Sarah Sze
Sarah Sze received a BA from Yale College, summa cum laude, in 1991, and an MFA from New York’s School of Visual Arts in 1997. She is a 2003 MacArthur Fellow and a Professor at Columbia University. In 2013 Sze was granted an Honorary Degree from Amherst college and was the representative of the United States in the Venice Biennale. In 2018 she was elected to The American Academy of Arts Letters and in 2020 to The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Sze’s dynamic and generative body of work spans sculpture, painting, architecture, and public installation. Sze investigates how artworks ascribe meaning to the places and times we inhabit while navigating the ceaseless proliferation of images and objects in contemporary life. She is credited with dismantling the static nature of sculpture, expanding the boundaries of installation, and broadening the language of painting. Her work is represented in important private and public collections worldwide, including those of New York’s Guggenheim Museum; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the New Museum, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the 21st Century Museum of Art, Kanazawa, Japan; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Sze has created permanent public works for LaGuardia Airport, Storm King Art Center, and The Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York. In 2023 Sze presented a solo exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Work by Sarah Sze
'Off the Wall,' 2020
'Off the Wall,' 2020
'Off the Wall,' 2020
'Off the Wall,' 2020
'Off the Wall,' 2020
'Shorter than the Day,' 2020
'Shorter than the Day,' 2020
'Shorter than the Day,' 2020
'Night into Day,' 2020
'Night into Day,' 2020
'Night into Day,' 2020
'Night into Day,' 2020
'Night into Day,' 2020
'Night into Day,' 2020
News
In the latest exhibition at the LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Reimagined Mysticism: To Shoe a Horse in Felt, new works by MFA students Timothy Bair, Francisco Javier Ramirez, and Jeannie Rhyu share the gallery with editions produced at the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies by renowned Professor of Visual Arts Sarah Sze, former Professor of Visual Arts Kiki Smith, and distinguished alum Ernesto Caivano '01.
Visual Arts Professor Sarah Sze played an integral role during the New York Mets’s 7-2 victory over the Boston Red Sox last Tuesday night. The evening kicked off with a flourish as Professor Sze threw out the ceremonial first pitch, and the first 15,000 attendees received a baseball cap featuring a fragmented blue-and-orange globe designed by Sze.
From February 3, 2024 until August 18, 2024, Professor Sarah Sze’s new, site-specific works will be on view in a solo exhibition at Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas.
From March 31 to September 10, 2023, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will turn its space over to Professor of Visual Arts Sarah Sze for her solo exhibition, Sarah Sze: Timelapse.
Associate Professor of Theatre and Head of Playwriting David Henry Hwang and Visual Arts Professor Sarah Sze are among this year’s honorees for the Asia Arts Game Changer Awards.
A new sculpture by Professor Sarah Sze is on permanent display in the Arrivals and Departures hall at LaGuardia Airport. This work was commissioned alongside work by other notable New York artists for LaGuardia Airport’s renovation.
Several Columbia artists are featured in Common Space, an exhibition on display at Oolite Arts in Miami, Florida until January 23, 2022.
Professor Sarah Sze has been commissioned to create a new, site-specific work for the permanent collection at Storm King Art Center.
Professor Sarah Sze is in the group exhibition, Off the Wall at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition presents photography-based installations that literally move the art off the wall and into the gallery space.
Visual Art Professor Sarah Sze is featured in solo exhibition Night into Day in Paris, France.
This month, the newly renovated Terminal B of LaGuardia Airport reopened with installations by four artists, including the stunning five-ton sculpture “Shorter Than the Day” by Professor Sarah Sze.
On April 23, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences announced its newest members of 2020. Among the 276 artists, scholars, scientists, and leaders inducted include Columbia University’s Visual Arts Professor Sarah Sze and Writing alumna Claudia Rankine ’93.
Four Visual Arts faculty members are featured in Venice Bienniale's 58th Annual Art Exhibition, running May 11 to November 24, 2019.