Sarah Chapman anchors her practice in the research of emotion, which she explores through oil paintings of unicorns filtered and warped through personal memory and imagination. Her investigations into specific pigments and materiality reflect her conversation with the current condition. Her current series explores the relationship between the paint and what lies beneath, both supporting and distorting, inviting reflection into the viewer’s particular internal experience of the anthropocene. 

Currently, she is the Art Theory & Criticism Monitor at the Art Students League and a Visiting Teaching Artist at the Main Line Art Center. In 2025, she was an artist-in-residence at the School of Visual Arts in NYC, where her project explored our emotional experience of contemporary monsters, both within ourselves and in the world. 

Sarah lives in NYC and maintains her studio in Long Island City. She holds a B.A. and J.D. from NYU, and trained in drawing, painting, and printmaking at the Art Students League. Her artwork is frequently exhibited and is displayed in private and corporate collections worldwide, and her unicorns were recently featured at New York Fashion Week. When she is not painting, she enjoys playing sports and volunteering at animal shelters, where she trains and cares for dogs.

Additional works are available through:

Strodes Mill Gallery
West Chester, PA
(610) 429-9093