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Sarah Sze

Through August 18, 2024
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
www.nashersculpturecenter.org

Sarah Sze invites viewers into a progression of site-specific works across three gallery spaces. Integrating painting, sculpture, images, sound, and video with the surrounding architecture, Sze’s new installations create intimate systems that reference our rapidly changing world. The exhibition blurs the boundaries between making and showing, process and product, the digital and material, and questions how objects acquire their meaning.

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A Dark Hymn
Highlights from the Hill Collection

March 1–April 13, 2024
Hill Art Foundation, New York
hillartfoundation.org

A Dark Hymn celebrates the five-year anniversary of the Hill Art Foundation by examining the collection through the lens of Valentin Bousch’s sixteenth-century stained glass window, The Creation and the Expulsion from Paradise (1533), which is permanently installed in the foundation’s Chelsea building. The exhibition places work from the four major categories of the collection—Renaissance and Baroque bronzes, old master paintings, canvases and sculptures by modern masters, and contemporary art—in dialogue with the window. Work by Willem de Kooning, Mark Grotjahn, Albert Oehlen, Ed Ruscha, Rudolf Stingel, Sarah Sze, and Christopher Wool is included.

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Making Their Mark

November 2, 2023–March 23, 2024
Shah Garg Foundation, New York
www.shahgargfoundation.org

Making Their Mark, curated by Cecilia Alemani, showcases the works of more than seventy women artists from the last eight decades. The exhibition champions the lives and work of women artists, bringing into vibrant relief their intergenerational relationships, formal and material breakthroughs, and historical impact. Through drawings, mixed media, paintings, sculptures, and textile works, these artists aim to rechart art history through their singular, iconic practices. Work by Carol Bove, Jadé Fadojutimi, Sarah Sze, and Mary Weatherford is included.

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Sarah Sze
METRONOME

November 3, 2023–February 11, 2024
Officine Grandi Riparazioni Torino, Turin, Italy
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METRONOME is an immersive installation by Sarah Sze commissioned and produced jointly by Officine Grandi Riparazioni Torino, Artangel, and ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Denmark. The atmospheric construction features cascading lines that emerge from the center of the 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. An earlier iteration of this work was recently on view at Peckham Rye Station, London. 

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After “The Wild”
Contemporary Art from the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Collection

March 24–October 1, 2023
Jewish Museum, New York
thejewishmuseum.org

Barnett Newman (1905–1970) was a generous supporter of his colleagues, who befriended and mentored countless younger artists. After his death, Annalee Newman, his widow, created the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation to help further the spirit of great art by providing grants. Diverse in style, training, background, and age, the foundation’s grantees—whose works make up this exhibition—share Newman’s seriousness of purpose, as well as his unrelenting drive to explore the outer limits of his own ideas. Work by Michael Heizer, Nancy Rubins, Richard Serra, and Sarah Sze is included.

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Sarah Sze
Timelapse

March 31–September 10, 2023
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
www.guggenheim.org

Sarah Sze’s solo exhibition Timelapse features a series of site-specific installations throughout the Guggenheim Museum that explore her ongoing reflection 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. In Sze’s reimagination of the Guggenheim’s iconic architecture, designed in the 1940s by Frank Lloyd Wright, the building becomes a public timekeeper reminding us that timelines are built through shared experience and memory.

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Mondo Reale
23a Esposizione Internazionale

July 15, 2022–January 8, 2023
Triennale di Milano, Milan
triennale.org

Mondo Reale—organized by the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, as part of the 23rd International Exhibition at the Triennale di Milano—includes films, paintings, photography, installations, and sculptures by seventeen international artists. The exhibition aims to explore reality as a reverie, proposing an aesthetic experience around knowledge and its erasure, and a direct, emotional encounter with multiple visions of the unknown through the lenses of art and science. Work by Patti Smith and Sarah Sze is included.

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Sarah Sze in
Narrative Terrain: Landscape as Storytelling

May 3–October 23, 2022
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
fabricworkshopandmuseum.org

Landscape has been an ever-present source of artistic inspiration for centuries. Artists often depict their surroundings not just as they are but as representations of identity, power, or markers of time. Drawn from the museum’s collection, the works on display in Narrative Terrain employ landscape—urban and bucolic, representational and abstract—to examine its complexities, challenge our assumptions, and perhaps expand our own understanding of how we relate to the world around us. Work by Sarah Sze is included.

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Sarah Sze in
Critical Zones

May 23, 2020–January 9, 2022
ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
zkm.de

This exhibition invites visitors to engage with the critical situation of the earth in a novel and diverse way and to explore new modes of coexistence between all forms of life. In order to remedy the generally prevailing disorientation and dissension in society, politics, and ecology with regard to the changing state of the planet, the exhibition project sets up an imaginary cartography, considering the earth as a network of “critical zones.” Work by Sarah Sze is included.

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Sarah Sze in
On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale

September 10, 2021–January 9, 2022
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
artgallery.yale.edu

On the Basis of Art celebrates the achievements of women artists who have graduated from Yale University. Presented on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of coeducation at Yale College and the 150th anniversary of the first women students at the University, who came to study at the Yale School of the Fine Arts when it opened in 1869—the exhibition features works drawn entirely from the Yale University Art Gallery’s collection. The exhibition title refers to a phrase in Title IX, the landmark 1972 US federal law declaring that no one in an education program receiving federal financial assistance could be discriminated against “on the basis of sex.” Work by Sarah Sze is included.

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Sarah Sze
Fifth Season

June 26–November 8, 2021
Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, New York
collections.stormking.org

To accompany Fallen Sky (2021), Sarah Sze’s new permanent outdoor sculptural commission at Storm King, the artist has created an immersive installation that spans fifty feet in length, creating a portal through the gallery that houses it. The work, Fifth Season (2021), considers landscape as a timeless preoccupation of artists but refuses the impulse to present the natural world as comforting or coherent, instead depicting it as fragile and in flux.

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Sarah Sze

Through October 2021
Tate Modern, London
www.tate.org.uk

Sarah Sze’s work Seamless (1999) is on display in a room on the fourth floor of the Boiler House at Tate Modern, paired with a work by Piet Mondrian.

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Sarah Sze in
Off the Wall

March 6–August 22, 2021
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
www.sfmoma.org

Off the Wall features photography-based installations by five artists, including Sarah Sze, who have challenged the established notions of how a photograph should be displayed. Employing inventive approaches that stretch the boundaries of the medium, the exhibited works engage visitors in unconventional ways. Sze’s Images in Translation (2019) is an intricate installation of still and moving images that blurs the line between art and life, the virtual and the real.

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Sarah Sze
Night into Day

October 24, 2020–May 30, 2021
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
www.fondationcartier.com

Sarah Sze presents two immersive installations in the gallery spaces of Jean Nouvel’s iconic building. Commissioned by the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, her new works explore how the proliferation of images—printed in magazines, gleaned from the Web, intercepted from outer space—fundamentally changes our relation to physical objects, memories, and time. The works will also engage with the materiality and history of Nouvel’s structure and its surrounding garden. Enveloping the architecture, these sculptures will alter the visitor’s sense of gravity, scale, and time, confusing the boundaries between inside and outside, mirage and reality, past and present.

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Sarah Sze
Images in Debris

February 6–October 4, 2020
Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto
museumofcontemporaryart.ca

Sarah Sze’s Images in Debris is the first installment in The City Is a Collection, an exhibition series organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, that presents privately owned contemporary artworks from throughout the local community. Constellatory, monumental, intimate, and immersive, this work is one in a series of sculptures by the artist where light, movement, images, and architecture coalesce into a single, precarious equilibrium.

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Sarah Sze in
Surrounds: 11 Installations

October 21, 2019–January 4, 2020
Museum of Modern Art, New York
www.moma.org

Surrounds presents eleven watershed installations by living artists from the past two decades, conceived out of different circumstances but united in the scale of their ambition. Work by Sarah Sze is included.