Sara Black (born Sarah Owusu-Ansah) is a Ghanaian multidisciplinary artist whose layered paintings explore the tension between memory, identity, and environment. Born in Ghana and currently based in Europe, her work is shaped by lived experiences of cultural displacement, emotional translation, and the complexities of belonging. She works primarily with oil paint, image transfer, and drawing, developing intuitive, fragmentary compositions where the body and space blur into one another.

Sara holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana, and a Postgraduate Degree from the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe (Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe) in Germany. Her academic background has been central to the development of her practice, grounding it in both formal experimentation and critical theory, including postcolonial thought, feminist philosophy, and contemporary art history.

Her compositions often feature distorted or partially obscured figures, rendered in pink to avoid racial coding and instead evoke shared human vulnerability. She treats the body as a soft container of memory and emotional residue—something shaped as much by internal states as by its surroundings. Her process is largely intuitive, unfolding through layering, erasure, and interruption.

Sara draws inspiration from thinkers such as bell hooks, Edward Said, and Judith Butler, and from artists like Francis Bacon, Wangechi Mutu, and Louise Bourgeois—all of whom explore identity, fragmentation, and emotional depth in complex ways.

She has participated in exhibitions, residencies, and educational projects across continents. Whether working from a formal studio or domestic space, Sara creates artworks that resist resolution and invite viewers into quiet, emotionally charged spaces where the personal and political converge.