Sarah Zapata

Sarah Zapata (b. 1988, Corpus Christi; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) employs weaving, tufting, and traditional craft techniques to create loud, architecturally responsive installations that traverse themes of gender, colonialism, and fantasy. Zapata’s site-specific works reflect her intersecting identities as a queer woman of Peruvian heritage raised in Evangelical Texas and now based in New York. She has held solo exhibitions at the ASU Art Museum, Tempe; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; and Museo MATE, Lima; and her work is in the permanent collections of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museo de Arte de Lima, Lima; the Museum of Arts and Design, New York; among others. She has been the recipient of grants from the Dallas Museum of Art, the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the Harpo Foundation.