Sarah Sze
Sarah Sze (born 1969) is an American artist and sculptor based in New York and Cambridge. She received her bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1991 and her MFA from New York's School of Visual Arts in 1997.[1]
Life and work
Sarah Sze was born in Boston, Massachusetts), the daughter of Chia-ming Sze, an architect graduated from Yale University; her grandfather, Szeming Sze, was the initiator of World Health Organization.
Sze is known for site-specific ephemeral sculptures, in which thousands of small everyday objects are assembled into fragile, sweeping forms. She received her MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1997.[2]
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 [3].
One of Sze's recent projects was 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[4].
Sze's recent solo shows include: Malmo Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden; Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK; The Forum, Maison Hermes, Tokyo, Japan.
Notes and references
- ^ Sarah Sze
- ^ Kastner, Jeffrey. "ART / ARCHITECTURE; Discovering Poetry Even in the Clutter Around the House", The New York Times, July 11, 1999. Accessed November 27, 2007. "Since completing her master's degree at the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1997, she has mounted projects at institutions across Europe, from Greece and Luxembourg to France and Austria."
- ^ Columbia News - Visual Artist Sarah Sze Among MacArthur 'Genius Award' Recipients
- ^ Public Art Fund: Sarah Sze, Corner Plot
Sources
- Sze, Sarah (2000). Sarah Sze. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-97490-X.
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