Sarah Marguier is a multidisciplinary French artist working across photography, movement-based art and design for performing arts, based between the Pacific Northwest (Portland) and France, while creating and presenting internationally.
Her work centers around the expressions of the moving body and the ever-evolving stories and encounters that emerge from it. Polyamorous in art, she works within a hybrid artistic approach, which she describes as an archipelago: a myriad of permeable and creative ecosystems that nurture each medium. She collaborates with movement and the image as a sensitive and sensible material, creating space(s) to dive into the presences around her, exploring the layered and intermediates territories that arise during the creative processes –zones of permeability, transcendence, and poesy.
Collaboration lies at the heart of her practice, creating connections with a wide network of artists, communities, and contexts. Over the past number of years, she has worked with dance artists including Murielle Elizéon, Linda Austin, Maya Matilda Carroll, Tommy Noonan, Danielle Ross to name a few.
Since 2024, Sarah is also a trained cheffe and delights in merging performing arts and food, a cross-pollination between two passions that honors “le vivant”.
Sarah has been the recipient of numerous Oregon Arts Commission and Regional Art and Culture Council grants, as well as several prestigious national and international residencies. She was awarded the Critical Theory and Creative Research Award from PNCA, Arché Award and has received support from the RACC, OAC, Portland Emerging Arts Leaders, Face Foundation, to name a few.
Her work has been presented, in residency and supported by: Culture Mill (USA), Black Mountain College Museum (NC), Disjecta (Light Conversation Exhibition), Small Talk Collective (OR), Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (TBA Photographer), Caldera Residency CT+CR Colloquium (USA), American Dance Festival (NC), North Carolina Museum of Art (NC), Cameron Museum (NC), Weatherspoon Arts Museum (NC), VAE Gallery (NC), La Pratique (France), Dock 11 (Berlin), Laborgras (Berlin), Arte Ginestrelle Studio (Italy), among others.
