Sara Wight

Sara Wight is an award-winning photographer who holds a BFA in Fine Arts from Kutztown University and an MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. For more than a decade, her fine art photography has been exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and is held in many private collections.

In 2009, Sara was awarded a residency at the Vermont Studio Center, a residency program hosting 50 visual artists and writers from around the world. In 2011, Sara's work was included in the Rizzoli publications, New York: A Photographer's City, by Marla Hamburg Kennedy, Helena Fang, Steve Hamburg, and Elizabeth Sussman and in 2018, was included in the sequel Brooklyn Photographs Now, written by Marla Hamburg Kennedy, Contribution by Anne Pasternak and Philip Lopate.

Sara’s work has also been included on the set design of hit tv shows including Gossip Girl and Orange is the New Black.

In 2010, Sara founded a boutique photography studio specializing in fine art portrait and event photography for discerning clients, which has quickly grown to a top studio in New York City.

MFA Photography, Video and Related Media, 2002, School of Visual Arts, New York, New York
BFA Studio Art/Photography, Art History Minor, 1998, Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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Beyond the Horizon, Eagle Nest Gallery, Nazareth, Pennsylvania

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Beyond the Horizon, Applewood, Brooklyn, New York

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Beyond the Horizon, Oliver Wolcott Library, Litchfield, Connecticut

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Beyond the Horizon, North Hall Gallery at Splashlight Studios, New York, New York

Beyond the Horizon, LITM, Jersey City, New Jersey

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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Ex Lab, Foley Gallery, New York, New York

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Winter’s Depths: Two Perspectives, Photostop, White River Junction, Vermont
Derived, Borrowed, Stolen, Broadway Gallery, New York, New York
Translucent Threads, Broadway Gallery, New York, New York

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Young Emerging Artists, Lana Santorelli Gallery, New York, New York
Represent Brooklyn, TRA Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

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Night of 1,000 Drawings, Artist’s Space, New York, New York
Group Show #15, Humble Arts Foundation, Virtual Gallery

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Wish You Were Here, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, New York
New ’06, Nurturing the Edge, CUE Art Foundation, New York, New York
Transformations, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists 499 Van Brunt Street Pier, Brooklyn, New York
Not to Scale, Target Gallery at the Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, Virgini...