Sarah Brayer

Born

Born in Rochester, New York.
From 1980 to present lives and works in Kyoto, Japan.

Education

1975-1979 B.A. cum laude in Studio Art, Connecticut College, New London
1978 Printmaking study, Middlesex Polytechnic, London, England
1982-84 Woodblock printing, Toshi Yoshida, Miasa, Japan
1996-09 Crown Point Press, San Francisco

Solo Exhibitions

2011 Gallery Bonten, Shimonoseki, Japan
2010 Luminosity: Night Paperworks Kyoto
2010 The Ren Brown Collection, Bodega Bay, California
2010 Art in June, Rochester, New York
2010 30 Yearsof Art in Kyoto: Sarah Brayer Kyoto
2007 The Ren Brown Collection, Bodega Bay, California
2007 Gallery Bonten, Shimonoseki, Japan
2007 Round the Horn, Nantucket
2007 Art in June, Rochester, New York
2006 Whisper to the Moon, Kyoto
2006 Art in June, Rochester, New York
2005 The Ren Brown Collection, Bodega Bay
2005 Gallery Bonten, Shimonoseki
2004 Azuma Gallery, Seattle
2004 Tokyo American Club
2004 Esmay Fine Art, Rochester
2004 Ronin Gallery, New York
2003 Galleria LL, Kobe
2002 Kato Gallery, Tokyo
2002 The Tolman Collection, Tokyo
2001 Hanga Ten, London, England
2001 Beatrice Royal Gallery, Eastridge, England
2001 Izumi-en, Osaka
2001 Ars Locus Gallery, Kyoto
2000 Takashimaya Gallery, Yokohama
2000 Tokyo American Club
2000 The Tolman Collection, Tokyo
1999 The Ren Brown Collection
1999 Gallery Bonten, Shimonoseki, Japan
1998 Gallery Rewdex, Kyoto
1998 Shoestring Gallery, Rochester, New York
1998 CHIC, Rokko Island
1997 The Tolman Collection, Tokyo
1997 Ars Locus Gallery, Kyoto
1996 Ronin Gallery, New York
1996 Tokyo American Club,Tokyo
1996 Gallery Bonten, Shimonoseki, Japan
1996 Ars Locus Gallery, Kyoto
1995 Dieu Donne Gallery, New York
1995 WICE Artspace, Paris
1995 Daimaru Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1995 Kanda Gallery, Okinawa, Japan
1994 Takashimaya Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
1994 Shoestring Gallery, Rochester, New York
1994 A Sense of Place The Verne Collection, Cleveland, Ohio
1993 Takashimaya Gallery, Tamagawa, Tokyo, Japan
1993 Tokyo American Club, Tokyo, Japan
1993 The Ren Brown Collection, Bodega Bay, California
1993 Galeries Ann Monnet, Kyoto, Japan
1992 Sarah Brayer at Byodoin Temple Invitational honoring Kyoto’s 1200th year
1992 Azuma Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1992 Gallery Cocteau, Kyoto, Japan
1992 Shoestring Gallery, Rochester, New York
1992 Kanda Gallery, Okinawa, Japan
1991 Recollections Tokyo American Club
1991 Takashimaya Gallery, Yokohama
1991 Daimaru Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1991 Takashimaya Gallery, Tamagawa, Tokyo
1990 Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut, Invitational
1990 Ronin Gallery, New York
1990 Shoestring Gallery, Rochester, New York
1989 Kato Gallery, Tokyo
1989 Gallery Blanche, Osaka
1989 Kintetsu Gallery, Kyoto
1989 Tokyo American Club, Tokyo
1989 Gallery San, Kyoto
1988 The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
1988 Recent Works April Sgro-Riddle Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1988 Daimaru Gallery, Kobe, Japan
1988 Shukugawa Gallery, Shukugawa, Japan
1987 Sumi Arts, Hong Kong
1987 The Japanese Bath and other Landscapes Carter Arcand Gallery, Portland
1987 Kato Gallery, Kobe, Japan

Group Exhibitions

2009 IMPACT the Big Print, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, Cal. Curated by Donna Westerman.
2009 WOOD. METAL. STONE: Contemporary Japanese prints The Flinn Gallery, Greenwich Connecticut
2007 Catalogue Cover artist and Poster artist, for the 52nd CWAJ Print Show, Tokyo, Japan
2005 The Color of Night: How Artists Work with Darkness, Zimmerli Art Museum,Rutgers University
2003 Japan Through Western Eyes, The Morikami Museum, Del Ray Beach, Florida
2003 Snow in Winter: Ukiyo-e and Contemporary Prints from Japan, The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese
Foundation, London
2003 1853-2003: A Sesquicentennial Salute to Commerce and Cultural Exchange between Japan and the
USA, the Newark Public Library, Newark NJ
2002 Rags to Riches: 25 Years of Paper Art from Dieu Donne Papermill: Milwaukee Art Museum,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Travelling to Mariana Kistler-Beach Museum of Art and the Heckscher
Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
2001 Rags to Riches: 25 Years of Paper Art from Dieu Donne Papermill, Kresge Art Museum, Michigan;
Maryland Institute College of Art
1999 Miyabi : a Celebration of Beauty by Five American Artists of Kyoto, Sogetsu Museum, Tokyo.
Produced by the Tolman Collection
1997 Across Cultures: Five Contemporary Artists from Japan, Allen Memorial Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
1997 Kansai Artists, YCAC, Yokohama
1995 Out of the Drawing Room, Recent Acquisitions: Works on Paper by Women Artists, The Memorial Art
Gallery of the University of Rochester
1995 Works on Paper The Verne Collection, New York
1994 The Verne Collection, Cleveland, Ohio
1994 New Editions Ronin Gallery, New York
1992 Almost a Century after Helen Hyde and Bertha Lum, the Mitzie Verne Collection,Cleveland
1992 Accent on Paper: 15 Years at the Dieu Donne Papermill Lintas Worldwide, New York
1990 Intaglio Printing in the 1980'sThe Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum,Rutgers University,
New Brunswick, New Jersey
1988 Relief Printing in the 1980's The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum,Rutgers University.
Curated by Trudy Hansen.
1988 Regional Printmakers Pyramid Gallery, Rochester, New York
1988 Carter-Arcand Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1988 The Mitzie Verne Collection, Cleveland, Ohio
1987 Mary Ryan Gallery, New York
1987 Eight Artists from Kyoto Takashimaya Gallery, Yokohama
1987 Prints from the Yoshida Studio Kabutoya Gallery, Tokyo
1986 Curator’s Choice Portland Art Institute, Oregon
1986 Saga Print Annual New York
1986 The Bank of Tokyo, Hong Kong
1986 April Sgro-Riddle Gallery, Los Angeles
1985 50/50 Monoprints-Prints Montgomery College
1984 The Caraccio Collection Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster
1984 American Painters from Kyoto Ronin Gallery, New York
1984 Foreign Artists in Kyoto Hankyu Gallery, Senri Osaka
1982-2009 The College Women’s Association of Japan Print Show Tokyo
1998-2009 The New York Print Fair, the Armory, New York City
1982-2002 Kyoto Etching Association Annual Kyoto City Art Center

Collections

The British Museum
The Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute
The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
The Newark Public Library
The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum
US. State Department, Washington, DC
American Embassy, Tokyo
Oregon Art Institute
The University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery
Shimonoseki City Art Museum
Byodoin Temple
University Hospitals, Cleveland
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
Citibank, Tokyo
TRW Collection, Los Angeles
Pfiser, New York
American College Board Collection of American Prints
Ozumo, Oakland, California
Ozumo, San Francisco
Saks Fifth Avenue
The Jewish Home, Rochester, New York
154 Corporation, Tokyo
RJ Reynolds/MC Tobacco, Tokyo
Clear Sky Meditation & Study Center, British Columbia

Awards

2001 Japan 2001 sponsorship, London, England
1990 The College Women’s Association of Japan 35th Anniversary Grant
for Print Artists,Tokyo
1979 cum laude Studio Art, Connecticut College, New London
1978 The Marguerite Hanson Award for Art Connecticut College