Sarah Spengler is an artist and educator based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her work examines visual culture—the images and technologies through which societies understand themselves and the natural world. Drawing upon both antiquated optical devices and emerging media, she has worked with microfiche readers, stereoscopes, animated lenticular images, photogrammetry, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence. She creates works that either challenge dominant cultural narratives or cultivate sustained attention and wonder as an antidote.

Spengler earned her Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the University of New Mexico and holds a BA in cultural anthropology from Bates College. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States at venues including Galleri Urbane in Marfa, Texas; Tamarind Institute and the Albuquerque Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico; RISD in Providence, Rhode Island; and Form & Concept Gallery and the Currents International New Media Festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

In addition to her studio practice, Spengler has taught art at colleges and universities throughout California, Massachusetts, and New Mexico. From 2011 to 2018, she developed and led the digital art curriculum at New Mexico School for the Arts.

When not making art, Spengler can be found hiking in the high desert of New Mexico with her dog, Samosa.