Sarah Sipling creates work focusing on ideas of protest, power, and perception. Combining painting, collage, printmaking, and digital techniques, her work searches for the possibility of change. Sipling received her MFA in Printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design and her BFA from Purchase College, State University of New York.
Sipling has been featured in solo exhibitions at GoggleWorks Center for the Arts (Reading, PA), Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (Gimpo-si, Korea), and Evanston Art Center (Evanston, IL), and has been included in group exhibitions at Ely Center of Contemporary Art (New Haven, CT), Janet Turner Print Museum (Chico, CA), and the Reece Museum (Johnson City, TN). Her work is held in public collections including the China Printmaking Museum (Shenzhen, China), Haugesund Museum of Fine Art (Haugesund, Norway), Bradbury Art Museum (Jonesboro, AR), and the Penang State Museum (Penang, Malaysia).
She has received the 2023 Mozaik Philanthropy Future Art Award and a 2022 Puffin Foundation Artist Grant. She lives and works in Kansas City, MO and Syracuse, NY.
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2008 MFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2004 BFA, SUNY Purchase College, Purchase, NY
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2026 The Pressure of Necessity, Evanston Art Center, Evanston IL
2025 Power. Print. Perception., GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, Reading PA
2022 Protest with Veins, Impact 12, Centre for Print Research, Bristol England
2021 Protest (Print), Foundry Art Center, St Charles MO
2021 Protest and Print, The Vault, d’Art Center, Norfolk VA
2019 Deteriorate, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA) Museum, Gimpo-si Korea
2019 Deterioration, FrontierSpace Gallery, Missoula MT
2019 More than Me, Brick Red Gallery, New Orleans LA
2018 Sipling New Work, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth TX
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2025 Ai Print Workshop Pavilion, The Wrong Biennale, Virtual
2025 Drawing Resistance: The Artist’s Dilemma in Political Conflict, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago IL
2025 Free Print, MLYN Design Hub, Kyiv Ukraine
2024 The Truth of Generative Ai, The Post Digital Printmaker, SGCI, Providence RI
2024 Hanging by a Thread, Left of Center Art Gallery, Las Vegas NV
2024 Rage Against the Machine, Pittsburgh Seen, Pittsburgh PA
2023 New Contemporaries, Dodomu Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2023 Pivotal, WCADC, Montpelier Arts Center, Laurel MD
2023 Land, Race and Activism, Myers Gallery of Art, Grand Forks ND
2023 NAPAPERI, Gallery 83, Kyiv Ukraine
2023 First Note, Project Gallery V, New York NY
2023 The Contemporary Print 2023, Gallery 2000, Austin TX
2022 Screenprint Biennial, Mirabo Press Gallery, Buffalo NY
2022 The Fierce Urgency of Now: Social Engaged Printmaking, Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico CA
2022 UNDERCURRENTS, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven CT
2022 Good Trouble: Protest Through Print, Center for Visual Arts, Kent State University, Kent OH
2021 Printmaking at the Edge, The Art Center, Dover NH
2021 Persist, Persevere, Be, IncuArts Gallery, Honolulu HI
2021 Us and Them, TAC Gallery, The Art Center, Highland Park IL
2021 Prints 2021, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn NY
2020 And We Won’t Stop: works by Michael Amato, Kate Shannon, and Sarah Sipling, COS Gallery, Visalia CA
2020 Printmeking, Gate FortyFour Gallery, Milan Italy
2020 Punching Marshmallows, Remarque Gallery, Albuquerque NM
2020 What Are You Voting For?, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago IL
2020 PERSIST and Reimagine, Ww Art Gallery and National Women’s Caucus for Art, Detroit MI
2020 Breathing While Black, Augusta Savage Gallery UMass Amherst, Amherst MA
2020 FL3TCH3R Exhibit: Social and Politically Engaged Art, Reece Museum East Tennessee State University, Johnson City TN
2020 ImMigration Project, Self Help Graphics and LA Printmaking Society, Los Angeles CA
2019 Minigrafikutstallningen- Mini Graphics Exhibition, Husby Konsthall Gallery, Kista Sweden
2029 Guanlan International Print Biennial, China Printmaking Museum, Shenzhen China
2018 Pacific States Biennial North American Printmaking, East Hawaii Cultural Center, Hilo HI
2018 Authentic Marks, Shaghaf Group Zayed University, Dubai UAE
2018 Works On/Of Paper, Brick Red Gallery, New Orleans LA
2018 Intolerance as Violence, Hera Gallery, Wakefield RI
2017 “We need to talk…” Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Waging Peace, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee FL
2013 ARTspace Original International Print Exhibit, Artspace, Ontario Canada
2013 Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze, Kinsey Institute Gallery, Bloomington, IN
2012 KIWA International Woodcut Exhibition, Kyoto City Museum, Kyoto, Japan
2012 Postcards from the Edge, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Penang International Print Exhibition, Tuanku Fauziah Museum, Penang Malaysia
2009 Working Proof, Muskat Studios, Somerville, MA
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2023 Mozaik Philanthropy Future Art Award: the Digital Awakening
2023 Land, Race, and Activism, UND Purchase Award
2022 Artist Grant, Puffin Foundation Ltd.
2022 Art as Activism Honorable Mention Grant, Black Box Press
2020 Award of Merit, Fl3tch3r Exhibition, Rice Museum
2018 Diane Haynes Purchase Award, DNSP, Bradbury Art Museum
2018 Materials Award, Art Complex Museum
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2022 Voice NFT Residency, Season 2
2020-22 Arquetopia Foundation International Alumni Honors Residency Program, Puebla Mexico
2020 Arquetopia Foundation Art, Community Building, and the Fantasy of Mobility, International Virtual Residency
2019 Arquetopia Foundation Printmaking Residency, Puebla Mexico
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La Liga de Estudiantes de Arte, San Juan Puerto Rico
Kimura Gallery, Anchorage AK
Shanghaf Permanent Collection, Dubai, UAE
Penang State Museum, Penang Malaysia
Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw GA
Bradbury Art Museum, Jonesboro AR
Haugesund Museum of Fine Art, Haugesund Norway
Museu Casada Xilogravura, Campos do Jordao Brazil
Husby Art Center, Husby Sweden
The Art Center, Dover NH
China Printmaking Museum, Guanlan, Shenzhen
Gallery 83, Kyiv Ukraine