Sarah Sze
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AboutHindsight, 2019
For the past thirty years, Sarah Sze has developed a singular visual language that challenges the static nature of art with a dynamic body of work spanning sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, video, and installation. Sze draws from Modernist traditions of the found object, dismantling their authority with dynamic constellations of materials that are charged with flux, transformation and fragility. Captured in this suspension, her immersive and intricate works question the value society places on objects and how objects ascribe meaning to the places and times we inhabit.
Coinciding with the explosion of information of the twenty-first, Sze’s work simultaneously models and navigates the ceaseless proliferation of information in contemporary life. Her encyclopaedic installations unfold like a series of experiments that construct intimate systems of order – precarious ecologies in which material conveys meaning and a sense of loss.
Widely recognised for challenging the boundaries of painting, installation and architecture, Sze’s practice ranges from slight gestures discovered in hidden spaces to expansive installations that scale walls and colonise architectures.
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Selected Works
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BiographyHindsight, 2019
Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1969, Sarah Sze lives and works in New York. She represented the United States at the Venice Biennale in 2013 and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2003.
Sze has exhibited in museums worldwide. Recent solo exhibitions include Sarah Sze: Sleepers, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA (2025); Sarah Sze, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, USA (2024); Sarah Sze: Timelapse, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA (2023); Sarah Sze: The Waiting Room, Peckham Rye Station, London, UK (2023), travelling as Metronome to OGR Torino (2023-2024) and ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum (2024); Fallen Sky, Storm King Art Center, New York, USA (2021); Night Into Day, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France (2020) and Sarah Sze: Images in Debris, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada (2020).
Sze’s work is in the collections of numerous institutions including Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Tate, London; M+ Museum, Hong Kong; 21st Century Museum of Art, Kanazawa; MUDAM, Luxembourg; ARoS Aarhus Art Museum; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Significant permanent public works by Sarah Sze have been commissioned for New York City’s Second Avenue Subway’s 96th Street station (Blueprint for a Landscape, 2016); LaGuardia Airport (Shorter than the Day, 2020) and Denmark’s Eastern High Court, Copenhagen (Farther than you, 2022).
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News
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Sarah Sze is elected Honorary Royal Academician
April 4, 2025Artists and architects elected by their peers in recognition of their exceptional work.Read More -
Sarah Sze is named the first recipient of ICA Boston’s Meraki Artist Award
March 18, 2025This major award celebrates the artistic achievements of women artists and their impact on the field of contemporary visual art.Read More -
Sarah Sze talks to The New York Times
July 2, 2024The artists speaks with Marisa Mazria-Katz about her creative processes and her recent exhibition at Victoria Miro Venice.Read More -
Sarah Sze: Metronome at ARoS – Aarhus Art Museum
May 18, 2024On view 18 May–20 October 2024, Sarah Sze's site-specific installation raises questions regarding our digital and image-saturated existence.Read More -
Acclaim for Sarah Sze at Victoria Miro Venice
April 22, 2024The Times, The Art Newspaper, Artforum and Elephant are among publications that recommend Sze's exhibition in their essential guides to Venice.Read More -
Cartographies of Time, a conversation between Sarah Sze and Lorna Simpson at the Shah Garg Foundation, New York
February 26, 2024Moderated by Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, the event takes place on Thursday 22 February 2024. The event...Read More -
Sarah Sze at Nasher Sculpture Center
January 29, 2024Shown across three gallery spaces, this new exhibition (on view 3 February–18 August 2024) will blur the boundaries between making and showing, process and product,...Read More -
Sarah Sze’s Pictures at an Exhibition, is on view as part of the Thailand Biennial
December 10, 2023In Sze's work — on view until 30 April 2024 at the Chiang Rai International Art Museum — an atmospheric construction of cascading lines spans...Read More -
Sarah Sze: Timelapse features in The New York Times Best Art of 2023
December 7, 2023' The Guggenheim’s spiral was topped off with a midcareer survey of Sze, an American artist known for see-through, magically levitating installations conjured from detritus...Read More -
Sarah Sze is honoree at the 2023 Guggenheim International Gala
November 16, 2023 Read More -
Sarah Sze: Metronome at OGR Torino
November 2, 2023On view from 3 November 2023–11 February 2024, the presentation marks the debut solo exhibition in an Italian institution by Sze and features a new...Read More -
Artist Talk: Sarah Sze at the Guggenheim Museum
July 2, 2023In this talk, taking place on Tuesday 25 July 2023, Sarah Sze will discuss the series of site-specific installations currently on view at the Guggenheim...Read More -
Acclaim for Sarah Sze: The Waiting Room
May 19, 2023On view until 17 September 2023, for her long-awaited project with Artangel , Sze has transformed a large Victorian waiting room at Peckham Rye Station...Read More -
Sarah Sze: The Waiting Room
May 19, 2023For her long-awaited project with Artangel, New York-based artist Sarah Sze is transforming a large Victorian waiting room at Peckham Rye Station that has lain...Read More -
Sarah Sze talks to Erika Balsom in the May edition of Frieze
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Sebastian Smee reviews Sarah Sze: Timelapse in The Washington Post
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Sarah Sze: Timelapse is reviewed by The New York Times
April 6, 2023Image: Installation view, Sarah Sze: Timelapse , March 31—September 10, 2023 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Photo: David Heald © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation,...Read More -
Jerry Saltz reviews Sarah Sze: Timelapse at the Guggenheim Museum
April 3, 2023‘...seeing Sze commandeer a big space is to experience her at her full powers.’ – Jerry Saltz Read the full review for Vulture here ....Read More -
Sarah Sze: Timelapse at the Guggenheim Museum
March 31, 2023Sze's site-specific installations transforms the iconic Guggenheim architecture into a tool for timekeeping and a meditation on the multitude of ways that we mark and...Read More -
Sarah Sze features in Mondo Reale, the 23rd Triennale Milano
July 5, 2022The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain has been invited by Triennale Milano to be part of the 23rd International Exhibition. Mondo Reale (15 July–11 December...Read More -
The Art Newspaper podcast with Sarah Sze
September 29, 2021‘A first encounter with Sze's work is never forgotten: she has an extraordinary knack of making her works directly embody a gallery space, seeming to...Read More -
Sarah Sze at Storm King Art Center
June 26, 2021Opening on 26 June 2021, Fallen Sky is a new permanent commission by Sarah Sze. The work is comprised of a deliberately incomplete and increasingly...Read More -
On view until 30 May – Sarah Sze: Night into Day at Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
May 18, 2021For her second solo show at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, internationally renowned artist Sarah Sze presents a fully immersive installation that transforms the...Read More -
CBS Sunday Morning reports on Sarah Sze at LaGuardia Airport
May 5, 2021'When I first proposed it, everyone was like, 'Well, how are you gonna make this? How are you gonna make five tons look like nothing?''–...Read More -
Sarah Sze to participate in the 18th annual Poetry & the Creative Mind
April 28, 2021Poetry & the Creative Mind is presented by the Academy of American Poets, America's leading organization championing poets and poetry. This special event celebrates poetry's...Read More -
Watch: a studio visit with Sarah Sze, presented by MOCA
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The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain and Sarah Sze present augmented reality app Night Vision 20/20
January 27, 2021Produced as part of the Parisian exhibition Sarah Sze, Night into Day , this immersive tool plunges users, wherever they may be, into a nocturnal...Read More -
Sarah Sze speaks with The Guardian about her major exhibition Night into Day
October 26, 2020‘To me, it’s about monumentality, it’s about physicality, it’s about materiality, but then also ephemerality. It could be dashed away in a moment.’ – Sarah...Read More -
Sarah Sze: Night into Day opens at Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
October 16, 2020For her second solo show at the Fondation Cartier, Sarah Sze will create an immersive exhibition (24 October 2020–7 March 2021) in dialogue with Jean...Read More -
Tate Modern reopens, featuring Sarah Sze’s installation Seamless
July 27, 2020Seamless , 1999, (on display until 22 November 2020) incorporates functional, human-scale items, for example a ladder. Other handmade elements, such as tiny bridges made...Read More -
As reported in The New York Times, Sarah Sze’s ambitious installation for LaGuardia Airport’s new Terminal B is unveiled
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As reported in The New York Times, Sarah Sze has been commissioned to create a new permanent installation for La Guardia Airport
March 5, 2020Sarah Sze has been commissioned by the Public Art Fund, the New York-based nonprofit for public art, in partnership with LaGuardia Gateway Partners to execute...Read More -
Sarah Sze: Images in Debris at MOCA Toronto
February 4, 2020Constellatory, monumental, intimate and immersive, Images in Debris (on view 6 February–10 May 2020) is one in a series of sculptures by Sarah Sze where...Read More -
Sarah Sze writes about her experience as the Alan Kanzer artist-in-residence at the Zuckerman Institute
January 2, 2020An interdisciplinary collaboration between the School of the Arts and Zuckerman, the Kanzer program gives visual artists time to forge interactions with scientists working on...Read More -
The Way I See It: Sarah Sze and Siddhartha Mukherjee on Louise Bourgeois’ Quarantania, I
December 10, 2019In this series, leading creative thinkers choose an artwork from the Museum of Modern Art, and talk about how it inspires or provokes, thrills or...Read More -
Sarah Sze’s Triple Point (Pendulum) goes on view at MoMA
October 10, 2019Triple Point (Pendulum) was first exhibited at the 55th Venice Biennale, where Sze represented the United States in 2013. The title is borrowed from the...Read More -
Now online: Sarah Sze’s TED Talk How we experience time and memory through art
October 1, 2019In this 2019 TED Talk Sarah Sze takes us on a kaleidoscopic journey through her work: immersive installations as tall as buildings, splashed across walls,...Read More -
Expect the Unexpected, featuring Sarah Sze, opens at The Lowry, Salford
June 29, 2019An eclectic and provocative exhibition (29 June–29 September 2019) of work by visual artists who incorporate elements of chance in their work, inspired by John...Read More -
Sarah Sze takes part in TED2019: Bigger Than Us
April 10, 2019Held in Vancouver, this year's TED talks (15–19 April 2019) focus on the political and technological turmoil of the past few years, its consequences, and...Read More -
The New York Times reports on Fallen Sky by Sarah Sze, Storm King Art Center’s first public commission in nearly a decade
October 9, 2018Storm King to Add a New Commission to Its Permanent Collection. By Sara Aridi Storm King Art Center has announced it will add its first...Read More -
Sarah Sze artist’s talk at Tate Modern
October 9, 2018The artist discusses her practice at this evening talk (6.30-8pm, Thursday 15 November 2018) in conversation with Mark Godfrey, Senior Curator of International Art. American...Read More -
Read our Sarah Sze: Afterimage online publication
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Time Out reviews Sarah Sze: Afterimage
June 28, 2018★★★★ Afterimages are the ghostly pictures that float in front of a person’s eyes after they’ve stopped looking at the actual thing. The artworks in...Read More -
The Observer interviews Sarah Sze
June 17, 2018The New York artist on her new London show, her friendship with Zadie Smith and avoiding social media. Interview by Killian Fox Sarah Sze (pronounced...Read More -
Nick Compton writes about Sarah Sze: Afterimage in Wallpaper*
June 14, 2018The American sculptor Sarah Sze creates fractured things, exploding or imploding or perhaps both. Her works, built of everyday debris and found objects, wire and...Read More -
Sarah Sze gives the Bobbie and Mike Wilsey Distinguished Lecture for 2018
April 23, 2018The artist discusses her work in a free public talk (6-7.30pm, 10 May 2018) held at Stanford University. No registration is necessary. Doors from 5.30pm....Read More -
Sarah Sze discusses the Tomb of Perneb in the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of Phaidon’s The Artist Project
December 12, 2017The artist finds unlikely parallels between the Tomb of Perneb and the grave-like aspect of her own work Why does the ancient Egyptian Tomb of...Read More -
The Hirshhorn Gala honours Yayoi Kusama, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Wangechi Mutu and Sarah Sze
November 3, 2017The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden honoured four Victoria Miro artists at a gala at Lincoln Center, New York, on Monday 6 November 2017....Read More -
Sarah Sze creates a new work for Frieze Sculpture
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Sarah Sze: Centrifuge at Haus der Kunst, Munich
September 15, 201715 September 2017–12 August 2018 For the fifth edition of Der Öffentlichkeit — Von den Freunden Haus der Kunst , American artist Sarah Sze will...Read More -
A new work by Sarah Sze in ARoS Triennial
June 2, 2017Sze's work Hammock (For Rauschenberg) , 2017 is featured in The Future (3 June - 30 July 2017). The Triennial is in three parts (The...Read More -
Sarah Sze writes about her work Timekeeper in The New Yorker
May 11, 2017How I Solved It: The Problem of Suspense. By Sarah Sze I had worked with moving images in my first museum show, in 1999. In...Read More -
Sarah Sze in Glasstress 2017, Venice
May 10, 201711 May - 26 November 2017 Organised by Fondazione Berengo Curated by Dimitri Ozerkov, Herwig Kempinger, Adriano Berengo Returning to Venice for the 57th Venice...Read More -
Sarah Sze shares the process and inspiration behind her immersive artwork for the Second Avenue Subway in New York City
April 14, 2017In a new film from the Art21 digital series Exclusive , Sarah Sze shares the process and inspiration behind her immersive artwork for the Second...Read More -
Sarah Sze: Timekeeper at Copenhagen Contemporary
March 10, 2017Sarah Sze 10 March - September 3 2017 Sarah Sze’s installation Timekeeper (2016) explores the origin of the moving image, and mirrors the endless flow...Read More -
Sarah Sze featured in Lorna Simpson’s ‘Women in Art’ portfolio for US Vogue
March 3, 2017'This is the third time in a number of years that I picked up a camera to take a portrait,” says Lorna Simpson, the award-winning...Read More -
Sarah Sze’s Second Avenue subway line commission revealed
Art Underground: A First Look at the Second Avenue Subway December 19, 2016By Randy Kennedy When a city has been waiting for a badly needed new subway line since 1929, public art is probably far down the...Read More -
Sarah Sze interviewed in The Boston Globe
October 12, 2016At the Rose Art Museum, Sarah Sze is taking her time. By Cate McQuaid WALTHAM — Projections flash and chase each other around the walls...Read More -
Just out: Protest publication
September 23, 2016This publication accompanies Protest at Victoria Miro, 23 September - 5 November 2016, an exhibition of historical and contemporary works by artists concerned with the...Read More -
Power to... the art of protest, as featured in The Observer
September 23, 2016Politically engaged art is thriving again, finding new ways to challenge in a complex digital world. We look at the rich history of protest art...Read More -
Sarah Sze at the Rose Art Museum
September 11, 201611 September - 11 December 2016 The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University presents two new site- specific installations by Sarah Sze : Timekeeper ,...Read More -
Sarah Sze interviewed in The Telegraph
March 6, 2015Sarah Sze: modelling time and space. By Louisa Buck. New York artist Sarah Sze takes over Victoria Miro's London spaces with a thoughtful narrative on...Read More
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Books
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Gallery Exhibitions
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Sarah Sze
16 Apr – 16 Jun 2024 VeniceThe artist’s sixth exhibition with Victoria Miro marks a return to Venice for Sze, who featured in the 1999 and 2015 Biennales and represented the United States with her exhibition Triple Point in the 2013 Biennale.Learn More -
Sarah Sze
12 Oct – 6 Nov 2021 London Gallery IIVictoria Miro is delighted to present an exhibition by Sarah Sze. In Sarah Sze’s new paintings, scaled to Victoria Miro’s Gallery II space, the artist incorporates a wealth of painted...Learn More -
Sarah Sze: Afterimage
8 Jun – 28 Jul 2018 London Gallery IAn exhibition featuring two new site-specific works: Images in Debris , an installation of images, light, sound, film, and objects, that seeks to transform the visitor's perception and experience of...Learn More -
Protest
23 Sep – 5 Nov 2016 London Gallery IDoug Aitken, Jules de Balincourt, Vlassis Caniaris, Elmgreen & Dragset, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Christian Holstad, Isaac Julien, Yayoi Kusama, Wangechi Mutu, Alice Neel, Chris Ofili, Richard Prince, Sarah Sze, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Kara Walker.Learn More -
Forces in Nature – curated by Hilton Als
13 Oct – 14 Nov 2015 London Gallery IIA group exhibition curated by the celebrated US critic and author Hilton Als. The exhibition explores the idea of man in nature and includes works by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Verne...Learn More -
Sarah Sze
30 Jan – 28 Mar 2015 London Gallery ISpanning all three spaces, this is the artist's third solo show with the gallery and her first presentation in Europe since representing the United States at the 2013 Venice Biennale....Learn More -
Sarah Sze
30 Jan – 14 Mar 2015 Victoria Miro MayfairSpanning all three spaces, this is the artist's third solo show with the gallery and her first presentation in Europe since representing the United States at the 2013 Venice Biennale....Learn More -
Sarah Sze
30 Jan – 28 Mar 2015 London Gallery IISarah Sze's exhibition at Victoria Miro spans all three spaces. This is the artist's third solo show with the gallery and her first presentation in Europe since representing the United...Learn More -
Sarah Sze
20 Jun – 11 Aug 2012 London Gallery IVictoria Miro is delighted to announce an exhibition of new work by Sarah Sze, her second solo show with the gallery. Characteristic of Sze's expansive practice, the exhibition will comprise...Learn More -
The Collection
24 Mar – 9 Apr 2009 London Gallery IVictoria Miro collaborates with Siobhan Davies to present The Collection . For three weeks, performers and artists present specially commissioned dance and artworks at Victoria Miro Gallery in North London...Learn More -
Sarah Sze
1 – 22 Sep 2007 London Gallery ISarah Sze's first exhibition with the gallery spans both floors. The work on the ground floor is new to the gallery, while the piece on the second floor incorporates a...Learn More
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