Bio
Sarah Peoples is a sculptor from Philadelphia. Peoples is a 2021 Art Is Essential grantee and a 2018 Fleisher Art Memorial Wind Challenge recipient. Peoples has exhibited her work in galleries and museums, both at home and abroad. Galleries include AUTOMAT Collective in Philadelphia, PEEP Space in Tarrytown, NY and MWoods, a private museum in Beijing, China where she is part of the museum’s permanent collection.
Peoples has installed several non-commissioned public works including and most notably a large scale Plastic Rainbow sculpture in Fairmount Park. Conrad Benner, from the celebrated Streets Dept., described the piece in his article roundup of Top 10 Philly Public Art + Street Art Moments of 2020: “…the arched rainbow (that) became a citywide symbol…”. As an outcome of that project, most recently, Peoples was awarded a first round Art is Essential grant from the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority’s Fund for Art and Civic Engagement with support from the Knight Foundation.
Currently, Sarah has been selected to be Lead Artist in the 2022 Everyday Futures Fest by Da Vinci Art Alliance and Jefferson University, sponsored by PECO, PNC Bank and Mural Arts focusing on sustainability.
Education
May 2012, MFA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA,
May 2005: BFA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
May 2000: Certificate, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Exhibitions and Public Works
Oct-Jan: FlatFile 2021-2022, Peep Space, Tarrytown, Ny
Mar 2021: Awarded Art is Essential Grant, Philadelphia, Pa
June-Present: Props for Peaceful Protest, Sedgely Drive Sculpture, Philadelphia, Pa
April-August 2020: Plastic Rainbow on Lemon Hill, Site Specific public non-commissioned sculpture
July 2020: Baptismal Font, Sedgley Drive Site Specific Sculpture, Philadelphia, Pa
Dec 2017- Jan 18: Wind Challenge Exhibition Recipient, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
May 2017: Making in Place, Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, PA
July 2016: Juried JURIED ART EXHIBITION, Juried by John Silvis, AUTOMAT Collective, Philadelphia, PA
May 2016: Art in the Open Schuylkill Banks, Philadelphia, Pa
Dec 2015: Tiger Strikes Asteroid’s Satellite Gallery at Art Basel Miami Beach “Artist Run” @ Ocean Terrace Hotel, AUTOMAT Gallery presents Breakroom
Nov - Dec 2015: Stand-In, AUTOMAT Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
May 2015: Brood Maker: An Inflatable Baby-Making Machine, Metro Gallery 250, Philadelphia, PA
Oct 2014 - Jan 2015: Pale Fire: Revising Boundaries, M Woods (D-06, 798 Art Zone, No.2 Jiuxianqiao, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China)
Sept - June 2013: A Fine Line, Traveling Drawing Exhibition Artmobile, Bucks County, Newtown, Philadelphia, PA
June - October 2013: Who Say It Be, The Work of Sarah Peoples and Adam Lovitz, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building at PAFA, Philadelphia, PA
Sept 2012: WHYY Creative Connectors Festival, WHYY/NewsWorks Studios, Philadelphia, PA
June 2012: 5 into 1 Exhibition, Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art & Design, Phila. PA
May 2012: Thesis Exhibition, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building at PAFA, Philadelphia, PA
Nov. 2011: Performance Drawing: So Nice to See You; Out in Out Exhibition, MBN Studios Philadelphia, PA
Nov.-Dec. 2011: Video Installation at Market East Station, Philadelphia, PA
Mar. & Nov. 2011: Fellowship Juried Exhibition, Gallery 128, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Sarah Peoples is a sculptor from Philadelphia. Peoples is a 2021 Art Is Essential grantee and a 2018 Fleisher Art Memorial Wind Challenge recipient. Peoples has exhibited her work in galleries and museums, both at home and abroad. Galleries include AUTOMAT Collective in Philadelphia, PEEP Space in Tarrytown, NY and MWoods, a private museum in Beijing, China where she is part of the museum’s permanent collection.
Peoples has installed several non-commissioned public works including and most notably a large scale Plastic Rainbow sculpture in Fairmount Park. Conrad Benner, from the celebrated Streets Dept., described the piece in his article roundup of Top 10 Philly Public Art + Street Art Moments of 2020: “…the arched rainbow (that) became a citywide symbol…”. As an outcome of that project, most recently, Peoples was awarded a first round Art is Essential grant from the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority’s Fund for Art and Civic Engagement with support from the Knight Foundation.
Currently, Sarah has been selected to be Lead Artist in the 2022 Everyday Futures Fest by Da Vinci Art Alliance and Jefferson University, sponsored by PECO, PNC Bank and Mural Arts focusing on sustainability.
Education
May 2012, MFA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA,
May 2005: BFA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
May 2000: Certificate, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Exhibitions and Public Works
Oct-Jan: FlatFile 2021-2022, Peep Space, Tarrytown, Ny
Mar 2021: Awarded Art is Essential Grant, Philadelphia, Pa
June-Present: Props for Peaceful Protest, Sedgely Drive Sculpture, Philadelphia, Pa
April-August 2020: Plastic Rainbow on Lemon Hill, Site Specific public non-commissioned sculpture
July 2020: Baptismal Font, Sedgley Drive Site Specific Sculpture, Philadelphia, Pa
Dec 2017- Jan 18: Wind Challenge Exhibition Recipient, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
May 2017: Making in Place, Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, PA
July 2016: Juried JURIED ART EXHIBITION, Juried by John Silvis, AUTOMAT Collective, Philadelphia, PA
May 2016: Art in the Open Schuylkill Banks, Philadelphia, Pa
Dec 2015: Tiger Strikes Asteroid’s Satellite Gallery at Art Basel Miami Beach “Artist Run” @ Ocean Terrace Hotel, AUTOMAT Gallery presents Breakroom
Nov - Dec 2015: Stand-In, AUTOMAT Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
May 2015: Brood Maker: An Inflatable Baby-Making Machine, Metro Gallery 250, Philadelphia, PA
Oct 2014 - Jan 2015: Pale Fire: Revising Boundaries, M Woods (D-06, 798 Art Zone, No.2 Jiuxianqiao, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China)
Sept - June 2013: A Fine Line, Traveling Drawing Exhibition Artmobile, Bucks County, Newtown, Philadelphia, PA
June - October 2013: Who Say It Be, The Work of Sarah Peoples and Adam Lovitz, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building at PAFA, Philadelphia, PA
Sept 2012: WHYY Creative Connectors Festival, WHYY/NewsWorks Studios, Philadelphia, PA
June 2012: 5 into 1 Exhibition, Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art & Design, Phila. PA
May 2012: Thesis Exhibition, Samuel M.V. Hamilton Building at PAFA, Philadelphia, PA
Nov. 2011: Performance Drawing: So Nice to See You; Out in Out Exhibition, MBN Studios Philadelphia, PA
Nov.-Dec. 2011: Video Installation at Market East Station, Philadelphia, PA
Mar. & Nov. 2011: Fellowship Juried Exhibition, Gallery 128, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA