Sarah Rossiter, Velocity (Film Still), 1998

Sarah Rossiter, Photographs, 2001

Sarah Rossiter, Amden (Dress), 2003

Sarah Rossiter is an American artist whose practice spans photography, sculpture, and painting. Her early exhibitions in New York in the 1990s at Andrea Rosen Gallery, American Fine Arts Co. and Thomas Erben Gallery examined the relationship between subject and viewer, personal narrative vs. art history, and her body contrasted with industrial / natural landscapes.

She gained recognition for her series Velocity (1998), which featured her mother's paintings projected onto her body. Rossiter participated in the artist collective fierce pussy (1991), worked at Pat Hearn Gallery, co-founded ART CLUB 2000 in collaboration with Colin DeLand at American Fine Arts Co. (1992), and established Velocity Gallery in Brooklyn (1997), where she exhibited emerging women artists.

Rossiter’s solo show in Chelsea in September 2001 expanded on her performative interests with painterly scenes from California and Hawaii. However after witnessing the attacks in NYC on September 11th, her work underwent a transformation and she made her last performative work in Amden, Switzerland, with scenes of death and rebirth, moving from a perspective of resistance to a more expansive state of awareness.

In 2006, she exhibited large-scale photographic and sculptural installations in Los Angeles, creating immersive experiences where scenes of nature and architecture became portals. She photographed crystals, bodies of water, and flowering trees, interested in their abstract visual power and consciousness.

In 2010, Rossiter returned to painting, developing a process that disengaged the mind and allowed spontaneous experimentation with material and color, and often printing large scale reproductions of the scanned images.

Working and living in a nomadic way, making small abstract paintings – often energetic imprints of the various locations she moved to (New York, Hawaii, Mexico, Paris) – she developed a creative flow and began channeling angelic and otherworldly energy to create her work.

Rossiter’s 2025 exhibition with Febo & Dafne Gallery in Turin, Italy, was comprised of large “Imprint” paintings that were mostly mono-prints of works made on paper, with quick gestures and bright neon marks of color.

In addition, she exhibited new performative photographs depicting her body interacting with discarded paintings, reflecting on the relationship between the body and the process of painting.

Rossiter has exhibited he solo work widely in the US and internationally, including Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland. Collaborative work made with ART CLUB 2000 from 1992-1993 has been featured in retrospective exhibitions in Mexico at the Carrillo Gil Art Museum, in New York at the New Museum and ARTISTS SPACE, and in Switzerland at the Kunsthalle Zürich.