Sabina Ott is known for her broad range of work – from painting to installation to sculpture – and her central role in the art world as a teacher, administrator, and recently, as the founder of the exhibition space Terrain, which invites artitsts to create instalations and performances using the exterior of her Oak Park home. She earend both her BFA and MFA from the San Francisco Art institute. Exhibiting since 1985, Ott has participated in over 100 solo and group exhibitions at institutions in Sao Paulo, Brazil; Auckland, New Zealand; Melbourne, Australia; and many cities across the US. Her work is in numerous museum collections including The Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Oakland Museum of Art, and has been reviewed in Art in America, Art Forum, New Art Examiner, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times, among other publications. Most recently she has completed a public art commission for the Chicago Transit Authority and a solo exhibition at the Chicago Cultural Center. She is Professor of Art at Columbia College Chicago.
