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Sarah Meyohas (born 1991, New York, New York) is a French-American visual artist based in New York working across multiple disciplines including film, photography, virtual reality, performance art and sculpture.

Early life and education
Meyohas grew up in Uptown Manhattan, New York. She holds a B.A. in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S in finance from the Wharton School, and in 2015, she received an M.F.A. from Yale University.

Work
In her work across media, Meyohas uses networks of information, power, value, and communication. Most spaces are shaped by the flow of desire through matrices of thought; this is the site of her work.

BitchCoin
Meyohas first gained traction in 2015 for her work BitchCoin, her own form of cryptocurrency. Similar to Bitcoin, one Bitchcoin, sold for $100, is worth 25 square inches of any one of Meyohas’ photographic prints. The value of each coin fluctuates with the increasing value of the artist’s works. ‘BitchCoin asserts artistic agency as an economic claim,” Meyohas states, "This is important for artists when art is viewed as a cultural capital.”

Speculations
In her Speculation series, Meyohas creates photographs exploring limitless exhcnage using two-way mirrors with a series of constructed props – from rose petals and branches of yellow blossom, to a haze of blue smoke and a pair of hands two mirrors. It is a series of speculation relations that never find a definitive end.

Stock Performance
In her first solo art exhibition at New York City’s 303 Gallery, Meyohas traded stocks on the New York Stock Exchange then, in real time, drew the changes in the stock’s valuation with oil stick on blank canvases throughout the gallery. The line, value over time, is an index of her movement, physically in the gallery and virtually in her ownership. Each painting is one of many financial records, but unique as an artwork.

Cloud of Petals
Cloud of Petals is Meyohas’s first large scale exhibition and virtual reality experience at Red Bull Arts New York. The two-floor exhibition is the culmination of an extensive yearlong project that is both archival and experimental. Meyohas investigates the artificially of beauty by enlisting the faculties of human subjectivity through a body of work that integrates culture, photography, artificial intelligence, and organic matter.

Meyohas Gallery
MEYOHAS was founded in September 2015. It started as an experimental space, on the 28th floor of a Philip Johnson building on the Upper East Side. After a year of group shows and curatorial projects, the gallery transitioned in 2016 towards a roster and solo shows. In 2017, the gallery relocated to its current space in Long Island City, Queens. Most of the artists in the program have had their first solo shows in New York at MEYOHAS. The artists in the program generally work across various mediums including video, performance, sound and sculpture. Montgomery empathetically maps and physically channels the metaphysics of dematerialized capital. King questions what it means to be human in an increasingly digitized ecology. Beckwith’s sculptures exist at the collision of cultural paradigms, from videogame arcades to museological display. O’Leary’s glossy photographs take on the language of commercial photography in order to arrive at something more sinister. Meyohas's most recent exhibition, Happy Valley, by Irish-American artist Eva O’Leary’s was featured in the New Yorker. All the artists are peers, friends, and influence each other. The gallery has appeared in the New York Times, Art Forum, and various other publications. Upon invitation by Independent, MEYOHAS participated in an art fair for the first time in 2017.

Solo Exhibitions
(2015) BitchCoin, Where, Brooklyn, NY

(2016) Stock Performance, 303 Gallery, NY, NY

(2017) Sarah Meyohas, Galerie Pact, Paris, FR

(2017) Sarah Meyohas, Independent Régence, Brussels, BE

(2017) Cloud of Petals, Red Bull Arts New York, NY, NY

Group Exhibitions
(2011) SVA Summer Residency Exhibition, Westside Gallery, New York, NY

(2012) Moby-Dick, Addams Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

(2012) Corpus Corporum, Philomathean Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

(2013) For Ed: Splendor in the Grass with Olympic Lad & Lass, Yale School of Art Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT Curated by Samuel Messer

(2013) I like it when the girls, Hundred Forsyth, New York, NY Curated by Margaret Kross & Suzie Oppenheimer

(2013) Photo Istanbul Exhibition, Meyerson Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

(2013) Troupe, Addams Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

(2014) Yale MFA 2015, Yale School of Art Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT

(2015) Black Mirror, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY

(2015) Lovely Dark, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA

(2015) Lovely Dark, Danziger Gallery, New York, NY

(2015) viewer DISCRETION..the Children of BATAILLE, Stux Gallery, New York, NY

(2015) NEWD Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY

(2015) LUX: Ideas through Light, Beinecke Plaza, Yale University, New Haven, CT

(2015) Business As Usual, Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun, Leeds, UK

(2016) Legal Tender, The Alice Gallery, Seattle, WA

(2017) Jardin D'Artifices, Curated by Louis Amar, La Fondation C2, Paris, FR

(2017) From DADA to TA-DA, Curated by Max Wolf, Fisher Parrish, New York, NY

(2017) 99 Cents or Less, Curated by Jens Hoffman, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, MI

(2017) Escape Attempts: Curated by Dr. Kathy Battista, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA, Brooklyn, NY

Talks
(2015) NEWD Talks: Beyond Resale Royalties – Pro-Artist Market Maneuvers, Panel | Sarah Meyohas, Neal Curley (Essex Street Gallery) and Kenneth Schlenker (artlist.co), moderated by Dr. Natasha Degen

(2015) Swiss Institute, New York: Panel | Sarah Meyohas, Lucy Hunter and R. Lyon, Jenny Jaskey, and Laurel Ptak Discuss BitchCoin

(2016) Guest Lecture, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

(2016) Visiting Artist, Sotheby's Institute, NY, NY

Awards and Residencies
(2010) Juror’s Award, University of Pennsylvania

(2010) Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia, PA) Advisory Board Member (2010-2013)

(2011) Residency at the School of Visual Arts, New York, NY