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I will be reading from my artist book Allochronologies as part of the inaugural S Apostrophe S Reading Series on Wednesday, May 29. Registration for this zoom event is available here. I am looking forward to this event and to hearing the other readings!

A recording of the reading will be available after the event. 5/1/24

I am very happy to have been invited to present my work and discuss it with MIT linguistics professor Athulya Aravind in a Catalyst Conversation at the MIT List Art Gallery. 4/10/24

A recording will be available after the event.

I am delighted to have been invited to speak at the 9th International Biennial CODEX Symposium. I will be speaking about my new artist book Allochronologies in a talk entitled “Allochronologies: Time, Fiction, and Alternate Universes.” The talk will be on Monday, February 4, 2024 at 9 am:

Freight & Salvage
2020 Addison Street
Berkeley, CA 94704

Tickets are required. More information can be found here. 1/16/24

I will be performing a reading from Allochronologies and related stories at Dream Farm Commons in Oakland, California on February 6, 7-9 pm, as part of the exhibition A leaf, a gourd, a shell… organized by The Rhinoceros Project. 1/15/24

I have been invited to be the guest editor for The CODEX Papers, volume 4. We have an excellent line-up of authors, including: Tatjana Bergelt, Stephen Blackwell, Robert Bringhurst, John DeMerritt, Patricia Lagarde, Amanda Marchand, Daniel Mellis, Molly Schwartzburg, Stephanie Stillo, Laurie Whitehill, and Matvei Yankelvich. The volume will be published in February 2024, in conjunction with the next CODEX Book Fair and Symposium. 6/1/23

I have a new solo show up this month at Bromfield Gallery in Boston’s SOWA Arts district. 5/15/53

Source Material

May 31-July 2, 2023
Opening reception: Friday, June 2, 6-8 pm

Bromfield Gallery
450 Harrison Ave.
Boston, MA 02118
Open Wed-Sun, 12-5

I will be giving an artist talk about my work at the Materialia Lumina symposium at the Boston Athenaeum on Sunday, March 11, 2023. 3/8/23

I was awarded the Fountain Street Gallery Annex Award for work in their show Beyond Words. The award includes a place in an upcoming three-person show at the gallery later in the year. 3/6/22

I am participating in the Oak Knoll virtual book fair this week. The fair is open Thursday, October 28 12:00pm EDT to Saturday, October 30 8:00pm EDT. Please stop by my booth to see available artist books and broadsides. 10/28/21

I have a new solo show up this month at Bromfield Gallery in Boston’s SOWA Arts district. 10/1/21

Sarah Hulsey: Lexical Geometry

September 29-October 31, 2021
Opening reception: Friday, October 1, 6-8:30 pm

Bromfield Gallery
450 Harrison Ave.
Boston, MA 02118
Open Wed-Sun, 12-5

Figures of Speech, 2021

Subject Object Verb / Subject Verb Object #1-4, 2017

I am very happy to be joining Bromfield Gallery as a gallery member. Bromfield Gallery is one of Boston’s premier artist-run galleries, located on Harrison Ave. in the SOWA district. My first solo show at Bromfield will take place in October 2021. 7/1/21

https://www.bromfieldgallery.com/

My book A Universal Lexicon was selected as a semi-finalist in the 2020 Minnesota Center for the Book MCBA Prize. 8/4/20

My work is featured in an article about The Velocity of a Page by Kate Silzer in Hyperallergic. 5/16/20

No Touching: Discovering the Art of Books Online

I was awarded the Juror’s Choice Award for ConTEXT III at the Foundry Arts Center in St. Charles, MO. The juror, Levi Sherman, had this to say about my piece An Anatomical Exercise:

An Anatomical Exercise joins the visual vocabulary of sentence diagrams with that of the human vascular system, drawing a parallel between the life-giving power of blood and language. Text is both medium and subject matter, executed with the impeccable craftsmanship and elegant layout that such a minimalist composition demands. The simple accordion structure allows the reader to edit the text by folding the paper, mirroring Hulsey’s own process of excerpting the poetic text from a 17th Century medical treatise. The reader is invited to treat language as a material and to make their own meaning. The structure also plays with the centuries-old metaphor of the book as a body, further cementing the importance of books and language in society. This piece captures the spirit of ConTEXT III, revealing how deeply intertwined language is not only with visual art, but with all aspects of the human experience.

The online exhibition can be seen here. 5/11/20

My work is included in The Velocity of a Page at the Greater Reston Arts Center, curated by Christopher Kardambikis. My book Asterisms is featured on the exhibition publicity. The exhibition was quickly and beautifully moved online this spring. You can see it here. 5/7/20

I am delighted and honored to announce that I have been awarded a 2020 Artist Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council in the area of Drawing and Printmaking. I am very grateful to the award jurors, the Mass Cultural Council, and the Massachusetts State Legislature for this generous award! There is a very nice article about it here. 2/19/20

I am pleased to have been awarded an Honorable Mention in The Art of the Book exhibition at the Rochester Public Library, Rochester, NY. 11/15/19

There is a nice write-up of the show Math and Art at the West Windsor Arts Council (NJ). The show includes two of my pieces. 8/23/19

https://www.newjerseystage.com/articles/2019/08/23/west-windsor-arts-council-to-present-exhibition-on-the-intersection-of-mathematics-and-art/

Three pieces of my work will be shown in the upcoming show Into the Fold in Tokyo from May 29-June 5, 2019. 5/9/19

CfSHE Gallery, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN

I will be exhibiting work at CODEX VII Book Fair February 3-6, 2019 at the Craneway Pavilion in Richmond, CA. I can be found at table #98. Please stop by if you will be attending the fair. 1/31/19

I was honored to be invited to give a talk on my work entitled “Generative Imagery” to the Colophon Club in Berkeley, CA this month. 10/10/18

Arts at MIT published an article about my work by Sharon Lacey. 3/20/18

Sarah Hulsey, Picturing Language

Please join me for the opening of an exhibition of six international artists, Katie Baldwin, Sarah Hulsey, Fuko Ito, Mariko Jesse, Yoonmi Nam, and Mia O. This exhibition, titled Into the Fold, is the result of an ongoing creative conversation where artists respond to themes of folding/unfolding, portability, lineage, and community using mokuhanga (Japanese woodblock printing) as the primary medium. The show will be at C.R. Ettinger Gallery in Philadelphia from March 30-April 1, 2018. The opening is on Friday, March 30 from 6-8 pm. 3/15/18

I will be giving a talk about my work entitled “Generative Imagery” at the Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts Fair on March 4 in Hyattsville, MD. 3/1/18

My work was written about in Slice of MIT by Nancy DuVergne Smith. 2/2/18

I am honored to be a recipient of a Visual Art Fellowship from the Somerville Arts Council, Somerville, MA. 1/18/18

An article I wrote about my work and my process has been published by the journal Openings: Studies in Book Art, vol. 3. In it, I discuss the central conceptual role that linguistics plays in my work, through the lens of two recent projects. It can be found here. 1/2/18

Along with Katie Baldwin, Yoonmi Nam, Mariko Jesse, Mia O, and Fuko Ito, I am participating in a traveling exhibition of mokuhanga prints called Into the Fold. A blog for the project with posts on process, materials, etc. can be found here. The first of four venues is the Common Gallery, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI. 9/29/17

The Codex Foundation has published a monograph of Betty Bright’s CODEX 2017 talk in their CODE(X)+1 series. In it, Dr. Bright writes about the work of Sarah Bryant, Sara Langworthy, and me. 9/27/17

From July 28-August 31, 2017, I will be a resident artist at MI-LAB (Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratories) in Lake Kawagushi, Japan. There I will work on a new series of mokuhanga prints, woodblock prints that use traditional Japanese materials and techniques. Please see my instagram account @sarahmhulsey for images of ongoing work. 7/20/17

The CfSHE Gallery in Tokyo will open an exhibition of mokuhanga work by the six resident artists from MI-LAB on August 6, 2017. The evening will include talks by the artists from 5:30-7pm. CfSHE Gallery, 3331 Arts Chiyodo Building, 1st basement floor, Toyko, Japan. 7/20/17

I am happy to be able to post several recent discussions or reviews of my work. 3/27/17

• Betty Bright spoke about my work along with that of Sarah Bryant and Sara Langworthy at the 2017 CODEX Symposium. A recording of her talk can be found here.

• Daisy Patton wrote a review of my book The Space of Poetics for Abecedarian Gallery. It can be found here or downloaded here.

• Finally, Marianne Dages wrote an essay for the catalog for my show Sarah Hulsey: Iterations in October 2016. It can be found here.

My studio building will be open for our bi-annual Miller Street Open Studios on Friday, March 31, 2017 (5-9pm) and Saturday, April 1 (noon-5pm). Please feel free to stop by that weekend. 3/27/17

Images from a recent group show, In Other Words, at the Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC can be see here. 3/22/17

I was selected as one of ten finalists for the 91st Annual International Competition at The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA. 2/15/17

I will have a table at the upcoming CODEX Book Fair in Richmond, CA, February 5-February 8, 2017. Please stop by my table if you will be at the fair. 2/1/17

My book Phonetic Constellations of the First Magnitude was chosen as a Jurors’ Purchase Selection from the Artists’ Book Cornucopia VII at Abecedarian Gallery in Denver, CO. 11/1/16

I will be giving an artist’s talk on my work on Thursday, October 20 at 11:30 am through Montserrat College of Art Gallery’s Public Programs. 10/17/16

Please join us for the opening of two shows at Montserrat College of Art’s Schlosberg Gallery: Liber Mundi, a collaborative book project in which I am participating; and Books, Here and Now, book work by Montserrat Faculty, which I curated. Thursday, October 20, 5-7pm. On view through November 19, 2016. 10/17/16

Please join me for the opening of my show, Sarah Hulsey: Iterations, at the Walter Feldman Gallery at the Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston. The show runs from October 14-November 13, 2016. Press release. 9/26/16

reception: Friday, October 14, 6-9pm

gallery hours: Monday-Friday 10am-5pm

15 Channel Center Street, Suite 103, Boston, MA 02210

My piece, In the Words of Mendeleev, was awarded the InkMasters Cairns Print Prize in the 2016 InkMasters International Print Exhibition, Cairns, Australia. 8/6/16

I have been selected as one of five international artists for a 5-week advanced mokuhanga (Japanese woodcut printmaking) residency at MI-LAB Artist-in-Residence in Lake Kawaguchi, Japan for August 2017. 7/15/16

I am very pleased to say that my print In the Words of Frisius was selected to be shown at the International Print Center New York’s Innervisions: New Prints 2016/Summer as part of their ongoing New Prints program. On view June 16-September 17, 2016. 5/10/16

My piece In the Words of Ptolemy was chosen to be included in the Danforth Musuem’s Art Annual: 2016 Juried Exhibition. This is a wonderful opportunity to show my work with that of a number of great New England artists. On view June 19-August 21, 2016. 5/10/16

I am honored to have been invited to exhibit my work in the San Francisco Center for the Book‘s 20th anniversary show, 20/20 Vision: “In celebration of the 20th Anniversary of SFCB, 20/20 Vision aims to highlight the next generation of book artists with an exhibition of 20 emerging book artists.” On view July 30-October 16, 2016. 5/5/16

Please join me for the opening reception of my first solo show in the Boston area, Diagraphia, at Gallery 263 in Cambridge, MA, March 25, 6-8 pm. Press release. 3/20/16

Big, Red, & Shiny published a review by Lisa Crossman of my project Linguistic Elements. 3/10/16

There is a nice write-up by Fran Cronin of my show Schemata: Sarah Hulsey and Rhonda Smith at NeighborhoodMedia.org. 2/18/16

ArtScope included a short write-up of Schemata: Sarah Hulsey and Rhonda Smith in their recent email blast. 2/18/16

Please join me for the opening reception of Schemata: Sarah Hulsey and Rhonda Smith at Maud Morgan Arts in Cambridge, MA, February 18, 6-8pm. Press release. 1/19/16

I was selected as a winner of the 2016 Walter Feldman Fellowship for Emerging Artists, juried by Liz Munsell from the MFA. I am very honored to have been chosen and look forward to the six-month fellowship. As part of the fellowship, I will be having a solo show of new work at the Walter Feldman Gallery at the Arts and Business Council of Boston in the Boston Seaport District in the fall of 2016. 12/22/15

I am delighted to have been chosen for a solo show at Gallery 263 in Cambridge, MA as part of their Curatorial Proposal Series. The show will take place March-April, 2016. I am looking forward to working with them. 11/25/15

I am participating in a project called Liber Mundi, which is a series of artist book and zine exhibitions created by 14 artists located in various locations around the globe. Each artist will coordinate an event or exhibition of the project around the world in spring 2016. 10/25/15

Harvard Magazine recently published an article on my work, written by Samantha Maldonado. 10/20/15

My piece Conversations in Syntax was awarded 1st place in the Artist Book category at the 5th Annual Art of the Book Exhibit at Rochester Public Library, Rochester, NY. 10/15/15

My book The Space of Poetics was accepted as a contestant for the 2015 Lía Libro de Artista award. 10/13/15

I have been selected as one of five finalists for the 2016 Walter Feldman Fellowship for Emerging Artists. The two winning Fellows will be selected in November or December. I am looking forward to the opportunity to show with the other finalists this fall and to be considered for the fellowship. 9/24/15

My piece Conversations in Syntax, made while I was a graduate student at the University of the Arts, has been selected as one of 21 pieces in the 6th National Collegiate Handmade Paper Art Triennial. I am pleased to be included along with my UArts classmate Karen Hardy. 9/2/15

I have been selected for a two-person show with Rhonda Smith at the Chandler Gallery at Maud Morgan Arts in Cambridge, MA in February 2016. I look forward to the opportunity to show with Rhonda. 7/2/15

My studio building will be open for our bi-annual Miller Street Open Studios on Friday, April 10 (5:30-10pm); Saturday, April 11 (noon-5pm); and Sunday, April 12 (noon-5pm). Feel free to stop by that weekend. 4/1/15

I have been awarded a grant to do a residency in May at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT. 3/28/15

In August I will be doing a printmaking residency at Zea Mays Printmaking in Florence, MA. 3/16/15

I am very pleased to have been accepted as a new member of the Society of Printers, a Boston-based society for study and advancement of the art of printing. 3/1/15

My pieces In the Words of Copernicus, In the Words of Nightingale, and In the Words of Ptolemy were awarded 2nd place in Beyond Printmaking 4 at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. 2/9/15

Last fall I was invited to write the exhibition essay for Marianne Dages’ show Distant Operator at Napoleon Gallery in Philadelphia in January 2015. It is available here. 1/5/15

I have received the 2015 Fath Scholarship for Artists and Artisans of the Book from Rare Book School. I will be using it to take The Art and Science of Cartography, 200-1500 with John Hessler at the Library of Congress in July 2015. 12/22/14

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