EDUCATION
Cornell University, BFA, studied with Gillian Pederson-Krag; Friedel Dzubas, visiting critic
Yale University at Norfolk
University of the Arts, London, MFA
Rhode Island School of Design, Graduate courses in painting
Mass College of Art&Design, Suffolk University, Education
Boston Center for Adult Education, Writing Workshop, studied with Otto Riccio
Tufts University Women’s School, Writing Workshop
TEACHINg 1976-2014
Emerson College; UMass Boston; Mass College of Art and Design; School of the
Museum of Fine Arts Boston (SMFA); Vermont College; Cornell University; Ithaca College; Art Institute
of Boston; Lesley College of Art and Design MFA Program; Union Institute & University;
Lesley University low residency programs; Thammasat University, Thailand, visiting professor
gaLLERY REPRESENTATION
Joseph Carroll and Sons, Boston Drawing Project, Boston, MA 2000-2019
Martha Tepper Fine Arts, Boston, MA 1984-89
Smedley’s Gallery, Ithaca, NY 1976-80
SELECTED U.S. EXHIBITIONS
Spring Forward, Eclipse Mill Gallery, May 2024
Blue, Somerville Art Museum, Sept-Nov 2023
Shedding Light: 200 Years of Art + Music at Norfolk, Norfolk Historical Society, Ct 2023-2024
Neoteric Abstraction, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY 2023
A Look Back: Spiral on the Water (solo), Bright Ideas, North Adams, MA March-May 2023
Drawn from Life, Eclipse Mill Gallery, North Adams 2022-23
Artists of the Thursday Chinese Dinner Group, “Conversations,” Berkshire Art Museum, 159 E. Main St., North Adams, MA Summer, 2022
All the World’s a Stage, “Beauty and the King,” Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA May 11-July 24, 2022
A Sense of Place, a Benefit for Louison House, Real Eyes Gallery, Adams, MA May-June 2022
A Closer Look: Works Inspired by Paintings at the Clark Art Institute, Eclipse Mill Gallery, April-May 2022
Remembering Together: Marking Lives Covid-19, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard 2021
Ink Work (solo), Friend Smithsonian Museum, 135 Highland Ave, Somerville, MA, July-Sept. 2021
Emergence, Eclipse Mill Gallery, 2021
Marking Lives Covid 19, on-line show (#markinglivescovid19) 2021
Chair-Arch-Wave-Oval-Box, Collaborative Works on Paper, Eclipse Mill Gallery 2021
Impromptu, Eclipse Mill Gallery, North Adams, MA 2020 www.eclipsegalleryonline.com
Droplets (hand-made books), Hallspace Drawing Project, Dorchester, MA 2020
Drawing Challenge VI, (on-line), Jason McCoy Gallery, NY 2020
Drawing Challenge XVI, (on-line), Jason McCoy Gallery, NY 2020
Dark Matter, Berkshire Art Museum (BAM), North Adams, MA 2019
The Boston Drawing Project, Joseph Carroll and Sons Gallery, Boston, MA 2019
Color & Form: Beauty in Abstraction, Gallery 51, 51 Main St. North Adams, MA 2019
Mathematics and Art: Searching for Pattern, Suffolk University Gallery, Boston 2018
Dots and Pools (solo), Burnham Gold, North Adams, MA 2018
Light Paintings (solo), Mountain One, North Adams, MA 2017
Out on a Limb, Eclipse Mill Gallery, North Adams, MA 2017
inDivisible, Eclipse Mill Gallery, North Adams, MA 2017
Group Show, Snug Harbor Gallery, Duxbury, MA 2017
Colors (solo), Berkshire Art Museum (BAM), North Adams, MA 2016
Time and Timelessness (solo), Glen Urquhart Gallery, Beverly, MA 2016
Vanishing Point, Art House Gallery, Jersey City, NJ 2016
Summer Group Show, St. Francis Gallery, Lee, MA 2016
Word & Image, Chandler Gallery, Cambridge, MA 2015
Those 70’s, Berkshire Artist Museum (BAM) 2015
Tangible Proof: an International Exhibit, Modestino Gallery, Cambridge, MA 2014
Then and Now, Berkshire Artist Museum (BAM) 2014
Water&Earth: a Call to Protect Vulnerable Ecosystems, Gallery 51, MCLA, North Adams, MA 2014
The Envelope as Canvas, Boston, MA 2014
Montenegro/Boston Impressions, Harbor Gallery, UMass Boston 2013
Boston Drawing Project, Hudson Boston 2013
Landscapes (solo), Arts Moderne, Le Petit Muse 2013
Watermarks (solo), Garage Gallery, Berkeley, CA 2011
Group Show, Eclipse Mill Gallery, North Adams, MA 2011
Pattern and Repetition, Trustman Gallery, Simmons College 2010
Oil and Water, Artspace, Berkeley CA 2010
Anniversary Show, International Rivers, Berkeley, CA 2010
Water Justice, Portland, ME, Boston, MA, Cochambamba, Bolivia 2010
Sublime Climate, Garthwaite Gallery, CSW, Weston, MA 2008
Paper in Particular, Larson Gallery, Columbia, MO 2006
A Sustainable Process, HCC Central Gallery, Houston, TX 2006
Four Artists, Seton Gallery, U. of New Haven, CT 2006
Everything but Paper Prayers, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA 2006
Landscape, The Art Store, Charleston, WV 2006
Anything but Paper Prayers, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA 2004
Contemporary Drawings, The Art Store, Charleston, WV 2004
Small Works, The Art Store, Charleston, WV 2004
Small Works, artSPACE, Malden, MA 2004
Landscape of Asia/Natural Colors (solo), Habitat Gallery, Belmont, MA 2004
Spare, OH+T Gallery, Boston 2003
The Art of Drawing, Concord Art Museum, Concord, MA 2003
Visions: 3 Painters, Le Saffre Wilstein Gallery, Boston, MA 2003
Annual AIDS Exhibition, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston 2003
Curator’s Choice, St. Botolph’s Club Gallery, Boston, MA 2001
The Power to Enchant, Starr Gallery, Newton, MAf 2000
Front Line: Contemporary Draughtsman in New England, The Boston Athenaeum 1999
Transparency/Structure and the Natural Order, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA 1999
Drawings from Boston, Boston Public Library Drawing Collection 1999
Ninth Triennial, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA 1999
42nd Annual International Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA 1998
The Birth of Color (solo), Flying University Gallery, Boston 1997
15th Annual Drawing Show, Boston Center for the Arts 1997
Prints: Sarah Sutro, Piek Larson, Liz Marran, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA 1997
Spectrum Parallels: Painting and Sound (solo), K+T Lionheart Gallery, Boston, MA 1995
Selections from the National Drawing Association, Southwest Texas State University 1994
Drawn Conclusions, Firehouse Gallery, Garden CIty, NJ 1994
Recent Grantwinners in the Visual Arts, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA 1994
Sarah Sutro: Drawings and Watercolors (solo), Boston Public Library Print+Drawing Collection 1993
New Work, Martha Tepper Fine Arts, Boston, MA 1993
Ways of Drawing, Boston Public Library Print+Drawing Collection, Wiggin Gallery, 1993
The Beauty in Breathing, Sackner Archive of Concrete & Visual Poetry, Miami, FL 1992
Distinct Voices, Federal Reserve Gallery, Boston 1992
Drawing Between Metaphor and Matter, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University 1990
Visions: Three Painters, Le Saffre Wilstein Gallery, Boston, MA 1990
Cambios/Intercambios, Space Gallery, Boston, MA and Managua, Nicaragua 1990
5 Artists, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT 1990
Fears and Scruples, Maris Gallery, Westfield State College, Westfield, MA 1990
Spirituality in Contemporary Art by Women, Watson Gallery, Wheaton College 1990
Sarah Sutro Recent Work (solo), Upstairs Gallery, Ithaca, NY 1989
Sarah Sutro Paintings and Drawings (solo), Hess Gallery, Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, MA 1989
Vernon Street at Brickbottom, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA 1989
New Works, Winifsky Gallery, Salem State College, Salem, MA 1988
Ninth Annual Drawing Show, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts 1988
Two Painters, St. Botolph’s Club, Boston, MA 1988
Memory Images, Art in General, NYC 1987
6th Annual Painting Show, Maris Gallery, Westfield State College 1987
The Narrated Earth, Federal Reserve Gallery, Boston, MA 1987
The Hour of the Furnaces: Art Against Political Oppression, Newton Art Center, Newton, MA 1987
Letters, The Clocktower, NYC 1986
Cycles, Rice Gallery, Albany, NY 1986
Landscape, Tweed Gallery, Plainfield, NJ 1986
Sixth Annual Drawing Show, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts 1985
Peaceworks, Boston Visual Artists Union, Boston, MA 1985
Social Concerns of the 80’s, Boston University Gallery 1984
Sarah Sutro: Paintings, Stebbins Gallery, Cambridge, MA 1984
Local Color/New Faces, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA 1984
The Nuclear Question, Nesto Gallery, Milton, MA 1984
The Art of the State, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 1982
Artists for Survival, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA 1982
Five Boston Artists, R.P.I., Troy, NY 1981
Group Show, Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY 1980
Sarah Sutro: Paintings (solo), Smedley’s Gallery, Ithaca, NY 1979
Red Paintings (solo), Renaissance Gallery, Ithaca, NY 1977
Working Papers, State Capitol, Albany, NY 1977
New Work (solo), Bread and Roses Gallery, Cambridge, MA 1975
Selected international exhibitions
Selected Works, Art in MiniatureDigital Exhibit, Majdanpek, Serbia 2019
International Aquarelle ExhibitionFaculty of Arts, Tirana, Albania 2013
International Exhibition Women Painters, Center for Culture, Majdanpek, Serbia 2012
A Water Justice Exhibition, Portland ME+ Cochabamba, Bolivia 2010
Knot: Symbolical Communication, Faculty of Arts, Timisoara, Romania 2009
New Ecologies, Sheraton Gallery, Pattaya, Thailand 2009
Meditation on a Landscape (solo), Thammasat University Gallery, Bangok 2009
Celebrations, Rotunda Gallery, Bangkok 2009
Biennale of Miniature Art, Milanovac, Serbia 2008
Landscape (solo), Rotunda Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand 2008
Palm (solo), Garden Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand 2008
Music through Art, New Republic Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand 2008
Natural Process, Unocal Gallery, Nonthaburi, Thailand 2008
Sunlight and Rain (solo), District Gallery, Museum of Applied Arts, Belgrade 2008
Group Show, Yubin International Centre, Belgrade, Serbia 2007
America/Montenegro/Serbia/Kosovo/Romania, Old Town Gallery, Ulcinj, Monenegro 2006
the Journey, Indus Gallery, Bangkok 2006
Using Natural Colors as Paint, Essentials, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2002
Indigo at Aranya (Neel Utshob), Aranya, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2001
International Women’s Day, Dhaka University Institute of Fine Arts, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2002
Four Painters Using Natural Color, ARA, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2002
Landscape (solo), Divine Gallery, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2002
ICDDRB Hospital Endowment Fund Exhibit, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2001
Group Show, Space Gallery, Boston, MA + Center for Popular Culture, Managua, Nicaragua 1990
Watercolor and Text (solo), Art Meeting Place, London 1974
Group Show, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England 1974
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, Franklin Furnace Artist Books Collection, New York City, NY
John M. Flaxman Library, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Artist Books, Chicago, IL
Ossabaw Island Foundation Collection
Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Miami, FL
The Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA
Harvard University Art Museums, Drawing and Print Departments, Cambridge, MA,
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Painting Collection, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Boston Public Library Print & Drawing Collection, Boston, MA
The Boston Globe, Boston, MA
Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA
Paper + Book Arts Museum, Izmir, Turkey
Queen Sirikit Center, Bangkok
Thammasat University, Bangkok
United States Embassy, Dhaka
American Recreation Association, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY
Norfolk Historical Society, Norfolk, Ct
CT Chidlren’s Medical Center
The Women’s Center, Cambridge, MA
Bristol Community College, Fall River, MA
Art Dulcinium, Montenegro
Goodwin, Proctor and Hoar, Boston
Ithaca Film and Video Project, Ithaca, NY
Clever Hans Bakery, Ithaca, NY
The Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Dunkin Donuts Corporate Headquarters, Randolph, MA
Third Sector New England, Boston, MA
MSPP, School of Professional Psychology, Boston, MA
Children’s Advocacy center, Boston, MA
The Price Center, Jamaica Plain, MA
Boston Public Health Commission, Boston, MA
Louison House, North Adams, MA
+ Many Private Collections
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES
2023 Cultural Recovery Grant, MA Cultural Council
2017 Assets for Artists Grant, MASS MoCA, N. Adams, MA
Blanche E. Coleman Foundation Finalist
2015, 2013 International Print Exchange, UMass Boston
2014 Berkshire Taconic Foundation Grant, A.R.T.
Cultural Council of Northern Berkshire Grant
Goetemann Artist Residency, Rocky Neck Art Colony, Gloucester
2009 Water Residency, Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY
2009 Visiting Artist+Writer, American Academy in Rome
Artist in Residence, Thammasat Univeristy, Bangkok, Thailand
2008 Politics in Art, Between Sharing and Showing, Goethe Institute, Bangkok
What is a Curator? Rockefeller Foundation, Mekong Art+Culture Project, at
Goethe Institute, Bangkok
2006 Art Dulcinium Residency, Montenegro
2005 Robert Frost Poetry Award Finalist
2000 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1989 Massachusetts Artist Foundation Grant Finalist, Painting
1988, 1986, 1985, 1984 Residencies, Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY
1984, 1981, 1997, 1994 Massachusetts Arts Lottery Grants
1982 Massachusetts Artist Foundation Grant Finalist, Drawing
1982, 1980 Ossabaw Island Foundation Residencies, Ossabaw Island, Georgia
1981, 80 MacDowell Colony Residencies, Peterborough, NH
1981 NEA Grant Finalist, Artist Books
1981 Jean and Louis Dreyfuss MacDowell Award, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH,
1980 NY State CAPS Grant Finalist, Painting
1978 Millay Colony for the Arts Residency, Austerlitz, NY
1976 Massachusetts Artist Foundation Grant Finalist, Poetry
1972 Cornell University Faculty of Art Medal
Leverhulme Bursary, University of the Arts, London
1971 Yale at Norfolk Fellowship, Yale University
Stone Memorial Prize, Cornell University
RELATED TALKS, WORKSHOPS
Stanford University: Women and the Creative Imagination 2010
National Museum Bangkok: Lecture Thai Murals + a New Generation of Painters 2009
Habitat Foundation, Belmont, MA: Talk + Workshop, Herbs, Ink and Art 2004
North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh: Visiting Artist Talk 2001
ICA Boston: Gallery Talk on Mary Heilman 1989
SELECTED CATALOGS AND REVIEWS
Recollections: An Interview with 3 Yale at Norfolk Art Alumnae, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0o0TAB8tHA
In Perspective: 6 Landscape Watercolors , commentary by James G. Blaine
Blue, the Celebration of a Color, Berkshire Artist Sarah Sutro at Somerville Museum, Charles Giuliano, Berkshire Fine Arts, Sept. 2023 https://www.berkshirefinearts.com/09-25-2023_blue-the-celebration-of-a-color.htm
Persimmon Tree (on-line journal), watercolor landscape, March 2023
Artists of the Thursday Chinese Dinner Group, catalogue, Berkshire Art Museum, Summer 2022
Persimmon Tree (on-line journal), watercolor landscapes, Sept. 2022
A Sense of Place, PBS Connecting Point video, 6/2022 https://connectingpoint.nepm.org/a-sense-of-place-exhibition-highlights-housing-insecurity-in-north-adams/
Local Gallery, Artists Support Louison House: A Sense of Place, Brittany Polito, iBerkshires review 7/2/2022 https://www.iberkshires.com/story/68757/Local-Gallery-Artists-Support-Louison-House.html
You’ve Heard of Tiny Houses, (Ink Drawings), Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe 8/18/2021 https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/08/18/arts/youve-heard-tiny-houses-heres-tiny-museum-artist-martha-friends-yard/
ArtAscent V50, Abstract, July 2021, Ink Drawings, pp. 80-81
Emergence Show at Eclipse Mill, 6/2021, pp. 84-85 mill-gallery-emergence/article_d45991ee-c940-11eb-8d22-07a42f425186.html
Penumbra, an Interdisciplinary Journal of Critical and Creative Inquiry, Vol. 7, Lesley Univ. PhD Program, 2020, https://unionpenumbra.org/article/gathering-on-the-border/
Eclipse Mill Artists/Impromptu/Airborne Transmission, Astrid Hiemer, Berkshire Fine Arts, 2020 https://www.berkshirefinearts.com/08-11-2020_eclipse-mill-artists-north-adams-massachusetts-2020.htm
Selected Works, Art in Miniature 2019 (catalog), digital exhibit, Majdanpek, Serbia
Dark Matter (catalog), Berkshire Art Museum (BAM), North Adams, MA 2019
Color and Form: Beauty in Abstraction, Sara Farrell Okamura, The Greylock Glass, 2/3/19 https://www.greylockglass.com/2019/02/03/color-and-form-beauty-in-abstraction/
Highlighting the Fundamentals of Abstract Work: Artistic Landscape, Jennifer Huberdeau, The Berkshire Eagle, 1/20/19 https://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/mcla-gallery-51-highlighting-the-fundamentals-of- abstract-work,561939#top-carousel
Truth, Lies, the Times We Live In, Blue Mountain Center Commons, http://bmccommons.org/truth-lies-the-times-we-live-in/ 2018
Indivisible at the Eclipse Mill Gallery and Two Poetry Readings, Julia Dixon, interviewer, Creative City 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aolVWhEhGhM&feature=youtu.be 2017
Water & Earth: A Call to Protect Fragile Ecosystems, Astrid Hiemer, Berkshire Fine Arts, 2014
Water & Earth on View, Kate Abbott, The Berkshire Eagle, 2014
Studio Visit Magazine #21, Spring 2013
International Exhibition: Women Painters (catalog), Center for Culture, Majdanpek, Serbia 2012
Review: ‘COLORS’ by Sidney Grayling, Onanger Editions 2011
Review: COLORS, Astrid Hiemer, Reflections on Planet Earth and Art, Berkshire Fine Arts 2011
Review: COLORS, Gail Leggio, American Arts Quarterly 2011
6 Landscape Watercolors in Waterkeeper Magazine, 2010
Natural Process, Thailand Art&Design Guide, 2007
Montenegro through the Eyes of American Artists, (catalog) Art Dulcinium 2006
Sarah Sutro: Recent Work 2006-7 (catalog), Museum of Applied Arts, Belgrade 2006
Montenegro Through the Eyes of American Artists (catalog), Art Dulcinium 2006
The Natural Colors of Herbs, Ink and Art, Elizabeth Sembower, Com.Newspapers 2004
An Artist of the World, Amil Aziz, The Daily Star, Dhaka 2002
Natural Colors of Life, Amil Aziz, The Daily Star, Dhaka 2002
Thank You Bangladesh, Sadeq Kahn, Holiday, Dhaka 2002
American Artist Depicts Rural Bangladesh, Jugantor, Dhaka, 2002
Athenaeum Show Celebrates Low-Tech Art of the Line, Christine Temin, Boston Globe 1999
Sarah Sutro May 1997, Paula Bonnell, Essay/Monograph 1997
Drawing with a Loose Definition at the BCA, Christine Temin, Boston Globe 1997
Spectrum Parallels, Chronicle New Magazine, Boston (Channel 5) 1995
Exhibit Shows Works by Two Women, Mary Sherman, Boston Herald 1993
Hybrid Forms: Contemporary Abstraction, Miles Unger, Art New England 1991
Metaphor & Matter: Exhibit Pulses & Whirls Joanne Silver, Boston Herald 1990
Potent Painters, South End News, Boston 1990
Painting Between Metaphor and Matter (catalog) Susan Stoopes, Rose Art Mus 1990
Good Artists Come in Threes, Nancy Stapen, Boston Globe, 1990
Local Talent in Bloom at the Rose, Christine Temin, Boston Globe, 1990
Art Turns its Focus to Ideas, Mary Sherman, Boston Globe, 1990
Spirituality in Contemporary Art (catalog), Walter Smith, Wheaton College 1990
Fears and Scruples, Gloria Russell, Sunday Republican 1990
Spirituality in Contemporary Art by Women, Alicia Faxon, Art New England 1990
The Beauty in Breathing (catalog), Marvin Sackner, Miami Beach 1989
Current Exhibit is a Dream with Wings, Megan McComb, Ithaca Journal 1989
Review, Alicia Faxon, Art New England 1989
Triangles Put the Squeeze on Landscape, Christine Temin, Boston Globe 1987
Memory Images, Ellen Handy, Arts Magazine 1987
The Narrated Earth, Alicia Faxon, Women Artist News 1987
Perspective, Christine Temin, Boston Globe 1987
Selections from the Permanent Collection (catalog), Bristol Community College, MA 1980
Cycles (catalog), Albany Institute of History and Art, Schenectady Museum 1979
The Agony Attending Artist Who Focus on Social Injustice, Robert Taylor, Boston
Globe 1984
Splendor in the Grass, Kenneth Baker, Boston Phoenix 1984
Preface: Pre-facing Peacework (catalog), BVAU 1984
Social Concerns of the 80’s (catalog), Patricia Hills 1984