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Sarah Sze    (American, 1969)

 Sarah Sze - Tilting Planet (Installations)
Sarah Sze
Tilting Planet 2006
 
 Sarah Sze - Tilting Planet (Installations)
Sarah Sze
Tilting Planet 2006
 
 Sarah Sze - Tilting Planet (Installations)
Sarah Sze
Tilting Planet 2006
 
 Sarah Sze - Tilting Planet (Installations)
Sarah Sze
Tilting Planet 2006
 
 Sarah Sze - Tilting Planet (Installations)
Sarah Sze
Tilting Planet 2006
 
 

Biography
1991 Yale University, New Haven, CT, BA
1997 School of Visual Arts, NY, MFA
2003 MacArthur Fellowship
Lives and works in New York
Awards
2003 MacArthur Fellow
2003 Lotos Club Foundation Prize in the Arts
2002 Atelier Calder, Saché, France
1999 Louis Comfort Tiffany 1999 Award
1997 The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation
1997 Rema Hort Mann Foundation
1997 Paula Rhodes Memorial Award
1996 School of Visual Arts Graduate Fellowship
1996 School of Visual Arts Graduate Fellowship
1992 Yale Japan America Travel Grant
1991 Yale Japan America Travel Grant
1991 Sudler Fund Grant
1990 Ellen Battell Stockell Fellowship, Yale School of Art, Norfolk
Special Projects
1999 “Other Rooms, Other Voices,” radio project with audio works by artists, Swiss National Radio Broadcast, Channel 2, curated by Daniel Kurjakovic

Exhibitions
2008 Maison Hermes, 8th Flr, “Le Forum”, Tokyo (solo)
2008 Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
2007 Long Island City, NY, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Not For Sale
2007 Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)
2003 - 2007 New York, Sculpture Center, The Paper Sculpture Show, September 7 – December 7, 2003. Traveled to Pittsburgh, PA, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, September 8 – October 14, 2003; Houston, TX, DiverseWorks, September 11 – November 7, 2003; Virginia Beach, VA, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, October 30, 2003 – January 4, 2004; Chattanooga, TN, Hunter Museum of American Art, December 6, 2003 – February 1, 2004; Chicago, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, January 12 – February 21, 2004; Marfa, TX, The Ballroom, January 16 – March 16, 2004; Newport Beach, CA, Orange County Museum of Art, February 14 – April 18, 2004; Salina, KS, Salina Art Center, June 9 – August 4, 2004; Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, Dunlop Art Gallery, September 11 – October 31, 2004; New York, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, February 5 – March 27, 2005; Boston, Art Interactive, February 19 – March 27, 2005; Cedar Rapids, IA, Legion Arts, March 16 - May 8, 2005; Coral Springs, FL, Coral Springs Museum of Art, June 3 - July 29, 2005; Charlottesville, VA, University of Virginia Art Museum, June 18 – August 14, 2005; West Lafayette, IN, Purdue University Galleries, October 24 – December 4, 2005, Atlanta, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, January 28 – March 25, 2006, Cincinnati, Contemporary Arts Center, August 18 – November 5, 2005; TX, Austin Museum of Art, November 18, 2006 – January 27, 2007
2006 Malmö, Sweden, Malmö Konsthall, Sarah Sze: Tilting Planet (solo)
2006 New York, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Corner Plot, May 2 – Oct. 22, 2006. A commission for the Public Art Fund, New York (solo)
2006 Cambridge, MA, Agassiz House, Radcliffe Yard, Model for Corner Plot (solo)
2006 New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Selections from the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University
2006 Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo (MOT), Collection of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain at MOT Tokyo
2006 New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Selections from the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University
2006 Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo (MOT), Collection of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain at MOT Tokyo
2005 Philadelphia, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Swarm
2005 Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Fluidity of Time: Selections from the MCA Collection
2005 New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Sarah Sze (solo)
2005 Seattle, WA, Marion Oliver McCaw Hall of the Seattle Opera, An Equal and Opposite Reaction (permanent installation) (solo)
2005 Philadelphia, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Swarm
2005 Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, The Fluidity of Time: Selections from the MCA Collection
2004 Kanazawa, Japan, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, The Encounters in the 21st Century, Polyphony - Emerging Resonances
2004 New York, School of Visual Arts, Beginning Here: 101 Ways
2004 New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Seeing Other People
2004 London, Serpentine Gallery, State of Play
2004 Milan, Fondazione Davide Halevim, Sarah Sze: The Triple Point of Water (solo)
2004 Kanazawa, Japan, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, The Encounters in the 21st Century, Polyphony - Emerging Resonances
2004 New York, School of Visual Arts, Beginning Here: 101 Ways
2004 London, Serpentine Gallery, State of Play
2003 New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Sarah Sze: The Triple Point of Water (solo)
2003 Turin, Italy, Castello di Rivoli, The Moderns
2003 Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, world rush_4 artists
2003 New York, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, Reflection: Seven Years in Print, The LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies
2002 Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, RSVP: Sarah Sze (solo)
2002 Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Grow or Die (permanent installation) (solo)
2002 New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Penetration
2002 New York, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Ace Gallery, Artist to Artists: A Decade of The Space Program
2002 New York, National Academy of Design, 177th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition
2002 São Paulo, Brazil, Iconografias Metropolitanas, Cidades: 25th Bienal de São Paulo, (Curated by Alfons Hug)
2001 Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Sarah Sze (solo)
2001 San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Art, Drawn, installed April 21 (solo)
2001 London, Barbican Centre, The Americans- New Art
2001 Harrisburg, PA, Susquehanna Art Museum, Let’s Get to Work
2001 San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 010101: Art in Technological Times
2001 Malmo, Sweden, Bo01 City of Tomorrow, European Housing Expo
2001 New York, Asia Society and Museum, Contemporary Art Commissions at the Asia Society and Museum
2000 New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Sarah Sze (solo)
2000 New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery
2000 New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, 2000 Whitney Biennial
2000 Avignon, France, La Beauté, Mission pour la célébration de l’an 2000 (Curated by Jean de Loisy)
1999 - 2000 Paris, Foundation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Sarah Sze (solo)
1999 Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarah Sze (solo)
1999 Leipzig, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Sarah Sze: Still Life with Flowers (solo)
1999 London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Sarah Sze (solo)
1999 Venice, Venice Biennale, 48th International Exhibition of Contemporary Art (Curated by Harald Szeemann)
1999 Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, The Carnegie International 1999-2000 (Curated by Madeline Grynsztejn)
1998 Germany, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin/Berlin, Berlin Biennial (Curated by Klaus Biesenbach, Nancy Spector, and Hans-Ulrich Obrist)
1998 New York, Basilico Fine Arts, Deep Thought, Part II
1998 Stamford, CT, The Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Where: Allegories of Site in Contemporary Art
1998 New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery, People, Places, and Things
1998 Casino Luxembourg- Forum d’art contemporain, Manifesta 2, European Biennial of Contemporary Art
1998 Long Island City, NY, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Construction Drawing
1998 France, Musée d’Art Modern de la Ville de Paris, Migrateurs (solo)
1997 New York, White Columns, White Room (solo)
1997 France, museé d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Migrateurs
1997 Austria, The Vienna Secession, Cities on the Move, November 26 – January 18, 1998. (Curated by Hou Hanru and Hans-Ulrich Obrist) Traveled to Bordeaux, Capc Musée d’art Contemporian; Denmark, Louisiana Museum, January 29 – April 21, 1999; London, Hayward Gallery
1997 Long Island City, NY, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Some Young New Yorkers (Curated by Klaus Biesenbach and Alanna Heiss)
1997 New York, Wooster Gardens, Drawings and Paintings
1997 New York, Casey Kaplan Gallery, The Name of the Place (Curated by Laurie Simmons)
1997 New York, Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, May 1997. (Curated by Tommy Lannigan-Schmidt)
1997 New York, College Art Association, Hunter College Fine Arts Building, New York Area MFA Exhibition
1996 New York, Pratt Artist’s League, 420 West Broadway Building, SoHo Annual (Curated by Michael Brenson, Susan Hort, Robert Storr and Simon Watson)

Literature
2007 Norden, Linda. Sarah Sze. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2007
2007 Collins, Judy. Sculpture Today. London: Phaidon Press, 2007
2007 Holmes, Pernilla, Sarah Sze, ArtNews, December 2007
2007 Hammonds, Kit, Sarah Sze, Tema Celeste, Issue 124, November/December 2007
2007 Campbell, Peter, At Victoria Miro, London Review of Books, October 4, 2007
2007 Williams, Eliza, Sarah Sze: Victoria Miro Gallery, London September 1 to 22, Art Monthly, October 2007
2007 Darwent, Charles, This is a fine mess you’ve got me into, The Independent on Sunday, September 9, 2007
2007 Charlesworth, JJ, Exhibition of the Week, Time Out, 12 September 2007
2007 Brookes, Michael, Sarah Sze, Metro, 4 September 2007
2007 A Tilted View, Visual Arts Briefs, February 16, 2007, http://intranet.adm.schoolofvisualarts.edu/VABriefs/article.php?sid=1515&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
2007 Sarah Sze at Sweden’s Malmö Konsthall, ArtInfo.com, January 15, 2007, http://www.artinfo.com/News/Article.aspx?a=26126
2006 Coe, Julie. 24th Street, Departures, November/December 2006, p. 106
2006 Hoban, Phoebe. Sze, More Clearly?, Samsung DigitAll Magazine, Fall 2006, p.14
2006 Johnson, Ken. Sarah Sze: Corner Plot, New York Times, June 2, 2006
2006 Scott, Andrea K. Floor Through, Time Out New York, May 11 – 17, 2006
2006 Caravanos, Adelle. Constructing a Corner Curiosity, Science & the City, May 7, 2006
2006 Shattuck, Kathryn. Sidewalk Art Encourages Viewers to be Peeping Toms, New York Times, April 29, 2006
2006 Vogel, Carol. Inside Art: A Model Apartment, New York Times, March 24, 2006
2006 Finkel, Jori. Top 10 Trends: Salons de Refuse, ARTnews, February 2006, pp. 102-103
2006 Amy, Michael. Sarah Sze, Sculpture Magazine, January/February 2006, pp. 72 – 73
2006 Collection of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain at MOT Tokyo. Paris and Tokyo: Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain and FOIL, 2006
2006 Ellegood, Anne and Johanna Burton. The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas: Recent Sculpture. Washington, DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, 2006, p. 36
2005 Todd, Susan. An Equal and Mutual Admiration: Creating An Equal and Opposite Reaction, Seattle Opera Magazine, Winter 2005/2006
2005 Richard, Frances. Sarah Sze, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Artforum, September 2005
2005 Neil, Jonathan T.D. In View: Sarah Sze, Modern Painters, September 2005
2005 Nichols, Matthew Guy. Sarah Sze at Marianne Boesky, Art in America, September 2005
2005 Baird, Daniel. Sarah Sze, The Brooklyn Rail (cover story), June 2005
2005 Sarah Sze, The New Yorker, June 27, 2005
2005 Saltz, Jerry. Anal-Retentive Princess; Looking at structure in magical, maniacal ways, The Village Voice, June 17, 2005
2005 Goodbody, Bridget. Sarah Sze, Time Out New York, June 2-8, 2005
2005 Stern, Steven. Art. Sarah Sze, Absolute, May 2005, pp. 74-77
2005 Lupton, Ellen and Abbott Miller. Swarm. Philadelphia, PA: The Fabric Workshop and Museum, 2005
2005 Gnemmi, Edoardo, Sarah Sze. Italy: Fondazione David Halevim, 2005
2004 Schwabsky, Barry. Sarah Sze, Contemporary, special sculpture issue #64, 2004
2004 Kristal, Marc. The Architecture of Art, Metropolis, February 2004, p.38
2004 Kerr, Merrily. Sculptor Sarah Sze Wins Macarthur Fellowship, Art AsiaPacific, Winter 2004, p.24
2004 Wye, Deborah ed. Artists & Prints: Masterworks from The Museum of Modern Art. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2004
2004 Coatzee, Mark. Not.Afraid.: Rubell Family Collection. New York: Phaidon Press Inc., 2004
2004 Steiner, Rochelle. State of Play. London: Serpentine Gallery, 2004
2003 Sparks, Karen J. Britannica Book of the Year 2003 – Events of 2002. “Redefining Art,” Encyclopedia Britannica, U.S.A., 2003
2003 Bonami, Francesco. The Moderns. Turin, Italy: Castello di Rivoli, 2003
2003 Vaughan, Gerard. 31 New Acquisitions. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2003
2003 world rush _4 artists. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2003
2003 Chuh, Kandice. Imagine Otherwise: on Asian Americanist Critique. (Cover art) Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003
2003 Hirsch, Faye. Reflection: Seven Years in Print. New York: Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, 2003
2003 Carlock, Marty. Sarah Sze’s Organized Chaos, Sculpture, November 2003, cover & pp. 24-29
2003 Nakamura, Marie-Pierre. Interview, art actuel, September – October 2003, pp. 82-84
2003 Chasin, Noah. Sarah Sze, The Triple Point of Water, Time Out New York, August 28–September 4, 2003
2003 Kimmelman, Michael. A Seasonal Migration of Cultural Scope, New York Times, August 8, 2003
2003 Triple Point of Water at Whitney Museum of American Art, The New Yorker, August 4, 2003
2003 Sculpture Forever, Flash Art, June 2003
2003 Yablonsky, Linda. Going Mobile, ARTnews, Summer 2003
2003 Chiu, Melissa. Sarah Sze, Art AsiaPacific, Winter 2003
2002 Temin, Christine. Strand theater, The Boston Globe, December 6, 2002
2002 Richard, Frances. Penetration, Artforum, October 2002
2002 Penetration, The New Yorker, July 15, 2002
2002 Yablonsky, Linda. Piercing Analysis, Time Out New York, June 20-27, 2002
2002 Levin, Kim. Penetration, Village Voice, June 19, 2002
2002 Kostabi, Mark. On Penetration, Shout, June/July 2002, p. 17
2002 Marks, Peter. Artist at Work: Sarah Sze. Transforming Life’s Detritus Into Sculpture, New York Times, June 12, 2002
2002 Snyder, Bill. A plunge under the Sculpture Garden Skyway News, Minneapolis, June 8, 2002
2002 Israel, Nico. XXV Bienal de Sao Paolo, Artforum, Summer 2002, pp. 171-2
2002 Wolfe, Kristin L. Creating Sculptural Galaxies, Visual Arts Journal – SVA, Summer 2002
2002 Ebony, David. Asia Society spotlights contemporary commissions, Art in America, March 2002
2002 Smith, Roberta. Critic’s Notebook: Frank Stella Pops Up All Over, New York Times, January 8, 2002
2002 Hug, Alfons ed. Cidades: 25th Bienal de São Paulo, Iconografias Metropolitanas. São Paulo: Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, 2002
2001 Cotter, Holland. Cosmopolitan Trove on the Road to China, New York Times, November 16, 2001
2001 Cotter, Holland. Across the Hudson Highland, Sculptures are Sprouting, Inside and Out, New York Times, July 20, 2001
2001 Sze, Sarah. Contribution to The Curator’s Egg, Vol.1, May 2001
2001 Clifford, Katie. Sarah Sze, ARTnews, February 2001, p. 155-6
2001 Reid, Calvin Sarah Sze, Art in America, February, 2001, p.142
2001 Gilmore, Jonathan. Sarah Sze, tema celeste, January/February 2001, p. 94
2001 Rottner, Nadja. Sarah Sze, Flash Art, January/February 2001
2001 Israel, Nico. Sarah Sze, Artforum, January 2001, p. 138
2001 Bianchi, Josiana. MoMA: The Art of Conversation. New York: Museum of Modern Art, November 2001
2001 Smith, Elizabeth A. and Douglas Rushkoff. Sarah Sze. Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, 2001
2001 Vision Art Exhibitions – The House. Bo01 City of Tomorrow, Sweden, 2001
2000 Saltz, Jerry. True Confections, Village Voice, November 14, 2000
2000 Cotter, Holland. Innovators Burst Onstage One (Ka-pow!) at a Time, New York Times, November 10, 2000
2000 Dailey, Meghan. Sarah Sze, Time Out New York, November 9, 2000
2000 Saltz, Jerry. My Sixth Sense, The Village Voice, March 29-April 3, 2000
2000 Schjeldahl, Peter, Pragmatic Hedonism, The New Yorker, April 3, 2000, p. 94
2000 Caniglia, Julie. Queen of Clutter, Harper’s Bazaar, March 2000, p. 306
2000 Carnegie International, tema celeste, January/February 2000, p. 104
2000 Sarah Sze, BT - Very New Art 2000, January 2000
1999 Gingeras, Alison, Sarah Sze: La Poesie du Meddano, BeauxArts, December, 1999, pp.58-61
1999 Smith, Roberta. Carnegie International: Safe Among Seamless Shadows, New York Times, November 17,1999
1999 Schwabsky, Barry. Sarah Sze, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Artforum, October 1999, p. 143
1999 Birnbaum, Daniel. Just So, Frieze, September/October 1999, pp. 90-93
1999 Purcell, Greg. Sarah Sze Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, New Art Examiner, September, 1999, Vol. 27, No. 1 pp. 50
1999 Vetrocq, Marcia E. The Venice Biennale Reformed, Renewed, Redeemed, Art in America, September 1999, pp. 83-94
1999 Birnbaum, Daniel. Patience in Theory, Artforum, September 1999, pp.154
1999 Randall, Frederika. A Biennale for the Millennium, The Wall Street Journal, July 29,1999, pp. A24
1999 Kastner, Jeffrey. Discovering Poetry Even in the Clutter Around the House, New York Times, July 11, 1999, p. 36
1999 Slyce, John. Cheerios, Candy Kisses, Q-Tips, and Duct Tape, Flash Art, Summer 1999, pp.116
1999 Kastner, Jeffrey. Sarah Sze: Tipping the Scales, Art/Text, No.65, May-July 1999
1999 Feinstein, Rochelle. Leftovers, Art On Paper, January – February 1999
1999 Phillips, Christopher. Art for an Unfinished City, Art in America, January 1999
1999 48 Esposione Internazionale d’arte La Biennale di Venezia. Venice: La Biennale di Venezia, 1999
1999 Krause-Wahl, Antje. Sarah Sze. Leipzig: Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, 1999
1999 Sans, Jerome and Jean Louis Schefer. Sarah Sze. London: Thames and Hudson and Foundation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, 1999
1999 Boris, Staci and Francesco Bonami. Sarah Sze. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1999
1999 Kurjakovic, Daniel. Other Rooms Other Voices - Audio Works by Artists. Switzerland: Memory/Cage Editions, 1999
1998 Yablonsky, Linda. Berlin Sprawl, Time Out New York, November 5 –12, 1998
1998 Moshkovits, Boris. Berlin Biennale ‘98, Flash Art, November- December 1998
1998 Packer, William. Everything but Painting and Sculpture, Financial Times, October 6,1998
1998 Gianmarco del Re. Sarah Sze, ICA, Flash Art, October 1998
1998 Slyce, John. Sarah Sze, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, 1998 (exhibition catalogue)
1998 Barrett, David. Sarah Sze, Frieze, Summer 1998
1998 Glover, Izi. All Kinds of Everything, Make, June – August 1998
1998 Murray, Fraser. Exhibitions, The Architect’s Journal, April 30,1998
1998 Romney, Jonathan. Cabbages and Cool Things, The Guardian, April 17,1998
1998 Sumpter, Helen. Junk Junkie, The Big Issue #279, April 13,1998
1998 Kent, Sarah. Sarah Sze, Time Out London, April, 22,1998
1998 Hudson, Judy. Bomb, No. 66, Spring 1998
1998 98 people to watch in ‘98, Time Out New York, January 29 – February 5, 1998
1998 Heartney, Eleanor. The Return of the Red-Brick Alternative, Art in America, January 1998
1998 Slyce, John and Hans-Ulrich Obrist. Sarah Sze. London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, May 1998
1998 Hanru, Hu. Cream – Contemporary Art in Culture. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 1998
1998 Manifesta 2, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Luxembourg: Casino Luxembourg- Forum d’art contemporain, 1998.
1997 Smith, Roberta. More Space and Gracious, Yet Still Funky at Heart, New York Times, October 31,1997
1997 Camhi, Leslie. P.S.1 Back in Session, The Village Voice, November 4,1997
1997 Hogrefe, Jeffrey. Late for Art School-P.S.1 Re-opens, The New York Observer, October 27,1997
1997 Schmerler, Sarah. School’s in: P.S. 1 Rings the Bell on a Brand New Season, Time Out New York, November 6,1997
1997 Saltz, Jerry. Jenny Gage and Sarah Sze, Time Out New York, September 25, 1997
1997 Voice Choices, The Village Voice, September 23, 1997
1997 Cotter, Holland. Art in Review: Drawings and Paintings, Wooster Gardens, New York Times, September 19,1997
1997 Dalton, Jennifer. Sarah Sze, Review, September 15,1997
1997 Murdock, Robert M. Killing Time, Review, September 15,1997
1997 Kino, Carol. Drawings and Paintings, Time Out New York, October 2,1997
1997 Cotter, Holland. Art in Review: Killing Time, New York Times, September 12,1997
1997 Frankel, David. The Name of the Place, Artforum, May 1997
1997 Cotter, Holland. Art in Review: The Name of the Place, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York Times, January 31,1997
1997 Saltz, Jerry. The Name of the Place, Time Out New York, January 30,1997
1997 Voice Choices, The Village Voice, January 28, 1997
1996 Smith, Roberta. Culture and Commerce Live Side by Side in SoHo, New York Times, September 13,1996
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