sarah dillon

Sarah Dillon received her MFA in painting from Boston University, studying under painters John Walker, Richard Ryan and renowned printmaker Deborah Cornell.  She moved to Seattle in 2006. 

In the past two years, Sarah has exhibited work at the Annex Gallery in Salem, Or, Gallery 110 in Seattle, WA, and the Columbia City Gallery in Seattle, WA.  Recent high-profile exhibitions during the past two years include a show at Untitled Space Gallery in NY which received significant international press and a feature on Artsy, and The Center on Contemporary and Political Art in Washington DC as a part of its inaugural exhibition.  Sarah presented a solo exhibition at The Cave in 2019.  Her work has also been exhibited in many university galleries around the country including The Georgia College and State University Museum, Tarrant County College in Texas, Reece Museum at East Tennessee State University, Boston University, Rogue Community College in Oregon and several other NW colleges in Washington State. Additional academic engagement included work for the past three years with Fulbright in Washington DC reviewing Scholar in Residence applications for the Department of State.

Place, as a multifaceted sensibility, can function as a catalyst for art-making that delves into the depths of self-reflection, social analysis, international issues, politics and history, and offers up an excellent conceptual basis for creativity as well as human interaction.  It also functions as the backbone of Sarah’s work as she contemplates time, narrative, change and ultimately explores what it is to be where we are. Sarah experiments with drawing and mixed media materials, though she considers herself a narrative painter first. Her work ebbs and flows with storytelling that encourages self-reflection in life around us in effort to define or question truth. 

Sarah is currently tenured full-time Faculty and Gallery Director at Green River College. She recently moved to Lake Tapps, WA with her husband and two daughters (a rambunctious 6-year-old and a newborn baby.)  See more of her work at Sarahdillonstudio.com.