GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 Mother…and, curated by Eleanor Lim-Midyett, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO (upcoming)

2024 Self Adjacent, co-curated by Tracy Stonestreet and Sarah Irvin, Kennedy Museum of Art, Athens, OH (upcoming)

2024 Self Adjacent, co-curated by Tracy Stonestreet and Sarah Irvin, Massey Klein Gallery,  New York, NY 

2023 Self Adjacent, co-curated by Tracy Stonestreet and Sarah Irvin, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA 

2023 Birth by the Book, curated by Emily Zarse, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

2023 Maternal Perspectives, curated by Tracy Taylor, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL

2023 Care and Collaboration, curated by Sarah Sudoff, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX

2022 Bling it Out, Iridian Gallery, Richmond, VA

2021 Homeward Bound: Juried Triennial, juried by Nandini Makrandi, Taubman Museum of Art

2021 Poets, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA

2021 Maternochronics, online

2021 a glitter of seas, Dreamsong, Minneapolis, MN

2021 Bounce Back, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL

2021 Engaging Creativities: Art in the Pandemic, Royal Society of Canada and Working Group on Artistic Responses to COVID-19, online

2021 Always On: Art and Motherhood, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA  

2020      PHOTOFAIRS PRESENTS: Cyanotype, Photofairs Shanghai, online

2020     Home-works: Spilt Milk Members Show, Spilt Milk Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, online

2020 Painting at Night, juried by Alison Reimus, Fort Houston, Nashville, TN 

2020 Zwang, curated by Kylie Manning, CG Boerner, New York, NY 

2020 Uncommon Goods, curated by Megan Maher, Willow Street Gallery, Washington, DC

2019 re:birth, Spilt Milk Gallery, St. Margaret’s House, Edinburgh, Scotland

2019 Extended Self:Transformations and Connections, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL

2019 The End & The Beginning, Massey Klein Gallery, New York, NY (two-person exhibit)

2018 oh motHER, Spilt Milk Gallery, Custom House Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland

2018   The Art of Surrender, Spilt Milk Gallery, Stills Centre for Photography, Edinburgh, Scotland

2018 Labors: A Group Show Exploring the Complexities of Motherhood, Pearl Conard Art Gallery, The Ohio State University Mansfield, Mansfield, OH

2017 Echoes: A Group Show, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY

2017 Following the Thread: A Group Show Exploring Textiles, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY

2017 Sunscreen, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA

2017 Continuum, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA

2016 Gender Generation, Royal College of Art, London, England

2016 Trawick Prize Finalist Exhibit, Bethesda Urban Partnership Gallery B, Bethesda, MD

2016 Pathways, Hemphill Fine Arts Carroll Square Gallery, Washington, DC

2016 Verbal/Visual, Fenwick Gallery, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

2016 The Only Rule Is Work, curated by Francis Thompson, Mason Hall, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

2016 College Art Association Annual Regional Exhibition RBTL, juried by Karyn Miller and Curlee Raven Holton, Katzen Art Center, American University, Washington, DC

2016 6th National Collegiate Handmade Paper Art Triennial, Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, OH

2015 Procreate Project Photozine Exhibit, Women’s Art Library, Goldsmiths University of London, London, England

2015 6th National Collegiate Handmade Paper Art Triennial, Corcoran, Washington, DC

2015 Two Person Exhibit, 12Twelve, curated by CulturalDC, Washington, DC

2014 LineWorks: Drawing Redefined, Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA

2014 Call & Response, Fenwick Library Gallery, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

2014 Artifex: George Mason University Graduate Student Exhibit, Capital One Corporate Art Program, Richmond, VA

2014 2nd Annual MFA Exhibit, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

2014 Dialogue in Color, The Drawing Room Gallery, Cos Cob, CT

2013 Past Present, Northern Virginia Community College, Woodbridge, VA

2013 Abstraction and Reality, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, VA, juried by Margaret Hancock, Second Place Award

2013 Ladies First, Walton Gallery, Petersburg, VA

2013 Art House on City Square, Stryker Building, Williamsburg, VA

2013 Shade, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA

2013 New Waves, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA

2012 50 Small Works, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Hampton, VA

2012 Keepsake, Linda Matney Gallery, Williamsburg, VA

2012 Haze, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA

2012 Arts Alive Festival Gallery Show, Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts,Florence, AL

2012 Salon des Femmes, Capital One, Richmond, VA

2012 The Goods: Selections from the Artist’s Studio, Spruill Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2011 Illuminate, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA

2011 Featured Artist, Opportunity Green Business Conference, Los Angeles, CA

2011 True Love, The Happening Gallery, Marina Del Rey, CA

2011 [WORK], Faculty and Staff Exhibit, True F. Luck Gallery, Visual Arts Center of Richmond,Richmond, VA

2011. Spectrum, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA

2011 Capital One Women’s History Month Exhibit, Capital One, Richmond, VA

2011 Effloresce, Petersburg Area Art League Two Person Exhibit, Petersburg, VA

2010 Broadband 10+11, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA

2010 Artspace National Juried Printmaking and Photography Exhibition, juried by Richard Waller, Artspace, Richmond, VA

2010 Ponder This, Water Education Center, San Angelo, TX

2010 All This I Am, Jacksonville Art Center, juried by Sally Bowring, Jacksonville, VA

2010 Summer Solstice, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA

2009 Lyndon House Arts Center 34th Annual Juried Competition, juried by Karen Shaw, Athens, GA

2009 Smash It and Grab It, VCU Summer Studio Program Group Exhibit, Richmond, VA

2009 Locker 50b Summer Studio Program Group Exhibit, Richmond, VA

2009 Small Works, Small World, Chico Arts Center, Chico, CA

2006 Lyndon House Arts Center 31st Annual Juried Competition, juried by William Fagaly, Athens, GA

2006 Costa Rica, Ecuador and Galapagos Island Study Abroad Latin America Program Exhibition, Athens, GA

 ART FAIRS

2023 Art on Paper New York, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY

2021 Art on Paper New York, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY

2020 Art on Paper New York, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY

2019 Art on Paper New York, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY

2019 Artrooms, London, England

2018 Art on Paper New York, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY

2017 Market Art + Design, Bridgehampton, NY

2016 Art on Paper New York, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY

2015 Art on Paper Miami, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, Miami, FL

2013 Select Art Fair, Page Bond Gallery, Miami, FL

COLLECTIONS

Allan Myers, Chesapeake, VA

Capital One, Plano, TX; McClean, VA; Richmond, VA

Center for Gifted Studies, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY

Dominion Energy, Richmond, VA

Federal Reserve Bank, Richmond, VA

Four Seasons Hotel, San Francisco, CA

Jones Day, New York, NY

New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY

Old Dominion Electric Cooperative, Richmond, VA

Pfizer Collection, New York, NY

Quirk Hotel, Richmond, VA

Roanoke College, Roanoke, VA

Royal Caribbean

Try-Me Urban Restoration Project, Pamela and Bill Royall, Richmond, VA

University of Richmond, Richmond, VA

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

Multiple private collections

ACTIVITIES, RESIDENCIES, AND AWARDS

2024 Juror, Visual Arts Center Residency, Visual Arts Center of Richmond

2023 Panelist, Virginia Commonwealth for the Arts Printmaking Fellowship Advisory Panel

2022 Panelist, Virginia Commonwealth for the Arts Works on Paper Fellowship Advisory Panel

2019 Juror, So to Speak art contest

2018 Peer Reviewer, “Maternal Structures in Art: Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Creative Work,” Routledge, February 2019

2016           Trawick Prize Second Place

2016           Peer Reviewer, Studies in the Maternal

2016           Associate Artist, Digital Institute for Early Parenthood

2016-2017 Artist Residency in Motherhood

2016           Founder, Artist Parent Index

2014-2016 Vice-President (2014-15) and President (2015-16), Artifex, Graduate Student Organization, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

2014           Fellow, CulturalDC Flashpoint Gallery, Washington, DC

2011-2013 Canvas Board Member, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA 

2011-2012 Monster Drawing Rally Participant, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA

2009           Summer Studio Program, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

2006           Study Abroad: Art and Culture, Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands

2006           Mural Painting, La Mitad Del Mundo (Middle of the World), Quito, Ecuador

2005-2006 Lamar Dodd School of Art Scholarship for Painting and Drawing, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

 LECTURES AND TALKS

2022 “Out of the Furrow: Subjectivity and Postpartum Psychosis” SECAC Conference, Baltimore, MD

2022 Artist/Mother in Conversation Panel Talk, Mason Exhibitions, Moderated by Lee Nowell-Wilson, Arlington, VA

2022 “The Artist Parent Index” Art Libraries Society of North America Conference, Chicago, IL 

2021 “The Artist Parent Index: Toward Non-Binary Structures in the Digital Archive” College Art Association Conference, Online

2020 Painting at Night Panel Talk, Artist/Mother Podcast, Online

2020 Visiting Artist Talk, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

2019 “Art and Parenting: Engagement with the Familial and Domestic” Panel discussion, SECAC Conference, Chattanooga, TN

2019 “Should we hold on to the ‘Mother’? Challenging binary definitions of family, gender, and sexual orientation” Panel discussion, Oxytocin, Procreate Project, King’s College Guy’s Campus, London, England

2018 Keynote Address, Museum of Motherhood Conference, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL

2018 Visiting Artist Talk, Mary Baldwin University, Staunton, VA

2017 Visiting Artist Talk, Professional Practices, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

2017 Visiting Artist Lecture, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN

2017 “Continuum” Panel Discussion, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA

2016 “Home Studio; Blending Artistic Practice and Motherhood,” MIRCI Gala Conference, Toronto, ON, Canada

2016 “Imaging Care,” Gender Generation Conference, Royal College of Art, London, England

2016 “Curatorial Systems Observatory Workshop,” Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

2016 “Mother Making: Artistic Practice and the Formation of A Mother,” M.O.M. Conference, Manhattan College, New York, NY

2016 “Loading Content,” Visual Voices Lecture, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

2014 “Here and Now,” Visual Voices Lecture, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

2013 “Past Present,” Exhibiting Artist Panel, Northern Virginia Community College, Woodbridge, VA

2013 “Building on the Past,” Panel Discussion Moderator, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA

2013 Visiting Artist Talk, St. Catherine’s School, Richmond, VA

2013 Visiting Artist Lecture, Westminster Canterbury, Richmond, VA

2012 Visiting Artist Lecture, Angelo State University, San Angelo, TX

2011 Exhibiting Artist Talk, Petersburg Area Art League, Petersburg, VA

2010. Artist Talk, Old Dominion Electric Cooperative, Richmond, VA

GUEST CURATING

2025 New Growth, co-curated with Tracy Stonestreet, Ruffin Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlotesville, VA

2024 Self Adjacent, co-curated with Tracy Stonestreet, Kennedy Museum, Athens, OH

2024 Self Adjacent, co-curated with Tracy Stonestreet, Massey Klein Gallery, NY

2023 Self Adjacent, co-curated with Tracy Stonestreet, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA

2020 A Path Described by a Body, co-curated with Kaylan Buteyn, Casa Otro, Las Cruces, NM

2016 Locale, Fenwick Gallery, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

2016 Domestic Territories, Olly Olly, Fairfax, VA

2013 Past Present, Northern Virginia Community College, Woodbridge, VA

2013 Keepsake, Linda Matney Gallery, Williamsburg, VA

2013 Building on the Past, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS AS AUTHOR

2018 “The Artist Parent Index,” Journal of Mother Studies 3 (September 2018)

2016 "The Everyday Maternal Practice: Activist Structures in Creative Work,” Studies in the Maternal 8, no. 2 (December 2016) Special Issue, Forum Contributor

2016 “Mother Making: Artistic Practice and the Formation of A Mother,” Journal of Mother Studies 1 (September 2016)

 MEDIA

Mark Jenkins, In the galleries: Celebrating the art of the game with unexpected delights, The Washington 

Post, July 2, 2021

Courtney Sexton, Sarah Irvin’s “A Group of Related Things” Explores the Human Body, Parenthood + the Pandemic, District Fray Magazine, May 22, 2021, https://districtfray.com/articles/sarah-irvin-culture-house/

Sheila Dickenson, Messy From the Start: Birth, Breastfeeding, and Abjection, MN Artists, July 14, 2021, https://mnartists.walkerart.org/messy-from-the-start-birth-breastfeeding-and-abjection

Robert Shane, Interview, AHA! A House for Arts, Season 6 Episode 35, June 6, 2021

Home-Works Zine: Artist/Mothers in Quarantine, edited by Lauren McLaughlin (Edinburgh: Spilt Milk Gallery, 2020)

Kutis, Barbara, Artist-Parents in Contemporary Art: Gender, Identity, and Domesticity (Abingdon: Routledge, 2020)

Jenkins, Mark, “In the Galleries: An Artist Conjures Images from Oceans to a Micro View of Nature,” Washington Post, February 20, 2020, https://wapo.st/2ZNvAWN

Recorded interview, “Turning the Mundane Experiences of Motherhood into Conceptual Art,” interview by Kaylan Buteyn, Artist/Mother Podcast, published August 5, 2019

Voon, Claire, “Chicago Project is a Growing Community for Artist Mothers,” The Art Newspaper, October 3, 2019, https://bit.ly/2Z85gHI

The Maternal in Creative Work: Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art, edited by Elena Marchevska and Valerie Walkerdine (Abingdon: Routledge, 2019)

Inappropriate Bodies: Art, Design, and Maternity, edited by Rachel Epp Buller and Charles Reeve (Bradford, Ontario: Demeter Press, 2019)

Maternal Journal Volume 2, Artist Mother Studio and Project for Empty Space, edited by Amy Huges 

Braden and Leslie Holt, 2019

Bravo, Arthur Ivan, “Alice Gibney and Sarah Irvin,” Artillery Magazine, March 5, 2019 

Dalla Villa Adams, Amanda, “The Art of Motherhood: A Conversation with Sarah Irvin,” The Rib, March 6, 

2019, https://bit.ly/3fdpZPM

Maternal Journal Volume 1, Artist Mother Studios + Washington Project for the Arts, edited by Amy 

Huges Braden and Raina Martens, 2018

Mother Mother volume 2, edited by Sheila Restack, 2017

Jenkins, Mark, “In the Galleries: Lines are Clearly Drawn in ‘Art as Politics,’” Washington Post, August 13, 2016, https://wapo.st/2AFjNB9

“A Step by Step Guide to Staying an Artist While Having a Baby,” The Creators Project - VICE, 2017, https://bit.ly/38C80QC

“Artist Parent Index,” Temporary Art Review, access date: July 1, 2016, https://bit.ly/3ef8nSm

“5 Must See Booths at Art on Paper.” Art Zealous, March 4, 2016

Cover Artist, sPARKLE & blink, Issue 73, San Francisco, CA

Featured Artist, Barely South Review Spring 2016 issue, Old Dominion University

Zalecki, Megan, “New Directions” Richmond Arts Review, November 15, 2013

Karen Newton, “Stretching Out,” Style Weekly, November 12, 2013

Bozeman, Bobby, “Lily of the Mind.” Times Daily, August 19, 2012

Featured Artist, House Crashers, DIY Network and HGTV, February 2012

Smith, Rick, “Painter Envisions Beauty of Grandfather’s Gardens.” San Angelo Standard Times,  July 3, 2011

“In the Artist’s Words” feature, Muses Magazine, January 7, 2011

 GALLERY AFFILIATIONS

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY

Massey Klein Gallery, New York, NY

Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA

WORK EXPERIENCE

2024-Current Adjunct Professor, Art Foundations, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 

2023-Current Adjunct Professor, Craft and Material Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 

2023-Current Photography, Fab Lab, and Writing Instructor, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA

2023-Current Marketing Consultant, Freelance Writer, Thrive Together Network

2019 - Current Critique Group Mentor, Thrive Together Network (formerly Artist/Mother Network)

2017-2018 Director, CURRENT Art Fair, Richmond, VA

2017 Adjunct Professor, Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 

2016-2017         Adjunct Professor, Art History and Art Appreciation, Virginia Union University, Richmond, VA

2016-2017        Collection Engagement and Research Consultant, Capital One Corporate Art Collection, Richmond, VA

2016           Editor-in-Chief, Witness & Memory, Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here DC Project, Washington, DC

2015-2016 Graduate Professional Assistant, Fenwick Gallery, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 

2015-2016 Art Editor, So to Speak Journal, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

2009-2013 Art Program Coordinator, Capital One Corporate Art Program, Richmond, VA

2009-2010 Gallery Assistant, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA

2010-2011 Printmaking Instructor, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA

2009-2011 Art Teacher, Anna Julia Cooper Episcopal School, Richmond, VA