Sarah Ferrara (b. 2000) is a Chicago-based artist originally from St. Louis, Missouri. Sarah received a Bachelor’s of Philosophy from DePaul University in 2022, where she studied under former students of Jacques Derrida and Luce Irigaray, primarily focusing on the Frankfurt School and “via negativa” mystical theology. In her work, she seeks to put contemporary signifiers of internet-mediated subjectivity in conversation with feminized desire and autistic forms of sense-making. Her work is also a formal exploration of the visual context collapse and semantic slippage precipitated by artificial intelligence image generators (while maintaining a suspicion towards directly interfacing with these technologies.) Sarah engages with traditional techniques such as oil painting and silverpoint in order to point towards the possibility of re-skilling in an era characterized by mass bodily dissociation due to technologies of convenience.

Sarah has exhibited in Los Angeles and has worked with Charlot Abhors a Void in New York, among others. She is the co-author of the Savant Garde Manifesto, a feminist-mystic tract written in response to the visual and physical denigration of women 21st century art and film settings, which has been published in ethics magazine. Sarah enjoys undertaking work for musicians and has contributed album artwork to various free jazz trios and ambient musicians.