Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo is a Peruvian-American interdisciplinary artist based in Memphis, TN. Her work has been shown in group exhibitions at The Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC), Duke University (Durham, NC), Field Projects (New York, NY), and the Hilliard Museum (Lafayette, LA), with solo exhibitions at Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Los Angeles, CA), Antenna (New Orleans, LA), Davidson College (Davidson, NC), Crosstown Arts (Memphis, TN), and and was recently included in the 2023 statewide Tennessee Triennial. She has been awarded residencies at the McColl Center and Crosstown Arts. In 2022 she was awarded the Tennessee State Fellowship and was the finalist for the 2022 Southern Prize. She is a founding member of BASEMENT, a provisional artist-run space in Chapel Hill, NC. She received her MFA in interdisciplinary studio from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her BA in Studio Art and English Literature from Davidson College.

Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo utilizes sculpture, installation, textiles, and drawing to explore the possibilities within hybridity and respond to a troubled present in the wake of humanity’s destructive path. Drawing upon Pre-Columbian mythologies and environmental urgency, her interdisciplinary projects complicate human constructed binaries around identity, animacy, and afterlife to investigate the illusion of human exceptionalism. Drawing upon her own experiences, her work focuses on identities that straddle cultures and intentionally occupy uncategorized space in order to utilize that hybrid state as an opportunity for reckoning. The resulting multi-media narratives aim to disrupt notions of human hierarchy, testing the phenomenon between humanity, mammality and technology in a chimeric future.