Sarah Hunter is a Philadelphia born and based artist, focusing on oil painting and graphite drawing. Her inspirations include artists such as Giotto, Philip Guston and Honore Sharrer, images pertaining to the natural sciences, and the history and landscape of her home city. New work incorporates found digital elements, such as stills from Youtube videos and google maps, in addition to her own source photography. This recent work focuses on what can be learned of a society through examination of its non-human inhabitants: what does the existence, removal, and remembrance of built and natural structures mean to the essence of a place and its people?
Hunter earned her MFA from the University of Delaware in 2020. When not teaching at area art centers or observing the changing seasons in nearby parks, she can be found drawing out of a basement studio with 5 cats in South Philadelphia.
For questions, concerns and pricing information please contact at s.hunter476@gmail.com
Hunter earned her MFA from the University of Delaware in 2020. When not teaching at area art centers or observing the changing seasons in nearby parks, she can be found drawing out of a basement studio with 5 cats in South Philadelphia.
For questions, concerns and pricing information please contact at s.hunter476@gmail.com
Born Philadelphia, PA 1983
Education
-MFA, University of Delaware, 2020
-BFA, University of Pennsylvania, 2006
-Certificate in Painting, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2005
Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions
2022
-How Deep is Your Love, William Way LGBT Community Center, Philadelphia, PA
-Academy Generations, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2021
-101 Artists, Gallery 222, Malvern, PA
2020
-The Space Between Things, AUTOMAT Collective, Philadelphia, PA
-Riverfront 20/20, The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE
-Playing For Keeps, The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE
2019
-on tender ground, Current Space, Baltimore, MD
-The Dangerous Perhaps, Taylor Hall Gallery, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
2018
-Tradition and Innovation, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
-Fire Island National Seashore Residency Exhibition, Patchogue, NY
2017
-Recent Drawings, Green Line Cafe, Philadelphia, PA
2016
-We Do What We Must, Rodger Lapelle Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
-Flesh, Ellipsis, Philadelphia, PA
2015
-Subsurface, Rodger Lapelle Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
-The Woodmere Annual: 74th Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2014
-A Fine Arrangement: The Art of Still Life, PAFA, Philadelphia, PA
-Lilies, Figs and Folly, Cerulean Arts, Philadelphia, PA
-The Woodmere Annual: 73rd Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2013
-Animal Show, Pterodactyl, Philadelphia, PA
-Three Painters, Rodger Lapelle Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
-DownSized: Works From A Square Deal, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA
2012
-Irresistible/Made in America: Gallery Artists, Rodger Lapelle Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
-Tiny, Small, Diminutive and Delectable: Gallery Artists, Rodger Lapelle Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
2011
-Sarah Hunter: Collected Curiosities, LaSalle University Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2010
-Philadelphia Painters, The Painting Center, New York, NY
-Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, SOMA Gallery, Cape May, NJ
-On Birds of Passage, Rodger Lapelle Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
2009
-35/25: Twenty-five Painters Under Thirty-five, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2008
-Animal Histories, The Painting Center Project Room, New York, NY
-Theory of the Earth, Rodger Lapelle Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
2007
-Scenes in Reference to a Kingdom, Rodger Lapelle Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
-Feeling Good About Growing Up, The Midwives Collective Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, April 2007
2006
-New Talent Exhibition, The Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
-Out of the Academy, The American College, Bryn Mawr, PA
2005
-Emerging Artist Exhibition, Artist House Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2003
-Dreams to Interpretations, The Ellen Powell Tiberino Memorial Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Honors/Talks/Residencies
-Tacony LAB Artist in Residence, Mural Arts Program, 2021
-Residency, Fire Island National Seashore, 2017
-Co-Juror, 4th Annual PAFA Alumni Gallery Works on Paper Juried Exhibition, 2015
-Panel discussion for A Fine Arrangement: The Art of Still Life, PAFA, 2015
-B. Goldberg Award of Excellence, PAFA, 2014
-Emerson Landing Invitational Artist Retreat, Wye Mills, MD, 2014
-Panel discussion, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, 2013
-Artist Talk, Sarah Hunter: Collected Curiosities, Lasalle University Art Museum, 2011
-Residency/VSC Grant, Vermont Studio Center, 2010
-Heicklen and Bogash Award, Mainline Art Center, 2006
-The Lance Roy Laufer Memorial Award, PAFA, 2005
-The William Emlin Cresson Memorial Travel Scholarship, PAFA, 2004