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Sarah Sze Born 1969
Boston, MassachusettsNationality American Field Sculpture Training School of Visual Arts Sarah Sze (Born in Boston in 1969) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in New York City.[1] Sze uses ordinary objects to create sculptures and site-specific installations.
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Early life
Sze graduated Summa Cum Laude from Yale University in 1991. She then received a MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York in 1997.
Career
Since the late 1990s Sarah Sze's signature sculptural aesthetic has presented ephemeral installations that penetrate walls, suspend from ceilings and burrow into the ground. The artist creates immense, yet intricate site-specific works which manipulate every space—be that a gallery, domestic interior or street corner—and profoundly affects the way it is viewed. Sze's practice exists at the intersection of sculpture, painting and architecture where her formal interest in light, air and movement is coupled with an intuitive understanding of colour and texture. Sze utilises a myriad of everyday objects in her installations from cotton buds and tea bags to water bottles and ladders, light bulbs and electric fans. Presented as leftovers or traces of human behaviour, these items, released from their commonplace duty possess a certain vitality and ambition within the work. Her careful consideration of every shift in scale between the humble and the monumental, the throwaway and the precious, the incidental and the essential solicits a new experience of space, disorienting and reorienting the viewer at every turn.[2]
Her intricate works, each of which she constructs by hand, consist of unexpected and carefully arranged combinations of materials. Sze transforms these everyday objects into gravity-defying works in horizontal and tower-like formations that zigzag into the heights of gallery spaces.[3]
Sze is 2003 recipient of the MacArthur Fellows Program "genius grant".[4]
Sze is represented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York[5] and Victoria Miro Gallery in London.[6]
Personal life
Sze lives in New York with her husband, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and their two daughters.[7][8]
Exhibitions
- 2009 - “Sarah Sze,” Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle
- 2008 - “Sarah Sze,” Maison Hermès 8F Le Forum, Tokyo, Japan
- 2007 - “Sarah Sze,” Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
- 2006 - “Sarah Sze,” Malmo Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden
- 2006 - “Corner Plot,” Doris C. Freedman Plaza, New York
- 2006 - “Model for Corner Plot,” Agassiz House, Radcliffe Yard, Cambridge, MA
- 2005 - “Sarah Sze,” Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
- 2005 - “An Equal and Opposite Reaction,” the Seattle Opera, Seattle, WA, (permanent installation)
- 2004 - “Blue Poles,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (permanent installation)
- 2004 - “Sarah Sze: The Triple Point of Water”, Fondazione Davide Halevim, Milan, Italy
- 2003 - “Sarah Sze: The Triple Point of Water,” The Whitney Museum, New York
- 2002 - “Sarah Sze,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
- 2002 - “Grow or Die,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (permanent installation)
- 2001 - “Sarah Sze,” Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, NY
- 2001 - “Drawn,” Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, San Diego, CA
- 2000 - “Sarah Sze,” Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
- 1999 - “Sarah Sze,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, IL
- 1999 - “Sarah Sze: Still Life with Flowers,” Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
- 1999 - “Sarah Sze,” Foundation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France
- 1998 - “Sarah Sze,” Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
- 1997 - “Migrateurs,” Musee d’Art Modern de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
- 1997 - “White Room,” White Columns, New York
Museum collections
- Musmhbikjmllioulk;io;lk,eum of Modern Art, New York
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- Guggenheim Museum, New York
- The New Museum, New York
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
- Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
- Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, San Diego, CA
- Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
- Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
- Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
- National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
- Cartier Foundation, Paris, France
- 21st Century Museum of Art, Kanazawa, Japan
- Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
- Fogg Museum of Art, Boston, MA
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, IL
Grants
- 2003–2008 - MacArthur Fellow, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- 2005–2006 - Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
- 2003 - Lotos Club Foundation Prize in the Arts
- 2002 - Atelier Calder Residency, Sachè, France
- 1999 - Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
- 1997–1998 - The Space Program Studio Residency, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation
- 1997 - Visual Art Grant Award, Rema Hort Mann Foundation
- 1997 - Paula Rhodes Memorial Award
- 1996 - School of Visual Arts Graduate Fellowship
Teaching
- 2009–Present - Professor, Columbia University, School of the Arts
- 2005–2008 - Adjunct Professor, Columbia University, School of the Arts
- 2002–2004 - Lecturer, Columbia University, School of the Arts
- 1999–2002 - Lecturer, School of Visual Art, Master of Fine Arts Program
- 1998 - Visiting Lecturer, Yale University, Intersections of Art and Architecture
References
- ^ Sarah Sze
- ^ http://www.victoria-miro.com/artists/_33/
- ^ [1]
- ^ http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1142737/k.6839/Fellows_List__October_2003.htm
- ^ http://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/artist.php?art_name=Sarah%20Sze
- ^ http://www.victoria-miro.com/artists/
- ^ An Oncologist Writes 'A Biography Of Cancer' : NPR
- ^ The modern history of cancer : The New Yorker
Further reading
- Norden, Linda; Arthur Danto (2007). Sarah Sze. Abrams. ISBN 978-0810993020.
- Grambye, Lars (2006). Sarah Sze: Tilting Planet. Malmo Konsthall.
- Sans, Jerome; Jean Louis Schefer, Fondation Cartier (2000). Sarah Sze. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-97490-X.
External links
Categories:- 1969 births
- Living people
- People from Boston, Massachusetts
- Milton Academy alumni
- American sculptors
- MacArthur Fellows
- School of Visual Arts alumni
- Yale University alumni
- Artists from Massachusetts
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