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Sarah Sze (Born in Boston in 1969) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in New York City.[1] Sze uses ordinary objects to create sculptures and site-specific installations. She is married to the author, Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee. Life and career Sze graduated Summa Cum Laude from Yale University in 1991. She then received a MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York in 1997. Since the late 1990s Sarah Sze's signature sculptural aesthetic has presented ephemeral installations that penetrate walls, suspend from ceilings and burrow into the ground. The artist creates immense, yet intricate site-specific works which manipulate every space—be that a gallery, domestic interior or street corner—and profoundly affects the way it is viewed. Sze's practice exists at the intersection of sculpture, painting and architecture where her formal interest in light, air and movement is coupled with an intuitive understanding of colour and texture. Sze utilises a myriad of everyday objects in her installations from cotton buds and tea bags to water bottles and ladders, light bulbs and electric fans. Presented as leftovers or traces of human behaviour, these items, released from their commonplace duty possess a certain vitality and ambition within the work. Her careful consideration of every shift in scale between the humble and the monumental, the throwaway and the precious, the incidental and the essential solicits a new experience of space, disorienting and reorienting the viewer at every turn.[2] Her intricate works, each of which she constructs by hand, consist of unexpected and carefully arranged combinations of materials. Sze transforms these everyday objects into gravity-defying works in horizontal and tower-like formations that zigzag into the heights of gallery spaces.[3] Sze is 2003 recipient of the MacArthur Fellows Program "genius grant".[4] Sze is represented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York[5] and Victoria Miro Gallery in London.[6] * 2009 - “Sarah Sze,” Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle Museum Collections * Museum of Modern Art, New York Grants * 2003–2008 - MacArthur Fellow, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation * 2005–2006 - Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University * 2003 - Lotos Club Foundation Prize in the Arts * 2002 - Atelier Calder Residency, Sachè, France * 1999 - Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation * 1997–1998 - The Space Program Studio Residency, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation * 1997 - Visual Art Grant Award, Rema Hort Mann Foundation * 1997 - Paula Rhodes Memorial Award * 1996 - School of Visual Arts Graduate Fellowship Teaching * 2009–Present - Professor, Columbia University, School of the Arts * 2005–2008 - Adjunct Professor, Columbia University, School of the Arts * 2002–2004 - Lecturer, Columbia University, School of the Arts * 1999–2002 - Lecturer, School of Visual Art, Master of Fine Arts Program * 1998 - Visiting Lecturer, Yale University, Intersections of Art and Architecture Notes and references 1. ^ Sarah Sze Further reading * Norden, Linda; Arthur Danto (2007). Sarah Sze. Abrams. ISBN 978-0810993020. * Grambye, Lars (2006). Sarah Sze: Tilting Planet. Malmo Konsthall. * Sans, Jerome; Jean Louis Schefer, Fondation Cartier (2000). Sarah Sze. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-97490-X.
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