SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Paths to the Shore, The Center for Book Arts New York, NY
2019 Brain Washing From Phone Towers, Editions Studio, Seattle WA
2018 Jamaica Bay Pamphleteering Project, Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Broad Channel NY
2016 Reading Time, Guttenberg Arts, Guttenberg NJ
2010 Phosphorescent Face Highlighter, Fountain Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Codex IX, Berkeley, CA
Printed Matter NY Art Book Fair
8-Ball Community & Printed Matter / St Marks 2024 East Village Zine Fair
2023 The Vanishing Worlds of Audubon, USC Libraries, Los Angeles, CA
Jersey Art Book Fair
Sunday Zine Fair organized by Printed Matter at the Brooklyn Museum
2022 8-Ball Community & Printed Matter / St Marks 2022 East Village Zine Fair
Printed Matter NY Art Book Fair
2021 Reclamation: Artists Books on the Environment SFCB, San Francisco, CA
Crossroads, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
Printed Matter Virtual Artist Book Fair
2019 Writers Making Books Arcadia University, Spruance Gallery, Glenside PA
Codex Foundation 2019 Book Fair, Richmond, CA
Booklyn Artists’ Book Fair, New York, NY
Print Matters, Wrocław, Poland
Press Play Fair, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, NY
2018 Avifauna: Birds + Habitat Wave Hill, Bronx NY
Philadelphia Art Book Fair, Philadelphia PA
Manhattan Fine Press Book Fair, New York, NY
The Floating Library, Cedar Lake, Minneapolis MN
New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, NY
Parallel Transparencies Monroe Library, Loyola University , New Orleans
Word, Image, Object Tallyn’s Reach Library, Aurora CO
2017 Codex Foundation 2017 Book Fair, Richmond, CA
Philadelphia Art Book Fair, Philadelphia PA
Manhattan Fine Press Book Fair, New York, NY
Bushwick Art Book and Zine Fair (BABZ), Brooklyn, NY
Know How: 2017 Instructors Exhibition, Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, OH
Animation + Printing, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
correlations between independent publishing and artists book practice, Griffith Library, South Brisbane, Australia
Artists’ Book Cornucopia VIII, Abcedarian Gallery, Denver, CO
2016 The Floating Library, Cedar Lake, Minneapolis MN
Made Here, Guttenberg Arts, Guttenberg, NJ
Ink+Metal+Paper, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland OR
The Printed Page II, Abcedarian Gallery, Denver CO
2015 Blood Quantum, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland OR
Ladies of Letterpress, Ashville Bookworks, Ashville NC
Redux: Selected Featured Artist Projects Center for Book Arts, NY, NY
The Floating Library, Cedar Lake, Minneapolis, MN
2014 Featured Artist Project: SP Weather Station The Center for Book Arts, NY, NY
Letterpress Animated Type Showcase CBAA National Conference, Salt Lake City UT
The Floating Library, Cedar Lake, Minneapolis, MN
ILSSA: It’s About Time, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
Time and Again Central Booking, NY, NY
2013 Fifth International Artists Book Exhibition 2013 King St. Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvár, Hungary
The Floating Library, Cedar Lake, Minneapolis, MN
New York Bound: International Book Art Biennial Islip Art Musuem, East Islip, NY
2012 ILSSA: Every Day Work, Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN
Feminism and the Artist Book, VESPA Properties, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Open, The Cracker Factory, Geneva, NY
Multiple, Limited, Unique, The Center for Book Arts, NY, NY
85th Annual International Printmaking Competition, The Print Center, Philadelphia PA
II Libro: The Art of the Book, The Barton Art Galleries, Wilson, NC
Band of Outsiders, The Big Screen Project, NYC
2010 Pulling From History: Letterpress, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
Babel, Space 37, Jackson Heights, NY,
Pressed! An Exhibition of Letterpress Printed Ephemera, Denver, CO
2009 Show and Bestow, Free Library of Philadelphia, PA
New Prints 2009/Autumn, IPCNY, NY NY
Out Of Sorts Sudio Miko, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Consent CUNY Graduate Center, NY NY
Secrets and Lies 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR
Sit Down and Read The K Gallery, Alameda, CA
2007 New Prints Fall 2007 IPCNY NY,NY
The Artist Book Library Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn NY
Singular Objects Brooklyn College Library, Brooklyn NY
Contemporary Letterpress MCLA Gallery 1, North Adams, MA
2006 Making Your Mark Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery, NY
RESIDENCIES, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
LMCC Arts Center Residency Fall 2022
Puffin Foundation Arts Grant 2022
BRICLab Contemporary Art Workspace Residency 2020
Brooklyn Arts Council Charlene Victor & Ella J. Weiss Cultural Entrepreneur Fund 2020
Brooklyn Arts Council Community Arts Grant, 2017 and 2020
Works On Water Residency, June 2019
Puffin Foundation Arts Grant, 2017
Brooklyn Arts Council Community Arts Grant, 2017
Summer Residency, Columbia College Center for Book, Paper, and Print, Summer 2016
Space + Time Residency, Guttenberg Arts, Winter 2016
LMCC Artist Summer Institute, Summer 2015
LMCC Swing Space at Governors Island Summer/Fall 2013
Manhattan Graphics Center Scholarship, Fall 2005
ACADEMIC TEACHING
Visiting Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute, Letterpress: Text and Image Brooklyn, NY 2014-present:
Part-time Assistant Professor, Parsons School of Design, Artist’s Books: Introduction, 2016-present
Senior Lecturer, Letterpress University of the Arts, Philadelphia MFA Printmaking & Book Arts 2017-2022
Lecturer, Rutgers University, Newark Book Arts: Artists Publications, Broadsides & Chapbooks 2017-2018
PANELS, WORKSHOPS, WALKING TOURS, & PRESENTATIONS
Core Faculty, Center for Book Arts Fall 2012-present
Eastern Parkway Walk, June 2021
Prospect Lefferts Garden Walk, October 2019, Brooklyn, NY
Red Hook Weeds Walk, May 2019, Brooklyn, NY
Staten Island Shore Walk, September 2018, Staten Island NY
Dialogue + Studio: Zine, workshop, American Folk Art Museum, March 2018
Panelist Economies That Could Not Appear in Money: Modeling Alternative Exchange in Contemporary Print and Poetry IPK Print Fest, Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU May 2018
Jamaica Bay Pamphleteering Project, talk at Shoestring Press, October 2017
Dead Horse Bay and Floyd Bennett Field Walking Tour, May 2017
Experimental Letterpress Posters, Signal Return, Detroit, MI May 2016
Contributor on handmade artist books, Book by Its Cover blog, 2014
Visiting Artist, Paper Fox Printmaking Workshop, Lawrence University, 2012
Moderator, New Art/ Old Technology, Panel Discussion,
American Printing History Conference, Washington, DC, 2010
Speaker, Oak Knoll Fest XVI, New Castle DE, 2010
Moderator-The Chapbook As Art Object, Panel, Festival of the Chapbook, CUNY Graduate Center, NY NY 2010
Visiting Speaker, Publishing in the City, NYU MFA Writing Program, New York, 2009
Moderator-The Embroidered Word Panel Discussion, MAD, New York, 2007
Contemporary Printmaking Symposium, Abrons Art Center, New York, 2005
PUBLICATIONS
Editioned Artist Books:
wild anemone, 2024
Solastalgia, 2019
Glasshouse, 2017
A Field Guide to Extinct Birds, 2015
Hot Doug’s Sausage Superstore, 2012
Phosphorescent Face Highlighter, 2010
The McGinley Paper Company Sample Book of Faults, 2007
Game Board, 2007
Drive Schmive, 2004
Pamphlet Series: Brain Washing From Phone Towers Informational Pamphlets, begun in 2010; thirty-four issues produced.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Zine Artists on Their Most Essential Tools, By Corinne Segal , Brooklyn Museum November 16, 2023
Landscape Orientation Urban Omnibus, June 2023
Artist Publishers Reflect on Book Waste, contributor, published by Temporary Services, 2022
“Book Arts Subscriptions” by Stephanie Wolff in Openings: Studies in Book Art, Volume 5 No 1; Fall 2022
Interview, Artist Book Reviews, Levi Sherman July 2020
Bookforms: A Complete Guide to Designing and Crafting Hand-Bound Books; essay included. Edited by the Center for Book Arts, Rockport Publishers, NY 2019
Hyperallergic Art Responding to Birds and Their Habitats at One of New York’s Great Natural Escapes by Allison Meier May 29, 2018
Hyperallergic A Showcase of NYC’s Diverse Small Presses and Artists’ Publishing Projects by Benjamin Sutton May 9, 2018
Avifauna: Birds + Habitat, Exhibition Catalog; Wave Hill, Bronx, NY 2018
“Communities of Practice: Building an Internationally Connected Practice in and for the Book Arts” Sarah Bodman, Senior Research Fellow, Keynote address at Booknesses: Taking stock of the book arts in South Africa. March 2017
Animation + Printing, Exhibition Catalog; The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY, 2017
Tell It to the Bees: Sarah Nicholls’ letterpress pamphlet series, by Sarah Bodman, Printmaking Today, Vol 25 No 4, Winter 2016, p17
a-n.co.uk Artists’ Books 2015: 10 of the Best by Sarah Bodman December 1, 2015
AI-AP DART Ask an Artist: Making a Bookby Peggy Roalf June 11, 2015
Ladies of Letterpress edited by Kseniya Thomas; Princeton Architectural Press, 2015
Under Consideration Prisms and Shamrocks October 25, 2015
Multiple, Limited, Unique, Exhibition catalog; The Center for Book Arts, NY, NY 2011
COLLECTIONS
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art
Bennington College
Brooklyn Museum
California State University at Hayward
Clark Art Institute Library
Colorado College Special Collections
Columbia University
Lafayette College
Lawrence University
Lehigh University
Manhattan Graphics Center
McGill University
Metropolitan Museum of Arts Thomas J. Watson Library
Michigan State University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries
Museum of Modern Art Library
Newark Public Library
New York Botanical Garden
Oberlin College
Otis College
Pratt Institute
Rhode Island School of Design
Rutgers University
San Diego State University
Savannah College of Art and Design
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Stanford University
SUNY New Paltz
Swarthmore College
The Center for Book Arts
Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library
Trinity College
Tufts University
UCLA
UC Santa Barbara
UC San Diego
University of Florida
Union College
University of Denver
University of Georgia, Athens
University of Iowa
University of Miami
University of Nevada, Reno
University of Pennsylvania
University of Utah
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
V&A Museum
Virginia Commonwealth University
Wesleyan University
Yale University
EDUCATION
1996 BA Sarah Lawrence College Bronxville, NY