Sarah Sze

Since the late 1990s, Sarah Sze has developed a signature visual language that challenges the static nature of sculpture. 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 21st Century, 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 recognized 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.

Sze represented the United States at the Venice Biennale in 2013, and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2003. Centrifuge, a major commission by Haus der Kunst, Munich, was installed in the museum's Middle Hall in 2018. The artist has exhibited in museums worldwide, and her works are held in the permanent collections of prominent institutions, including The Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Fondation Cartier, Paris; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Sze’s 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 works for the High Line in New York, and subsequently the city's Second Avenue Subway Station; the Massachusetts Instit

Sarah Sze’s work Seamless, 1999, is currently installed in Tate Modern’s Collections Displays. Triple Point (Pendulum), which was first exhibited at the 55th Venice Biennale, where Sze represented the United States in 2013, is currently on view as part of the MoMA's redisplay of its permanent collection. In 2023, the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum will stage a solo exhibition by the artist. Taking place across Rotunda Ramp 6 and Tower Gallery 7, the exhibition will immerse visitors in today’s generative proliferation of images through painting, sculpture, print, sound, video and photography.