The Artist

"My work investigates concepts of fragility, vulnerability, and determination.”

 

Waxing Crescent

from the Kaizen series

Sara Silks is a fine art photographer known internationally for her work in alternative and experimental processes.

Silks received her BA in both Visual Arts and Art History, and her MA in Art History with Honors.
Her graduate work with John Talleur for printmaking and her studies with Christopher James, Christina Z. Anderson, and Elizabeth Opalenik have inspired her continued work with alternative and historic photographic processes. 

Silks exhibits nationally as well as internationally in museums and juried gallery shows and had her first solo show in New York City at the Soho Photo Gallery in October of 2017. She was a featured artist in ScotiaBank’s Contact Photo Festival in Toronto in 2019 and 2020, with Lonsdale Gallery.

Her current series “Prairiefire” has been exhibited in Lishui, China at the Museum as part of the Lishui Photography Festival 2021-2022.

Silks is a five-time finalist in Photolucida’s Critical Mass, and was the international winner in two categories of the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, 2017, resulting in a Barcelona exhibition.

Her work has appeared in numerous museums, galleries, publications, and exhibitions throughout the U.S. and internationally, and is also held in private collections.

She is a featured artist in both the Focal Press book, The Experimental Darkroom, by Christina Anderson, and in Platinotype, by Pradip Malde and Mike Ware.