SARAH SZE - Artist
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Born in Boston, Sarah Sze lives and works in New York City. She is an artist who uses ordinary objects to create strikingly original sculptures and site-specific installations. Her intricate works, each of which she constructs by hand, consist of unexpected and carefully arranged combinations of small-scale household items that respond to and infiltrate the surrounding architecture. Sze transforms these everyday objects into gravity-defying works in horizontal and tower-like formations that zigzag into the heights of gallery spaces. Finding inspiration from architecture and art history, Sze creates exuberant installations that provide the viewer with a sense of wonder, visual pleasure and a novel way to look at familiar space.

Sze received a B.A. (1991) from Yale University and an M.F.A. (1997) from the School of Visual Arts, New York. She has had solo exhibits at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, and the Fondation Cartier, Paris. Sze has participated in group shows in venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, the Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, and the 48th Venice Biennial.

Sze, who is adjunct associate professor of visual arts at Columbia University in New York, was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2003.