Sarah Zapata

Sarah Zapata (1988) is a Peruvian-American textile artist.

Biography
Born in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1988, Zapata was raised Evangelical Christian by her Peruvian father and Christian mother. Zapata identifies as a queer artist. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Fibers from the University of North Texas in 2011. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Art
Zapata is recognized for her distinctive and textile-heavy artwork. Her pieces and latch-hooked carpets veer toward abstraction and perception while drawing inspiration from traditional Peruvian weaving. Zapata's abstract woven artworks symbolically represent her intersectional identities such as her Christian religious upbringing or her gender identity. Her identities also include being an artist born and raised in Texas, and now working in New York.

Notable works by Zapata include: To Teach or To Assume Authority (2018-2019), A Famine of Hearing (2019) and Standing on the Edge of Time (2019).