Sarah Ross is an artist whose work focuses on the spatial politics of ethnicity, gender, class and control. She uses photographs, videos and installations in her projects and collaborates with other artists and communities. Sarah Ross has been working with incarcerated artists in IL prisons since 2006. 

In 2011, she co-founded the Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project (PNAP), a cultural project that brings together artists, writers, and scholars inside and outside of Stateville Prison to create public projects. For more than a decade, the project has hosted exhibitions and painted murals throughout the city of Chicago. In 2018, PNAP launched a college program inside the prison in partnership with Northeastern IL University. Starting in 2022, PNAP will open a gallery and community space on Chicago's Westside. Also since 2011, Sarah has worked closely with local artists, activists, advocates, torture survivors and scholars on Chicago Torture Justice Memorials - a campaign for reparations for survivors of police torture in Chicago.

In other collaborative projects, Sarah has produced videos, photographs and installations with Ryan Griffis on the social and political impact of land use issues and global agriculture. Her work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, New York, Montreal, Copenhagen, Rio de Janeiro and elsewhere. She is co-author of The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences, Working Toward Freedom (2019); Carving Out Rights From Inside the Prison Industrial Complex 2021) and Our Tuesday Girl: An Unfurling for Dr. Margaret T.G. Burroughs. 

Sarah is a Soros Justice Media Fellow and one of the first recipients of the Leaders for a New Chicago Award from the MacArthur and Field Foundations.

Citizenship: USA
Residence: Session 4 (19.05.-22.06.2025)