Chris Sauter is a visual artist based in San Antonio, TX. He works across-media primarily in sculpture, installation, drawing, and video. Pulling from varied sources such as agriculture, history, science, and religion his work addresses the links between material and meaning, biology and belief, the past and present. He has exhibited across the United States, Mexico and Europe. His works have been featured at the McNay Art Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, The Kohler Art Center, the Musee d’Art Moderne Saint-Etienne, France, The Drawing Center in New York, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, the Contemporary Art Museum in Houston, the Dallas Museum of Art, and MoMA PS1. Sauter has been a resident artist at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin and Artpace, San Antonio. He is a member of M12, a collective of creative practitioners focused on rural issues. Sauter is associate professor of instruction at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is a local arts advocate, volunteering at various local non-profit arts organizations. He is a long-time designer and performer for Cornyation, a yearly satirical production benefitting local LGBT and youth organizations.