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SARAH SLAPPEY

1984   Born in Columbia, South Carolina

            Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

 

EDUCATION

2016   MFA Painting, Hunter College, New York, NY

2006   BA Studio Art, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024   Bernheim Gallery, London, UK (Forthcoming)

            Ama Venice, Venice, Italy (Forthcoming)

2022    Sacrifices, Maria Bernheim, Zurich, Switzerland, CH 

2021    Self Care, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY

 

2020    Tenderizer, Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich, Switzerland, CH 

             Power Play, Sargent's Daughters Gallery, New York, NY 

 

2019    Soft, Pink, and Warm, Deanna Evans Projects, New York, NY (two person)

 

2018    Night Feeding, Crush Curatorial, New York, NY 

 

2016    MFA Thesis Show, Hunter Art Gallery, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023    The Big Chill, Bernheim Gallery, London, UK

             Récits de Collection, Musée D’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

             Public Private, Pond Society, Shanghai, China

             PRESENT ’23: Building the Scantland Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio

             Public Private, Pond Society, Shanghai, China (forthcoming)

             Death of Beauty, Sargent’s Daughters, Los Angeles, CA

2022    I’m Stepping High, I’m Drifting, And There I Go Leaping, Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Suzhou, China

             Finger Bang, Perrotin, Paris, France

             Ojos de Perro Azul, Marinaro Gallery, New York, NY

             PERSON(A), Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY

             Fire, Figure, Fantasy, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami, FL

             Sweet Lust, White Cube, Paris, France

             GLOSS, Tick Tack, Antwerp, Belgium

2021    Inventaire, Musée D’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

             The Artist Is Online, König Galerie, Berlin, Germany

             Body Double, Galerie Maria Bernheim, London, England 

             Cake Show, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA

 

2020    My Flannel Knickers, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY

  Friends and Friends of Friends, Schlossmuseum, Linz, Austria

 

2019    Cruise, Kidman, Kubrick, Maria Bernheim Gallery, Zurich Switzerland 

             Fingertips, Carl Kostyal Gallery, London, England

             Malmo Sessions, Carl Kostyal Gallery, Malmo, Sweden

             Big Ringer, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY

             Dark Spring, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY

             Body Parts, Maria Bernheim Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland    

             Surreality, Crush Curatorial, New York, NY

             News from Nowhere, Gutstein Gallery at Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA      

 

2018    Paper Cuts, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK 

             Tender Arrangements, Super Dutchess Gallery, New York, NY

             RE_ARRANGE, Juxtapoz Projects at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ

             Wunderkammer: An Epistemological Buffet, KH7 Artspace, Aarhus, Denmark              

 

2017    The Flat Files: Year Five, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY

             Paper Cuts, Tripp Gallery, London, UK 

             Friends You May Know, Ortega y Gasset, Brooklyn, NY

 

2016   MFA Thesis Show, Hunter Art Gallery, New York, NY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2023 “Want to Be an Artist? We Asked 9 Famous Figures How to Turn Your Passion into Your Profession”, Cultured, October 16, 2023

            Bailey, Stephanie, “How Artists are Redefining Identity Through Painting in the 21st Century”, Art Basel, July 6th, 2023

            “Immerse Yourself in Art: 7 New Exhibitions to See in Shanghai”, Timeout Shanghai, June 21, 2023

            Jareh, Das, “Jareh Das on the China-Africa Artistic Exchange”, Ocula, June 13, 2023

            “The Top 10 Exhibitions to See in 2023”, ArtReview, June 06, 2023

            Lescaze, Zoe, “Artists Depicting the Power and Strangeness of Breasts”, T Magazine, May 16, 2023

            François, Simon, “New York, The Pixel Ate My Lunch” Purple Magazine, April 2023

            Dozier, Ayanna, “Why Leonor Fini’s Seductive Surrealist Paintings are Resonating with Collectors Today” Artsy, February 22, 2023

2022.   Celeux-Lanval, Maïlys, “La Main, Motif Infini de L’art Contemporain”, Beaux Arts, September 22, 2022
            Garbrick, Hugh, “Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Expands Collection with Artworks from More Than 60 Artists”, Wtop news, August 28, 2022

            Gibbs, Kate, “Landmark Acquisitions Reflect the Hishorn’s Expansive Curatorial Mission and Programming” Smithsonian, August 24, 2022

            Dozier, Ayanna, “Women Artist are Painting fresh Visions of Sex with A Surrealist Twist”, Artsy, August 11, 2022

            Estiler, Keith “Collectors: Matt Chung of Gallery Ascend and Haus of Contemporary”,   Hypebeast, July 26, 2022

            Westall, Mark, “Sweet Lust A Group Show Curated by Michele Lamy & Mathieu Paris That Investigates Preconceptions of the Body.”

                 Fad-Magazine, February 24, 2022

            Bogojev, Sasha, “The Well of Fucked-upness”, Juxtapoz, January 31, 2022. print 

2021    Yamashita, Yukako, “Women in Art”, Harper’s Bazaar Japan, December, 2021

            Artists to Follow in 2022“, Harper’s Bazaar Latin America, 2021

            Slenske, Michael, “Step Inside a Dazzling Los Angeles Home Packed with Works by Emerging Artists”, Galerie Magazine, December 3, 2021

            Lakin, Max, “Sarah Slappey”, Artforum, November, 2021, print

            Murphy, Emily, “Phantom Limbs”, Hi-Fructose, November, 2021. print

            Kamp, Justin, “Sarah Slappey Gets Down to the Body in ‘Self Care’”, Observer, October 5, 2021

            Last Days for Self Care: Sarah Slappey @ Sargent’s Daughters”, Juztapoz, October 1, 2021

            White, Kate, “How Does Rising Artist Sarah Slappey Stay Mellow While Painting Scenes of ‘Quiet Violence’? A Soothing Studio Soundtrack”                      Artnet, September 21, 2021

            Moran, Justin, “John Waters Spilled His Popper at this Palmo Springs ‘House Parte’”, Paper, August 17, 2021

            Meier, Anika, “Insta Watchlist: Sarah Slappey ‘Today Surrealism is Female Dominated’”, monopol magazine, March 2, 2021

2020   Bogojev, Sasha, “Friends and Friends of Friends”, Juxtapoz, December 31, 2020

            Joia Magazine, October 12, 2020

            Chan Jim, Amber, “Show the beauty of naked women with surrealism!” Taiwan GQ, November 3, 2020

            “Tenderizer: Sarah Slappey @ Galerie Maria Bernheim”, Juxtapoz, October 28, 2020

            Fontaine, Pearl, “Sarah Slappey Removes Shame from the Nude Female Form”, Whitewall, September 11, 2020

            “Sarah Slappey: Tenderizer”, My Art Guides, September 11, 2020

            “A World Apart”, Elephant Magazine, Summer 2020

            “Price Check! Here’s What Sold - and for how much”, Arnet, May 13, 2020

            Woolbright, Andrew Paul, “Phantom Body: Weightless bodies, Avatars, and the end of skin”, Whitehot Magazine, April, 2020

            Indrisek, Scott, “How Artists Are Staying Creative through COVID-19”, Artsy, March 23, 2020

            Cohen, Aline, "5 Artists on Our Radar This March”, Artsy, March 25, 2020

            Obasi, Di Chidozie, “Casey Lesser on the Multifaceted Prism of Female-led Contemporary Art”, Italian Vogue, March 19, 2021

            White, Katie, “Editors’ Picks: 21 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This    Week”, artnet, February 24, 2020

            Bogojev, Sasha, “Sarah Slappey’s Power Play at Sargent’s Daughters”, Juxtapoz, February 12, 2020

2019   Smith, Andy, “The Oil Paintings of Sarah Slappey”, Hi-Fructose, September 19, 2019

            Johnson, Paddy, “On the Importance of Middle Market Dealers in a Thriving Art Scene”, Observer, August 2, 2019

            Monté, Julia, “Sarah Slappey: Lurking in the Underbrush”, Two Coats of Paint, April 2, 2019

            Fatemann, Johanna, “Dark Spring”, The New Yorker, March 18, 2019

            Angeleti, Gabriella, “Three Exhibitions to See in New York This Weekend”, The Art Newspaper, March 14, 2019

            “The New Surrealism: Contemporary Women Artists Against Alternative Facts”, Artspace, February 23, 2019 

            Horn, Daniel, “Art Geneve 2019”, Flash Art, February 22, 2019

            Burns, Emily, “Interview with Sarah Slappey”, Maake Magazine, 2019

            Nafziger, Christina, “Soft, Beautiful Horror Movie by Sarah Slappey”, Artmaze Magazine, 2019

 

PUBLICATIONS

“The Stand-Ins: Figurative Painting from the Zabludowicz Collection”, The Zabludowicz Collection, September 2022 

 

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

            Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C

            The Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria

            Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida

            Institute Contemporary Art Miami, Florida

            Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio

            Musée D’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

            Orange County Museum of Art

            Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

            The Pond Society, Shanghai, China

            K11 Musea, Hong Kong

            The Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium 

            The Zabludowicz Collection, London, England

            Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Suzhou, China

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