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