Sarah Canright

Sarah Canright received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and began exhibiting shortly after graduation with the Chicago Imagists. She later moved to New York and was shown in a variety of places and was included in a Whitney Biennial. She was represented by the Phyllis Kind Gallery in Chicago and the Pam Adler Gallery in New York. Over the years she received three National Endowment for the Arts grants and a New York State Council for the Arts grant. Her teaching career began with visiting artist positions at various universities. She then taught at the School of Visual Arts in NY, the Philadelphia College of Art and Princeton University before beginning at the University of Texas.