Sara VanDerBeek's work investigates our collective and evolving relationship with photography and the photographic image. VanDerBeek's recent work has focused on contemporary museological practices of collection and display. Within this context VanDerBeek highlights women’s ongoing contributions to the larger material and visual cultures upon which institutional collections and art historical narratives are built. Her photographic works and inter-media installations address the complex nature of contemporary female existence in which reproduction in all its forms - from the physiological to the photographic - becomes a creative act of reclamation and inter-generational dialogue.
Sara VanDerBeek (b. 1976 Baltimore, MD) lives and works in New York, USA.