Sarah Sze

Sarah Sze

360 (Portable Planetarium) 2010
Born 1969 (age 47–48)
Boston, Massachusetts
Nationality American
Education MFA
Known for Sculpture
Awards MacArthur Fellow (2003–2008)
US Representative for the Venice Biennale (2013)

Sarah Sze (/ˈziː/; born 1969) is a contemporary artist known for sculpture and installation works that employ everyday objects to create multimedia landscapes.[1] Sze lives and works in New York City[2] and is a professor of visual arts at Columbia University.[3]

Early life and education

Sze was born in Boston in 1969. She received a BA from Yale University in Connecticut in 1991 and an MFA from New York's School of Visual Arts in 1997.[4]

Career

Sze draws from Modernist traditions of the found object, to build large scale installations.[5] She uses everyday items like string, Q-tips, photographs, and wire to create complex constellations whose forms change with the viewer's interaction.[6] The effect of this is to "challenge the very material of sculpture, the very constitution of sculpture, as a solid form that has to do with finite geometric constitutions, shapes, and content."[7]

Sze represented the United States at the Venice Biennale in 2013, and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2003. She has exhibited in museums worldwide, and her works are held in the permanent collections of prominent institutions, including The Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Fondation Cartier, Paris; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles. Sze's work has been featured in The Whitney Biennial (2000), the Carnegie International (1999) and several international biennials, including Berlin (1998), Guangzhou (2015), Liverpool (2008), Lyon (2009), São Paulo (2002), and Venice (1999, 2013, and 2015). Sze has also created public works for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the High Line in New York. Sze was born in Boston, Massachusetts and lives and works in New York.[8]

"Blueprint for a Landscape" by Sarah Sze at the 96th Street subway station

On January 1, 2017, a permanent installation commissioned by MTA Arts & Design of drawings by Sze on ceramic tiles opened in the 96th Street subway station on the new Second Avenue Subway line in New York City.[9][10][11][12][13][14]

Art market

Sze is represented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York[15] and Victoria Miro Gallery in London.[16]

Personal life

Sze lives in New York City with her husband, Siddhartha Mukherjee, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies who teaches medicine at Columbia, and their two daughters.[17][18]

Notable exhibitions

Museum collections

Awards and Grants

Teaching

References

  1. ↑ http://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/artists/sarah-sze/series
  2. ↑ Official website
  3. ↑ Sarah Sze faculty page, Columbia University School of the Arts
  4. ↑ http://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/artists/sarah-sze/series
  5. ↑ "Sarah Sze — Art21". Art21. Retrieved 2017-04-13.
  6. ↑ "Meet the Most Brilliant Couple in Town". Vogue. Retrieved 2017-04-13.
  7. ↑ "Sarah Sze on Why She Had to Invent a New Way of Making Sculpture". Artspace. Retrieved 2017-04-13.
  8. ↑ http://www.victoria-miro.com/artists/33-sarah-sze/
  9. ↑ Oh, Inae (14 May 2012). "Second Avenue Subway Public Art Project Commissions Chuck Close, Sarah Sze, Jean Shin". Huffington Post. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
  10. ↑ Ben Yakas (2014-01-22). "Here's What The Second Avenue Subway Will Look Like When It's Filled With Art". Gothamist. Retrieved 2014-05-05.
  11. ↑ Halperin, Julia (June 2, 2012). "A Preview of the MTA's Ultra-Contemporary Public Art for New York's Second Avenue Subway Line". Blouin Art Info. Retrieved May 15, 2014.
  12. ↑ "Subway Art on the Future Second Avenue Subway Line Revealed". Untapped Cities. 2014-04-28. Retrieved 2014-05-15.
  13. ↑ Lynch, Marley (2014-01-23). "The future Second Avenue subway line will have cool art (slide show)". Timeout.com. Retrieved 2014-05-15.
  14. ↑ Kennedy, Randy (2016-12-19). "Art Underground: A First Look at the Second Avenue Subway". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-01-13.
  15. ↑ "tanya bonakdar gallery :: artists". Retrieved 3 October 2012.
  16. ↑ "Sarah Sze – Artists – Victoria Miro". Retrieved 3 October 2012.
  17. ↑ "An Oncologist Writes 'A Biography Of Cancer'". NPR. November 17, 2010. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
  18. ↑ Shapin, Steven (November 8, 2010). "The modern history of cancer : The New Yorker". The New Yorker. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
  19. ↑ Sarah Sze: Tilting Planet from Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, accessed on 12 November 2016.

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