EDUCATION

1997

MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY.

1991

BA, Yale University, New Haven, CT.

SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2023

Sarah Sze. Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX.

2022

Shattered Sphere. Congress Square Park, Portland, ME.

2021

Fallen Sky. Storm King Art Center, Cornwall, NY.

Double Horizon. Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA.

2020

Night Into Day. Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France.

Sarah Sze. Gagosian, Paris, France.

Sarah Sze. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY.

Sarah Sze: Images in Debris. Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada.

2019

Sarah Sze. Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY.

2018

Split Stone (7:34). Museo Nazionale Romano, Crypta Balbi, Rome, Italy.

Sarah Sze. Gagosian, Rome, Italy.

Sarah Sze. Tate Modern, London, England.

Der Offentlichkeit – Von den Freunden der Kunst. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany.

Sara Sze: Afterimage. Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England.

2017

Sarah Sze: Centrifuge. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany.

Sarah Sze. Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2016

Timekeeper. The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.

2015

Sarah Sze. Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY.

Sarah Sze. Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England.

2014

Sarah Sze: Triple Point (Planetarium). Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY.

2013

Sarah Sze: Triple Point American Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.

Sarah Sze. The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA.

2012

Sarah Sze. MUDAM Museum, Luxembourg.

2011
Sarah Sze: Infinite Line. Asia Society, New York, NY.

Sarah Sze: Still Life with Landscape (Model for a Habitat). The Highline Park, New York, NY.

2010

Sarah Sze: The Uncountables (Encyclopedia). MAMAC, Nice, France.

Sarah Sze. Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY.

2009

Sarah Sze: Tilting Planet. The Baltic Mill Gallery, Newcastle on Tyne, England.

2008

Sarah Sze. Maison Hermes 8F Le Forum, Tokyo, Japan.

2007

Sarah Sze. Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England.

2006

Sarah Sze: A Swiftly Tilting Planet. Malmo Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden.

Corner Plot. Doris C. Freedman Plaza, New York, NY.

Sarah Sze. Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY.

2009

Sarah Sze: Tilting Planet. The Baltic Mill Gallery, Newcastle on Tyne, England.

2008

Sarah Sze. Maison Hermes 8F Le Forum, Tokyo, Japan.

2007

Sarah Sze. Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England.

2006

Sarah Sze: A Swiftly Tilting Planet. Malmo Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden.

Corner Plot. Doris C. Freedman Plaza, New York, NY.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021

Hong Kong Exchange. Gagosian, Hong Kong.

2020

Off the Wall. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.

Artists for New York. Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY.

Artists for Biden. Biden Victory Fund, online.

Critical Zones. ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany.

Life During Wartime. University of South Florida Art Museum, online.

.paint. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.

2019

Surrounds: 11 Installations. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

Frieze Sculpture. Rockefeller Center, New York, NY.

2018

Entangle/Physics and the Artistic Imagination. Bilbmuseet, Umeå, Sweden.

Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, A Beautiful Elsewhere. Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China.

Liminal Encounters Asia Society Hong Kong Center, Hong Kong.

Ceremonial Exhibition: Work by New Members and Recipients of Awards. American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY.

2017

Process and Practice: 40 Years of Experimentation. Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA.

Drawings and Prints: Selections from The Met Collection. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY.

Do We Dream Under the Same Sky. Le Roy Neiman Gallery, New York, NY.

What’s New? Recent Acquisitions, Wallach Division. New York Public Library, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photos, New York, NY.

Time as Landscape, Inquiries of Art and Science., Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL.

Glasstress 2017. Palazzo Franchetti, Venice, Italy.

Deep Cuts: Contemporary Paper Cutting. Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH.

DRAW/Boston, Sandra and David Bacalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA.

New Acquisitions, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, MA.

The Garden – End of Times; Beginning of Times. ARoS Triennial, Aarhus, Denmark.

2016

The Present Order. Stiftung Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.

For time is the longest distance between two places. Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Canada.

Protest. Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England.

This is a Portrait if I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, ME.

Reset Modernity! ZKM Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany.

Don’t Look Back: The 1990’s at MOCA. The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA.

2015

No Man’s Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection. Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL.

Forces in Nature. Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England.

56th International Art Exhibition-All the Worlds Futures. La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.

1st Asia Biennial/5th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China.

Lines of Tangency. Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium.

2014

Draw: Mapping Madness. Inside Out Art Museum, Beijing, China.

The Bigger Picture: Work from the 1990s. Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY.

Vivid Memories. Foundation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France.

2013

Locating Ourselves. Scrap Metal Gallery, Toronto, Canada.

Poetique d’objects (Poetics of Objects). LAAC, Lieu d’Art et d’Action contemporaine, Dunkirk, France.

Still Life with Landscape. Ekebergparken Sculpture Park, Oslo, Norway.

Poétique d’objets (Poetics of Objects). LAAC, Lieu d'Art et d'Action contemporaine, Dunkirk, France.

Drawing Line Into Form: Works on Paper by Sculptors from the Collection of BNY Mellon. Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA.

2012

you your shadow and the sun. Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts, Richmond, VA.

Fast Forward: Modern Moments 1913 >> 2013. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA.

Diamond Leaves: Brilliant Artist Books around the World. CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China.

Misled by Nature: Contemporary Art and the Baroque. Art Gallery of Alberta, Canada.

Decade: Contemporary Collecting 2002 – 2012. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY.

Le Voyage a’ Nantes. Nantes, France.

Do A Book. White Space Beijing Gallery, Beijing, China.

2011

Untitled Still Life Collection. collaboration with Trajal Harrell. Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston MA; re-preformed at Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; and Barbican, London, England.

2010

Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum Rotunda. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY.

Transformation. Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan.

Multiple Pleasures: Functional Objects in Contemporary Art. Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY.

American Printmaking Now.National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China; traveled to Guan Shanyne Art Museum, Shenzhen City, China; Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China.

2009

The Spectacle of the Everyday. 10th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France.

Hundred Stories about Love. 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan.

The Collection. Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England.

2008

International 08: Made Up. Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, England.

Landscope. Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris, France.

Artists in Depth: Works from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicacgo, Chicago, IL.

2007

Not for Sale. PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY.

Atelier Calder. The French Embassy, New York, NY.

2006

Selections from the LeRoy Neiman Center Studies, Columbia University. Marianne

Boesky Gallery, New York, NY.

Foundation Cartier Collection. Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan.

2005

Swarm. The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA.

Artists & Prints: Masterworks from the Museum of Modern Art. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

The Fluidity of Time: Selections from the MCA Collection. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, IL.

2004

The Encounters in the 21st Century: Polyphany Emerging Resonances. 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan.

Beginning Here: 101 Ways. School of Visual Arts, New York, NY.

Seeing Other People. Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY.

State of Play. Serpentine Gallery, London, England.

2003

world rush_4 artists. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.

Reflection: Seven Years in Print. The LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY.

The Paper Sculpture Show. The Sculpture Center, New York, NY.

The Moderns. Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy.

2002

Penetration. Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY.

Artist to Artist: A Decade of the Space Program: The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation. Ace Gallery, New York, NY.

177th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition. National Academy of Design, New York, NY

2001

The Americans – New Art. Barbican Centre, London, England.

Let’s Get to Work. Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA.

010101: Art in Technological Times. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.

Bo01 City of Tomorrow. European Housing Expo, Malmo, Sweden.

Hidden Relief. Asia Society, New York, NY.

2000

2000 Whitney Biennial. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.

La Beaute. Mission pour la celebration de l’an 2000, Avignon, France.

1999

48th International Exhibition of Contemporary Art. Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.

The Carnegie International 1999-2000. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA.

1998

Berlin/Berlin. Berlin Biennial, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany.

Deep Thought, Part II. Basilico Fine Arts, New York, NY.

Where: Allegories of Site in Contemporary Art. The Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT.

People, Places, and Things. Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY.

European Biennial of Contemporary Art :Manifesta 2. Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg.

Construction Drawing. PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY.

1997

Cities on the Move. The Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria; traveled to Capc Musée de art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; Hayward Gallery, London, England.

Some Young New Yorkers. PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY.

Drawings and Paintings. Wooster Gardens, New York, NY.

The Name of the Place. Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, NY.

Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY.

New York Area MFA Exhibition. College Art Association, Hunter College Fine Arts Building, New York, NY.

And Still The Ship is Not in Sight. Thessaloniki Cultural Capital, Greece; traveled to Gesellschaft fur Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany.

1996

SoHo Annual, Pratt Art Students League, 420 West Broadway Building, New York, NY.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan.

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY.

Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.

Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI.

Fogg Museum of Art, Boston, MA.

Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France.

Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, IL

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, San Diego, CA.

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

The New Museum, New York, NY.

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.

AWARDS & GRANTS

2017

Honoree, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

Honoree, National Academy Museum and School, New York

2016

Louise Blouin Foundation Award

2014

Amherst Honorary Degree, Doctor of the Arts, Honoris Causa

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Medal Award

2013

US Representative for the Venice Biennale

Inducted into the National Academy

2012

American Federation of the Arts Cultural Leadership Award

Laurie M. Tisch Award for civic responsibility and action and significant leadership in education, arts, culture, civic affairs and/or health

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

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

Rema Hort Mann Foundation Award

Paula Rhodes Memorial Award

1996

School of Visual Arts Graduate Fellowship