Bio
What the New Yorker says about Sarah Jane Lapp:
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Sarah Jane Lapp makes paintings, drawings, and films. She is the recipient of fellowships and residencies from Artist Trust, Artslink, the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art, Alpert Award in the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Rockefeller Foundation, Ucross Foundation, and the Washington State Arts Commission.
Past exhibition venues include: Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, British Film Institute, Kino Arsenal, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, MadCat, Pacific Film Archive, PBS, SXSW, Tacoma Art Museum, the Smithsonian, the Museum of Fine Art/Boston, Walker Art Center.
Film awards: Black Maria Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Humboldt Film Festival, Judah Magnes Museum, Student Emmy.
She holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA in Filmmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was a Fulbright scholar at FAMU and apprenticed at the Studio Bratri v Triku in Prague. She just finished a new animation, "Chronicles of a Professional Eulogist," scored by virtuoso contrabassist Mark Dresser (of "Chronicles of an Asthmatic Stripper).
Her most recent solo shows were at Galerie Nauman and Galerie Altes Rathaus Musberg.
Press
Across the Pond
- Galerie Berthold Naumann announcement, May 8, 2009
- Stuttgarter Nachrichten, May 6, 2009
- Sarah Jane Lapp in Stuttgart, Stuttgarter Nachrichten, April 5, 2006 (PDF)
- Modern Art in Alten Rathaus, Filder wochenblatt, April 6, 2006 (PDF)
Across the Country
- The New York Times, A Film Festival for a Jewish World That Spans the Globe, by A.O. Scott
Local Love
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 15, 2007, The artist lineup for Tacoma Art Museum's Northwest Biennial is irresistible
- The Enterprise, October 1, 2008, Lapp Exhibit at Anderson Center
- The Stranger, September 10, 2008, 2008 Stranger Genius Awards Shortlist: Film
Cross-examination
- La Trobe University, Screening the Past, What Should I Make Up? An inquiry into autobiography. Interview with Sarah Jane Lapp.