Sarah Blood

Born in the UK, Sarah Blood is an artist, independent curator, and educator. She has enjoyed an active studio practice since 1999, exhibiting her work internationally alongside contemporary artists, including Bruce Nauman, Agnes Denes, Glenn Ligon, Sarah Lucas, and Tracy Emin.

Blood’s practice is concerned with light and phenomenology. She plays with the tension between material, form of object, and space. Light, often neon, is enriched by a counterpoint with conceptual, physical, and visual weight. Blood uses beauty to draw the viewer into the work, often employing metaphor or humor as an entry point. At first look, pieces can appear purely whimsical, a celebration of light and form, a joyful experience. With time and exploration, social and political themes are revealed. Most recent research explores themes of invisibility, structures of power and inequitable systems. The resulting works explore light, sound, and movement using contemporary and obsolete technologies with traditional and nontraditional art-making materials to create object-based sculpture, performative interventions, video, and immersive experiences.

Blood is associate professor of light in the Sculpture Dimensional Studies Program at Alfred University, New York, where she has been teaching since 2013.