Sarah Friend

Biography

Sarah Friend is a Canadian artist, researcher and software developer who lives and works in Berlin. Her work explores games, economics and the self through emerging technology, with a focus on blockchain, crypto, net art and digital economies. She holds a BFA in Drawing and Painting with a minor in Digital Media Studies from OCAD University in Toronto (2010). She attended the Recurse Center in New York in 2016 and the Ongoing Berlin Program for Artists. She also writes about her field, with texts including Asset Logics in Texte zur Kunst (2022). Her projects include Lifeforms, shown at the Trinity Square Video VITRINE in Toronto in 2024, and Terraforming, a solo exhibition at the Nagel Draxler Crypto Kiosk in Berlin in 2022. Other solo shows include MOUTH at Passage Art in Berlin (2026), Off: Endgame at Public Works Administration in New York (2022) and Clickmine at The Brandscape in Toronto (2018). Group exhibitions include SculptureCenter in New York (2025), the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection in Munich (2025), Kunsthaus Zurich (2023), the Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen (2023), Centre Pompidou-Metz (2023) and Art Basel Miami Beach with Galerie Nagel Draxler (2022). She is represented by Galerie Nagel Draxler. At Paris Photo 2026 she is part of Scenography, the group presentation by Automata in the Digital Sector.