Bio:
Sarah Banks is a Seattle based mixed media artist who creates bodies of work around a narrative. In 2017, she partnered with Seattle’s Gage Academy & Doctors Without Borders on a solo show at Gage’s Equinox Studio. Entitled Forced From Home, the show focused on the Middle East refugee crisis. Continuing with the theme of social upheaval and war, she completed another body of work, A Distant Mirror in 2022, an assembly of print, painting, sculpture and clothing employing Greco/Roman tales to reflect on current events. A short video on the artist’s website explores the meaning of this collection. Work from this collection showed at Seattle’s COCA/Center on Contemporary Art, at Pratt Fine Arts Seattle, and online with Biafarin/Toronto, CA in 2023, and was featured in DABARTS Quarterly 2023. The artist also explores an ever-changing world through exploration of the built world and landscape, both in studio and on plein air residencies.
SHOWS AWARDS RESIDENCIES PUBLICATIONS AFFILIATIONS:
In recent years as well as participating in group shows locally— The Convention Center, Columbia City Gallery, Lynn Hanson Gallery, Catalyst Gallery, CVG, Fogue and other Seattle & Northwest venues—the artist has been chosen to participate in Arts Fundraisers, including the Artist Trust 2021 Benefit Auction and the COCA Marathon Auction 2021. She was the Northwest Fine Arts Competition Jurors’ Choice Award in 2018 for work from the collection Forced From Home. Beyond the Northwest, she has participated in group shows at TAG Gallery, Museum Row, Los Angeles and Bank of the Arts, New Bern, NC, and in Sintra, Portugal. Recent work in print includes DabArts Quarterly 2023 as a featured artist, COCA /Jim Crow Must Go catalog 2023, TAG Gallery LA Summer Show Catalog 2023, Diversia 2022 Catalogue Anti-War and Salaan Magazine 2022.
In December 2023, she enjoyed an Artist Residency at Centrum, Port Townsend, WA., following up on ideas developed during an Artist Residency in the autumn of 2023 at the Convento São Francisco, Mèrtola, Portugal, where she had returned to continue work begun during a 2021 residency. Sarah is a member of Seattle Print Arts/SPA, Center on Contemporary Art/COCA and Northwest Collage Society/NWCS. She maintains a studio in Seattle’s International District at 416 Rainier Ave S No2B, Seattle, WA 98144. As well as a website at www.sarahelizabethbanks.com she can be found on Instagram at sebartista18.
Resume:
206 972 1939•sarahebanks23@gmail.com•www.sarahelizabethbanks.com•416 Rainier Ave S No 2B Seattle WA 98144 USA
Sarah Elizabeth Banks
Education:
Gage Academy of Art Seattle USA
University of Leeds, Leeds UK• M.A.
University of Washington Seattle USA • B.A.
Selected Group Exhibitions & Solo Shows:
2024:
April: Fogue Gallery, Georgetown, Seattle, WA Northwest Collage Society Group Show
March: Teravarna online show Water/https:/teravarna.com/winners-2024-water-5
March: M. Rosetta Hunter Art Gallery, Seattle, WA Seattle Print Arts Group Show
March: ‘Narnia’ Factoria Mall, Bellevue, WA ARTMA.org PopUp Group Show
February-December: Hi Spot Café, Seattle, WA solo show
January: Seattle Print Arts/SPA Group Show, Mercer Island Community Center, Mercer Island, WA
2023:
October-December: Ida Culver House Ravenna, Seattle, WA Juried Show
September-December: Artist in Residence, Hi Spot Café, Seattle, WA
September-December: Yuan Ru Art Gallery, Bellevue, WA Juried Show
September: COCA/Center on Contemporary Art, Jim Crow Must Go Juried Show, Seattle, WA
August-September: Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA Annual Juried Show
July: COCA/Center on Contemporary Art, Summer Show, Seattle WA
June: Dabster Arts Inc. Summer 2023 Exhibition online
May: Landscape Finalist, Teravarna Gallery, Los Angeles, CA online show
May: A Distant Mirror, Toronto, CA/Biafarin online Solo Show
March-April: Fogue Studios & Gallery, Seattle, WA Northwest Collage Society Juried Show
March: M. Rosetta Hunter Art Gallery, Seattle, WA Seattle Print Arts
2022:
November-December: ‘Pluralism’ COCA/ Center On Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
August: Seattle Design Festival South Lake Union Park• 20&21 August 10am-7pm•Building Blocks of Community/COCA
May-June: COCA Spring Members’ Show, Seattle, WA
February-April: Diversia 2022 Anti War Exhibizone, www.gallerium.art/
March-May: Northwest Collage Society, Catalyst Fine Art, The Lodge at St. Edward Park, Kenmore, WA
March-May: Solo Show Ernestine Anderson Window on Jackson/Pratt Fine Arts, Seattle, WA
January-March: Gallerium Art Exhibition online, www.gallerium.art/p/migration-2021.html?name=sarah-banks
2021:
November-January 2022: COCA Annual Members Show, Seattle, WA
September: COCA 2021 Marathon & Auction, Seattle, WA
September: Jim Crow Must Go/COCA, Seattle, WA
June-October: ERA Broadview, Seattle, WA
March: Artist Trust’s 2020/21 Benefit Auction, Seattle, WA
February-April: ‘Paper Paste Scissors’ Lynn Hanson Gallery, Seattle, WA
January-September: Hi Spot Café Seattle, WA Solo Show
2020:
July: ERA Broadview, Seattle, WA
February & July: ERA Lakeshore, Seattle, WA
January-December: Hi Spot Café Seattle, WA Solo Show
2019:
December: Historic Seattle Georgetown Art Attack, Seattle, WA
March: COCA, Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA
January-February: 2019 Annual Washington State Art Competition & Show, CVG Gallery, Bremerton, WA
January-March: Northwest Collage Society Winter Show, Seattle Convention Center, Seattle, WA
January-December: Hi Spot Café Seattle, WA Solo Show
2018:
December: Columbia City Gallery 6th Annual Chop Challenge, Seattle, WA.
November: Gage Atelier at Equinox, Georgetown, Seattle, WA
October: University House Wallingford, Seattle, WA
September: Northwest Collage Society, Mercer Island Community Center, Mercer Island, WA
August: Columbia City Gallery 13th Annual Juried Show, Seattle, WA
March-April: 2018 Northwest Fine Arts Competition, Jurors' Choice Award, Seattle, WA
January-December: Hi Spot Café Seattle, WA Solo Show
2017:
December: Solo Show ‘Forced From Home’, Gage at Equinox Georgetown, Seattle, WA
August: California Open TAG Gallery Museum Row, Los Angeles, CA
July: Kingston Arts Festival, Kingston, WA
2016:
October: The Bank of the Arts Gallery, New Bern, NC
June - July: EAFA Juried Open Exhibition, Mercer Island, WA
January - March: Northwest Collage Society, Seattle Convention Center, Seattle, WA
2015:
October: The Bank of the Arts/Craven Arts Gallery, New Bern, NC
September: Columbia City Gallery 10th Annual Juried Show, Seattle, WA
January: Landscapes of Portugal, LxWxH Gallery, Seattle, WA
2013:
August: Parklane Gallery Summer Show, Kirkland, WA
June: Around the Square, Tashiro Kaplan Building, Seattle, WA
February: University House Wallingford, Seattle, WA
2012:
September-November: Columbia City 7th Annual Juried Show, Seattle, WA
May-July: SEV SHOON Print Show, Seattle Convention Center, Seattle, WA
February: National Print Exhibition, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA
Honors and Awards:
Centrum Residency, Port Townsend, WA 2023
Artist in Residence, Convento São Francisco, Mértola, Portugal 2023
Centrum Residency, Shintaffer Group, Port Townsend, WA 2022
Artist in Residence, Convento São Francisco, Mértola, Portugal 2022
Artist in Residence, Convento São Francisco,Mértola, Portugal 2021
Artist in Residence, Convento São Francisco, Mértola, Portugal 2019
Member of the Following Organizations:
Seattle Print Arts/SPA, Seattle, WA
Northwest Collage Society/NWCS, Seattle, WA
Center on Contemporary Art/COCA, Seattle, WA
In Print & Media & Artist Talks:
Artist Talk, Ida Culver House, Seattle, WA December 2023
TAG Gallery Museum Row Los Angeles Annual National Show Catalog 2023
Quarterly Magazine Summer Edition 2023 Dab Arts & Video
COCA/Center on Contemporary Art Seattle Jim Crow Must Go Catalog 2023
Salaan Magazine 2022
Diversia 2022 Anti-War Exhibizone Catalog, Biafarin, Toronto, Canada
Pratt Fine Arts, Seattle, WA 12 March 2022 ‘A Distant Mirror’ Artist Talk
COCA/Center on Contemporary Art Seattle ‘Resilience in a Time of Pandemia’ 2022 Video
The Book of Arts: Migration 2022 , publishers Biafarin, Toronto, Canada online show & print catalog
Salaan Magazine 2021
COCA/Center on Contemporary Art Seattle 20/20 Vision Catalog Members’ Show
Salann Magazine 2020
Art Beyond Quarantine blog Mark Auslander March 31, 2020 ‘Icarus Rising’ Sarah Banks
COCA/Center on Contemporary Art Seattle Motherland Catalog 2019
TAG Gallery Museum Row Los Angeles Annual National Show Catalog 2017
Equinox Studios Seattle Forced From Home Show Catalog 2017
Craven Arts Council New Bern, NC Annual National Show Catalog 2015 &2014