About
Sarah Michelle Riisager (b. 1990) is a visual artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. From 2011 to 2013 she studied at Fatamorgana, The Danish School of Art Photography where her camera became a way for her to deal with the sorrow of losing her father shortly before. Since graduating from The Glasgow School of Art in 2016 she has been working with a cross-disciplinary approach that intertwines photography, video and installation. Her work is in a borderland between reality and the virtual world. Her practice explores transformation which is often characterised by sadness, love and nostalgia.
Sarah’s work has been exhibited in Copenhagen (DK), Glasgow (UK), Edinburgh (UK), Pingyao (CHN), Krakow (PL), Arles (FR), Rota (ES) and Odesa (UA). In the summer of 2016 when she moved back to Copenhagen she was chosen to be part of the exhibition Young Danish Photography at The Centre of Photography and The Spring Exhibition at Charlottenborg, Copenhagen. In the summer of 2017 she exhibited her project Frozen during the prestigious photography festival Les Rencontres de la Photographie and Voies Off in Arles. Frozen also won a 2nd place during The Jill Todd Photographic Award in 2017. Since her project Girl has been exhibited at Street Level Photoworks in Glasgow and Ungt Rum in Copenhagen. In 2019 Frozen was exhibited in Inverness during Flow Photofest.
