2. Biography
Sarai Nissan was born in 1996 in Denver, Colorado to two Israeli
immigrants who fell out of love five years after she and her twin
sister were born. Coming from a creative home, raised on the art
of Andy Warhol and the music of Bob Dylan, her love for art and
music culminated. At the age of 15 she was whisked away to live
in Israel for a year, there she traveled around Europe and found
herself in a constant state of wanderlust after her return to the
states.
She works with many medias mostly focusing on the
aesthetics of oil paints.
She currently resides in Boulder, Colorado and is a Senior
at Boulder High School.
3. Relevant Classes
• Drawing and Painting at Horizons K-8 Middle school
• Private art lessons with local artist Kara Priest
• Boulder High’s Drawing and Painting 3, Freshman year
• Boulder Universal’s Art Appreciation, sophomore year
• Boulder High’s Portfolio arts, sophomore and junior year
• 2013 Summer seminar at Colorado College through the Marie
Walshe Sharpe Program
• AP Studio Art Senior Year
• Foundations in drawing and painting at Pratt Institute
• Art History and Portfolio development at Pratt Institute
31. Artists Statement
Each and every single piece contains a fragment of
myself, every piece I create is created in an effort to unearth
myself. My work explores my own morbid curiosities, addressing
the images that some may find odd, obscure or even grotesque.
My infatuation with such oddities manifests itself with in my
work. Always teetering on the edge of death or darkness my
artwork explores this contrasting balance; light and dark, life and
death, male and female etc. My pieces have become vessels to the
darkest and brightest thoughts from the dregs of my mind. They
are ostensibly foreboding creatures, cultivated and conceived
through the inspiration of the occult, metaphysics entwined with
everyday life.
32. The Artist
-Member of Boulder High’s Art club/open
studios
-Intern at Boulder Museum of Contemporary
Art
-She has had a solo exhibition at the KGNU radio
station in 2009
-Has displayed and sold pieces at Boulder
Museum of Contemporary Arts’ open wall
-Received the Honorable People’s Choice Award
in the 2011 Colorado Congressional Art
Competition.
-Recipient of the Marie-Walshe Sharpe
scholarship
-Recipient of an academic letter from Boulder
High
-Member of Boulder High School’s chapter of the
National Honor’s Society
-Attended Pratt Institutes Pre-college summer of
2013
-Exhibited works at Pratt Institute
-Has done many illustrations for local bands and
for the New York based jewelry brand
VERAMEAT