Sarah O Donnell (born in Ireland, lives and works in USA) works in a range of media including film, video, installation, photography, and sculpture. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA in 2007, where she received the Edith Weil Hecht Memorial Award in Sculpture.
After finishing her undergraduate studies, O Donnell worked in a range of roles on independent short and feature-length films including positions as Art Director, and Production Designer, eventually producing and directing her own narrative short films.
She received a full fellowship to earn her Master of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture from The Ohio State University in 2012. In the summer of 2012, she received a full fellowship to attend a month-long residency at the Vermont Studio Center and in 2014 she was awarded a three-month residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.
O Donnell has exhibited her work in venues such as The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The BYU Museum of Art in Provo, UT, Burlington City Arts in Burlington, VT, the Urban Art Space in Columbus, OH, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, PA, the Icebox Project Space at the Crane Arts in Philadelphia as well as several alternative gallery spaces and performance venues in the Philadelphia and Baltimore areas. O Donnell's work is included in several private collections, including the Duncan collection of Nebraska.
