SARAH FAUX
Born in Boston, USA, 1986. Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, USA
EDUCATION
2015
MFA in Painting and Printmaking, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
2009
BFA in Painting, Rhode Island School of Design, Kingston, RI, USA
2008
BA in History of Art and Architecture, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026
Trampler, Capsule, Shanghai, China
2025
Autofriction, Hales New York, New York, USA
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
2026
Common Space, Bergen Street, Brooklyn, USA
2025
Summer Drift, Capsule, Shanghai, China
Erotic City, Eric Firestone Gallery, New York, USA
Capsule Filling, Capsule, Hong Kong, China (curated by Zoie Yung)
2024
Hovering, Capsule Venice, Venice, Italy (curated by Manuela Lietti)
When We Become Us², Capsule Venice, Venice, Italy
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, Stems Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
OrtaMiklos: 6 acts of confinement, Friedman Benda, New York, USA
2019
A Seed's a Star, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Pleasure in Precariousness, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, USA
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)
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, with Mandy Lynn Ford, yours, mine & ours gallery, New York, USA
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
Artemisia, Cuevas Tilleard Projects, New York, USA
Elaine!, Wanusay, Montreal, Canada
Yale MFA Painting & Printmaking, Garis & Hahn Gallery, New York, USA (curated by David Humphrey)
The Rhode Island School of Design Alumni/Faculty Show, Studio 53, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, USA
Richard Said, Fjord, Philadelphia, USA
The Ramble, The Range, Saguache, 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
Boston Young Contemporaries, 808 Commonwealth Gallery, Boston, USA
About the Body, Gallery 1989, Larchmont, New York, USA
Shelter, with Chuck Webster, Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, USA
2013
Sense-Data, Shoot the Lobster, New York, USA (curated by RK Projects)
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
ART FAIRS
2020
West Bund Art and Design, Shanghai, China (presented by Capsule Shanghai)
2019
Sarah Faux, Solo Project at Frieze NY, Frame Section, New York, USA (presented by Capsule Shanghai)
AWARDS
2024
The Clyfford Still Museum, Institute Residential Fellowship and Award, Denver, USA
2023
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, USA
2014
Gloucester Painting Prize and Residency, Yale School of Art, Gloucester, USA
RESIDENCIES
2025
The Edward F. Albee Foundation, Artist's Residency, Montauk, USA
2024
The Macedonia Institute, Artist's Residency, Chatham, USA
2022
Flying Horse Editions, Visiting Artist, Orlando, USA
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
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
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2025
Eeeeeee!, NIAD Virtual Gallery, Richmond, USA
2023
Deep! Down! Inside!, Hales Gallery, New York, USA
2019
Right Behind Your Eyes, Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai, China
