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Sarah Canright

Greyhound #3

Sarah Canright, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Texas in Austin since 1982, has exhibited widely for over 30 years, including shows in Austin, San Antonio, New York, Chicago and Princeton. The Austin Museum of Art recently purchased several of her watercolors for their Permanent Collection.

Education: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, B.F.A., 1964, University of Chicago

Selected Awards and Residencies:

  • Yaddo Residency, June-July, 2000
  • COFA Summer Research Grant, The University of Texas, 1998
  • National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant, 1985
  • National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant, 1978
  • Selected Solo Exhibitions:

  • Lyons-Matrix Gallery, Austin, TX, 1993, 1999
  • Marvin Seline Gallery, Austin, TX, 1987
  • Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 1986
  • Pam Adler Gallery, New York, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1984
  • Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, 1974, 1979
  • Selected Group Exhibitions:

  • "Framework," Creative Research Laboratory, Austin, TX, 2005
  • "Chicago Loop," The Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, Connecticut, 2000
  • "Jumpin' Backflash: Original Imagist Artwork, 1966-1969," Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois, 2000
  • "Contemplative Exactitude - 1/4 Hora," Elgin, Texas, 2000
  • "Chicago Women Imagists," Illinois State Museum, Chicago, Illinois, 1997
  • "Women and Chicago Imagism," Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois, 1996, cat.
  • "Sarah Canright, Neil Maurer, Steve Murphy," Martin-Rathburn Gallery, San Antonio, TX, 1996
  • "New Paintings and Sculpture," Lyons Matrix Gallery, Austin, TX, 1996
  • "Faculty Show," Blanton Art Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999
  • "A Decade of Visual Arts at Princeton," The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1985
  • "ICI Tenth Anniversary Celebration," NY, 1985
  • Photo:
    Greyhound #3, 2004
    Watercolor on Twin Rocker paper