Sara Barker is an artist based in Glasgow, and Head of Sculpture & Environmental Art. Barker's practice-based research activity is internationally recognised over a 25-year career of solo and collaborative projects, exhibitions, and published work.

Significant exhibitions include: The End of the 20th Century: The Best Is Yet to Come, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, SURFACE WORK Victoria Miro, WOMEN TO WATCH National Museum of Women in the arts, Washington, Tracing the Century: Drawing from Tate Collection, Tate Liverpool, Moments of Being: an exhibition based on the writings of Virginia Woolf, Tate St. Ives, CHANGE_THE_SETTING Ikon and Fruitmarket (solo) & the NOW series National Gallery (solo).

When a recent graduate of Glasgow School of Art in 2004, Barker set up the gallery 'Mary Mary' with Hannah Robinson and Harriet Tritton in Glasgow (named after Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley) with the intention of showing work by underrepresented artists.

Barker's work encompasses