Sarah Pickering (born 1972) is a British visual artist working with photography and related media including 3D scanning and digital rendering, performance, appropriated objects and print. Her artist statement says she is interested in "fakes, tests, hierarchy, sci-fi, explosions, photography and gunfire." She is based in London. Pickering's book Explosions, Fires and Public Order was published by Aperture in 2010, and she has contributed work to many other books. She has had solo exhibitions at Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (2009), Ffotogallery, Wales (2009), Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (MoCP, 2010), and Durham Art Gallery (2013); and was included in Manifesta 11 in Zurich (2016). Her commission, "Match, 2015", is a 38 metre long public artwork on show at Castlegate Shopping Centre, Stockton-on-Tees in 2017. Her work is held in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; MoCP, Chicago, IL; and North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC. She is a part-time teaching fellow in fine art media at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London.