Sarah Michelson is currently based in New York. She received a BA in literature from the University of London's Goldsmiths College in 1984; a performance diploma from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London, in 1985; and an MFA in fiction writing from Mills College, Oakland, California, in 1990. After moving to New York in the early 1990s, Michelson was a student of dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham.
Read MoreSince the early 1990s, Michelson's work has been commissioned and presented by notable institutions, including the Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Wales; Danspace Project, New York; The Kitchen, New York; Lower Manhattan Cultural Center's River to River Festival, New York; Movement Research, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; On the Boards, Seattle; Performance Space New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
In January 2023, Sarah Michelson: /\ March 2020 (4pb), an exhibition featuring the artist's first object-based work, opened at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Created specifically for the gallery space, the installation was also the first work by the artist to be acquired by a museum.
The choreographer's work has toured internationally, including to the ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, California; Biennale Danza, Venice; Cutting Edge Festival, Frankfurt; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Sommerszene Salzburg, Austria; Tanz im August, Berlin; tanzhaus nrw Düsseldorf, Germany; and Zürcher Theater Spektakel, where she was awarded the Förderpreis in 2002.
Text courtesy David Zwirner.
