About

Sarah
Pierce

artist, Dublin

Sarah Pierce is an artist. Working with performance, video, papers, interviews, exhibitions, and archival material, she researches sites and contexts of artistic practices and their public displays, often within the institution. She holds a PhD in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths, University of London, London and an MFA from Cornell University, Ithaca, and is a past participant of the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, New York. In addition to teaching at the Roaming Academy of the Dutch Art Institute, Arnhem, she currently teaches art at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin. Recent exhibitions include: Pathos of Distance, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 2015–2016; Positions #2, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2015–2016; El Lissitzky: The Artist and the State, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2015; Lost Illusions/Illusions Perdues, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, 2014, Mercer Union, Toronto, 2014; and SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, Montreal, 2014. Pierce lives and works in Dublin.