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Sarah Sze

Biography

2012

you your shadow and the sun, Anderson Gallery,

Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts,

Richmond, VA

2010

Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim

Museum Rotunda, Guggenheim Museum, New York
Transformative, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

2009-2010

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

Lyon, France

2009

Hundred Stories about Love, 21st Century Museum of

Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
The Collection, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK

2008

International 08: Made Up, Liverpool Biennial,

Liverpool, UK*
Landscope, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France*
Artists in Depth: Works from the MCA Collection, Museum

of Contemporary Art, Chicago,Chicago, IL

2007

Not for Sale, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
Atelier Calder, The French Embassy, New York

2006

Selections from the LeRoy Neiman Center Studies, Columbia

University, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
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*
The Fluidity of Time: Selections from the MCA collection, Museum

of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, IL

2004 

The Encounters in the 21st Century, Polyphony Emerging

Resonances, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art,

Kanazawa, Japan*
Beginning Here: 101 Ways, School of Visual Arts, New York
Seeing Other People, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
State of Play, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK*

2003

world rush_4 artists, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia*
Reflection: Seven Years in Print, The LeRoy Neiman Center for

Print Studies, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia

University, New York
The Paper Sculpture Show, Sculpture Center, New York*
The Moderns, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy*

2002

Penetration, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Artist to Artist: A Decade of the Space Program, The Marie Walsh

Sharpe Art Foundation, Ace Gallery, New York*
177th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition, National Academy of

Design, New York, Cidades: 25th Bienal de Sao Paulo, curated by

Alfons Hug, Iconografias Metropolitanas, Sao Paulo, Brazil*

2001

The Americans-New Art, Barbican Centre, London, UK*
Let’s Get to Work, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
010101: Art in Technological Times, San Francisco Museum of

Modern Art, San Francisco, CA*
City of Tomorrow, European Housing Expo, Malmo, Sweden
Hidden Relief, Asia Society, New York October 1, 2001-

October 1, 2004*

2000

2000 Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art,

New York*
La Beaute, Mission pour la celebration de l�an 2000, curated

by Jean de Loisy, Avignon, France*

1999

48th International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, curated by

Harald Szeeman, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy*
The Carnegie International 1999-2000, curated by Madeline

Grynsztejn Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA*

1998

Berlin/Berlin, Berlin Biennial, curated by Klaus Biesenbach,

Nancy Spector, and Hans- Ulrich Obrist, Akademie der Kunste,

Berlin, Germany*
Deep Thought, Part II, Basilico Fine Arts, New York
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
European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Manifesta 2,

Casino Luxembourg*
Construction Drawing, PS1 Contemporary Art Center,

Long Island City, NY

1997

Cities on the Move, The Vienna Secession, Austria, curated

by Hou Hanru and Hans- Ulrich Obrist. Traveled to Capc

Musee de art Contemporian, Bordeaux: Louisiana Museum,

Denmark; Haward Gallery, London
Some Young New Yorkers, curated by Klaus Biesenbach and

Alanna Heiss, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City,

New York
Drawings and Paintings, Wooster Gardens, New York
The Name of the Place, curated by Laurie Simmons, Casey

Kaplan Gallery, New York
Visual Arts Gallery, curated by Tommy Lannigan-Schmidt, School

of Visual Arts, New York
New York Area MFA Exhibition, College Art Association, Hunter

College Fine Arts Building, New York

1996

SoHo Annual, Pratt Artist�s League, curated by Michael Brenson,

Susan Hort, Robert Storr and Simon Watson, 420 West Broadway

Building, New York.

 

Museum Collections
21st Century Museum of Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Cartier Foundation, Paris, France
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
Fogg Museum of Art, Boston, MA
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, San Diego, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York
The New Museum, New York
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Awards and Residencies
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