BIO AND CV
Sara Woster is a painter and a writer living in Brooklyn, NY, and the Catskills. She is the author of a painting how-to and memoir, Painting Can Save Your Life: How and Why We Paint, from Penguin Random House. She has exhibited her paintings and performed her multimedia collaborations at galleries around the world including Gisela Projects, NY, The Hammer Museum, UCLA, David Zwirner's Platform, NADA Gallery, NY, Freight and Volume Gallery, NY, Alt Esc, NY, 90sqm Gallery, Amsterdam, Lachaise Gallery and the Center for Visual Research, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA. She has been granted fellowships by the Jerome Foundation and Brooklyn Arts Council.
Education
BA New School University, New York, NY
University of Minnesota, Studio Arts, Minneapolis. MN
Candili Art Center, Prokopi, Greece
Solo Exhibitions
2023
David Zwirner’s Platform
You Don’t Have to Go Home but You Can’t Stay Here, Lachaise Gallery and the Center for Visual Research, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA
2020
Wilderness, Preview, Online
2020
Sara Woster, Ecce Gallery, Fargo, ND
2012
We Are All Stardust, Center for Visual Research, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA
2010
Home is Where You Start From, Washington Pavilion Visual Arts Center, Sioux Falls, SD
2005
The Fantasist, Go Fish Gallery (Ivy Jean Brown Gallery) New York, NY
2002
Blonde, Movelab Gallery, New York, NY
2001
The Men I Loved, Movelab Gallery, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2022
NADA NY GALLERY
2020
Newvember Group Show, Ecce Gallery, Fargo, NY
2019
As Solid as Fog, Lazy Susan Gallery, New York, NY
2016
No Vacancy, Alt Esc Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Heart to Heart, South Dakota Museum of Art, Brookings, SD
2013
State of Wonder Group Show, Picture Farm Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2005
Dirty Does It, Freight and Volume, New York, NY
Inter-States, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2003
Poses for Beam, 90sqm, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Welcome to Pockoville, Pockoville Gallery, London, England
2001
InArt Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1998
Jerome Foundation Fellowship Exhibition, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
Franconia Sculpture Park, Franconia, MN
Material/Immaterial, The Soap Factory@No Name, Minneapolis, MN
Collaborations
2010
Hi/Bye Performance, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, in collaboration with Rob Fischer and Kraig Jarret Johnson
2009
Few Landmarks and No Boundaries performance, Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis, MN
A collaboration with Rob Fischer and Kraig Jarret Johnson
Books
Night Light, Homegrown Books, illustrator
The City & Country Book set, Homegrown Books, illustrator
The May Queen, contributor to anthology
Because I Lover Her, contributor to anthology
The May Queen, contributor to anthology
Awards and Honors
1998 Jerome Foundation Emerging Artist Grant, Minneapolis, MN
1998 Franconica Sculpture Garden Residency, Franconia, MN