Sarah Sze
Born in Boston in 1969, Sze presently lives and works in New York. She received a BA from Yale University in Connecticut in 1991 and an MFA from New York’s School of Visual Arts in 1997. She is a 2003 MacArthur Fellow.
In 2013, Sze represented the United States at the 55th Venice Biennale with a solo pavilion presentation entitled Triple Point. Other important solo exhibitions include Storm King Art Center, New York (2021); Fondation Cartier Pour L'art Contemporain, Paris (2021); MOCA Toronto (2020); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2017-2018); Rose Art Mususeum at Bradis University (2016); Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia (2014), Asia Society in New York (2011-12), Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Newcastle, UK (2009), Malmo Konsthall in Sweden (2006), Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (2003), Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (2002), Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (2002), Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (1999), Foundation Cartier in Paris (1999), and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London (1998). She has conceived major public commissions at New York City’s High Line Park (2011-12), the Doris C. Freedman Plaza in New York City, organized by the Public Art Fund (2006), Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge (2004); New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s 2nd Avenue subway line, 96th street station, New York (2017); La Guardia Airport (2020); Storm King Art Center, New York (2021).
Sze’s sculptures, installations and works on paper have also been exhibited at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Serpentine Gallery in London, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Haus Der Kunst in Munch, Copenhagen Contemporary in Copenhagen, and the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, as part of the 1999 Carnegie International.
Her work is well represented in important private and public collections worldwide, including those of New York’s Guggenheim Museum, and Museum of Modern Art, The New Museum, and Whitney Museum of American Art, along with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 21st Century Museum of Art in Kanazawa, Japan, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA, Tate Collection, London, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Fondation Louis Vuitton, France, among others.
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IRL
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York September 9 - October 23, 2021 -
Sarah Sze: Fifth Season
Storm King Art Center, NY June 26 - November 8, 2021 -
Sarah Sze: Night into Day
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris October 24, 2020 - May 30, 2021 -
THE RETURN OF THE REAL
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York July 14 - August 28, 2020 -
Sarah Sze: Shorter than the Day
La Guardia Airport, New York July 1, 2020 - July 1, 2040 -
Sarah Sze: Images in Debris
MOCA, Toronto February 6 - October 4, 2020 -
Surrounds: 11 Installations
Museum of Modern Art, New York October 21, 2019 - January 4, 2020 -
Sarah Sze
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York September 5 - October 18, 2019 -
Sarah Sze: Centrifuge
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany August 15, 2017 - July 12, 2018For the fifth edition of DER ÖFFENTLICHKEIT — Von den Freunden Haus der Kunst, American artist Sarah Sze will create Centrifuge, a new site-specific installation that will radically transform visitors’...Read more -
Sarah Sze: Timekeeper
Rose Art Museum, Brandis University September 11 - December 11, 2016 -
Sarah Sze
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York September 15 - October 17, 2015Over the past two decades, Sze has challenged the static nature of sculpture, creating constellations of objects, activities, and cataclysmic moments that convey the essence of a new world overwhelmed...Read more -
The Bigger Picture
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York June 12 - August 1, 2014 -
Between the Lines
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York January 9 - February 8, 2014 -
Sarah Sze
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia December 13, 2013 - April 6, 2014 -
Sarah Sze: Triple Point
US PAVILION, 55TH VENICE BIENNALE June 1 - November 24, 2013 -
Sarah Sze
ADAA, New York March 7 - 11, 2012 -
Sarah Sze: Infinite Line
ASIA SOCIETY, NEW YORK December 13, 2011 - March 25, 2012 -
Sarah Sze: Still Life with Landscape (Model for a Habitat)
Highline, New York June 8, 2011 - June 6, 2012 -
Sarah Sze
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York September 16 - October 23, 2010 -
Multiple Pleasures: Functional Objects in Contemporary Art
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York June 25 - July 30, 2010 -
Sarah Sze: Tilting Planet
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art April 10 - August 31, 2009 -
SARAH SZE
Liverpool Biennial 2008 September 20 - November 30, 2008 -
Sarah Sze
MAISON HERMÈS, TOKYO February 8 - May 11, 2008 -
Sarah Sze: A Swiftly Tilting Planet
Malmö Konsthall, Sweden February 12, 2006 - February 18, 2007 -
Sarah Sze
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, France December 11, 1999 - March 12, 2000 -
Carnegie International
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh January 1 - December 31, 1999
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Sarah Sze: Paintings
2023 Read more -
Sarah Sze: Fallen Sky
2022 Read more -
Sarah Sze: DE NUIT EN JOUR / NIGHT INTO DAY
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain Bruno Latour, Leanne Sacramone, Sarah Sze, Jean Nouvel, 2020 Softcover, 208 pages pages
Publisher: Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
Dimensions: 23.5 × 34 cm Read more -
Sarah Sze: Timekeeper
Text by Christopher Bedford, Hal Foster, Katy Siegel, Renata Salecl, Hito Steyerl., 2018 Hardcover, 208 pages pages
Publisher: GREGORY R. MILLER & CO.
ISBN: 9781941366134
Dimensions: 9.5 x 12.5 in. Read more -
Sarah Sze: Centrifuge
Damian Lentini, Julie Mehretu, Zadie Smith, 2018 Paperback, 122 pgs pages
Publisher: Walther König, Cologne
Dimensions: 6.75 x 9.5 in Read more -
Sarah Sze
Text by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Okwui Enwezor and Laura Hoptman, 2016 Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Phaidon
ISBN: 978-0-7148-7046-5 Read more -
Sarah Sze
Foreword by Marion Boulton Stroud. Text by Arthur C. Danto, Jonathan Gilmore, Jeffrey Kastner., 2014 Hardcover
Publisher: The Fabric Workshop and Museum
ISBN: 9780983631712 Read more -
Sarah Sze: Triple Point
Essays by: Johanna Burton, Carey Lovelace and Holly Block; Interview and Contributions by: Jennifer Egan, 2013 Hardcover, 160 pages
Publisher: Gregory R. Miller & Co./The Bronx Museum of the Arts (October 31, 2013)
ISBN: 0982681380 Read more -
Sarah Sze: Infinite Line
Essays by: Saskia Sassen, Miwako Tezuka; Interview by: Melissa Chiu, 2011 Read more -
Sarah Sze
Linda Norden, 2007 Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 0810993023 Read more