Sarah Perez
     
An award-winning Chicago-based artist with a BFA degree, concentrating in photography and sculptural arts. Mediums include: traditional process b/w hand-colored photography, digital photography, mixed media sculpture, printmaking, and stenciling, as well as fashion and textiles, with particular focus in beading, weaving, knitting, and embroidery.
AWARDS:

  • Juror’s Choice, Gallery RFD group show award, May 2007
  • Best of Show, 2nd Annual Photo Competition at Morpho Gallery, April 2007
  •  First annual Gallery 510 Award for Photography, May 2000
  •  Dorothy Sellers Award for excellence in art, April 2000
  • David S. Monroe Award for excellence in art, April 1998
EXHIBITIONS:
2008:


  • Electric, group show, Happy Dog Gallery-- Chicago, IL
  • Collectives Group Show, group show, Parts & Labor Studio-- Chicago, IL
  • 2008 ATC Fall Arts Festival, group show, Plumbers Hall-- Chicago, IL
  • Bigger Than Your Life, group show, Happy Dog Gallery-- Chicago, IL
2007:





  • This is For You, group show, Happy Dog Gallery-- Chicago, IL
  • Erin Barnard and Sarah Perez, group show, Morpho Gallery-- Chicago, IL
  •  Shiku-Garu #3: Melon-Chan, group show, Happy Dog Gallery-- Chicago, IL
  • Documentation and Distortion, group show, Gallery RFD-- Swainsboro, GA
  • Parts & Labor #4, group show, Parts & Labor Studio-- Chicago, IL
  • 2nd Annual Photo Competition, group show, Morpho Gallery-- Chicago, IL
  • Paraskavedekatriaphobia!, group show, Marc Salha’s Studio-- Chicago, IL
  • Parts & Labor #3, group show, Parts & Labor Studio-- Chicago, IL
  • Under The Weather, group show, Marc Salha’s Studio-- Chicago, IL
2006:


  •  Second Chance, group show/benefit, Martini Room-- Chicago, IL
  • You-Are-Beautiful, group installation, State St.-- Chicago, IL
  • Community Watch, group show, Kim Frieder’s Studio-- Chicago, IL
2004:


  • Promise Land, group show, Athenaeum Theatre-- Chicago, IL
  • First Friday Interactive Fashion Show, Museum of Contemporary Art-- Chicago, IL
  • Chicago, group show, Gallery 205-- Radford, VA
  • Crowning Glory, group fashion show, Chicago Cultural Center-- Chicago, IL
2003:


  •  Christmas Show, group show, Art in the Vault-- CA
  • Less is More, group show, TZ Gallery-- Chicago, IL
  • Turn On, Fluxcore group show, Harem Gallery-- Chicago, IL
  • Cubicle, group show, Uncle Freddy’s Gallery-- Hammond, IN
2002:
  • $hop, group show/sale, Pilsen Art Walk-- Chicago, IL
2001:
  • Saturations, BFA solo show, Perkinson Gallery-- Decatur, IL
EDUCATION:
         MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY -- Decatur, IL 1997-2001
            Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree
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last update 11-02-08 by Sarah Perez