About

A. Morgan Sayers is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago. Frequently drawing inspiration from the virtual unrepresentability that beauty and pain both share, Sayers works with a diverse range of materials and mediums- from cast plaster and photography to sound and projection. Most recently, she is highly invested in helping chronic pain sufferers and non-sufferers alike to view pain as physical, legitimate and profoundly important. By combining her fascination of how the innermost workings of the body manifest themselves into visual language and her devotion to craft, she creates real objects and experiences that combine fragments of her own pain-full body and world with that of others’.

Sayers spent several years studying sculpture and nutrition in southern Mississippi and Alabama, and received her BFA in Studio Art from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2009 and MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts & Media from Columbia College Chicago in 2016. Before her time at Columbia College, she worked as an exhibition designer, curator, and teaching assistant for Virginia Tech’s School Of Visual Arts. Her work has been included in group exhibitions in Chicago and throughout the East Coast, and she was the featured artist in shows such as Fashion and the Female at The Arts Center of Greenwood, SC (2011). Sayers has work in public and private collections, including the Capitol One Permanent Collection in Richmond, VA, and she was a visiting artist at the Design Robotics Summit hosted by Virginia Tech’s Center for Design Research in Blacksburg, VA (2015).