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SARAH PALMER (b.1986)
sarahpalmerphoto.com // sarahpalmerphoto@gmail.com // 416-829-8178
EDUCATION
Toronto Metropolitan University (Formerly Ryerson University), B.F.A. Photography Studies, 2004-2008
GRANTS, AWARDS and OPPORTUNITIES
2024 New York Portfolio Review, Recipient
2024 Canada Council for the Arts, Explore and Create grant, Wish You Were Here
2024 Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Abroad grant, Wish You Were Here
2024 Ontario Arts Council, Market Development Travel Grant, Wish You Were Here
2023 Ontario Arts Council, Grant, Wish You Were Here
2022 National Magazine Awards, Winner
2022 American Photography Winner Wish You Were Here
2019 TIME Magazine’s top 100 Photos of 2019
2019 Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Winner, Wish You Were Here
2019 Women Photograph 2019 Year in Photos
2019 Globe and Mail Pictures of 2019
2017 Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artist Grant
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 Auckland Festival of Photography, Wish You Were Here, Auckland (upcoming)
2024 Bucharest Photofest, Wish You Were Here, Romania (upcoming)
2023 CONTACT Photography Festival, Core Exhibition, Wish You Were Here, Public Installation, Toronto
2022 Gallery TPW, group show, Photorama, Toronto
2018 Nuit Blanche, group show, MUSE Projects - Places Between, Toronto
2017 Gallery 1313 group show, Women Photograph, Toronto
2016 Gladstone Hotel, solo show, Drunk on Trump, Toronto
2016 Largo Glenio Peres, Drunk on Trump, group show, Mosaicografia, Brazil
2015 Featureshoot, group show Nostalgia
2013 IX Gallery, CONTACT Photography Festival, group show, Narrow and Wide, Toronto
2012 Lomography Gallery, CONTACT Photography Festival, group show, Two and a Quarter, Toronto
2008 Niagara Gallery, CONTACT Photography Festival, group show, True and False, Toronto
PRESS:
2023 CBC, Interview, Wish You Were Here
2023 Toronto Star, Wish You Were Here, Making Contact across Toronto with award-winning photography
2023 The Globe and Mail, CONTACT Festival coverage, Wish You Were Here
2023 She Does The City, CONTACT Festival coverage, Wish You Were Here
2020 Roads & Kingdoms, Mutli-Frame: Q&A with Sarah Palmer
2016 Canadian Art, Canadian Artists in America React to US Election Result
2016 CBC TV, interview, Drunk on Trump
2016 CBC Metro Morning, radio interview, Drunk on Trump
2016 CBC Metro Morning, online feature, Toronto artist's photographs show Americans ‘Drunk on Trump’
2016 Toronto Life, This Toronto photographer captured the surreal strangeness of Donald Trump rallies
2016 CBC Arts, To understand Trump supporters, this Canadian artist is photographing his rallies
SELECTED ARTIST TALKS, PRESENTATIONS & PANEL DISCUSSIONS
2024 National Magazine Awards, Jury
2023 CONTACT photography Festival, Wish You Were Here, Toronto
2022 Open Show, Wish You Were Here, Hamilton
2017 Ryerson Review of Journalism, Panel Talk, Breaking Barriers in Photojournalism
2016 Open Show Toronto, presentation, Drunk on Trump
SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS
2023 The Globe and Mail, The enduring, immortal charm of finding other people’s things in used books
2023 The Globe and Mail, Zellers Nostalgia
2022 The Globe and Mail Barbie, the original influencer
2021 Curious Society magazine Wish You Were Here
2021 Maclean’s magazine Tiktok Food
2020 Maclean’s magazine Covid Pets
2020 Vox, Deciem fueled the skincare boom, then it almost went bust
2020 Fortune Magazine, Did the techlash kill Alphabet’s city of the future?
2019 The Walrus, Celine Dion is Everywhere
2019 West End Phoenix, In Laura’s kitchen
2019 RU Magazine, Securing the foundation to overcome PTSD
2019 RU Magazine, Alumni couple return to Ryerson to mark their first meeting 50 years ago
2019 The Globe and Mail, Capturing the Snowbird's Migration
2018 RU Magazine, Nature Hike
2018 BuzzFeed News, I Went To A Conference Full Of Conservatives Who Hated My Guts — And Told Me So
2018 The Globe and Mail, Ontario election: What's a voter to do?
2018 The Washington Post, Gossip explains our culture. And nobody explains it like Lainey Gossip
2018 Cicero Magazine, Waiting for the Fall of the Border (between the Koreas)
2018 BuzzFeed News, Two Very Different Koreas Shown In Beautiful Double Exposures
2017 West End Phoenix, Rumble in the West, December issue
2017 The Walrus, This American Carnage, April issue
2016 Refinery 29, This Is What Election Night Looks Like Around The World & Across The Country
2016 BBC, Multiple exposures from Donald Trump's campaign trail
2016 Huck Magazine, Photographs of America losing its shit
2016 Xatakafoto, Drunk on Trump
2016 Maclean’s Magazine, How Pokemon Go Helped Heal My Brain
2016 LensCulture, Drunk on Trump: The American Election Circus Viewed From the Outside
2016 The Globe and Mail, Where They Could Stumble
2016 Metro News, A New View on The Ex-traordinary
2016 Maclean’s Magazine, Signs, Signs, Everywhere a Sign
2016 Maclean’s Magazine, Why Buying Pot Has Never Been Easier
2016 Maclean’s Magazine, Clicktivists in the House
2015 Darwin Magazine, interview with Sarah Palmer on La Guajira
2015 Yet Magazine, La Guajira
2015 Private Magazine, La Guajira
2015 Positive Magazine, interview for La Guajira