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Sarah Jacobs

American and British

b. 1984

Sarah Jacobs is a contemporary maximalist and surrealist artist. She is represented in NYC by Fremin Gallery and in Pittsburgh by Zynka Gallery. Her work has been exhibited in the US and Europe and she has taken part in artist residencies in Grimma, Germany; Cali, Colombia; and Taos, New Mexico. She has won multiple grants, including the Arts Council England Grant, and her work can be found in public and private collections in the US, UK, and Hong Kong. She has had solo and two-person exhibitions in New York City, London, Wrocław, Poland and Bristol, England, among other cities.

Jacobs is Pennsylvania Dutch and was raised in Littlestown, Pennsylvania. She was educated in Art History at Gettysburg College where she was especially drawn to Byzantine art. She received her MFA from the Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore in 2010. There she studied under Joyce Kozloff, founding member of the Pattern & Decoration and Feminist art movements of the 1970’s, and the minimalist artist Timothy App. Jacobs moved back to the USA in 2014 after three years living in London and Bristol, UK where she became a naturalized British citizen.

She lives and paints in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Besides making and studying art, she enjoys fine wine, reading novels and philosophy, long walks in the battlefield, and traveling.
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