Sarah Zapata

Sarah Zapata is an American textile artist based in Brooklyn, New York City. Her works address themes of labor, systems of power, queerness, and the intersection of identity.

Early and personal life Zapata was born in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1988 to a Peruvian father and American mother. She was raised near Dallas in an Evangelical Christian household. She became interested in fabric and textile arts from a young age, feeling that clothing was one of the only things she could control. Zapata identifies as a queer artist. The majority of Zapata's works include hand-weaving, which is a very time consuming and labor intensive process. Hand-weaving incorporates both traditional and contemporary elements that add to its effect. Zapata’s body of work address issues like labor, systems of power and control, and queerness.

Notable works by Zapata include: To Teach or To Assume Authority (2018-2019), A Famine of Hearing (2019) and Standing on the Edge of Time (2019).

Solo exhibitions

Siempre X (2015-2016), El Museo del Barrio, Manhattan, New York City a resilience of things not seen (2022-2023), John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin So the roots be known (2023-2024), Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Missouri

Collections Source

El Museo del Barrio, Manhattan, New York City Museum of Art and Design, Manhattan, New York City Lima Art Museum, Lima, Peru