Artist Biography

Sarah Thomas is an interdisciplinary artist, photographer, and curator based in the Midwest. She received her BFA from Bowling Green State University in 2013 and received her MFA in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art in May of 2020. She has exhibited in galleries around the Midwest, worked on independent photography projects, and assisted in mural projects around the city of Toledo, working with Toledo Arts Corner, The Toledo Arts Commission and the Toledo Museum of Art. She has also worked in imaging for the National Gallery of Art and curation at the Cranbrook Art Museum. She currently is an Adjunct Professor in the Photography Department and a Photography Technician at Bowling Green State University.

Her practice encapsulates moments of questioning the state of permanence through plastic and the Anthropocene focusing on conversations between natural and artifice. Her work teeters between sinister and playfulness, seduction and repulsion, humor and uncomfort. Looking through the lens of the Anthropocene, analyzing current and futuristic states of plastic and waste as apart and separated from our environment, she takes a stance on realizing the adaptability of mother earth and critiquing the absurdities of our human capitalistic culture on recycling producing a social and political unrest. In making images, installation, video, and sculpture in a variety of combinations, Sarah tries to evoke an emotional response of responsibility through contradiction. A clash between aesthetic attraction and realization of the tragedy upon us.