Bio

Sarah Sampedro is a Minneapolis-based photographer and educator. With a focus on social documentary photography, her creative practice studies the histories (both personal and collective) that shape our perceptions of Self/Other and the way these perceptions manifest in the social landscape. Past series examined gentrification in her neighborhood, racial covenants and restrictive real estate contracts in Hennepin County, MN, and the 1862 Homestead Act which opened territories for colonization. The relationship between interpersonal space and social contracts has been a constant throughout her career.

Sampedro has received grants and fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board, the Puffin Foundation, Art of the Rural, and the University of Minnesota.  Her work can be found in the collection of the Minnesota Museum of American Art and numerous private collections. She has been artist in residence at Milchhof Atelier (Berlin, Germany), Benton Projects (MN), VQ Photo (WI), and Picture Berlin (Berlin, Germany) as well as chaired the Minneapolis Art Commission and sat on the Minneapolis Public Arts Advisory Panel. Sampedro holds an MFA in Photography and Moving Images from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and teaches photography at the University of Minnesota.

Sampedro is available for workshops and for editorial, portraiture, public art, installation, and exhibitions commissions.

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