Grounded

Born and raised in Roundup, Montana, Sarah Bedford received her BFA from the Cooper Union and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.  Bedford has been a recipient of the National Academy of Design Painting Award, as well as a Lower East Side Printshop Artist Fellowship. Bedford has shown with Bellwether Gallery, Jack Hanley Gallery, Charles Moffett and Deanna Evans Projects, New York, Mrs., Maspeth, NY; and Foyer, Los Angeles, CA, among others.  In 2022 she co-curated ‘Flower Craft’ at The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY. Bedford’s most recent solo exhibition with Mrs. was held in winter of 2023 and she has been represented by the gallery since 2020.  The artist lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

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Founded in September of 2016, Mrs. (pronounced mis-iz) is a contemporary art gallery located in Maspeth, Queens.  Situated away from the geographic center of the New York art world, the gallery collaborates with and showcases a variety of emerging, under-represented, and mid-career artists, in the hopes of engaging the community and offering a new platform for their practices. The gallery’s dynamic program has received critical praise from outlets such as Artforum, ARTnews, the Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, The Art Newspaper, the New Yorker, and The New York Times, among others. In May of 2020, the gallery announced its official roster including Elizabeth Atterbury, Sarah Bedford, Chris Bogia, Meghan Brady, Oona Brangam-Snell, Mark Mulroney, Sarah Palmer and Carolyn Salas.  Since then Rose Nestler, Nickola Pottinger and Robert Zehnder have joined the gallery.  Mrs. has been a proud member of the New Art Dealers Alliance, since 2018.   Mrs. is owned and operated by Sara Maria Salamone and Tyler Lafreniere.