S A R A H G I L L I N G H A M S C H O R R
EDUCATION
2017 PhD, Media Studies, Department of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Aarhus, DK
2005 MFA, Photo, Video and Related Media, Chairman’s Honors, School of Visual Arts, NY, US
1999 BA, English Literature, Wesleyan University, CT, US
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLIC LECTURES
Photography Now! (group show), Black Diamond, Copenhagen, DK (forthcoming 2026)
The Pencil of Nature (group show), Imago Lisboa, Lisbon, PT (forthcoming 2026)
Ephemeral Field Journal (solo show), Leica Gallery, US, (2026)
Ephemeral Field Journal (solo show), Harvard University, Cambridge MA, US (2025)
Photobook Week Aarhus (talk and book exhibition), Galleri Image, Aarhus, DK (2025)
Dream of Ocean (group show), Nordic Contemporary Art Center, CN (2024)
The Algorithmic Sea (group show), CCBB-São Paulo, São Paulo, BR (2024)
Flora (group show), SE Center for Photography, US (2024)
The Algorithmic Sea (group show), CCBB-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, BR ( 2023/2024)
Peace Journal (solo show), Harvard University, Cambridge MA, US (2023/2024)
Water (group show), A. Smith Gallery, Johnson TX, US (2023)
Unearthed (group show), Rough Play Projects, Joshua Tree CA, US (2023)
Slow Bloom (solo show), Holme Kunsthal, Holme, DK (2023)
Director’s Prize (solo show), The Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA, US (2022/2023)
Body of Water (group show), Feves Gallery, Pendleton OR, USA (2022)
The Color of Water (solo show), Northern Photographic Centre, Oulu, FI (2022)
Boxed/Unboxed (group show), Godsbanen, Aarhus, DK (2022)
“Women In Photography” (artist talk), FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, ES (2021)
The Color of Water (solo show), Galleri Image, Aarhus, DK (2021)
Body of Water (group show), CUB Gallery, Pullman, USA (2021)
“The Color of Water” (artist talk), Photobook Week, Aarhus, DK (2021)
Body of Water (solo show), Holme Kunsthal, Holme, DK (2021)
Photomontage: Constructed Realities (group show), PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, US (2020)
Portraits, The Center for Fine Art Photography (group show), Fort Collins CO, US (2020)
26th Annual Juried Exhibition (group show), Griffin Museum, Winchester MA US (2020)
Liquid Sky (group show), Liquid, Praxis Gallery & Arts Center, Minneapolis MN, US (2020)
Corona: It’s All About the Light (online), Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA, US (2020)
Julia Margaret Cameron Awards (group show), FofoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, ES (2020)
The Color of Water (solo show), Countee Cullen Library, New York NY, US (2020)
Fluid Boundaries (solo show), Hospice Søholm, Viby, DK (2019)
Water (group show), PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, US (2019)
“Screenshooting Impermanence” (artist talk), Moesgaard Museum, Højberg, DK (2019)
Fluid Boundaries (solo show), Aarhus Rådhus, Aarhus, DK (2019)
Desire and the Automated Image (group show), Galleri Image, Aarhus, DK (2019)
Museum of Random Memory (group show), Concordia Blackbox, Montréal QC, CA (2018)
Fluid Boundaries (solo show), Vandrehallen, Aarhus University, Aarhus, DK (2018)
“Screenshooting” (artist talk), RIXC Art Science Festival, Riga, LV (2017)
Museum of Random Memory (workshop/installation), Museu del Disseny, Barcelona, ES (2017)
Museum of Random Memory (workshop/installation), Counterplay Festival DOKK1, Aarhus, DK (2017)
“Social Photography: Photography in the Context of Social Media” (PhD defence), Aarhus, DK (2017)
Museum of Random Memory (installation), Counterplay Festival, DOKK1, Aarhus, DK (2016)
“Visualizing Digital Methodologies” (research workshop), Harvard Innovation Center, Cambridge, US (2015)
“Visual Methods, Visual Culture” (research workshop), Aarhus University, Aarhus, DK (2015)
Sophie in Nepal (solo show), Mithala Yain Gallery, Kathmandu, NP (2013)
“Social Photography” (research presentation), Beyond Representation Conf, London, UK (2012)
Death, Materiality, and Time (installation), Museum of Cultural History, Oslo, NO (2012)
29 x 29 (group show), Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York NY, US (2012))
Transformer (solo show), Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York NY, US (2007)
Steel Butterflies (solo show), Gallery 9, Kathmandu, NP (2006)
Borrowed Glitter (MFA group show), SVA Gallery, New York NY, US (2005)
Starlets (solo show), Scalo Project Space, New York NY, US (2004)
PUBLICATIONS
2026 (forthcoming). Skywater: Sarah Schorr (cover and spread). Theosis. Cambridge MA, US Harvard University.
2026 (forthcoming). Far From by Sarah Schorr (cover image). Creative and Aesthetic Ways of Grief: All Things Reimagined Routledge Series in Death Dying and Bereavement, M. O’Connor & D.Christensen
2025 Ephemeral Field Journal. Heidelberg, Germany: Kehrer Verlag.
2024. “The Space Around the Still: Meditations from Claude Monet’s Garden.” Racheal Peterson ed. Thinking with Plants and Fungi Blog. Harvard University. https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2024/12/space-around-still-meditations-claude-monets-water-garden
2023. The Color of Water (catalogue). Winchester MA, US: The Griffin Museum of Photography.
2022. Schorr, Sarah and Winnie Soon.“Screenshooting Impermanence” in Haidy Geismar, Ton Otto, and Cameron Warner eds, Impermanence, 292-304. London: UCL Press.
2021. Pereira, Gabriel, Sarah Schorr and Carlos Oliviera.“The Algorithmic Sea: The Fluid Critical Making and Seeing of Color.” Digital Review. doi.org/10.7273/z7pt-h352
2021. The Color of Water (photo book). Odder, DK: Galleri Image.
2020. Schorr, Sarah and Winnie Soon.“Screenshooting Life Online: Two Artworks” in A. Markham and K. Tiidenberg eds, Metaphors of Internet: Ways of Being in an Age of Ubiquity. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
2017. Social Photography: Photographic Practices in the Context of Social Media. PhD Dissertation, Department of Media Studies, Aarhus University.
2015. Schorr, Sarah and Cameron Warner. “The Photographed Gift: Participation, Relief Efforts, and Social Media .” Hot Spots, Fieldsights, October 14. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/the-photographed-gift-participation-relief-efforts-and-social-media
2014 “The Bereavement Project: Picturing Time and Loss through Photographs in the Landscape of New Media” in Dorthe Refslund Christensen and Kjetil Sandvik eds, Mediating and Remediating Death, 75-88. Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited.
2007. Borrowed Glitter (catalogue), New York, US: The Yancey Richardson Gallery.
NOTABLE HONORS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
2024-2027 Artist-in-Residence, CSWR, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, US
2022 Munn Artist-in-Residence at Monet House, Versailles Foundation, Giverny, FR
2021 Terra Foundation for American Art Fellowship/Residency in Giverny, FR
2021 Honorable Mention-Digital Manipulation, Pollux Awards, Barcelona, ES
2020 Director’s Prize, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA, US
2020 First Prize-Nude, Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, Barcelona, ES
2020 Grant from the Danish Art Foundation
2020 Grant from the Ministry of Culture, Aarhus, DK
2014-2017 Mobility PhD Fellowship, Danmarks Frie Forskningsfund, DK
2005 Aaron Siskind Grant, School of Visual Arts, New York NY, US
TEACHING
At Harvard University’s Center for the Study of World Religions, I taught a workshop called, “Thinking Through Photography” in parallel to a solo exhibition of my work. I have developed and taught the following four original fully enrolled courses for Aarhus University, DK: 1) “Photography in a New Media Environment” (BA), 2) “PhotoJournalism in the Context of New Media” (MA), 3) “Photography & Social Media” (MA) and, 4) “Visual Communication & Social Media” (BA). I have also taught “Forming a Photographic Story” (BA) at Middlebury College (Middlebury VT, US) and worked as a teaching assistant at the School of Visual Arts (New York NY, US).
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S A R A H G I L L I N G H A M S C H O R R
EDUCATION
2017 PhD, Media Studies, Department of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Aarhus, DK
2005 MFA, Photo, Video and Related Media, Chairman’s Honors, School of Visual Arts, NY, US
1999 BA, English Literature, Wesleyan University, CT, US
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLIC LECTURES
Photography Now! (group show), Black Diamond, Copenhagen, DK (forthcoming 2026)
The Pencil of Nature (group show), Imago Lisboa, Lisbon, PT (forthcoming 2026)
Ephemeral Field Journal (solo show), Leica Gallery, US, (2026)
Ephemeral Field Journal (solo show), Harvard University, Cambridge MA, US (2025)
Photobook Week Aarhus (talk and book exhibition), Galleri Image, Aarhus, DK (2025)
Dream of Ocean (group show), Nordic Contemporary Art Center, CN (2024)
The Algorithmic Sea (group show), CCBB-São Paulo, São Paulo, BR (2024)
Flora (group show), SE Center for Photography, US (2024)
The Algorithmic Sea (group show), CCBB-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, BR ( 2023/2024)
Peace Journal (solo show), Harvard University, Cambridge MA, US (2023/2024)
Water (group show), A. Smith Gallery, Johnson TX, US (2023)
Unearthed (group show), Rough Play Projects, Joshua Tree CA, US (2023)
Slow Bloom (solo show), Holme Kunsthal, Holme, DK (2023)
Director’s Prize (solo show), The Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA, US (2022/2023)
Body of Water (group show), Feves Gallery, Pendleton OR, USA (2022)
The Color of Water (solo show), Northern Photographic Centre, Oulu, FI (2022)
Boxed/Unboxed (group show), Godsbanen, Aarhus, DK (2022)
“Women In Photography” (artist talk), FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, ES (2021)
The Color of Water (solo show), Galleri Image, Aarhus, DK (2021)
Body of Water (group show), CUB Gallery, Pullman, USA (2021)
“The Color of Water” (artist talk), Photobook Week, Aarhus, DK (2021)
Body of Water (solo show), Holme Kunsthal, Holme, DK (2021)
Photomontage: Constructed Realities (group show), PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, US (2020)
Portraits, The Center for Fine Art Photography (group show), Fort Collins CO, US (2020)
26th Annual Juried Exhibition (group show), Griffin Museum, Winchester MA US (2020)
Liquid Sky (group show), Liquid, Praxis Gallery & Arts Center, Minneapolis MN, US (2020)
Corona: It’s All About the Light (online), Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA, US (2020)
Julia Margaret Cameron Awards (group show), FofoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, ES (2020)
The Color of Water (solo show), Countee Cullen Library, New York NY, US (2020)
Fluid Boundaries (solo show), Hospice Søholm, Viby, DK (2019)
Water (group show), PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, US (2019)
“Screenshooting Impermanence” (artist talk), Moesgaard Museum, Højberg, DK (2019)
Fluid Boundaries (solo show), Aarhus Rådhus, Aarhus, DK (2019)
Desire and the Automated Image (group show), Galleri Image, Aarhus, DK (2019)
Museum of Random Memory (group show), Concordia Blackbox, Montréal QC, CA (2018)
Fluid Boundaries (solo show), Vandrehallen, Aarhus University, Aarhus, DK (2018)
“Screenshooting” (artist talk), RIXC Art Science Festival, Riga, LV (2017)
Museum of Random Memory (workshop/installation), Museu del Disseny, Barcelona, ES (2017)
Museum of Random Memory (workshop/installation), Counterplay Festival DOKK1, Aarhus, DK (2017)
“Social Photography: Photography in the Context of Social Media” (PhD defence), Aarhus, DK (2017)
Museum of Random Memory (installation), Counterplay Festival, DOKK1, Aarhus, DK (2016)
“Visualizing Digital Methodologies” (research workshop), Harvard Innovation Center, Cambridge, US (2015)
“Visual Methods, Visual Culture” (research workshop), Aarhus University, Aarhus, DK (2015)
Sophie in Nepal (solo show), Mithala Yain Gallery, Kathmandu, NP (2013)
“Social Photography” (research presentation), Beyond Representation Conf, London, UK (2012)
Death, Materiality, and Time (installation), Museum of Cultural History, Oslo, NO (2012)
29 x 29 (group show), Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York NY, US (2012))
Transformer (solo show), Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York NY, US (2007)
Steel Butterflies (solo show), Gallery 9, Kathmandu, NP (2006)
Borrowed Glitter (MFA group show), SVA Gallery, New York NY, US (2005)
Starlets (solo show), Scalo Project Space, New York NY, US (2004)
PUBLICATIONS
2026 (forthcoming). Skywater: Sarah Schorr (cover and spread). Theosis. Cambridge MA, US Harvard University.
2026 (forthcoming). Far From by Sarah Schorr (cover image). Creative and Aesthetic Ways of Grief: All Things Reimagined Routledge Series in Death Dying and Bereavement, M. O’Connor & D.Christensen
2025 Ephemeral Field Journal. Heidelberg, Germany: Kehrer Verlag.
2024. “The Space Around the Still: Meditations from Claude Monet’s Garden.” Racheal Peterson ed. Thinking with Plants and Fungi Blog. Harvard University. https://cswr.hds.harvard.edu/news/2024/12/space-around-still-meditations-claude-monets-water-garden
2023. The Color of Water (catalogue). Winchester MA, US: The Griffin Museum of Photography.
2022. Schorr, Sarah and Winnie Soon.“Screenshooting Impermanence” in Haidy Geismar, Ton Otto, and Cameron Warner eds, Impermanence, 292-304. London: UCL Press.
2021. Pereira, Gabriel, Sarah Schorr and Carlos Oliviera.“The Algorithmic Sea: The Fluid Critical Making and Seeing of Color.” Digital Review. doi.org/10.7273/z7pt-h352
2021. The Color of Water (photo book). Odder, DK: Galleri Image.
2020. Schorr, Sarah and Winnie Soon.“Screenshooting Life Online: Two Artworks” in A. Markham and K. Tiidenberg eds, Metaphors of Internet: Ways of Being in an Age of Ubiquity. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
2017. Social Photography: Photographic Practices in the Context of Social Media. PhD Dissertation, Department of Media Studies, Aarhus University.
2015. Schorr, Sarah and Cameron Warner. “The Photographed Gift: Participation, Relief Efforts, and Social Media .” Hot Spots, Fieldsights, October 14. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/the-photographed-gift-participation-relief-efforts-and-social-media
2014 “The Bereavement Project: Picturing Time and Loss through Photographs in the Landscape of New Media” in Dorthe Refslund Christensen and Kjetil Sandvik eds, Mediating and Remediating Death, 75-88. Surrey, England: Ashgate Publishing Limited.
2007. Borrowed Glitter (catalogue), New York, US: The Yancey Richardson Gallery.
NOTABLE HONORS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
2024-2027 Artist-in-Residence, CSWR, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, US
2022 Munn Artist-in-Residence at Monet House, Versailles Foundation, Giverny, FR
2021 Terra Foundation for American Art Fellowship/Residency in Giverny, FR
2021 Honorable Mention-Digital Manipulation, Pollux Awards, Barcelona, ES
2020 Director’s Prize, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA, US
2020 First Prize-Nude, Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, Barcelona, ES
2020 Grant from the Danish Art Foundation
2020 Grant from the Ministry of Culture, Aarhus, DK
2014-2017 Mobility PhD Fellowship, Danmarks Frie Forskningsfund, DK
2005 Aaron Siskind Grant, School of Visual Arts, New York NY, US
TEACHING
At Harvard University’s Center for the Study of World Religions, I taught a workshop called, “Thinking Through Photography” in parallel to a solo exhibition of my work. I have developed and taught the following four original fully enrolled courses for Aarhus University, DK: 1) “Photography in a New Media Environment” (BA), 2) “PhotoJournalism in the Context of New Media” (MA), 3) “Photography & Social Media” (MA) and, 4) “Visual Communication & Social Media” (BA). I have also taught “Forming a Photographic Story” (BA) at Middlebury College (Middlebury VT, US) and worked as a teaching assistant at the School of Visual Arts (New York NY, US).
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