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