Sarah Khan
Arts/Industry: Pottery, 2022
Sarah K Khan (b. Mangla, Pakistan) utilizes food to provoke thought about injustice toward people and the planet. She explores food, culture, women, migration, and identity in urban and rural environments. A multimedia maker and scholar, she uses photography, films, video art, print-making, maps, and writing.
After a year as a Senior Research Fulbright-Nehru Scholar in India, she is creating multimedia vignettes highlighting the labor and knowledge of Indian women farmers. She creates global media content on Migrant Kitchens and the Food Craft Project. She is assembling a series of multimedia and photographic exhibits on “In/Visible: Migrant Kitchens,” “In/Visible: Porters of Taste” that explores the lives of migrant workers in Old Delhi; and “In/Visible: Women Farmers.” At present, Sarah continues Migrant Kitchens in the USA, and with a group of women cooks and farmers in Fez, Morocco.
She has articles/photography in two edited volumes: “Supershero Amrita Partitioned Once, Migrated Twice” in Women and Migrations: Responses in Art and History, editors Deb Willis, Cheryl Finley, Ellyn Toscano; and Khan, SK. (2020); “To Sow and To Sew: Siddi Women Farmers (and Quilters) in Uttara Kannada, Karnataka, India” in African Diasporan Communities Across South Asia, Volume 2, of The Afro-South Asian in the Global African Diaspora, 3-Volume Series, edited by Kenneth X. Robbins, Omar Ali, Beheroze Shroff, and Jazmin Graves. Sarah’s work has also appeared in Museum of the Moving Image, Queens Museum, Asian Arts Initiative, AAWW Open City, Roads and Kingdoms, Culinary Backstreets, The Art of Eating, Modern Farmer and Yahoo India.
A two-time Fulbright recipient, Khan earned a BA in Middle Eastern history and Arabic (Smith College), two Masters (public health and nutrition, Columbia University) and a Ph.D. (traditional ecological knowledge systems, plant sciences, New York Botanical Garden-CUNY). Her most recent residencies include Ellis Beauregard (2021), Monson Arts (2021), Project for Empty Space Feminist Residency (2020), Indigo Arts Alliance (2019), and the Boren Chertkov Residency for Labor and Justice at Blue Mountain Center (2019).
