b. Corpus Christi, TX
SOLO SHOWS
2024
Beneath the breath of the sun, Arizona State University Museum, Tempe, AZ
2023
To strange ground and high places, Galleria Poggiali, Milan, Italy
So the roots be known, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
2022
Existing with the Moon under our Feet, Deli Gallery, New York, NY
A resilience of things not seen, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2021
In vastness of borrowed time (the taxing of a fruitful procession), Crisis Galeria, Lima, PE
2020
The Taxing of a Fruitful Procession, Museo MATE, Lima, PE
2019
A Famine of Hearing, Performance Space New York, New York, NY
Speculative Monuments, Institute 193, Lexington, KY
Of This World Rather, Deli Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017
If I Could, Deli Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2016
New York Textile Month, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Siempre X, El Museo Del Barrio, New York, NY
TWO/THREE PERSON SHOWS
2024
(Forthcoming), NXTHVN, New Haven, CT
Between Gravity and Ground, MOCA Tuscon, Tuscon, AZ
2021
NADA, with Deli Gallery, Miami, FL
2020
ARCO, with Crisis Gallery, Madrid, ES
2019
Soft Territories, The Knockdown Center, Queens, NY
Interrupted Underpinnings, H.F. Johnson Gallery of Art, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI
SELECT GROUP SHOWS
2024
(Forthcoming), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NE
(Forthcoming), Riverside Park Art Show, New York, NY
Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, Barbican Centre, London, EN
2023
This Long Century: Beginners, Dunes.fyi, Portland, ME
Distribuidx, Lisson Gallery, New York, NY
Mental Spaces I, Sugar Hill Children’s Museum, New York, NY
Within + Without, Unit Gallery, London, EN
Craft Front and Center, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Soy de Tejas, Centro de Artes, San Antonio, TX
Narrative Threads, Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX
2022
TEXAN II, Various Small Fires, Dallas, TX
IN/SITU, Expo Chicago, Chicago, IL
Imaginarios contemporáneos (Vol. II) Colección Museo de Arte de Lima, Museo de Arte
de Lima, Lima, PE
Tomorrow Is a Different Day: Collection 1980-Now, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NE
The Fool, 8th House Projects, Mexico City, MX
The Views, Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles, CA
It Got Louder, Fragment Gallery, Moscow, RU
2021
Sonia Louise Davis Selects, Green Naftali, New York, NY
Buscando Recuerdos, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York, NY
Abstranded, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Senses of Brown, The Armory, New York, NY
Raise the Curtain, Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Quince Tejidos y Un Poco de Fieltro, Crisis, Lima, Peru
Cruising the Horizon, The Latinx Project at NYU, New York, NY
Latinx Abstract, BRIC House, Brooklyn, NY
2020
Entwined, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
In The Teeth of the Empire, College Arts Association Conference, Chicago, IL
A nerve is not a nerve but a bundle of fibers, Beard and Weil Galleries, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL
2019
Horology, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY
The Burke Prize 2019, The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Grand Buffet, Babayaga, Hudson, NY
NADA HOUSE, Governor's Island, NY
Curriculum: spaces of learning and unlearning, EFA Project Space, New York, NY
2018
MOTHA and Chris E. Vargas: Consciousness Raising, New Museum, New York, NY
AntiFurniture Store, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY
Crane Game, Cul de Sac, Brooklyn, NY
Seed, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
Altered, Company Gallery, New York, NY
In My Dreams, Fisher Parrish Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Feels and Rhthyms, White Columns Online
Reading Room, Bard Graduate Center, New York, NY
Auto-Body: ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE, 6BASE, Bronx, NY
Haptic Tactics, Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York, NY
Camilla Engstrom, Athena Torri, Sarah Zapata, Material Art Fair, Mexico City, MX
Forms & Alterations, Boston University 808 Gallery, Boston, MA
Anti Bodies, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY
Eye to Eye, Arsenal Contemporary, New York, NY
2017
Monarchs: Brown and Native Contemporary Artists in the Path of the Butterfly, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
Topical Cream x Artsy Benefit, New York, NY
Casual Art Fair, Hester Street Fair, New York, NY
Studio Views: Craft in the Expanded Field, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Sweet Ice, ACID, New York, NY
Temporal Month, Situations, New York, NY
Toxic Gardens, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Life and Living, Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center, Kingston, NY
Room With Its Own Rules, Chamber, New York, NY
Incriminate the Intimate, Otion Front Studio, Brooklyn, NY
2016
Protuberances, LAXart, Los Angeles, CA
FallingIN, Syndicated, Brooklyn, NY
Winter Workspace Open Studios, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
2015
MIAMI, Sunset Drive Gallery, Miami, FL
Sublime, Auto-Body, Bellport, NY
CKTV, Red Bull Studios, New York, NY
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2024
(Forthcoming), Fountainhead, Miami, FL
2023
Visual Artist Grant, Harpo Foundation
National Resident, CALA Foundation, Tempe, AZ
2021
Lenore Tawney Foundation Resident, International Studio and Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, NY
2020
Reading Grant, Poets & Writers Foundation
2019-2020
Literature Fellow, Queer Art Mentorship
2018
Windgate Fellowship Recipient, Vermont Studio Center
2017
Emergency Grant Recipient, Foundation of Contemporary Arts
NFA Project Grant Recipient, National Association of Latino Arts and Culture
2016
Wagon Station Encampment Resident, AZ West, Joshua Tree, CA
Artist in Residence, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Winter Workspace Resident, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
2014
Personal Development Grant Recipient, Surface Design Association
2011
Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund Recipient, Dallas Museum of Art
2010
Fiber Trust Recipient, Handweavers Guild of America
EDUCATION
2011
BFA, Fibers, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
SELECT PRESS
2019
Queer Artists in Their Own Words: Sarah Zapata wants an Anti-Hero Society, Hyperallergic
What to See in Art Galleries Right Now, The New York TImes
7 Best Works (And What They Cost) at NADA House 2019, Artnet
Fuzzy and Freezing, New York Magazine
5 Standout New York Exhibitions to See This April, Artsy
Ritualization and Embodiment: Sarah Zapata interviewed by Jeanne Vaccaro, BOMB
Sarah Zapata at Deli Gallery, ArtNews
Critics' Pick, "Curriculum: spaces of learning and unlearning", Artforum
2018
What it Looks Like When Queer Artists Memorialize Stonewall, NYLON
The Peruvian-American Artist Weaving Vibrant Artworks That Explore Craft and Sexuality, ARTSY
8 "Unbeweaveable" Textile Artists Redefining the Traditional Medium, Artspace
37 Artists Native to the Americas Weave Stories of Migration and Geography, Hyperallergic
Women's Work, Reworked, American Craft, February/March 2018 Issue
Sarah Zapata, Issue No.4, Revista Marmol
2017
Knitting Together the Beginnings of a Queer, Feminist Future, Hyperallergic
Top Ten: Sarah Zapata, Artforum, October 2017 Issue
Critics' Pick, "Studio Views: Craft in the Expanded Field", The New Yorker
A Peruvian-American Artist Weaver Her Story into Sumptuous Rainbow Yarn Art, Creators
Chamber NYC creates a space for female designers, Office Magazine
Art Life: New York, ArtReview, May 2017 Issue
Interview with Sarah Zapata, The AUTO-BODY Show, 8 Ball Radio
Sarah Zapata Examines Queer Intersectionality Through Technicolor Yarn Sculptures, OUT
mi tribu: los amigos del fotografo Igancio Torres, I-D Mexico
The Vape of Your Neck, Topical Cream
2016
Critics' Pick, "Protuberances", Artforum
Pattern Play: Marimekko Collaborates with Artist for Textile Month, Metropolis Mag