Sarah Conaway

Sarah Conaway (b.1972 in York, PA) received her MFA in Photography from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2001. Her work has been featured in exhibitions in the United States and abroad, including solo and two person exhibitions at The Box, Los Angeles, Barbara Seiler Gallery, Zurich and Bellwether Gallery, New York, and in group exhibitions at Tanya Bonakdar, Los Angeles, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, Richard Telles Gallery, Los Angeles, Gallery Diet, Miami. Her work was included in the biennial exhibition “Made In LA” at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, in 2012. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). She lives and works in Los Angeles.

Education         

2001            University of Illinois at Chicago, Master of Fine Arts, Photography
1994             Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA.  Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy, Cum Laude

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018
Head of a Woman, The Box, Los Angeles, CA

2015
Empty Vessel, The Box, Los Angeles, CA

2013
New Works, Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

2012
Frieze, London: Frame. The Box, Los Angeles: Sarah Conaway

2010
The Fold, Iceberg Gallery, Chicago, IL

2008
Some New Works, Bellwether Gallery, New York, NY

2005
Opposition is Essential, Julia Friedman Gallery, New York, NY

2003
New Symmetrical Works. Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago, IL

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021
100 Sculptures, anonymous gallery, New York, NY

2020
100 Sculptures, anonymous gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2019
100 Sculptures, anonymous gallery, Paris, France
Midlfe Crisis, curated by Samantha Greenfelt, O’ Project Space, Los Angeles, CA
San Marino Health Lab, curated by William Kaminski, Dread Lounge, Los Angeles, CA

2018
100 Sculptures, curated by Todd von Ammon and Joseph Ian Henrikson, anonymous gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
Bodies of a Different Mass, organized by Todd Baldwin, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles, CA
Fictive Kin, curated by Kathryn Pointdexter, Culver Center of the Arts, University of California, Riverside, CA

2017
A Mere Sum of Parts, organized by Sydney Croskery, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
In Pieces: Presence and Objecthood in the Aftermath of Technology, curated by Richard Haley, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery at Wayne State University, Detriot, MI

2016
impromptu, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
Camera of Wonders, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico

2015
Bad Boys Bail Bonds Adopt A Highway, curated by Amanda Ross-Ho, Team (Gallery Inc.), NY
Mirror Mirror, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
Independent, New York. The Box, Los Angeles: Sarah Conaway and Barbara T. Smith, NY

2014
Sarah Conaway and Melanie Schiff curated by Sterling Ruby, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Trains curated by Sterling Ruby, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Outlanders, The Pit, Glendale, CA 

2013
Cast Recording, Prism, Los Angeles, CA

2012
Pure Smoke Culture, Anthony Greaney, Boston, MA

Made in LA, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Formwandler, Richard Telles, Los Angeles, CA

2011
Weird Walks Into A Room: Lisa Williamson/Sarah Conaway, The Box, Los Angeles, CA 

2010
In the Eyes of Lions, Gallery 533, Los Angeles, CA
Sarah Conaway/Graham Hudson, Gallery Diet, Miami, FL
Suitable Video: Works from the Suitable Exhibitions Archive, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL

2009
Plurielles, Gallery  64bis, Paris
Sparking bays, glistening glaciers, the midnight sun, performance with Lisa Williamson, Chung King Project, Los Angeles

2008
I Am I A Killer, Sam Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2007
Post Rose: Artists In and Out of Hazard Park Complex, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin
Keep Off---Death, Roski Graduate Gallery, USC Los Angeles, CA
I am Eyebeam, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL

2005
Renaissance Society Benefit, Chicago, IL

2004
Images Festival, VMAC Gallery, Toronto, CA
Good and Bad Things Come from Explosions, PAC/Edge Festival, Athenaum Theatre, Chicago, IL

2003
When Darkness Falls, Midway Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
At the Edge, When Darkness Falls curated by Melanie Schiff and Kristen VanDeventer, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
Residency: A Benefit for Three Walls, curated by Katherine Hixson, Mule, 1R Gallery, Chicago, IL
Designs for Modern Living, private collectors home, curated by Lorelei Stewart
Art Chicago 2003, Julia Friedman Gallery Booth

2002   
Or, Polaroids, Here Theatre, New York, NY
Realm of the Lair, curated by Ben Stone and Siebren Versteeg, Joymore, Chicago, IL
Loyola Faculty Biennial, Crown Center Gallery, Chicago, IL
Hello, Hello, The Landing,  Brooklyn, NY
Video with Headphones, Ukrainian Museum of Modern Art, curated by Jack Sloss, Chicago, IL
Love Landscape Mirrors Death, open-end art, Chicago, IL, two person show with Sterling Ruby
The Shining,  Suitable Gallery, Chicago, IL
Video Machete Benefit, curated by Art Jones, The Subterranean, Chicago, IL

2001   
How I learned to stop worrying and love the recession, Ten in One Gallery, New York, NY
Trauma Space 5, Traumaspace, Chicago, IL
Togetherness, mn gallery, Chicago, IL,   two person show with Sterling Ruby
Selzer Pants, Thomas Smart Projects, curated by Steve Reinke, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Thesis Show, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
ILL., The Great Space, Chicago, IL
UICMFA@WOOD, Wood Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX, curated by Art Jones

2000
Off Site, The Great Space, Chicago, IL
Family Portrait, ARC Gallery,  The Media Room,  Chicago, IL


CURATORIAL PROJECTS

Destroyer, Inc. Totemism, ArtLA 2006, Los Angeles, CA
Destroyer, Inc. Ground, ArtLA 2005, Los Angeles, CA
Destroyer, Inc., Maiden Voyage, Stray Show 2002, Chicago, IL