Sarah Tamani is an award-winning French art director, designer, and painter based in New York, building worlds across canvas, clothing, and physical space.
She is the creator of Night Emperors, a viral series of ten large-scale tributes to New York’s nightlife community. What started as a hand-drawn labor of love led to a TV feature, a collab with JR, and acquisitions by The Roxy Hotel, Soho Grand, and Paul Sevigny. Her clients include Nike, Adidas, and Refinery29.
With a background in literature and philosophy and an MFA from SVA, her work explores how the external world mirrors the internal. Drawing from psychology and cognitive dissonance, she looks at how our reality is shaped by belief and trauma.
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it fate.” — Carl Jung
Her art is where everything reconciles. A cactus offering free hugs. Two boxers hugging instead of fighting. Spaces where softness and strength, joy and sadness, structure and chaos, coexist.
Infused with poetry, symbolism, and spirituality, her work reflects a deep conviction: our souls need connection more than anything — to be fully seen.
“In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” — Albert Camus
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Adidas, Instagram, Refinery29, Uber, HBO, Nike, Helena Magdalena, Instagram, Meta, Equinox, Konbini, Puma, Livy, Burt’s Bees, The Roxy Hotel, Creatively, Soho Grand, Johnson & Johnson, Ponyboy, Livre de Poche.
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August - September 2025
PHANTASMA
One Mile Gallery
475 Abeel St, Kingston
February 2024
GENERATIONS
Anderson Contemporary Gallery
180 Maiden Lane, New York
February 2024
EMPOWERED FORMS
547 W 27 St, New York
December 2023
100 SUTTON Art Show & Holiday Party
100 Sutton St, Brooklyn
Avril 2023
CREATORISM
With Blondehouse + Creative Protocol
52 Walker St, New York
March 2023
LA FEMME
Gallery 23 NY
34 Little W 12th St, New York
March 3rd, 2023
SUSHI BELLY TOWER
3 Pell St, New York
December 9th, 2022
HUMAN-ASSISTED ART-EVOLUTION
550 West 29th St, New York
June 24th, 2022
NED NOMAD opening-UNAPOLOGETICALLY ME
1170 Broadway, New York
April 18th, 2022
THIS IS NY
Gallery 23 NY
34 Little W 12th St, New YorkApril 7th, 2022
SURFIN’ JESUS NFT LAUNCH
In partnership with Caché Life
Sagamore Hotel
1671 Collins Ave, Miami BeachMarch 31st, 2022
CELEBRATING WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH
with Creatively and Apostrophe Gallery
Zero Bond, New YorkMarch 2022
NEW YORK WOMEN at The Locker Room
138 Mulberry St, New YorkJanuary 2022
THE NIGHT EMPERORSat Ponyboy
632 Manhattan Ave, BrooklynOctober 2021
THIS IS NY by Art Apple
250 Hudson St, New YorkSeptember 2021
WE ALL LOVE LOVE
Solo Exhibition + After-Party with Eli Escobar
100 Sutton St, BrooklynMay 2021
IN THE CLOUDSby La Casa Arthouse
Brooklyn’s first NFT Exhibition
100 Sutton St, BrooklynJanuary 2021
NIGHT EMPERORS Actionin partnership with INSIDE OUT
Global Art project created by JR
Lower East Side, New York2020
ART FOR EQUALITY, LIFE LIBERTY
& THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
The Untitled Space
45 Lispenard St, New York
SHAPES, A TRIBUTE TO LADISLAV SUTNAR
The Ladislav Sutnar Gallery, Pilsen, Czechoslovakia2019
APEROOF BASTILLE DAY PARTY
Socceroof, Brooklyn2018
SVA MAKERS MARKET, RENEGADE CRAFT
Metropolitan Pavilion, The Suite, New York29ROOMS, created by Refinery29
106 Wythe Ave, Brooklyn