BIOGRAPHY

Sarah Ann Weber employs painting and drawing to create overgrown landscapes that are both verdant and putrefied, while confounding traditional expectations of the landscape genre. Rather than replicating the surface details of our natural surroundings, Weber’s marvelous evocations of nature concern themselves with the spiritual essence of the world, decentralizing the figure. By choreographing vegetation through her imaginative stylizations, the artist proposes that psychological and emotional worlds are as complex and as ripe for exploration as the one beyond our bodies. Weber’s all-over composition style results in works that are deliriously vibrant and feral, uncovering dualities of nature—as a source of beauty and innocence, equally entwined with aggression, and indifference.

Sarah Ann Weber (b. 1988, Chicago, IL) received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago and her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Weber has exhibited her work in solo exhibitions at venues including Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles; Club Pro, Los Angeles; and The Franklin, Chicago. Selected group exhibitions include Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco; MAUVE Gallery, Vienna, Austria; Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn; Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles; Galerie Nord/Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin; Locust Projects, Miami; and Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago. As an Artist in Residence in 2012 at the Vermont Studio Center she received an Artist Grant and was a recipient of the Ox-Bow Scholarship funded by the Joan Mitchell Foundation in 2013. She lives and works in Los Angeles.

EXHIBITIONS

Strong Blossoming Thing Forever, June 18 – July 31, 2021

Good Company: Pt. 1, December 5, 2020 – March 6, 2021

Staycation, April 7 – May 30, 2020

EXPO Chicago, September 19 – 22, 2019

Tropical Disease, March 16 – April 20, 2019

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Sarah Ann Weber

1988

Born in Chicago, IL

Lives and works in Los Angeles

Education

2011

MFA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

2009

BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions

2021

Strong Blossoming Thing Forever, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA

2019

EXPO Chicago, with Anat Ebgi, Chicago, IL

Tropical Disease, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles CA

2017

Scenic View, Club Pro. Los Angeles, CA

Caves (with Amber Renaye), Tiger Strikes Asteroid. Los Angeles, CA

2016

Cavity (with Brian Rochefort), Some.Time.Salon. San Francisco, CA

2014

Honor Your Poets, The Franklin. Chicago, IL

2013

Just a Phase, Rena Sternberg Gallery. Glencoe, IL

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021

Sweet Jane in Fields of Daisies curated by Joan Tucker, Philips, Hong Kong

2020

Good Company: Pt. 1, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA

2019

The Conversation, Anat Ebgi at Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA

2018

Garden Variety, Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale, CA

2017

Fire Season, MAUVE Gallery, Vienna, Austria

Water and Dreams, Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

Toxic Gardens, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

SPRUNG! Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

Psychonautics, CES Gallery. Los Angeles, CA

2016

How High, Left Field SLO. San Luis Obispo, CA

Girl Trip, The Lodge. Los Angeles, CA

2015

Pulp in Ashes, Tiger Strikes Asteroid. Los Angeles, CA

Small Works /38th National Juried Exhibition, Harper College. Palatine, IL

2014

Ducks, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery. Brooklyn, NY

Smash & Grab, Locust Projects. Miami, FL

2013

Being A Woman in an All Women Show, Heaven Gallery. Chicago, IL

Methodic Deconstruction, The Franklin. Chicago, IL

Anonymous Drawings, Galerie Nord/Kunstverein Tiergarten. Berlin DE

2012

24HRS/25DAYS, New Capital. Chicago, IL

2011

Selected Works, Andrew Rafacz Gallery. Chicago, IL

Vox VII, Vox Populi Gallery. Philadelphia, PA

110th Annual Student Exhibition, PAFA. Philadelphia, PA

2010

Soundoffka Vol. II, VWVOFFKA Gallery. Philadelphia, PA

Works on Paper Rejects, Little Berlin. Philadelphia, PA

2009

Undergraduate Thesis Exhibition, Sullivan Galleries. Chicago, IL

Awards, Fellowships, and Grants

2013

The Ox-Bow Scholarship, funded by the Joan Mitchell Foundation

Artist Grant, The HEAT Group at American Airlines Arena

2012

Artist Grant, Vermont Studio Center

2009

Merit Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

2007

Merit Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Residencies

2019

Klots International Program for Artists, Lehon, France

2013

Ox-Bow fall residency, Saugatuck, MI

ACRE (Artists' Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions) Steuben, WI

2012

Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

Press

2021

Lee, Shannon. "Colored Pencil Revival." Artsy. January 20. (Link)

2017

“Sarah Ann Weber: Wandering Through Mirages” by Alex Rojas. Girl Trip.

“Sarah Ann Weber: Scenic View at Club Pro Los Angeles” by Shana Nys Dambrot. Art and Cake.

“Landscape Art that Depicts More Than Nature,” by Daniel Gerwin. Hyperallergic.

“The Dick Pic Show at Chimento Contemporary” by Angella d’Avignon. Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles.

2013

“Just A Phase” by Katie Rose McEneely. Sheridan Road Magazine. Dec 2013-Jan 2014 issue.

“Sonnenzimmer and Sarah Weber” by Dana Basset. Bad At Sports, recorded podcast 432.

2012

“Sarah Weber's Aggressive Burns” by Ryan Travis Christian. Beautiful/Decay (beautifuldecay.com)

Writing

2017

"Caves" Self-published book of essays

2016

"Art Advice (from Men)" CARLA feature article. Print Publication, Issue 5

Collections

Fidelity Collection