1. Sarah Sze is an American artist and professor of visual arts at Columbia University.
21 Facts About Sarah Sze
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Sarah Sze has exhibited internationally and her works are in the collections of several major museums.
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Sarah Sze's father, Chia-Ming Sze, was an architect who moved to the United States from Shanghai at age four and her mother, Judy Mossman, was an Anglo-Scottish-Irish schoolteacher.
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Sarah Sze's work has been featured in The Whitney Biennial, the Carnegie International and several international biennials, including Berlin, Guangzhou, Liverpool, Lyon, Sao Paulo, and Venice.
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Sarah Sze has created public artworks for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Walker Art Center, and the High Line in New York.
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Sarah Sze is a 2003 MacArthur Fellow and was granted a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Competition Award in 1999.
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In 2013, Sarah Sze represented the United States at the Venice Biennale with an exhibition called Triple Point.
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In 2020, Sarah Sze unveiled Shorter than the Day, a permanent installation, in LaGuardia Airport.
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In 2021, Sarah Sze unveiled her most recent permanent installation, Fallen Sky, at Storm King Art Center, Cornwall, New York.
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In 2023, Sarah Sze transformed a large Victorian waiting room at Peckham Rye Station in London into an immersive installation called The Waiting Room.
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In 2023, Sarah Sze was featured in Art21's New York Closeup Series.
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Sarah Sze was China's minister to Britain and later ambassador to the United States.
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Sarah Sze's grandfather is Szeming Sze who was the initiator of World Health Organization.
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Sarah Sze uses everyday items like string, Q-tips, photographs, and wire to create complex compositions resembling constellations.
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Sarah Sze additionally takes into consideration the viewer's interaction with her works and the objects she has chosen to display.
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The recording of objects with memory is one of the ways Sarah Sze represents this idea.
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Time itself is a strong theme Sarah Sze plays into with the concept of the multiplicity of the unknown.
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Sarah Sze goes into additional detail about pictures and how this method can be used to retain a sculpture.
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The space Sarah Sze creates in her works reflects her choice of objects, creating a relationship with her work and the location where they intertwine.
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Sarah Sze has staged a large number of solo exhibitions and shows across the United States and internationally.
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Sarah Sze has participated in a wide array of group exhibitions, including the Berlin Biennale ; 48th and 56th Venice Biennale ; Whitney Biennial ; and Liverpool Biennial.