Sarah K. Khan, interdisciplinary maker/scholar, creates art—paper, books, prints, photography, porcelain and films — about food, culture, women and migrants. Her work is informed from fieldwork globally. She has lived among Bedouins in Palestine and documented the plight of Indian women farmers. She traverses Queens NY, and films women cooks and farmers about their foodways in Fez, Morocco. Her on-going bodies of works—prints, animation and porcelain—are inspired by a 16th Century Central Indian Cook/Book of Life.
She earned degrees in Middle Eastern history (BA), public health/nutrition (MPH/MS) and traditional ecological knowledge systems/plant sciences in South Asia and China (PhD) (basically Food Studies). A two-time Fulbrighter, Khan earned multiple residencies, grants and fellowships.
Read about her work in Women and Migration(s), Reponses in Art History I, Women and Migration(s) II. She has shown her work at the Museum of the Moving Image, Madison Children’s Museum, The Kimmel Gallery at NYU, Queens Museum, Asian Arts Initiative, Asian American Writers Workshop Open City, BRIC House in Brooklyn (Speak Sing Shout: We, Too, Sing America). Her work has exhibited nationally and globally and exists in permanent and private collections such as Madison Children’s’ Museum, Wheaton College, John Michael Kohler Arts, and Stanford University’s Institute for Advancing Just Societies.
Residencies include Anderson Ranch Residency (2024), Women Studio Workshop (2023), Baldwin for the Arts (2022-23), Kohler Arts/Industry Residency (2022), Princeton Artist-in-Residence ArtHx (2021-22), Ellis Beauregard (2021), Monson Arts (2021), Project for Empty Space Feminist Residency (2020), Indigo Arts Alliance (2019), the Boren Chertkov Residency for Labor and Justice at Blue Mountain Center (2019), Asian America Writers Workshop Open City Fellow (2016-17).
