BIO

Sarah Pedlow makes stitched photo-based drawings and textiles that honor traditional embroidery, handmade clothing, and home textiles, exploring memory, folklore, and the intersections of culture, heritage, and identity in a globalized world. Visiting the Ethnographic Museum in Budapest while on residency in 2009 inspired her to start the embroidery education and preservation project ThreadWritten, which feeds her work. Residencies and textile research in Romania, Holland, Ukraine, and Portugal inform her current practice. She holds an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, and a BA in Studio Art and French Studies from Scripps College, Claremont, CA. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, she moved to Amsterdam, NL, in 2019, where she now lives and works.

EDUCATION

2001 MFA Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University
1998 BA Scripps College, Claremont, CA
1996-97 Scripps Paris Program/ University of Paris X, Nanterre

EXHIBITIONS

2024
Veil/átmenet, Arom Gallery, Budapest, HU, October 6 - 13
2023
Update: werk van nieuwe leden, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
2022
Salon 2022, Arti & Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
Tactile Sublime, Dodomu Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Online
At The Party, I Like Your Work 2022 Summer Exhibition, Guest Curator Jane Kang Lawrence of Peepspace, Online
2021
Facade, Arts to Hearts Project, Guest Curator Erika B. Hess, Online
Surreal, Tebbs Contemporary, UK, October 15 - November 14, 2021
Artistic perspectives on Architecture: In/Exclusive building, ARCAM, Amsterdam, NL
Nature in Lockdown, Floresta, Manchester, UK
2009
Green Sight and Sound, Mina Dresden Gallery, San Francisco, CA
PACT, Inc. Benefit, Divisadero Art Walk, San Francisco, CA
AIR/HMC Residencies Exhibition, Museum of Tourism and Trade, Budapest, Hungary
On View, The Konrad Gallery, Geyserville, CA
Terroir: A Sense of Place, Marin French Cheese Factory, Petaluma, CA
Messenger, Arboretum Apparel, Healdsburg, CA
2008
Emerging Visions, Courthouse Square, Santa Rosa, CA
2006
Hair, Columbia Art Center, Columbia, MD
Feedback, The German House, New York, NY
New Ideas/ New Directions, Printmaking Council of New Jersey, Somerset, NJ
2005
Folio: 2 x 12, Hunterdon Museum, Clinton, NJ
Video: 1800 Frames, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
Artists by Artists, Third Eye Gallery, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
2004
Drift Video Screening, aRaMoNa Studio, New York,NY
Feedback: Artists By Artists, Deutsches Architektur Zentrum, Berlin, German
Drift, Valentino Pier, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY 2003
Epic, Victory Hall, Jersey City, NJ
Nurturing The New, NurtureArt, New York, NY
2002
Kaboom!, The Korn Gallery, Drew University, Madison, NJ
Images (project space), The Printmaking Council of New Jersey, Somerset, NJ
Group Show, Bildungsakademie der Bankgesellschaft, Berlin, Germany
Artist to Artist, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin Germany
Thesis Exhibition, Mason Gross School of the Arts Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2000
Group Show, Anne Reid Gallery, Princeton, NJ
Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
The Paper Trail, Mason Gross School of the Arts Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Fourth Rotation, Next Level Communications, Rohnert Park, CA 1998 Photo Nouveau, Soundscape, Santa Rosa, CA

RESIDENCIES

2017
OBRAS, Renkum, The Netherlands
2016
Textilsetur Islands, Blonduos, Iceland
Arquetopia, Oaxaca, Mexico.
2009
Hungarian Multicultural Center, Budapest, Hungary
2001
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2000
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, USA

LECTURES and TEACHING

2021
Artist’s talk and embroidery workshop, Academie Artemis, Zuiderzee Museum, Enkhuizen, NL
Work in Progress artist’s talk, Textile Society of America Stitching group, June 16
Artist’s Talk: Making the Global Local Through Embroidered Art Practice, Textiles From Home symposium, Design Studies Department and Center for Design
and Material Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Hungarian Written Embroidery, Embroidered Flowers of Portugal, and Ukrainian Embroidery online workshops, Crafts Council Nederland and Friesmuseum, NL
Lecture: Folk Embroidery from Portugal, Romania, and Ukraine, and Online Studio class, Embroiderers’ Guild of America, US
ThreadWritten and Living Embroidery Traditions in Europe, Introduction to Embroidery class, Instructor Denise Maroney, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY
2020
Lecture on artistic research and embroidery workshop, The Linen Project/ Crafts Council Nederland, Nederlands Openlucht Museum, Arnhem, NL
2019
Lecture, “Cultural Expressions of Non-Western Dress/Fashion” class, Dr. Yumi Kawamura, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY
Hungarian Written Embroidery lecture and workshop, Embroiderer’s Guild of America, Morgan Hill, CA
2016 - ongoing
Hungarian Written Embroidery, Icelandic Net Bags, and Portuguese Embroidery workshops, Handcraft Studio School, Emeryville, CA /
WildCraft Studio School, Portland, OR / TATTER, Brooklyn, NY
Introduction to Embroidery, Modern Monograms and Embroidered Text, Embroidered Flowers of Portugal workshops, ThreadWritten
2015
Kalotaszeg Embroidery Workshop, Textile Arts Council, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Hungarian Folk Embroidery Workshop, Once Around, Mill Valley, CA
Hungarian Folk Embroidery Workshop, Handcraft Studio School, Emeryville, CA
Written Embroidery demonstration, LACIS Museum of Lace and Textiles, Berkeley, CA
2014
Hungarian Embroidery, Embroiderers’ Guild of America, San Mateo, CA chapter
Hungarian Embroidery, Embroiderers’ Guild of America, San Francisco, CA chapter
2008
Co-Juror, Zone of Focus photography exhibition, Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, CA
2001
Seminar in Contemporary Art, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University

AWARDS AND JURIES

2021
Finalist, Surrealist Dreams, Paris Collage Collective and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, NZ
2008
Nomination, Sonoma County Emerging Artist Award, Art Council of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, CA
2001
Teaching Assistantship Competitiveness Award, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University
2000
Rutgers University Graduate grant for residency (Vermont Studio Center)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2021
What a Relief, Uppercase Magazine, Issue 50, Jul/Aug/Sept 2021
2000
“Paper Trail”, Kathleen Doherty, Hand Paper-Making Magazine, Winter, 2000, Washington, D.C., p.46-47
1997
“Envoi: Sonia Biard, Sarah Pedlow”, Supplement: Le Journal des Expositions, no. 46, June 1997, Paris, France, p.1