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Biography
Born in Ames, IA 1977. Lives and works in St. Louis, MO.
Solo/Duo Exhibitions
2023 Mother(ing) as Meditation, The High Low Gallery, St. Louis, MO.
2022 Nature/Nurture, with Natalie Baldeón, GCADD, Granite City, IL.
2019 Mirror, Mirror, McKendree College in Lebanon, IL.
2017 White Ghosts, The Gallery at Kranzberg Arts Center, St. Louis, MO.
Playing Innocent, The Carriage Gallery at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities at Brown University, Providence, RI.
Pasttimes (with Cam Fuller), Merwin Gallery at Illinois Wesleyan, Bloomington, IL.
2014 Elegy to Connie, Fort Gondo, St. Louis, MO & The Nightingale, Chicago, IL.
2011 Sarah Paulsen, Three Rivers Community College, Poplar Bluff, MO.
2010 Off the Wall in Utter Pandemonium as We Tape on It (w/ Cam Fuller), University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
2009 Constellate, Fort Gondo, St. Louis, MO.
Ants are Coming to Town (with Cam Fuller), Drive-By, St. Louis, MO.
2008 Field Drawings from an Expedition, Dzine Salon, St. Louis, MO.
2005 Lost in the System, Ragtag Cinema Theatre Café, Columbia, MO.
2004 Artist and Community, The Craft Studio, Columbia, MO.
2002 Lost and Found, Sunflour Café, St. Louis, MO.
2000 Wanderlust, The Craft Studio, Columbia, MO.
1998 Sarah’s Circus Extravaganza, Shattered, Columbia, MO.
Juried Exhibitions/Film Festivals
2022 Parenthood, Art St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
We Intuit, Houska Gallery, St. Louis, MO.
2021 Curious?, Angad Arts Hotel, St. Louis, MO.
Painting at Night, Art/Link Contemporary Gallery, Fort Bend, Indiana.
The Sleepover, virtual exhibit www.baltimoresleepover.com/ Baltimore, MD.
2020 Rights and Wrongs: Citizenship, Belonging, and the Vote, the Peale at the Carroll Mansion, Baltimore, MD.
2018 The Great Rivers Biennial: The Invention of Whiteness, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO.
Experimental Animated Shorts, Aggregate Space Gallery, West Oakland, California.
Animated Shorts Screening, The Roxie theater, San Francisco, CA., awarded "Jury's Choice for animated shorts"
17 Days, Western Michigan University and Alfred State College.
2016 Equality Matters, William Woods University, MO.
Exposure 10 Anniversary, Gallery 210, MO.
2015 Moviate Film Festival, Harrisburg, PA.
Black Maria Film Festival, New Jersey City University, NJ. 1st Prize
Blue Sky Animation Festival, Wooster, OH.
2014 St. Louis Creates, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO.
St. Louis International Film Festival, St. Louis, MO.
St. Louis Filmmaker's Showcase, St. Louis, MO. Best Director- Documentary.
2011 Dia de Los Muertos, Fine Arts Center of Hot Springs, AK.
Critical Mass Stimulus Grant Show, RAC, St. Louis, MO
2010 No New Tale to Tell, Morehead State, Morehead, KY.
Ann Metzger Invitational, St. Louis Artist’s Guild, St. Louis, MO.
2009 Built (collaboration with Cam Fuller), Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO.
Shrine (collaboration with Cam Fuller), The Foundry, St. Charles, MO.
2008 Art and Politics, Hub-Bub, Spartanburg, SC.
2007 Exposure 10, Gallery 210, St. Louis, MO.
Fast Times at White Flag, White Flag Gallery, St. Louis, MO.
Parabola, Baseline Gallery, St. Louis, MO.
2006 St. Louis International Film Festival, Webster University, St. Louis, MO.
Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, Facets, Chicago, IL.
International Installation of Video Art, The Foundry, St. Charles, MO.
St. Louis Filmmaker’s Showcase, The Tivoli, St. Louis, MO.
Off Course, Baseline Gallery, St. Louis, MO.
2002 Venus Envy, In/Form Gallery, St. Louis, MO.
1999 Women of the Arts, The Craft Studio, Columbia, MO.
Group Exhibitions/ Screenings
2023 Pop and Prep, Houska Gallery, St. Louis, MO.
2022 We Intuit, Houska Gallery, St. Louis, MO.
2020 Pliant Glimpses, New Music Circle, Virtual Screening.
2016 American Dilemna, GCADD, Granite City, IL (with Jamie Kreher and Daniel Stumeier)
Feminist Film Festival, Art Theater Co-op, Champaign, IL.
Central Library Experimental Cinema Series: Moving Images and Sound: Short Experimental Cinema St. Louis Public Library,
St. Louis, MO.
Faculty Invitational, SLU McNamee Gallery, St. Louis University, MO.
2014 Audible Interruptions (with Cam Fuller), Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO.
2013 Spore Projects, True/False Film Festival, St. Louis, MO.
2012 Where Have you Been, Where are you Going? Yellow Bear, St. Louis, MO.
Intersecting Narratives, Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, MO.
Over the Edge, Art St. Louis, St. Louis, MO.
Video Night, The Factory and Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, MO.
2010 Multimedia Invitational, St. Charles Community College, St. Charles, MO.
Pecha Kucha, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO.
Humanilliation, BS Gallery, Iowa City, IA.
Brica-leuring, Fort Gondo, St. Louis, MO.
2008 Guest Artist for Open Studios (with Cam Fuller), Open Lot, St. Louis, MO.
Multimedia Invitational, St. Charles Community College, St. Charles, MO.
2007 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Kemper Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO.
2006 Antique Row Film Show, Cherokee St., St. Louis, MO.
1st year MFA Candidate Show, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO.
2005 Documenting St. Louis, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO.
What’s Up Docs, and Ephemeral Landscape (for Rick Prelinger), T/ F Film Festival, Columbia, MO.
2004 Garage Art, Blue Shag Gallery and Garages, Columbia, MO.
Boone County Art Show, Boone County Bank, Columbia, MO.
2003 Designing Women, Ragtag Cinema Theatre Café, Columbia, MO.
2001 Paper or Plastic, Ragtag Cinema Theatre Café, Columbia, MO.
2000 Senior Show, Bingham Gallery, Columbia, MO.
Community Art Works/Murals
2018- 2009 The People’s Joy Parade, Cherokee Street, St. Louis, MO.
2007 Nueva Escuela, Aldea Yanapay, Cuzco, Peru.
2006 Alma en Venta, Upstream Theatre, The Lewis Center, St. Louis, MO.
2005 1 Mile walking path (with CARE Gallery and Eric Repice), Columbia, MO.
Arthur: A Kink’s Rock Musical, Macklinburg Theatre, Columbia, MO
2004 Relief Mural, Columbia Daily Tribune, Columbia, MO.
People’s Procession, First Night Columbia, Columbia, MO.
2003 Your Voices are not Forgotten, Mural, Casa Loma Ballroom, St. Louis, MO.
Workshops Attended
2023 Artist Leadership Fellows Program, Mid-American Arts Alliance, Kansas City, MO.
2010 CAT Fellow, Regional Arts Commission, St. Louis, MO.
2006 Making your Documentary Matter, School of Social Media, America University, Washington, D.C.
2005 Documenting St. Louis, (Matthew Coolidge) of C.L.U.I., WUSTL, St. Louis, MO.
2004 Animated Documentary Workshop, (by Wendy Jackson), True/ False Film Festival, Columbia, MO.
Workshops Presented or Facilitated
2023 Artists Inc., Mid-American Arts Alliance and RAC, St. Louis, MO.
2020 Pandemic Illustrations, Teaching Artist for LEAP Program, C.A.M., St. Louis, MO.
2018, 2017 Stopmotion Animation, St. Louis Public Library
2016 The Art of Social Change "Power and Privilege" with Stefani Weeden-Smith, R.A.C., St. Louis, MO.
2015, '14, '13 New Art in the Neighborhood, C.A.M., St. Louis, MO.
2012 Jumpstart Animation Guide, St. Louis Art Museum teacher workshops, St. Louis, MO.
Animation with LEAP program, C.A.M, St. Louis, MO.
Team Building in the Classroom, Active Learning Institute, St. Louis, MO.
2011 Fashion as Statement to Community, Pulitzer Art Museum, St. Louis, MO.
Building a Creative Classroom, Active Learning Institute, St. Louis, MO.
Guest Speaker/ Artist Talks
2023 Great Rivers Biennial Anniversary Talk, The Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO.
Mother(ing) as Meditation closing talk, The Listening Room, St. Louis, MO.
2020 Sprawl Session 1: White Suburbias, The Laboratory for Suburbia, St. Louis, MO.
2018 Closing Speaker, American Studies Conference Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO.
Great Rivers Biennial panelist C.A.M., St. Louis, MO.
Artist talk with Alex Cunningham, Venture Cafe, St. Louis, MO.
2017 Visiting, Artist, McKendree University, Animation Class, Lebanon, IL.
Visiting Artist, Brown University, American Culture Studies, Providence, RI.
Documentation in the Arts, Community Arts Training Institute, St. Louis, MO.
Visiting Artist, New Art in the Neighborhood, St. Louis, MO.
2016 Visiting Artist, Ladue High School, St. Louis, MO.
Visiting Artist, Laumeier Sculpture Park teen program, St. Louis, MO.
Documentation in the Arts, Community Arts Training Institute, St. Louis, MO.
2014 Visiting Artist Talk, Forsyth School, St. Louis, MO.
Panel, Creative Response, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis.
2010 Visiting Artist Talk, University of Kentucky, Lexington.
Pecha Kucha, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO.
Press/ Publications
2023 Patton Brown, Julie, On Mothering and Mindfulness, Kirkwood Webster Times, St. Louis, MO.
2022 Arts Interview with Nancy Kranzberg, KDHX, St. Louis, MO.
Artist Spotlight, St. Louis Public Library https://www.slpl.org/artist-spotlight/
2018 Cut and Paste, The Invention of Whiteness , 90.7 St. Louis NPR.
5 Questions with Artist Sarah Paulsen, Critical Mass Podcast, August 7, 2018.
Amy Sherald opens at CAM with impressive local artist in 2018 Great Rivers Biennial, St. Louis American, St. Louis, MO, May 11, 2018.
2012 Baran, Jessica, Intersecting Narratives, Riverfront Times, July 19, 2012.
2011 Adams, Lauren Frances, People’s Joy Parade, Temporary Art Review,
2010 Baran, Jessica, Bricaleur-ing, Riverfront Times, March 24-30, 2010.
2009 Bonettti, David, Built, St. Louis Post Dispatch, June 21, 2009.
Baran, Jessica, Constellate, Riverfront Times, May 14-27, 2009.
2007 Bonetti, David, Exposure 10, St. Louis Post Dispatch, August 12, 2007.
2006 Manino, Fran, ¿Qué Será, Será?: For Sarah Paulsen, public art and social commentary go hand in hand, Webster/Kirkwood Times, October 6, 2006.
¿Qué Será, Será? KDHX TV, October 2006
2004 Heitzman, Liz, Niche: Sarah Paulsen, Columbia Daily Tribune, June 13, 2004.
2003 Agnew, Sara, Teenage artists get to hone their skills-and get paid. Columbia Daily Tribune and St. Louis Post Dispatch, June 22, 2003
Residency/ Awards
2023-2021 Kranzberg Arts Foundation Resident Artist
2015 RAC Artist Fellowship
2014 CALOP Grant
Forsyth School, Artist In Residence Program
Mid America Arts Alliance, Individual Artist Grant
RAC, Artist Support Grant
2012 Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris.
2010 University of Kentucky-Lexington. Painting, Drawing, and Fibers Departments.
Critical Mass Stimulus Grant
RFT Best Local Artist
Education
2007 MFA, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
2000 BFA/BA, Fine Arts and Spanish, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.