Sarah Sze
Sarah Sze's work attempts to navigate and model the ceaseless proliferation of information and objects in contemporary life. Incorporating elements of painting, architecture, and installation within her sculpture, Sze investigates the value we place on objects and explores how objects ascribe meaning to the places and times we inhabit.
The artist employs a constellation of everyday materials in her work, ranging from found objects and photographs to handmade sculptures and living plants, creating encyclopedic and accumulative landscapes that penetrate walls and stretch across museums. Her work often takes on architectures, transforming space through radical shifts of scale or colonizing overlooked and peripheral spaces. Sze sees sculpture as evidence of behavior and she leaves her own raw process of experimentation apparent in her work. As a result, her pieces often seem to hover in a transitional state, as if caught between growing and dying. Captured in this suspension, the works become self-perpetuating systems, seemingly capable of aspiration, decay, and renewal.
Like the scientific instruments of measurement they often reference, Sze's sculptures attempt to quantify and organize the universe, ascribing a fragile, personal system of order. Within her practice, sculpture becomes both a device for organizing and dismantling information and a mechanism to locate and dislocate oneself in time and space.
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 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), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge (2004), and most recently for the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s 2nd Avenue subway line, 96th street station, New York.
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, 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 and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Sarah Sze: Night into Day
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris October 24, 2020 - April 25, 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 -
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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 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: 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
Linda Norden, 2007 Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 0810993023 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: Infinite Line
Essays by: Saskia Sassen, Miwako Tezuka; Interview by: Melissa Chiu, 2011 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
Foreword by Marion Boulton Stroud. Text by Arthur C. Danto, Jonathan Gilmore, Jeffrey Kastner., 2014 Hardcover, pages
Publisher: The Fabric Workshop and Museum
ISBN: 9780983631712 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: 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
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Sarah Sze
Fondation Cartier | A promenade-conversation through the exhibition "Night and Day" with Sarah Sze and Bruno Latour October 19, 2020A few days before the opening of Sarah Sze’s exhibition Night into Day, the Fondation Cartier brings together the American artist and French philosopher Bruno...Read more -
Sarah Sze
TED Talk | "How we experience time and memory through art" April 1, 2019Sze takes us on a kaleidoscopic journey through her work: immersive installations as tall as buildings, splashed across walls, orbiting through galleries -- blurring the...Read more -
Sarah Sze
TateShots | Artist Interview | You Mark Time Through Objects’ January 11, 2019Sarah Sze is an artist best known for her sculpture and installation art. In this video, Sze introduces her approach to making art and describes...Read more -
Sarah Sze
Art Basel: Conversations | Artist Talk | Artists' Influencers June 25, 2018Conceived by Hans Ulrich Obrist, this series brings together artists with the individuals who have significantly influenced the development of their artistic practice. For this...Read more -
Sarah Sze
Art21 "Extended Play" | Designing a Subway Station April 14, 2017Artist Sarah Sze tackles her most public and challenging installation to-date as she designs an immersive artwork for the Second Avenue Subway in New York...Read more -
Sarah Sze
Art21 "Extended Play" | "Measuring Stick" April 1, 2016Episode #234: Sarah Sze discusses her sculpture 'Measuring Stick' (2015), which explores the 'measurement of time and space through the moving image.' Sze remembers watching...Read more -
Sarah Sze
Art21 "Extended Play" | How We See the World March 25, 2016Sarah Sze expresses her desire to have a tactile relationship with materials in a world saturated with digital imagery. In describing today’s visual culture, Sze...Read more -
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Artist talk with Russell Ferguson, curator and art historian at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York October 3, 2015Sarah Sze in conversation with Russel Fergusson, curator and art historian at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, 2015.Read more -
Sarah Sze
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark | The Meaning Between Things July 31, 2014”A sculpture is constantly growing and dying at the same time. It is a parallel process of construction and deconstruction.” Meet contemporary artist Sarah Sze...Read more