Sarina Brewer is a Minneapolis-based American artist known for her avant-garde taxidermy sculpture and her role in the popularization of taxidermy-related contemporary art.
[7] She states her work is an extension of her childhood belief in reincarnation and that her taxidermy sculptures serve as symbolic bodies for transmigrating animal spirits.
[1] The pioneering[18] work of Brewer and her fellow co-founders gained worldwide attention[18][11] in 2005 after they appeared on the front page of the New York Times art section[19] following their inaugural gallery exhibition.
[23][24] Her work is made from recycled animal components[25] salvaged from ethical sources such as natural deaths and road kill.
Brewer and her fellow co-founders incorporated this precept into the group's ethics charter, to which members of the collective were required to adhere.
[28] Brewer is regarded as an influential figure within the genre[24][23] which has been noted for being largely female-driven,[30][3] and she is acknowledged for playing a role in the shaping of it aesthetically as well as ethically.