Grace Sippy’s interests have stemmed from psychoanalysis, unspoken languages, the human figure, and psychological spaces: dreams, hallucinations, and the psyche. Utilizing traditional and contemporary printmaking methods, she uses the figure and space to explore what cannot be said in words, or what she does not wish to say through words, and regularly visits themes of doubles, mirroring, disintegration and deformation, vulnerability, conflict, and the Grotesque.

Grace has earned national and international recognition in her field, winning the Guanlan International Print Prize (2013), named Winner of the 10th International Biennial of Contemporary Prints in Liège, Belgium (2015), Honorable Mention in the Mid-America Print Council Juried Members’ Show (2016), a juried Excellence Prize from the Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition 2017 in Japan, and 3rd Place in the René Carcan International Prize for Printmaking Exhibition 2018 in Belgium. Additionally, she was selected for the International Biennial Print Exhibit: 2020 R.O.C., held at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, the 1st International Biennale of Miniature Art Graphics and Drawings-Bitola in Bitola, Republic of Macedonia (2023), and the René Carcan International Prize for Printmaking Exhibition 2024 in Belgium. Early this year she was honored to be selected as a McKnight Printmaking Fellow for 2024.

Grace has shown in several solo and two-person exhibitions, in the U.S. as well as internationally, across Europe and part of Asia. In 2017 her solo exhibition The Hour Between Dog & Wolf was held at the Musée D’Ansembourg in Liège, Belgium. In 2019 she exhibited at Highpoint Center For Printmaking, and again in 2020 with her work created there after being selected for a Jerome Emerging Printmaker Residency for 2019 – 2020. Additionally, Grace completed residencies at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in 2018, the Grand Marais Art Colony in 2020, and at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2022. She has an upcoming solo exhibition at the Hutchinson Center For The Arts in 2024.

Grace is based in Minneapolis, MN. She earned her BFA in Printmaking with Honors, at the University of Iowa, and earned her MFA in Printmaking at the University of Alberta. She has taught at the University of Alberta and the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, as well as various workshops and demonstrations. Currently she is a frequent instructor at Highpoint Center For Printmaking in Minneapolis, MN.

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