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American artist

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Sarah Sze (; born 1969) is an American artist widely recognized[by whom?] for challenging the boundaries of painting, installation, and architecture. Sze’s sculptural practice ranges from slight gestures discovered in hidden spaces to expansive installations that scale walls and colonize architectures.[1] Sze’s work explores the role of technology and information in contemporary life utilizing everyday materials.[2] Drawing from Modernist traditions, Sze’s work often represents objects caught in suspension.[3] Sze lives and works in New York City[4] and is a professor of visual arts at Columbia University.[5]

Early life and education[edit]

Sze was born in Boston in 1969. Sze attributes her approach to seeing the world to growing up around models and plans and to regular discussions of buildings and cities.[6] She received a BA in Architecture and Painting from Yale University in 1991[7] and an MFA from New York’s School of Visual Arts in 1997.[1]

Sze draws from Modernist traditions of the found object, to build large scale installations.[8] She uses everyday items like string, Q-tips, photographs, and wire to create complex constellations whose forms change with the viewer’s interaction.[9] 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.”[10] When selecting materials, Sze focuses on the exploration of value acquisition–what value the object holds and how it is acquired. In an interview with curator Okwui Enwezor, Sze explained that during her conceptualization process, she will “choreograph the experience to create an ebb and flow of information […] thinking about how people approach, slow down, stop, perceive [her art].”[3]

Sarah Sze 2023 Things Caused to Happen (Oculus)

For her 2023 exhibition, “Timelapse” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Sze created a series of site-specific installations that weave a trail of discovery through multiple spaces of the iconic Frank Lloyd Wright building.[11]

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Sze represented the United States at the Venice Biennale in 2013, and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2003. Her 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 artworks for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Walker Art Center, and the High Line in New York.[12]

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.[13][14][15][16][17][18] Sze unveiled Shorter than the Day, a permanent installation, in LaGuardia Airport in 2020[19][20] and in 2021 Sze unveiled her most recent permanent installation, Fallen Sky, at Storm King Art Center,[21] Cornwall, NY.

Influences[edit]

Sze’s work is influenced, in part, by her admiration for Cubists, Russian Constructivists, and Futurists. Particularly, their attempt to “depict the speed and intensity of the moment and the impossibility of its stillness.”[3]

Personal life[edit]

Sze lives in New York City with her husband Siddhartha Mukherjee and their two daughters.[22]

Sarah’s great-grandfather, who had a waist-length queue, was the first Chinese student (Alfred Sao-ke Sze) to go to Cornell University. He became China’s minister to Britain and then ambassador to the United States. Her father, Chia-Ming Sze, was born in Shanghai; his family fled China when he was four, and resettled in the United States. He became an architect and married Judy Mossman, an Anglo-Scottish-Irish schoolteacher. Sarah and David, her older brother, grew up in Boston. (David, one of the first investors in Facebook, is a venture capitalist at Greylock Partners.) Sarah went to Milton Academy as a day student and graduated summa cum laude from Yale in 1991. Throughout her childhood, she was constantly drawing—at the dinner table, on the train, wherever she was.[22]

Her grandfather is Szeming Sze who was the initiator of World Health Organization.

Exhibitions[edit]

Sze has staged a large number of solo exhibitions and shows across the United States and internationally. Her notable solo exhibitions include White Room (1997), White Columns, New York;[23]Sarah Sze (1999), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago;[24]Sarah Sze: The Triple Point of Water (2003-2004), originating at the Whitney Museum, New York;[25]Triple Point (2013), American pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale;[26] and Sarah Sze: Timelapse (2023), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.[27]

Sze has also participated in a wide array of group exhibitions, including the Berlin Biennale (1998);[28]48th[29] and 56th Venice Biennale[30] (1999, 2015); Whitney Biennial (2000);[31] and Liverpool Biennial (2008).[32]

Notable works in public collections[edit]

  • Seamless (1999), Tate, London[33]
  • Many a Slip (1999), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles[34]
  • Strange Attractor (2000), Whitney Museum, New York[35]
  • Things Fall Apart (2001), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art[36]
  • Untitled (Table Top) (2001), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts[37]
  • Grow or Die (2002), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis[38]
  • The Letting Go (2002), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston[39]
  • Everything in its right place (2002-2003), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia[40]
  • The Art of Losing (2004), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan[41]
  • Blue Poles (2004), List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts[42]
  • Second Means of Egress (Orange) (2004), Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, New York[43]
  • Sexton (from Triple Point of Water) (2004-2005), Detroit Institute of Arts[44]
  • Proportioned to the Groove (2005), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago[45]
  • 360 (Portable Planetarium) (2010), National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa[46]
  • Triple Point (Pendulum) (2013), Museum of Modern Art, New York[47]
  • Mirror with Landscape Leaning (Fragment Series) (2015), Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut[48]
  • Plywood Sunset Leaning (Fragment Series) (2015), Cleveland Museum of Art[49]
  • Split Stone (Northwest) (2019), Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham[50]

Awards and grants[edit]

  • 2020 – Inductee, American Academy of Arts and Sciences[51]
  • 2018 – The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York[52]
  • 2017 – Honoree, National Academy Museum and School, New York
  • 2016 – Louise Blouin Foundation Award
  • 2014 – Amherst Honorary Degree, Doctor of the Arts, Honoris Causa
  • 2014 – School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Medal Award
  • 2013 – US Representative for the Venice Biennale[53]
  • 2013 – Inducted into the National Academy
  • 2012 – American Federation of the Arts Cultural Leadership Award
  • 2012 – Laurie M. Tisch Award for civic responsibility and action and significant leadership in education, arts, culture, civic affairs and/or health
  • 2012 – AICA Award for Best Project in a Public Space, Sarah Sze, Still Life with Landscape (Model for a Habitat), The High Line, New York, NY
  • 2005 – Radcliffe Institute Fellow
  • 2003 – MacArthur Fellow
  • 2003 – Lotos Club Foundation Prize in the Arts
  • 2002 – Atelier Calder Residency, Sache`, France
  • 1999 – Louis Comfort Tiffany Award
  • 1997 – The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Studio Residency, New York
  • 1997 – Rema Hort Mann Foundation Award
  • 1997 – Paula Rhodes Memorial Award
  • 1996 – School of Visual Arts Graduate Fellowship

Teaching[edit]

  • 1998 – Visiting Lecturer, Yale University, Intersections of Art and Architecture
  • 1999–2002 – Lecturer, School of Visual Art, Master of Fine Arts Program
  • 2002–2004 – Lecturer, Columbia University, School of the Arts
  • 2005–2008 – Adjunct Professor, Columbia University, School of the Arts
  • 2009–Present – Professor, Columbia University, School of the Arts

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Miro, Victoria. “Sarah Sze – Artists – Victoria Miro Gallery”. Victoria-miro.com. Retrieved September 18, 2018.
  2. ^ “Sarah Sze – Artists – Tanya Bonakdar Gallery”. tanyabonakdargallery.com. Retrieved March 1, 2020.
  3. ^ a b c Enwezor, Okwui (May 23, 2016). Sarah Sze. Sze, Sarah, 1969-, Buchloh, B. H. D.,, Hoptman, Laura J., 1962-. London. ISBN 978-0-7148-7046-5. OCLC 930797762.
  4. ^ Official website
  5. ^ “Sarah Sze”. Columbia University School of the Arts. Retrieved September 18, 2018.
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  7. ^ “Sarah Sze”. Artnet. Retrieved January 8, 2021.
  8. ^ “Sarah Sze”. Art21. Retrieved April 13, 2017.
  9. ^ “Meet the Most Brilliant Couple in Town”. Vogue. Retrieved April 13, 2017.
  10. ^ “Sarah Sze on Why She Had to Invent a New Way of Making Sculpture”. Artspace. Retrieved April 13, 2017.
  11. ^ “Sarah Sze: Timelapse”. Guggenheim. Retrieved April 18, 2023.
  12. ^ “Sarah Sze”. Victoria Miro. Retrieved September 18, 2018.
  13. ^ Oh, Inae (May 14, 2012). “Second Avenue Subway Public Art Project Commissions Chuck Close, Sarah Sze, Jean Shin”. HuffPost. Retrieved October 3, 2012.
  14. ^ Yakas, Ben (January 22, 2014). “Here’s What The Second Avenue Subway Will Look Like When It’s Filled With Art”. Gothamist. Archived from the original on March 30, 2014. Retrieved May 5, 2014.
  15. ^ 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.
  16. ^ “Subway Art on the Future Second Avenue Subway Line Revealed”. Untapped Cities. April 28, 2014. Retrieved May 15, 2014.
  17. ^ Lynch, Marley (January 23, 2014). “The future Second Avenue subway line will have cool art (slide show)”. Time Out. Retrieved May 15, 2014.
  18. ^ Kennedy, Randy (December 19, 2016). “Art Underground: A First Look at the Second Avenue Subway”. The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 13, 2017.
  19. ^ Sheets, Hilarie M. (June 10, 2020). “Art That Might Make You Want to Go to La Guardia”. The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
  20. ^ Cochran, Sam (July 5, 2020). “This Ethereal Installation is Transforming LaGuardia”. Architectural Digest. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
  21. ^ van Straaten, Laura (May 20, 2021). “At Storm King, 2 New Works Faced a Challenging Birth”. The New York Times. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
  22. ^ a b Kazanjian, Dodie (May 11, 2016). “Meet the Most Brilliant Couple in Town”. Vogue.
  23. ^ “White Rooms: Sarah Sze”. White Columns. Archived from the original on November 21, 2022. Retrieved December 4, 2022.
  24. ^ “Sarah Sze”. MCAChicago. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Archived from the original on June 4, 2022. Retrieved December 4, 2022.
  25. ^ “Sarah Sze: The Triple Point of Water”. Whitney. Whitney Museum. Archived from the original on December 4, 2022. Retrieved December 4, 2022.
  26. ^ Vogel, Carol (May 31, 2013). “At Venice Biennale, Sarah Sze’s ‘Triple Point’“. The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 19, 2022. Retrieved December 4, 2022.
  27. ^ “Sarah Sze: Timelapse”. Guggenheim. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Archived from the original on December 4, 2022. Retrieved December 4, 2022.
  28. ^ “KW Institute for Contemporary Art Archive”. KW-Berlin. KW Institute for Contemporary Art. Archived from the original on December 4, 2022. Retrieved December 4, 2022.
  29. ^ “Padiglione Central”. Google Arts & Culture. Biennale Foundation. Archived from the original on December 4, 2022. Retrieved December 4, 2022.
  30. ^ “Biennale Arte 2015”. LaBiennale. Biennale Foundation. October 23, 2017. Archived from the original on December 4, 2022. Retrieved December 4, 2022.
  31. ^ “Whitney Biennial 2000”. Whitney. Whitney Museum. Archived from the original on June 30, 2022. Retrieved December 4, 2022.
  32. ^ “Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art Archive”. Biennial. Liverpool Biennial. Archived from the original on November 14, 2022. Retrieved December 4, 2022.
  33. ^ “Seamless”. Tate. Archived from the original on May 26, 2022. Retrieved December 4, 2022.
  34. ^ “Many a Slip”. MOCA. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Archived from the original on June 29, 2016. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
  35. ^ “Strange Attractor”. Whitney. Whitney Museum. Archived from the original on February 23, 2022. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
  36. ^ “Things Fall Apart”. SFMoMA. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Archived from the original on December 4, 2020. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
  37. ^ “Untitled (Table Top)”. Harvard Art Museums. Harvard University. Archived from the original on April 22, 2021. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
  38. ^ “Grow or Die”. Walker Art. Walker Art Center. Archived from the original on August 3, 2021. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
  39. ^ “The Letting Go”. MFA. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Archived from the original on June 28, 2022. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
  40. ^ “Everything in its right place”. NGV. National Gallery of Victoria. Archived from the original on September 12, 2019. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
  41. ^ “The Art of Losing”. Kanazawa. 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. Archived from the original on November 20, 2022. Retrieved November 20, 2022.
  42. ^ “Blue Poles”. List Art. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. January 13, 2022. Archived from the original on April 23, 2022.
  43. ^ “Second Means of Egress (Orange)”. Albright-Knox. Buffalo AKG Art Museum. Archived from the original on January 12, 2022. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
  44. ^ “Sexton (from Triple Point of Water)”. DIA. Detroit Institute of Arts. Archived from the original on June 18, 2022. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
  45. ^ “Proportioned to the Groove”. MCA Chicago. Archived from the original on June 28, 2022. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
  46. ^ “360 (Portable Planetarium)”. NGC. National Gallery of Canada. Archived from the original on June 28, 2022. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
  47. ^ “Triple Point (Pendulum)”. MoMA. Museum of Modern Art. Archived from the original on February 23, 2022. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
  48. ^ “Mirror with Landscape Leaning (Fragment Series)”. Yale Art Gallery. Yale University. Archived from the original on June 28, 2022. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
  49. ^ “Plywood Sunset Leaning (Fragment Series)”. Cleveland Art. Cleveland Museum of Art. October 30, 2018. Archived from the original on April 17, 2021. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
  50. ^ “Split Stone (Northwest)”. WWU. Western Washington University. Archived from the original on June 28, 2022. Retrieved June 28, 2022.
  51. ^ “Sarah Sze: American Academy of Arts and Sciences”. Gagosian. April 28, 2020. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
  52. ^ “Six Women Inducted Into the American Academy of Arts and Letters”. Women In Academia Report. June 18, 2018. Retrieved February 23, 2022.
  53. ^ Vogel, Carol (February 23, 2012). “Installation Artist Picked for Venice 2013”. The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 23, 2022.

Further reading[edit]

  • Enwezor, Okwui; Benjamin H. D. Buchloh; Laura Hoptman (2016). Sarah Sze. Phaidon. ISBN 978-0-7148-7046-5.
  • Norden, Linda; Arthur Danto (2007). Sarah Sze. Abrams. ISBN 978-0-8109-9302-0.
  • 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.
  • Sze, Sarah, 1969-. Timekeeper. Bedford, Christopher; Salecl, Renata; Siegel, Katy; Foster, Hal; Steyerl, Hito; Rose Art Museum. New York, NY. ISBN 978-1-941366-13-4. OCLC 988087345.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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