Sarah Hobbs

Sarah Hobbs is an American born artist in Lynchburg, Virginia in 1970. Hobbs got her Bachelor of Fine Arts in art history at University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia in 1992 and her Master of Fine Arts degree in photography in 2000 at the University of Georgia as well. Currently she is living and working in Atlanta. In 2003 she was a finalist for an award known as the Forward Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award. Her work has been exhibited in important public collections such as the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, her work has been traveling since 1998. Hobbs creates the psychological still lives/states and photographs them as large scale color images. Her photos are taken on a 4x5 camera as seen in the series "Small Problems in Living" (1999-2004). These scenes are set up in Hobb's home or a close friends, they are made to be dreamlike.

"Sarah Hobbs’s work explores and gives form to various human behaviors and compulsions. She carefully stages and photographs scenes that are meant to embody phobias, neuroses, and obsessions. Her intricate tableaus are simultaneously profound and witty, reflecting Hobbs’s understanding of human psychology." - Katherine A. Bussard, Assistant Curator of Photography at The Art Institute of Chicago.