Fay Sanders (b. 1991 in Bronx, NY) is an artist based in Queens, NY with an MFA from Brooklyn College and a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University. Sanders has exhibited with The Hole, The Lodge LA, La Loma Projects, Tchotchke Gallery, and Field Projects and has held solo exhibitions at Smith College and the Kupferberg Center for the Arts. Sanders has been an artist in residence at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, MASS MoCA, Kimmel Harding Center and Vermont Studio Center. She is a 2023 FST Studio Projects Fund recipient. She was recently a visiting artist at Smith College and Sarah Lawrence College.

While in Residence, Sanders will continue a series of paintings that focus on perpetual yearning and insatiable desires, reflecting youthful hope and the frayed reality of adulthood. Figures caught in the middle of actions evoke an anticipatory feeling in the work that serves to create a sense of unease.