fellowship, Saugatuck, USA
ARTIST LECTURES
2018
Montclair State University, Montclair, USA
"Canvas as a Body: Sarah Faux and Deng Tianyuan on the history of painterly painting", Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
2017
Hunter College, Kossak Painting Program, New York, USA
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA
2016
Shanghai American Center, Shanghai, China
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA
2015
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, USA (invited by Dona Nelson)
2013
Providence College, Providence, USA
