Sabina Ott is an artist and educator living in Oak Park, IL. Her work merges painting, sculpture, digital media and installation to explore cultural tropes, maps, text and abstract geometries creating a kind of virtual world. Like Alice through the looking glass, the viewer tumbles through an array of images that assemble into new forms and relationships. Strongly influenced by the literary projects of Gertrude Stein, Ott’s work engages us through the use of repetition and play to re- contextualize familiar images and objects.

Ott has had over 30 solo exhibitions and participated in over 70 group shows. Her work has been shown in museum and gallery exhibitions such as the first Auckland Triennial in Auckland New Zealand; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; the Australian Contemporary Arts Center in Melbourne, Australia; the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO as well as the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland Ohio and the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY.

She has produced monoprints and editions at Cirrus Gallery of Los Angeles, Experimental Workshop and Aurobora Press of San Francisco, Segura Press of Phoenix and Anchor Graphics of Chicago. Her paintings and prints are in collections such as Corcoran Museum of American Art, Washington DC; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York; The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri; the University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California, and the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport, California among others.

Ott has received a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artists Grant and a Howard Foundation Grant from Brown University for research combining digital media and painting as well as being selected to participate in a series of residencies. She recently completed a Chicago Transit Authority commission for the city of Chicago’s Red Line Station.

During the past decade, Ott has curated over ten exhibitions that have received reviews from publications such as the Los Angeles Times, the New Art Examiner, the Washington Post and Artpapers and has written essays for various artists catalogs and journals.