Sarah Schorr

SARAH SCHORR is the artist-in-residence at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. A captivation with light, water, and modes of embodied contemplation runs through her work.

Schorr’s art has been widely exhibited internationally since her first solo show in 2007 at Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York City. Preparations are underway for exhibitions in France, Portugal, and the United States 2025/2026 in parallel with the publication her new book, Ephemeral Field Journal: Climate + Love in Claude Monet’s Garden (Kehrer Verlag, 2025). Schorr’s collaborative netart project the Algorithmic Sea was selected for the exhibition Década dos Oceanos – I Mostra Nacional de Criptoarte in CCBB Rio de Janeiro which then travelled to CCBB São Paulo (Brazil 2023/2024). Her solo show, The Color of Water, was exhibited at the Griffin Museum (USA 2022/2023). Her book, The Color of Water, with text by Elizabeth Avedon and Anne Marie Kragh Pahuus accompanied a solo show of her work at Galleri Image (Denmark 2021) and a solo show at the Northern Photographic Centre (Finland 2022). She received a Terra Foundation for American Art Fellowship (2021) and was selected as the Munn Artist-in-Residence (2022) at the Monet House in Giverny with support from the Versailles Foundation. In 2020, Schorr’s work was honored by the Julia Margaret Cameron Award for women photographers in the category of nude (first prize) as part of an exhibition at Fotonostrum Gallery (Spain).

Since earning her PhD in media studies (2017), Schorr’s research has focused on the continual evolution and transformation of photographic methods and theory in relation to emerging media.