Draft:Sarah E. Brook

Sarah E. Brook (born 1981) is an American sculptor and installation artist.

Career
Sarah E. Brook was born in Reno, Nevada and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. Their practice is influenced by the Light and Space Movement and the Land Art Movement, particularly artists such as Robert Irwin, Nancy Holz and Walter De Maria, bringing a lens of queer identity and personal narrative to those traditions.

Significant public art commissions include Viewfinding (2018) in Riverside Park South, supported by New York City Department of Parks and Recreation and Riverside Park Conservancy; The Need You Know It Is A Letting Light (2022), commissioned by BRIC Arts Media and supported by New York City Department of Parks and Recreation and Prospect Park Alliance;  Worthy (2021), installed at Poly Prep as part of a yearlong teaching artist in residency; A permanent installation in City Harvest's NYC Hub (2022); Portal (2019) at the Governors Island Art Fair; and a permanent commission by the Crystal Foundation (2019);

Brook often incorporates text into their works, and has collaborated with queer and trans writers in public projects at the Sweet Lorraine Gallery in Brooklyn (2024) and Riverside Park, NYC (2018), in a piece covered by The New York Times. Writing collaborators include CAConrad, Joy Ladin, Spencer Reece, Timothy Liu, Jen Currin, Leslea Newman, Rachel Rose and 2024 Guggenheim Poet in Residence Meg Day.

Brook has also exhibited at the NYC Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in 2021 with curator Avram Finkelstein, the 2019 Brooklyn BRIC Biennial , Open Source Gallery in Brooklyn (2021),  the Pfizer building in Brooklyn (2018), Turley Gallery in Hudson, NY (2022), and Glass House Projects (2022). In 2020 Brook was interviewed by Yale University Radio, and in 2022 created a new collaborative work with Sara Jimenez for the Artist Space Segue Reading Series.

Awards and residencies

 * 2024 Montello Foundation Residency Award, Montello, NV
 * 2023 Stove Works Residency Award, Chattanooga, TN
 * 2021 Marble House Residency Award, Dorset, VT
 * 2021 I-Park Foundation Winter Workshop, East Haddam, CT
 * 2019-2020 Leslie-Lohman Museum Artist Fellowship, New York, NY
 * 2019-2020 Teaching Artist in Residence at Poly Prep, Brooklyn, NY
 * 2019 I-Park Foundation Residency Award, East Haddam, CT
 * 2018 BRIC Arts Media Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY
 * 2018 SPACE on Ryder Farm Residency Award, Brewster, NY
 * 2017 Jentel Residency Award, Banner, WY
 * 2016 PLAYA Residency Award, Summer Lake, OR
 * 2015 Kimmel Harding Nelson Foundation Residency Award, Nebraska City, NE
 * 2014 First Place, Viridian Artists 25th Annual International Juried Exhibition, NY, NY. Juror * Katherine Brinson, Guggenheim Museum, NYC