Sarah Sze
Born 1969, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York

Sze’s sculptures are flowing structures consisting of a conglomeration of small-scale household items that respond to and infiltrate the surrounding architecture. Like the information flow of the World Wide Web, her compositional language takes form by successively linking small bits of discrete information into a complex network. With an intensity born of a laborious patchwork technique that is at once painterly and sculptural, the interplay between individual components and overall structure allows Sze to explore the boundaries between art and everyday life.

Sarah Sze, Seamless, 1999, mixed media, site specific installation (installation views and detail)

Sarah Sze began showing her work in 1996 in New York at the SoHo Annual and at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York (1997). Since then she has been included in several major international exhibitions, including Cities on the Move, Secession, Vienna, and Migrateurs, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1997); Manifesta 2, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Luxembourg, and Berlin Biennial (1998); and 48th Venice Biennale (1999). Solo exhibitions of Sze’s work have been presented at White Columns, New York (1997); Institute of Contemporary Art, London (1998); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1999); and Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris (1999-2000).

Education
1991 Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

1997 School of Visual Arts, New York

Selected Further Reading
Kastner, Jeffrey. “Tipping the Scale.” art/text, no. 65 (May- July 1999): 68-73.

Kastner, Jeffrey. “Discovering Poetry Even in the Clutter around the House.” New York Times, 11 July 1999, 36.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Sarah Sze (1999). Exhibition catalogue, texts by Francesco Bonami and Staci Boris.

Institute of Contemporary Art, London. Sarah Sze (1998). Exhibition catalogue, text by John Slyce.

Hanru, Hou. “Sarah Sze.” Cream. London: Phaidon, 1998.