Sarah Canfield

Sarah Canfield is a multidisciplinary artist merging painting and digital photography to create visual environments that reverberate between reality and illusion. Her paintings, pastels, collages, wall sculptures and mixed media works fuse organic and artificial images to reveal the growing encroachment of technology into the natural world. Her art has been exhibited widely in galleries, museums and nonprofit venues including the Montclair Art Museum, the Morris Museum, the Visual Art Center of New Jersey, the Pennsylvania State Museum, the Woodmere Art Museum, the Delaware Contemporary and the gallery at FIT in New York. Canfield holds a BFA in painting from Alfred University and she is an instructor at the Montclair Art Museum. She has given guest lectures and demonstrations at institutions including Pratt Institute, Caldwell University the Newark Academy and Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her art has been featured in the Quiet Lunch, ANTE curatorial and Art Spiel art blogs as well as the Philadelphia Inquirer and the New York Times. She is the recipient of a 2022 Fellowship in Painting from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.