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Sarah Hobbs is an American born artist in Lynchburg, VA 1970. Hobbs got her BFA in art history at University of Georgia, Athens, GA in 1992 and her MFA in photography in 2000 at the University of Georgia as well. Currently she is living and working in Atlanta. In 2003 she was a finalist for an award known as the Forward Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award. Her work has been exhibited in important public collections such as the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, her work has been traveling since 1998. Emotions that trouble the soul are the subject of Hobb's photographs. Hobbs creates the psychological still lives/states and photographs them as large scale color images. "Sarah Hobbs’s work explores and gives form to various human behaviors and compulsions. She carefully stages and photographs scenes that are meant to embody phobias, neuroses, and obsessions. Her intricate tableaus are simultaneously profound and witty, reflecting Hobbs’s understanding of human psychology." says Katherine A. Bussard, Assistant Curator of Photography at The Art Institute of Chicago.