Sarah Faux

Sarah Faux is a painter whose work dwells at the intersection of figuration and abstraction. Her paintings boldly celebrate sensuality, autonomy, and pleasure.

Biography of Sarah Faux

Sarah Faux was born in Boston, USA, in 1986. She earned her BA in History of Art and Architecture from Brown University in 2008, her BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2009, and her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University in 2015.

Faux has received various residencies and grants, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2023), a Keyholder Fellowship at the Lower East Side Printshop in NYC (2018-19), artist residencies at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY (2017, 2012), and the Yale School of Art's Gloucester Painting Prize in Gloucester, MA (2014).

Sarah Faux's solo exhibitions include "Sweetbitter" at Hales New York in New York (2023), "Whatever I See I Swallow" at M+B in Los Angeles (2021), "Perfect for Her" at Capsule Shanghai in Shanghai (2020), "Seether" at Thierry Goldberg in New York (2017), "Gemini" at Stems Gallery in Brussels (2016), and more.

Her paintings have also been featured in various group exhibitions, such as "I is Other" at Lyles & King in New York (2022), "A Room of Her Own" at How Museum in Shanghai (2020), "Body in Motion, Traveling Bodies" at Stems Gallery in Brussels (2020), "Pleasure in Precariousness" at Thomas Erben Gallery in New York (2019), and "Outside In" at Francesco Pantaleone Arte Contemporanea in Milan (2018), among others.

Currently, the artist lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Sarah Faux's Art Style

In her artworks, Sarah Faux unites what might appear as separate elements of figurative representation and gestural abstraction to create sensual scenarios where unadorned female bodies exist in a state of liminality. Faux employs a compositional technique of cropping her subjects, directing the viewer's attention to particular body parts. This approach draws the audience into an intimate, first-person perspective.

Faux's paintings extend from an earlier feminist perspective, akin to the approaches of painters Joan Semmel and Luchita Hurtado. This viewpoint offers viewers an immersive, out-of-body experience where they actively engage in the creative process.