Sabra Booth is an MFA graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and a BFA graduate from the University of Houston, Houston, Texas. She is a lecturer in fine arts at the Alamo Colleges District in Bexar County, Texas and in the community program at the Southwest School of Art in San Antonio, Texas. She lived in New York for five years teaching in public schools and several non-profit organizations, such as the Lower East Side Printshop. Prior to this, she was a nationally recognized exhibitions designer for the Ginzbarg Nature Discovery Center in Houston. Before attending graduate school, she was an assistant to Tamarind master printers at the Houston Fine Art Press. Early experiences on the beaches of south Florida and her present exploration of the Texas landscape affect her artistic vision. 

Working in a variety of mediums, she uses drawing, mixed media, printmaking, and stop motion animation. Recent travels in Japan and a Fulbright Mid-Career Professional Grant to Finland in 2007 have had a great impact on her work. These experiences led to further simplified forms. Natural objects are magnified and cropped until they become otherworldly. Like a 19th century naturalist, she often sketches flora and fauna on site. Design considerations are evident through the implementation of graphic lines, negative space, actual texture, and limited color. Her work also includes collagraph prints from actual plants. Reflections on gender variations within the natural world are an important aspect of Booth’s research. 

Booth’s exhibition record is both national and international. Presently, she has an installation entitled, Walled Off, on display at the Valley International Airport in Harlingen, Texas. She was included in the 2021 ABC No Rio show, CATACLYSM, in New York. In 2020, she had a solo retrospective exhibition, Hot Pursuit: A Visual Commentary on Climate Change, at Bihl Haus Arts in San Antonio, Texas. She also completed an artist-in-residence program for the UNESCO World Heritage Site: San Antonio Missions National Historical Park in 2019. She will be collaborating with the New York Historical Society and Central Booking, a New York arts organization, on a project about the Brooklyn waterfront in 2022.