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Biography
Sarah Zapata is an American-Peruvian textile artist who has gained recognition for her exceptional skill in weaving and sewing together works of art that reflect her individuality through the use of fabric and textiles.

Sarah Zapata was born in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1988 and was raised in the Dallas area by her Peruvian father and Christian mother. Growing up in an Evangelical Christian household, Zapata identifies as a queer artist. Zapata currently resides and works in Brooklyn, New York where she utilizes her art to communicate meaning across diverse groups, drawing on her early experiences as well as a variety of traditional skills she has picked up over the years. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Fibers from the University of North Texas in 2011.

Career
Sarah Zapata is well-known for her incredibly distinctive and textile-heavy artwork. Using a more abstract style of artwork, she can unite her identities through this. Her pieces and latch-hooked carpets veer toward abstraction and perception while drawing inspiration from traditional Peruvian weaving. Zapata's art defies social conventions and standards while reflecting her character. Portraying a more abstract form of art, this is a way for her to weave all of her identities together. Whether that be her Christian religious upbringing or her gender identity now, she can weave this all together while psychically weaving and sewing together art. It is located in transitional regions among handcraft and fine art. Her identities as a modern artist interacting with past civilizations, a Texan living in New York, a queer artist with Christian origins, and an artist working with craft supplies are all explored through her pieces. To defy constraining misconceptions and assumed environments, Zapata's art challenges the expressive aspect of identity, especially the idea of the work of women.

Artwork
To Teach or To Assume Authority (2018-2019)

A Famine of Hearing (2019)

Standing on the Edge of Time (2019)

References


 * Martinez, Nicole. “Textile Artist Sarah Zapata Has More than One Identity. Weaving Lets Her Bring Them All Together.” Artnet News, 7 Sep. 2022, https://news.artnet.com/art-world/sarah-zapata-profile-2167812
 * -  Museum, Ogden. “Sarah Zapata.” Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 10 July 2020, https://ogdenmuseum.org/sarahzapata/
 * -  “Sarah Zapata: So the Roots Be Known: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.” Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, https://www.kemperart.org/exhibition/2023-atrium-project-sarah-zapata

Further Readings

 * Kwun, A. (2021, October 4). The Textile Artist Employing Centuries-old Practices and Pop Culture Imager. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/t-magazine/sarah-zapata-weaving-art.html
 * -  Ritualization and Embodiment: Sarah Zapata Interviewed. BOMB Magazine. (2019, April 10). https://bombmagazine.org/articles/ritualization-and-embodiment-sarah-zapata-interviewe%20%20d/
 * -  Sarah Zapata: A Resilience of Things Not Seen. John Michael Kohler Arts Center. (2022, March 1).https://www.jmkac.org/exhibition/sarah-zapata-a-resilience-of-things-not-seen/