SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, May 2023. *juried selection, awarded Art Students League Blue Dot (second place).

Education & Professional background

Sara was born in 1977 into a mixed race family, and raised in the United States, Canada and Europe.

Sara pursued an undergraduate degree in art history, with foci in drawing and photography, at Tyler School of Art - Temple University, including a year studying architecture, photography and drawing abroad in Rome, Italy. After undergraduate, she studied culture & identity, completing an M.A. in Visual Culture and the Anthropology of Art at University College London. Her thesis looked at trauma and memory through photography as a tool of colonialism in British occupied India.

In 2007, Edwards was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to the Middle East, studying global feminisms & migration in Egypt and Israel. She then completed her doctorate in Social Sciences & International Education with a specialization in anthropology of education and youth, graduating top of her class from UCLA in 2012.

Edwards worked professionally a social science researcher and conducted a 6-year ethnography, collecting data in New York City, Hawai’i and American Samoa. Edwards wrote and published 17 papers and delivered over 50 talks. She was awarded the most competitive postdoctoral fellowship in her field from the Spencer Foundation/ National Academy of Education in 2015.

After a 3 year tenure at Vassar College, Sara left university teaching to return to painting - her calling - in 2017.

While she establishing herself as a painter, Sara worked as a fashion stylist in the fashion industry & luxury retail in Los Angeles and New York. Edwards has trained at the Art Students League since 2022, studying with legendary artists Graham Nickson, Pat Lipsky, Peter Bonner and Michael Burban in New York City.

Note: All publications, work and school records between 1995 - 2021 should be looked up using the name Christine Malsbary. Born Edwards in 1977, her caregivers changed her name to Christine Brigid Malsbary in 1981. In 2021 she legally changed her name back.