Sarah Sze

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Sarah Sze (born 1969 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American artist and sculptor based in Boston. She is known in particular for site-specific ephemeral sculptures, in which thousands of small everyday objects are assembled into fragile, sweeping forms. Her work has been exhibited in solo shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, and the Fondation Cartier in Paris, as well as many group exhibits. She has also more recently installed permanent sculptures in the collections of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2003 she received a MacArthur "genius grant" Fellowship. In 1997, Sze received her MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She is represented by the Marianne Boesky Gallery.

One of Sze's most recent projects is a Public Art Fund-sponsored sculpture called Corner Plot on the Doris C. Freedman Plaza on Fifth Avenue at 60th Street, New York City. Shown through October 26, 2006, it is of an immaculate corner of a building--in the same white brick as found around Fifth Avenue--that pokes out from the pavement in the plaza.