Born 1985, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA
Education
2016
Master of Fine Arts, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
2010
Bachelor of Design, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
2006
Program in English Literature, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022
Sara Cwynar: Apple Red/Grass Green/Sky Blue, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
2021
Glass Life, Foxy Production, New York, USA
Source, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
2020
Marilyn, The Approach, London, UK
2019
Gilded Age, organized by Amy Smith-Stewart, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, USA (cat.)
Image Model Muse, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, USA (touring)
Gilded Age II, curated by Jenn Jackson, The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Good Life, curated by Sara Dolfi Agostini, Blitz, Valleta, Malta (cat.)
2018
Image Model Muse, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (touring)
Rose Gold, The approach, London, UK
Tracy, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON
2017
Soft Film, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Tracy, Carl Kostyal, London, UK
Rose Gold, Foxy Production, New York, NY
2016
Three Hands. Cooper Cole, Toronto, ON
Soft Film, Art Basel Statements with Foxy Production, Basel, Switzerland
2015
Presidential Index, Retrospective, Hudson, NY
2014
Flat Death, Foxy Production, New York, NY
Flat Death, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2013
Flat Death, Cooper Cole, Toronto, ON
Everything in the Studio (Destroyed), Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2012
All The Greens, Printed Matter, New York, NY
Accidental Archives, Cooper Cole, Toronto, ON
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver BC (forthcoming)
2021
L’Image et son double. Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Underexposed: Women Photographers from the Collection. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Off the Record. Organized by Ashley James, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Groups and Spots: Contemporary Art at Baloise. Curated by Anna Wesle, Martin Schwander and Beat Wismer, Museum Franz Gertsch / Willy Michel Foundation, Burgdorf, Switzerland
Age of You. Curated by Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland, and Hans Ulrich Obrist Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai
2020-2021
Collection 1970s–Present: Search Engines. MoMA, New York
2020
Upkeep. The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago
Objects of Desire: Photography and the Language of Advertising. LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
PHOTO 2020. International Festival of Photography, Melbourne, Australia
New Visions: The Henie Onstage Triennial for Photography and New Media. Curated by Susanne Østby Sæther with Behzad Farazollahi and Christian Tunge, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway
American Women: The Infinite Journey. Curated by Marie Maertens, La Patinoire Royale- Galerie Valérie Bach, Brussels, Belgium (cat.)
2019
Le Dandy des Gadoues, curated by Marc Bembekoff, Centre d’art Contemporain de Noisy- le-Sec, France (cat.)
Don’t! Photography and the Art of Mistakes, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA, USA
Glenn O’Brien: Center Stage, Off Paradise, New York, NY, USA
Age of You, curated by Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
Last Night I Wore A Costume, LX, New York, NY, USA
2018
You Are Looking at Something That Never Occurred: From The Zabludowicz Collection. Curated by Paul Luckraft, MAMM: Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
To Our Parents, curated by Alejandro Cesarco, 33rd Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil
Mademoiselle, curated by Tara Londi. Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain d’Occitane, Sète, France
La Complainte du progrès, Commissarit: Sandra Patron. Musée régional d’art contemporain Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée, Sérignan, France
Screenscapes, curated by Vik Muniz, Barney Kulok and Lucas Blalock, Galeria Nara Roesler São Paulo, Brazil
MAST Foundation for Photography Grant on Industry and Work, curated by Urs Stahel, Mast Foundation, Bologna, Italy
2017
Strange Attractors: The Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Art: Vol. 1 Life on Earth, organized by Bob Nickas, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie – Farewell Photography, Mannheim, Germany.
Culture Industry, curated by Suzanne L’Heureux, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
My curiosities are not your curios, Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph, ON
Through the Lens – Platform for Photography, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, curated by Ami Barak, Montreal, QC
Hard to Picture: A Tribute to Ad Reinhardt. Curated by Diana Baldon and Marie-Noëlle Farcy, Mudam, Luxembourg
Subjektiv. Curated by the editorial board of OBJEKTIV – consisting of Lucas Blalock, Ida Kierulf, Brian Sholis, Susanne Ø. Sæther and editor Nina Strand. Kunstnernes Hus (KH), Oslo, Norway
Screen Memory. Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
AS IF FROM WERE SOME PITCHER. Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, OR
You Are Looking at Something That Never Occurred. Curated by Paul Luckraft, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK (cat.)
99 Cents or Less. Curated by Jens Hoffmann and Susanne Feld, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI (cat.)
In Some Far Place. Curated by Mirielle Eagan, The Rooms, St John, NL
I am the Organizer of My Own Objects. Curated by cheyanne turions, Dazibao, Montréal, QC
Looking Back / The 11th White Columns Annual. Selected by Anne Doran, White Columns, New York, NY
2016
Tell Me What I Mean. To____Bridges____, Bronx, NY
We are the Center for Curatorial Studies (The Departmental Core.) Curated by Paul O’Neill, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Bard, NY
L’Image Volée. Curated by Thomas Demand, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy (cat.)
For Pete’s Sake. Carl Kostyál, Stockholm, Sweden
We are the Center for Curatorial Studies. CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Hudson, NY
Arles 2016: Les Rencontres de la Photographie. Arles, France
2015
Greater New York. PS1 MoMA, New York, NY
If You Leave Me Can I Come Too? Curated by Arden Sherman, Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New York, NY
Continuous Surfaces. Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
The Secret Life. Co-curated by Leidy Churchman, Murray Guy, New York, NY
Under Construction – New Positions in American Photography. Organized by Foam Fotografie museum, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
2014
The Actual. Eleven Rivington, New York, NY
Surface (New Life). Curated by Sara Dolfi Agostini. Fluxia, Milan, Italy
The Thing Itself. Yancey Richardson, New York, NY
Soft Target. Organized by Phil Chang and Matthew Porter, M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Big Pictures: Public Art Project. Billboards across Greater Cincinnati. Organized by Brian Sholis, Cincinnati Art Museum, OH
The New Beauty of Our Modern Life. Curated by Kate Steciw, Higher Pictures, New York, NY
2013
MODE. Foxy Production, New York, NY
MAD Library with Limited Time Only. Independent Curators International, New York, NY
What You Want. The Camera Club of New York, New York, NY
The Scenery Changes Three Times. Schema Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2012
She’s Crafty with Ed Varie. New Museum Store, New York, NY
Small Works. Flash Forward Festival. Organized by the Magenta Foundation, Boston, MA
2011
Talk To Me; Design and the Communication Between People and Objects. MoMA, New York, NY. Group project.
I’m Not Here. Contact Photography Festival, Toronto, ON
Open Books. Royal College of Art, London, UK
This Place in Time. Show & Tell Gallery, Toronto, ON Neubacher Shor Contemporary, Toronto, ON
Hunter & Cook Auction. Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, ON
2010
The Fine Line. Openhouse Gallery, New York, NY
Where is Here: Canadian Exhibition. Flash Forward Festival. Organized by Magenta Foundation, Toronto, ON
Parts of a Hole. Xpace, Toronto, ON
Stacked. Paul Petro Special Projects, Toronto, ON Search Prone. Butcher Gallery, Toronto, ON
2009
No Theme Group Show. Canteen Art Shop and Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Wayfaring. Gallery 1313, Toronto, ON
Commissions
2021
Performa 21, New York, NY
Public Art and Amenities Framework, Metrolinx, Toronto, ON, Canada
2019
Modern Art in Your Life commissioned by MoMA and streamed on the Museum’s website and social media platforms
Projects
2021
50 Artists: Art on the Grid. Produced by Public Art Fund and exhibited throughout New York, NY
2012
Great Point. Back Yard Projects Benefit, Real Fine Arts, Brooklyn, NY
2011
Made in US (with Tibi Tibi Neuspiel). Creatures of Comfort Projects Space, New York, NY; and 107 Shaw Gallery, Toronto, ON
Selected Screenings
2020
Virtual Assembly, Canada’s 2020 Sobey Art award, Streamed Video
Red Film. Art on the Stoop: Sunset Screenings. Organized by John Edmonds, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2019
Red Film, IV Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, Russia
Red Film, Edinburgh Film Festival Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Red Film, International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2018
Rose Gold and Soft Film, International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2017
Rose Gold, Toronto International Film Festival, ON, Canada
Monographs
2021
Heti, Sheila, Legacy Russell and Rose Bouthillier. Sara Cwynar: Glass Life. New York: Aperture, 2021.
2019
Cwynar, Sara and Amy Smith-Stewart. Sara Cwynar: Gilded Age. Ridgefield: The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 2019.
Dolfi Agostini, Sara. Good Life, Sara Cwynar. Valletta: Blitz, 2019.
2014
Cwynar, Sara. Kitsch Encyclopedia. New York: Blonde Art Books, 2014.
Artist Publications
2020
Bach, Valérie, Chariot, Constantin and Maertens, Marie, American Women: The Infinite Journey, Trans. By Louisa Burnett-Hall. Brussels: La Patinoire Royal-Galerie Valérie Bach, 2020
2019
“Interview with Sara Cwynar.” Sara Cwynar: Gilded Age. Ridgefield: The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, by Amy Smith-Steward
2018
Gosslee, Zises, ed. 50 Contemporary Women Artists: Sara Cwynar. Atglen: Schiffer
2017
Wiley, Chris, et al. “A roundtable discussion hosted by Chris Wiley, with Lucas Blalock, Sara Cwynar and Erin Shirreff.” You Are Looking at Something That Never Occurred. Ed. Paul Luckraft. London: Zabludowicz Art Projects
2016
Cwynar, Sara. Frieze No 81 Sept 2016 (cover image)
Cwynar, Sara. Canadian Art Fall 2016: 134-9
2014
Cwynar, Sara. Pictures of Pictures. New York: Printed Matter, 2014.
Fulford, Jason, and Gregory Halpern, eds. The Photographer’s Playbook. New York: Aperture Foundation, 2014. Contributing Artist.
Cwynar, Sara. Kitsch Encyclopedia. New York: Blonde Art Books, 2014.
2012
Cwynar, Sara. Lost and Found. New York: The Camera Club of New York, 2012.
Rosler, Martha. Meta-Monumental Newspaper. New York: MoMA, 2012. Contributing Artist.
2011
Cwynar, Sara. “Noise Map.” The New City Reader. New York: New Museum, 2011.
Cwynar, Sara. One Wall Zine. Toronto, ON: Self-published, edition of 20, for Art History, 2011.
Cwynar, Sara. Simulated Landscapes. Toronto, ON: Self-published, 2011.
Cwynar, Sara. “ An Atlas.” 01 Magazine. 2011.
Selected Press
2021
Sara Cwynar’s “Glass Life” Art Agenda by R. H. Lossin
“New York’s Performa festival to be held entirely outdoors this year” The Art Newspaper by Wal-lace Ludel
“The 10 Photographs That Shaped This MoMA Curator’s Career” Buzzfeed News by Pia Peter-son
“The Israel Museum Jerusalem: Shpilman Photography Prize Awarded to Sara Cwynar” The Eye of Photography
2020
“Sara Cwynar Questions the Images That Comfort Us “Marilyn”, the multidisciplinary artist’s latest exhibition, can ve seeb online at the UK’s The Approach” Fine Art Globe by Kenji Fuji-shima
“The Cognitive Dissonance of Sara Cwynar’s Media Haven: Saturated with Marketing sleights of hand and anti-capitalist theory, her work isn’t to blame, any more than I am for reproducing the same rhetoric here. Frieze, by Sophie Ruigrok
“Snapshots: ‘Red Rose II’ (2020) by Sara Cwynar: The artist offers up both visual ingenuity and a lively rejoinder to commercialized influencer culture” The Financial Times by Chris Allnut
“EP 032: Sara Cwynar interview with Will Jess Laird” Image Culture, (Podcast)
“Canada’s 2020 Sobey Award to Divide Grand Prize Among Longlisted Artists” Artforum
“Performa | Time Share” Flaunt, by BJ Panda Bear
“Brilliant Things To Do In April- Without leaving the House” AnOther, by Belle Hutton
“How to Understand the ‘Millenial Aesthetic’ + Two Other Thought-Provoking Things to Read (or Watch) From Around the Art Web” Artnet, by Ben Davis
“Will the Millenial Aesthetic Ever End?” New York Magazine, by Molly Fischer
“Art Trip: Owen Kydd and Sara Cwynar showcase innovative images at the Henie Onstad Art Center’s triennial festival” The Globe and Mail, by Chris Hampton
“Age of Who? The Foibles of Celebrity Curation in MOCA Toronto’s Age of You” The Brook-lyn Rail, by Esmé Hogeveen
2019
“Picturing MoMA: Sara Cwynar: For the commissioned series Modern Art in Your Life, the art-ist examines the stories we tell through images.” MoMA Magazine by Dolfi Agostini,
“Good Life, Sara Cwynar”. Valletta: Blitz, by Sara Cwynar
“In the Studio: Sara Cwynar.” Photograph by Taylor Dafoe
“How One Artist Uses Wallpaper to Talk About Beauty: Sara Cwynar’s site- specific wall cover-ing, on view at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, is a thoughtful take on aesthetic values.” AD Architectural Digest by Carly Olson
“Sara Cwynar, Gilded Age @Aldrich.” Collector Daily by Loring Knoblauch
“Sara Cwynar Explores Power of Imagery at the Aldrich in ‘Gilded Age’.” The Wilton Bulletin, Ridgefield Press by Andrea Valluzzo
“Sara Cwynar’s Photoshop Proletariat.” The Nation by Hannah Stamler
“Sara Cwynar Investigates our Inability to be Original.” Cultured Magazine by Elizabeth Karp-Evans
“Art: Reflecting on Sara Cwynar’s ‘Rose Gold’ and More.” The New York Times by Will Hein-rich
“The Year in Screenes: The Defining Moving-Image and Digital Works of 2019” by Alex Green-berger
“What does queerness look like beyond the human body?” The British Journal of Photography, by Marigold Warner
“Twisting the Familiar into Uncanny Cinematic Forms: Surface Knowledge, the latest Flaherty NYC screening series, presents enthralling experiemental documentary shorts which play with ways of seeing and experiencing the world” Hyperallegic by Abbey Bender
“Easy, breezy, beautiful: Sara Cwynar’s ‘Covergirl’ and the political economy of color” Document by Camille Sojit
“The dubious pursuit of happiness in the time of late capitalism: Canadian artist Sara Cwynar speaks to TEODOR RELJIC about her ongoing exhibition at Blitz in Valletta, The Good Life, which turns a critical eye on ingrained notions about what constitutes and drives our contempo-rary conception of happiness,” Malta Today,
“Sara Cwynar at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut,” ARTnews
2018
“Sara Cwynar’s Contemporary Nostalgia: On the occasion of her solo exhibition in Minneapolis, the Canadian artist speaks about color and consumerism in the information age.” Aperture by Gabriel Ritter
“A Market of the Senses: Sara Cwynar Finds Truths and Untruths in Advertising.” ARTNews by Alex Greenberger
“NY artist finds the meaning of kitsch: Fantasy of consumerism drives exhibit at Mpls. Institute of Art.” Star Tribune by Alicia Eler
“Artist Sara Cwynar on Perceptions of Beauty: ‘How do we know what we are seeing is right? Who decides what we see?’” Teen Vogue by Nadja Savej
“At Oakville Galleries, Sara Cwynar’s consumer-fetish landscape, set in motion.” The Star by Murray Whyte
“Should Artists Shop or Stop Shopping?” Affidavit by Sheila Heti
“Interview with Sara Cwynar, one of the two winners of the Mast Foundation for photography.”C 41 Magazine
“Interview: Sara Cwynar.” Artfridge by Juergen Dehm
“What Teenagers Are Learning From Online Porn.” The New York Times Magazine Cover image.
“Photographer Sara Cwynar Blends Fashion and Design at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.” Galerie Magazine by Lucy Rees
2017
“Beg, Borrow, Steal: With Several Exhibitions Involving Appropriation, New York Has a Second ‘Pictures’ Moment.” ARTNews by Alex Greenberger
“Sara Cwynar, Rose Gold: On the politics of colour in beauty products.” ArtReview by Wendy Vogel
“Screen Memory: Three London Exhibitions Bring the Past into the
Present.” ARTnews by Jennifer Thatcher
“Critic’s Guide: New York.” Frieze by Evan Moffit
“Sara Cwynar.” The New York Times by Martha Schwendener
“Sara Cwynar, Rose Gold at Foxy Production.” Collector Daily by Anna Doran
“10 Artists to Watch this May.” Artspace by Loney Abrams
“10 Contemporary Artists Taking Photography in New Directions.”artnet News by Terence Trouillot
“The Color Palette of Materialism, from Rose Gold iPhones to Millennial
Pink Shopping Bags.” Hyperallergic by Megan Liberty
“An Artist’s Meditation on Color Reveals a Secret History of Film.” The New Yorker by Andrea K. Scott
“Critic’s picks: Sara Cwynar, Foxy Production.” Artforum by Hannah Stamler
“5 Exhibitions to See in May.” Aperture by Amelia Rina
“Rose Gold.” The Paris Review by Dan Piepenbring
“Goings on About Town: Sara Cwynar.” The New Yorker
“THE LOOKOUT: Sara Cwynar.” Art in America by Anne Leigh Miller.
2016
“Sara Cwynar: Between Photography and Design.” Modern Painters by Ariela Gittlen
“Soft Film.” Canadian Art by Sara Cwynar
“In ‘Greater New York’ at PS1, Sara Cwynar Touches the Art.” artnet by Blake Gopnik.
2015
“If You Leave Me Can I Come Too? A Show Whose Subject Is Death.” The New York Times by Hollandd Cotter
Interview Magazine
“Why Greater New York Signals the Start of a New Confusion.” artnet by Christian Viveros-Fauné
“Art that Acknowledges Death Without Showing the Body.” Hyperallergic by Allison Meier
“PS1’s ‘Greater New York’ Gets Sentimental: Uneven show finds an
escape hatch from the crowded field of emerging art surveys.” Observer by Ryan Steadman
“Comic Relief: Humor and Playfulness at Frieze New York 2015.” Huffington Post by Natalie Hegert.
The New York Times Style Magazine by Hillary Moss
“30 Emerging Artists to Watch During Frieze Week.” Artsy by Emily Rappaport
“Sara Cwynar: The origins of nostalgia and some theoretical foundations of photography.” BOMB Magazine by Ashley McNelis and Legacy Russell
New York Times Magazine Front Cover.
“2014 and Beyond: Sara Cwynar. The future of art photography is anything but two-dimensional.” American Photo by Michael Kaplan
2014
Bouthillier, Rose. “Sara Cwynar: Flat Death.” C Magazine Sept. 2014: 55-56.
Cattelan, Maurizio. “Show Your True Colors. An Interview with Sara Cwynar by Maurizio
Cattelan.” Muse Magazine 11 Aug. 2014. Web.
Sutton, Kate. “Sara Cwynar. Foxy Production, New York.” Frieze 164. June-July. 2014: 216. Linton, Jackie. “The Recurring Sara Cwynar.” Interview Magazine 4 Apr. 2014. Web. Brown, Nicholas. “Sara Cwynar.” Cura 30 Mar. 2014: 142-146.
Abeles, Michele, et al. “Recording Images: A Round-Table Interview Curated by Lauren
Cornell with Michele Abeles, Sara Cwynar, Jon Rafman & Travess Smalley.” Mousse 43. Apr. 2014: 238-252.
Bohnacker, Siobhan. “Sara Cwynar at Foxy Production.” The New Yorker 3 Apr. 2014. Web. “Sara Cwynar Makes Something New From Anything Old.” Phaidon 16 Apr. 2014. Web. Hein-rich, Will. “Sara Cwynar: Flat Death.” GalleristNY 30 Apr. 2014. Web.
Smith, Roberta. “Sara Cwynar: Flat Death.” The New York Times. 25 Apr. 2014: C30.
2013
“Sara Cwynar’s Photographs Still Lifes Made of Junk.” Beautiful/Decay by Sara Barnes
“A Conversation with Sara Cwynar.” Lay Flat/Lavalette by Arianne Dinardo
“This This Week’s Must-See Art Events Are This Season’s Must-See Art Events.” Art F City by Paddy Johnson and Whitney Kimball
“Bringing Flat Death to Life.” Canadian Art by Britt Galpen
“Emerging Photographer: Sara Cwynar.” The New Yorker by Siobhan Bohnacker
“LP Q&A: Sara Cwynar: Artist.” McSweeney’s/Lucky Peach Magazine by Walter Green
“Art Star: Sara Cwynar.” Flare Magazine by Nadja Savej
“Sara Cwynar’s Kitsch Encyclopedia.” Complex Magazine by Dan Elsinger
“Self-Described Hoarder and Still Life Photographer Uses Color to Organize Her Collection of Treasures”, Feature Shoot by Guy Merrill
“Artists’ Editions Fly off the Tables at the Third MAD-LIB [rary] Portfolio-
Making Party.” Blouin Artinfo by Benjamin Sutton
“Artists Highlight: Sara Cwynar.” San Francisco Arts Quarterly by Simon Cole
“Sara Cwynar.” PIG Magazine by Serena Pezzato
“At Work: Sara Cwynar.” Port Magazine by Betty Wood
“Sara Cwynar – Everything In The Studio Destroyed.” We Are Selectors by Shams
“Sara Cwynar: Colour Studies.” Magenta Magazine
“Introducing 5 Artists Who Are Reshaping Reality With GIFs, Garbage, &
Grilled Cheese.” Bullett Magazine by Nick Haramis
2012
“Looking for Cancon at Miami Art Basel?” Maclean’s Magazine by Daniel Bama
“Sara Cwynar.” Blink Photography Magazine by Aram Kim
“Talents to be Seen.” Foam International Photography Magazine by Marcel Feil
“Color Coordination, to the Point of Obsession.” American Photo Magazine by Dan Abbe
“AnOther Loves: Sara Cwynar, Paranoia Archive.” AnOther Magazine by Silvia Bergomi
“You Should Check Out…Artist Sara Cwynar.” Paper Magazine by Chris Black
“From Hoarding Impulse to Art Installation.” The New York Times. by Gail Bichler
“The Water Issue: Sara Cwynar.” Capricious Photography Magazine. By Sophie Morner
2011
“Sara Cwynar.” in “Behind the Zines: Self publishing Culture.” Gestalten Verlag Mar. 2011 by Matthias Hubner,, Robert Klaten, and Adeline Mollard
“Artisan: Sara Cwynar.” Color Magazine by Dorothy Rivers
“New Visual Artists – Sara Cwynar.” Print Magazine by Aaron Kenedi.
Awards
2021
Shpilman International Prize for Excellence in Photography. Awarded by the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2020
Sobey Art Award 2020
2019
Kodak Film Prize, IV Moscow International Experimental Film Festival
2018
MAST Foundation for Photography Grant on Industry and Work
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Ammodo Tiger Short Prize
2016
The Baloise Art Prize, Statements, Art Basel 47
2013
Printed Matter Emerging Artist Publication Series Grant
2012
The Camera Club of New York, Darkroom Residency, Runner-up Award
2011
Print Magazine, 20 Under 30 New Visual Artist Award
Art Director’s Club Young Guns Award
2009
Kondor Fine Arts Award
2008-2009
Dean’s Prize for Excellence, Faculty of Fine Arts, York University
Collections
Bâloise Art Collection, Basel
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
DZ Bank Art Collection, Frankfurt
FOAM Photography Museum, Amsterdam Guggenheim Museum, New York
Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Fondazione Prada, Milan
SFMOMA, San Francisco
Soho House, Toronto
TD Bank Canada Collection, Toronto
Zabludowicz Collection, London
