SARAH SZE

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, occupies the museum’s Middle Hall from September 2017 to August 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 Modern 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 Institute of Technology; and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Sze was born in Boston, Massachusetts and lives and works in New York.

Courtesy Victoria Miro