1. Sarah Edwards Charlesworth was an American conceptual artist and photographer.
18 Facts About Sarah Charlesworth
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Sarah Charlesworth is considered part of The Pictures Generation, a loose-knit group of artists working in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s, all of whom were concerned with how images shape our everyday lives and society as a whole.
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Sarah Charlesworth received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College in 1969.
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Sarah Charlesworth's undergraduate thesis project, a work of conceptual art devoid of text, was a 50-print study of the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum.
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Sarah Charlesworth stated, rather, that she viewed her work as investigating questions about the world and her role in it, but realized as of that point that she had been investigating those questions through the medium of photography for the past twelve years.
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Sarah Charlesworth created the cover art for the very first edition of BOMB magazine.
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Sarah Charlesworth worked in series, exploring one idea to its conclusion.
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In February 1980, Sarah Charlesworth created Stills, a series of harrowing, six-and-a-half-foot-tall photographs depicting bodies falling from buildings.
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Sarah Charlesworth began to photograph actual objects only in the early 1990s.
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Sarah Charlesworth illustrated how the way light falls on objects affects our perceptions of them as the subject of her own 2012 solo exhibition Available Light.
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Sarah Charlesworth held various teaching positions at New York University, the School of Visual Arts, and Hartford University.
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Sarah Charlesworth lived and worked both in New York City and in Falls Village, Connecticut, at the time of her death.
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Sarah Charlesworth died of a brain aneurysm on June 25,2013, at the age of 66.
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Sarah Charlesworth's work was the subject of more than 40 solo exhibitions at venues including the Centre d'art contemporain, Geneva, the Queens Museum of Art, New York, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Sarah Charlesworth's work was included in the Whitney Biennial and the Venice Biennale.
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Sarah Charlesworth's work is included in the collections of many museums around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art: the Museum of Modern Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Perez Art Museum Miami, Florida; Brooklyn Museum; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Israel Museum; and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, among others.
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Sarah Charlesworth's work is included in many university collections including the Princeton University Art Museum, Yale University Art Gallery and Berkeley Art Museum.
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Sarah Charlesworth received several grants from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as from the New York State Creative Artists Public Service and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship Award for Visual Art.