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 Latin-American mythology and environmental urgency, her interdisciplinary projects complicate dominant binaries that dictate human and non-human, animate and inanimate, and living and dead, and examine the social consequences of these categories. The resulting multi-media narratives aim to disrupt notions of human hierarchy, testing the phenomenon between humanity, mammality and technology in a chimeric future.

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 Davidson College (Davidson, NC), Crosstown Arts (Memphis, TN), Antenna (New Orleans, LA), and Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Los Angeles, CA) and was recently included in the 2023 statewide Tennessee Triennial. She has been awarded residencies at Crosstown Arts, the McColl Center, and the Hambidge Center. 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.