Sarah Kusa is a Minnesota-based artist who creates sculpture and installations dealing with themes of human vulnerability and interconnection, with forms ranging from abstract bodies to three-dimensional drawings in space. Her mixed-media artwork is rooted in abstraction and uses a spare visual language to ask questions about being in the world with human limitations. Materials and gestures are central to her work. Kusa has exhibited her work throughout the United States and has received the McKnight Fellowship in Fiber Arts, the Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists, a Jerome Foundation Fiber Artist Project Grant, and the McKnight Next Step Fund. She has participated in residencies at MASS MoCA, the University of Minnesota’s Institute for Advanced Study, and Ragdale. She lives and works in Saint Paul.
HONORS
2021 McKnight Fellowship in Fiber Arts
2017/2018 Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists
2015 Jerome Foundation Project Grant
2012 McKnight Next Step Fund, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council