In Conversation
Sarah Sze and Lorna Simpson
Moderated by Thelma Golden
Thursday, February 22, 2024, 6–8pm
Shah Garg Foundation, New York
www.shahgargfoundation.org
Join Sarah Sze and fellow artist Lorna Simpson in a conversation moderated by Thelma Golden, director of the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, on the occasion of the exhibition Making Their Mark, on view at the Shah Garg Foundation through March 23, 2024. Both artists are included in the exhibition, which showcases the work of more than seventy women artists from the last eight decades, bringing into vibrant relief their intergenerational relationships, formal and material breakthroughs, and historical impact as they aim to rechart art history through their singular, iconic practices.
Sarah Sze, Crisscross, 2021 © Sarah Sze. Photo: Daniel Spizzirri
Artist Talk
Sarah Sze
Saturday, February 3, 2024, 2pm
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
www.nashersculpturecenter.org
Sarah Sze will give a talk in conjunction with the opening of her solo exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center, on view through August 18, 2024. She will discuss her site-specific installations which integrate painting, sculpture, images, sound, and video, and which engage with the surrounding architecture to create intimate systems that reference our rapidly changing world.
Sarah Sze, Times Zero, 2023 (detail) © Sarah Sze
Exhibition
Sarah Sze in
Third Thailand Biennale: The Open World
December 9, 2023–April 30, 2024
Various locations in Chiang Rai, Thailand
www.thailandbiennale.org
The Open World, the third edition of the Thailand Biennale, features a new immersive, site-specific installation by Sarah Sze titled Pictures at an Exhibition, alongside work by more than sixty international and local artists. Curated by Angkrit Ajchariyasophon and Manuporn Luengaram, with artistic directors Rirkrit Tiravanija and Gridthiya Gaweewong, the exhibition is installed across key venues in the northernmost part of the country, Chiang Rai, including art galleries, exhibition halls, museums, temples, and historic sites. The selected works address topical issues such as history, cultural diversity, nature, and ecology.
Sarah Sze, Pictures at an Exhibition, 2023 © Sarah Sze
Visit
Late Shift × Sarah Sze
Live Printmaking with the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies
Thursday, September 7, 2023, 6pm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
www.guggenheim.org
Join the Guggenheim’s Late Shift and the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies for an evening of printmaking in Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic rotunda to mark the final days of Sarah Sze’s solo exhibition Timelapse, on view at the museum through September 10. Attendees are invited to bring their own T-shirt or canvas tote and create a print using images from the exhibition, enjoy an after-hours visit, and partake in exhibition-inspired poetry activities.
Sarah Sze, River of Images, 2023 (detail) © Sarah Sze
Artist Talk
Sarah Sze
Tuesday, July 25, 2023, 6:30pm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
www.guggenheim.org
Sarah Sze will discuss the site-specific installations in her solo exhibition Timelapse, on view at the Guggenheim Museum through September 10. In these works, Sze reflects on how our experience of time and place is continuously reshaped in relationship to the constant stream of objects, images, and information in today’s digitally and materially saturated world. The talk concludes with an exhibition viewing and a book signing in the museum’s Rotunda.
Sarah Sze. Artwork © Sarah Sze. Photo: Nir Arieli
Public Installation
Sarah Sze
The Waiting Room
May 19–September 17, 2023
Peckham Rye Station, London
www.artangel.org.uk
Sarah Sze is transforming a large Victorian waiting room at Peckham Rye Station that has lain empty for almost fifty years with The Waiting Room (2023), a site-specific installation commissioned by Artangel. The atmospheric construction features cascading lines that emerge from the center of the vaulted room to create a mesmerizing model of a fragile world. A multitude of flickering videos illuminate the structure, swirling around the space, conveying the velocity and volatility of life in the age of the smartphone. The installation is free and open to the public.
Sarah Sze, Metronome, 2023, installation view, Peckham Rye Station, London © Sarah Sze. Photo: Thierry Bal
Auction
Rema Hort Mann Foundation
25th Anniversary Gala & Benefit Auction
Live auction: November 1, 2022, 8:30pm
Online auction: October 18–November 1, 2022
Tribeca 360, New York
www.remahortmannfoundation.org
Celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary this year, the Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s annual gala and benefit auction supports the organization’s three unique grant programs, which are dedicated to supporting emerging artists, community-based art projects, and cancer patients. Hosted by Artsy, the live and online auction features more than 120 artworks, including a screenprint by Sarah Sze.
Sarah Sze, Papillion, 2021 © Sarah Sze
Fundraiser
Artist Plate Project 2021
Coalition for the Homeless
Launching November 16, 2021, 10am est
Limited-edition bone china plates produced by Prospect and featuring artwork by more than forty artists—including Virgil Abloh, Urs Fischer, Helen Frankenthaler, Alex Israel, Ewa Juszkiewicz, Ed Ruscha, Sarah Sze, Tom Wesselmann, Jonas Wood, and Christopher Wool—will be sold through Artware Editions to raise funds for the Coalition’s lifesaving programs. The funds raised by the sale of the plates will provide food, crisis services, housing, and other critical aid to thousands of people experiencing homelessness and instability. The purchase of one plate can feed one hundred homeless and hungry New Yorkers.
Jonas Wood, Clipping Plate, 2021 © Jonas Wood
Reading
Poetry & the Creative Mind
Sarah Sze
Thursday, April 29, 2021, 7:30pm EDT
Each year during National Poetry Month in April, the Academy of American Poets presents Poetry & the Creative Mind, featuring leading and legendary actors, dancers, musicians, public figures, and artists, including Sarah Sze, sharing their favorite poems. The annual celebration, typically held in person in New York City, will be presented virtually for the first time ever, making it available to poetry lovers everywhere. To join the online event, register at eventbrite.com.
Photo: Deborah Feingold
In Conversation
Sarah Sze
With Anselm Kiefer and Emanuele Coccia
Thursday, April 15, 2021, 2pm edt
Sarah Sze will discuss her recent exhibition catalogue De nuit en jour/Night into Day—featuring contributions by Bruno Latour, Jean Nouvel, and Leanne Sacramone—with Anselm Kiefer and philosopher Emanuele Coccia, as part of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain’s Art Book Series. Sze will join from her studio in New York, while Kiefer and Coccia will speak from inside the exhibition Night into Day at Foundation Cartier. The trio will talk about Twice Twilight and Tracing Fallen Sky (both 2020), two works Sze created specifically for the Paris exhibition, and about Kiefer’s recently installed work at the Panthéon in Paris. To join the online event, visit www.fondationcartier.com.
Sarah Sze, Tracing Fallen Sky, 2020 (detail), installation view, Sarah Sze: Night into Day, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris © Sarah Sze
Performance
Trajal Harrell
Friend of a Friend
Tuesday, March 30, 2021, 12–6pm EDT
Choreographer Trajal Harrell will stage a livestreamed performance in conjunction with the exhibition Sarah Sze: Night into Day at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, copresented with Performa as part of the institution’s Nomadic Nights series. The performance is a testimony to Harrell’s long friendship with Sze, dating as far back as their college days. Harrell and eight dancers will revisit his repertoire and create a site-specific performance lasting six hours, uninterrupted, within Sze’s immersive installation. To watch the performance, visit www.fondationcartier.com.
Trajal Harrell, Used, Abused, and Hung Out to Dry, 2013. Photo: Miana Jun
Fundraiser
Artist Plate Project 2020
Coalition for the Homeless
November 16–December 14, 2020
Gagosian is pleased to support the Coalition for the Homeless’s Artist Plate Project fundraiser. Artwork by fifty artists, including Cecily Brown, Katharina Grosse, Sterling Ruby, Ed Ruscha, Sarah Sze, Andy Warhol, Jonas Wood, and Christopher Wool, is featured on limited-edition dinner plates produced by Prospect and made available through Artware Editions to support the Coalition’s lifesaving programs. All of the funds raised by the sale of the plates will provide food, crisis services, housing, and other critical aid to thousands of people experiencing homelessness and instability. The purchase of one plate can feed seventy-five homeless and hungry New Yorkers.
Katharina Grosse, Shake Before Using, 2020 © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2020
Tour
Sarah Sze
Night into Day
Monday, October 19, 2020, 1pm EDT
On the occasion of Sarah Sze’s exhibition Night into Day, which opens at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, on October 24, Sze and French philosopher Bruno Latour will lead a livestream walkthrough of the exhibition, inviting the public to discover the artist’s immersive installations. To watch the live event, visit Fondation Cartier’s Instagram.
Sarah Sze and Bruno Latour in the exhibition Sarah Sze: Night into Day at Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris. Artwork © Sarah Sze. Photo © Édouard Caupeil
Support
Artists for Biden
October 2–8, 2020
Artists for Biden is an online-only sale of works by leading contemporary artists to support the Biden Victory Fund—a joint fundraising committee authorized by Biden for President, the Democratic National Committee, and forty-seven state Democratic parties. All proceeds from the sale will provide resources needed to elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and support other Democratic candidates across the country in the lead up to Election Day. Work by Cecily Brown, Michael Heizer, Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein, Brice Marden, Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, Sarah Sze, Stanley Whitney, and Christopher Wool will be available. To register for early access on October 1, visit secure.joebiden.com.
Sarah Sze, Afterimage, Silver, 2018 © Sarah Sze
In Conversation
Sarah Sze
Anaïd Demir
Thursday, June 25, 2020, 12pm EDT
This event has been canceled.
Sarah Sze will speak with French art critic Anaïd Demir on the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris Instagram Live account. The pair will discuss Sze’s current exhibition at Gagosian, Paris, as well the artist’s dynamic practice that addresses the precarious nature of materiality and grapples with matters of entropy and temporality. To watch the live conversation, visit École des Beaux-Arts’s Instagram.
Installation view, Sarah Sze, Gagosian, Paris, May 23–July 18, 2020. Artwork © Sarah Sze. Photo: Rebecca Fanuele
Artist Talk
Sarah Sze
Tuesday, March 17, 2020, 6:30–8pm
Amphithéâtre d’Honneur, École des Beaux-Arts de Paris
www.beauxartsparis.fr
In the interest of public health, this event has been canceled.
Sarah Sze will speak about her practice at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris on the occasion of her exhibition opening at Gagosian, Paris, on March 18. The talk will be introduced by art critic Anaïd Demir. The event is free and open to the public.
Sarah Sze, Plein Air (Times Zero), 2020 (detail) © Sarah Sze
Auction
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
2019 Benefit Art Auction
Live auction: Saturday, November 16, 2019, 8:30pm
Silent auction: November 1–16, 2019
Preview: November 12–16, 2019
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
mcachicago.org
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents its annual Benefit Art Auction on Saturday, November 16, with a cocktail reception and viewing of the available works, followed by a seated dinner and live auction. Works by leading artists, including Virgil Abloh, Theaster Gates, Takashi Murakami, Richard Prince, Sarah Sze, and Christopher Wool, have been donated. All proceeds support MCA programs and exhibitions. For information on works in the live or silent auctions, visit artsy.net. To attend the event, purchase tickets at mcachicago.org.
Richard Prince, Untitled, 2018 © Richard Prince
Public Installation
Frieze Sculpture New York
April 25–June 28, 2019
Rockefeller Center, New York
www.frieze.com
Frieze, in partnership with Tishman Speyer, is launching Frieze Sculpture at Rockefeller Center, New York, to be held annually in conjunction with Frieze New York. Brett Littman, director of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum in Long Island City, New York, is curating the immersive presentation, including works by Walter De Maria and Sarah Sze.
Three of the fourteen sculptures from De Maria’s Truth / Beauty series (1990–2016), which expands upon the artist’s use of permutations of rods, polygons, and numerical sequences, will be shown indoors.
Sze’s Split Stone (7:34) (2018), a natural granite boulder divided like a geode into two halves, in each of which the artist has embedded the image of a generic sunset, captured on her iPhone, will be outdoors.
Top: Walter De Maria, Truth / Beauty, 1990–2016 (detail) © Estate of Walter De Maria. Bottom: Sarah Sze, Split Stone (7:34), 2018 © Sarah Sze
Artist Talk
Sarah Sze
TED2019: Bigger than us
April 15–19, 2019
Vancouver Convention Centre, Canada
ted2019.ted.com
Sarah Sze has been invited to speak at TED2019: Bigger than us. This year’s conference will focus on the political and technological turmoil of recent years and look at the deeper meaning of life. Sze’s immersive and intricate works question the value society places on objects and how objects ascribe meaning to the places and times we inhabit.
Sarah Sze, Flash Point (Timekeeper), 2018 (detail) © Sarah Sze. Photo: Matteo D’Eletto, M3 Studio
Installation
Sarah Sze
At Crypta Balbi
November 21, 2018–January 27, 2019
Museo Nazionale Romano, Crypta Balbi, Rome
www.museonazionaleromano.beniculturali.it
Sarah Sze’s Split Stone (7:34) (2018) appears amidst the historic ruins of Crypta Balbi. Opened like a geode, each half of the natural boulder reveals a sunset sky embedded in its flat surface, alluding to gongshi (scholar’s rocks) and the heavenly firmaments of Renaissance paintings. While her current exhibition at Gagosian Rome underscores and amplifies the materiality of digital images, in Split Stone (7:34), Sze takes a reverse approach by imbuing a granite boulder with a pixelated ephemerality.
Sarah Sze, Split Stone (7:34), 2018, installation view, Museo Nazionale Romano, Crypta Balbi, Rome © Sarah Sze. Photo: Matteo D’Eletto, M3 Studio
In Conversation
Sarah Sze
Mark Godfrey
Thursday, November 15, 2018, 6:30–8pm
Tate Modern, London
tate.org.uk
Sarah Sze will discuss her practice with Mark Godfrey, senior curator at Tate Modern, London. Work by Sze will be on view at the museum beginning November 19. To attend the event, purchase tickets at shop.tate.org.uk.
Photo: Deborah Feingold
In Conversation
Sarah Sze
Lara Demori
Friday, October 12, 2018, 7pm
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Roma
lagallerianazionale.com
To mark Sarah Sze’s first exhibition at Gagosian Rome, the artist will speak with Lara Demori. The pair will discuss the wide-ranging influences and experiences that fuel Sze’s multimedia oeuvre while considering the exciting new directions evident in her current practice. The event is free and open to the public.
Photo: Deborah Feingold