Born Baltimore MD, 1976
Lives and works in New York NY
Education
1998
BFA, The Cooper Union School of Art and Science, New York NY
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019
Women & Museums, Metro Pictures, New York NY
Women & Museums, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis MN
VanDerBeek + VanDerBeek, Black Mountain College Museum, Asheville NC
Liz Deschenes & Sara VanDerBeek, Villa di Geggiano, Castelnuovo Berardenga, Italy
Roman Women, Altman Siegel, San Francisco CA
2016
Pieced Quilts, Wrapped Forms, Metro Pictures, New York NY
2015
Electric Prisms, Concrete Forms, The Approach, London, UK
Front Room: Sara VanDerBeek, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore MD
Sensory Spaces 6, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2014
Ancient Objects, Still Lives, Altman Siegel, San Francisco CA
Sara VanDerBeek, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleaveland, Cleveland OH
2013
Sara VanDerBeek, Metro Pictures, New York NY
2012
Sara VanDerBeek, Foundazione Memmo, Rome, Italy
Sara VanDerBeek, The Approach, London, UK
2011
Sara VanDerBeek, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA
2010
Of Ruins and Light, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco CA
Sara VanDerBeek: To Think of Time, Whitney Museum of Art, New York NY
2008
The Principle of Superimposition, The approach E2, London
2006
Mirror in the Sky D’Amelio Terras, New York NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA
Fair Use: What’s Mine is Yours, Altman Siegal, San Francisco, CA
2020
New Visions, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
2019
Walt Whitman and the Poetry of Art, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park FL
2018
Remember to React, NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale FL
2017
You Are Looking at Something That Never Occurred, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK; Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia (2018) (cat.)
Urban Planning, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis MO
Time as Landscape, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park FL (cat.)
A Show Yet to be Titled, 83 Pitt St, New York NY
2016
The Artist’s Museum, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston MA
Dreaming Mirrors | Dreaming Screens, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany
2015
Photo Poetics: An Anthology, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY
Photo Poetics: An Anthology, Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Berlin, Germany
Artists’ Choice: An Expanded Field of Photography, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Massachusetts MA
Passing Leap, Hauser & Wirth, New York NY
Under Construction: New Positions in American Photography, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn NY
75 gifts, 75 years at Walker Art Center, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN
The Blue of Distance, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen CO
2014
Under Construction: New Positions in American Art, FOAM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Leaving to Return, 12th Cuenca Biennial, Cuenca, Ecuador
A Collective Invention: Photographs at Play, The Mo rgan Library and Museum, New York NY
Cinque Mostre 2014: Time & Again, American Academy of Rome, Italy
2013
High, Low and In Between, curated by Sara VanDerBeek, White Flag Projects, St. Louis MO
Decenter, Abrons Art Center, New York, George Washington University, Washington DC
The Camera’s Blind Spot, Museo d’Arte Provincia Di Nuoro, Nuoro, Italy
New Year’s Day Swimmers, Altman Siegel, San Francisco CA
2012
Second Nature: Abstract Photography Then and Now, de Cordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln MA
Out of Focus: Photography, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
New York: Directions, Points of Interest, Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy
Daegu Photo Biennial, Korea (cat.)
Affinity Atlas, The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, New York NY
Utopia/Dystopia, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX (cat.)
2011
The Anxiety of Photography, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen CO
Eslov Wide Shut, Åkermans vãg 17, Eslõv, Sweden
From the Recent Past: New Acquisitions, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA
2010
That Place: Selections from the Collection, Brooklyn Museum, New York NY
Haute Romantics, curated by Art Fag City, Verge Gallery, Sacramento CA
Image Transfer, curated by Sara Krajewski, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle WA
At Home-Not At Home: The Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg Collection, CCS Bard, Annandale-On-Hudson NY
Knight’s Move, curated by Fionn Meade, SculptureCenter, Long Island Ciy, New York NY
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, curated by Jennifer Blessing and Nat Trotman, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY; Guggenheim Museum, Bilboa, Spain (cat.)
In a Paperweight, Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago IL
The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers,Projectspace 176 at the Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
2009
The Reach of Realism, curated by Ruba Katrib, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami FL (cat.)
See: Abstraction (disambiguation), Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco CA
New Photography, Curated by Eva Respini, Museum of Modern Art, New York NY
Amazement Park: Stan, Sara and Johannes VanDerBeek, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY
1992009, D’Amelio Terras, New York NY
On From Here, Guild & Greyshkul, New York NY
Bivouac, Curated by Fionn Meade, Vox Populi, Philadelphia PA
Phot(o)bjects, curated by Bob Nickas, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada
Weird Beauty, International Center of Photography, New York NY
Gallery Collection, Take Ninagawa Gallery Tokyo, Japan
2008
Signs of the Times, Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York NY
Untitled (Vicarious): Photographing the Constructed Object, Gagosian, New York NY
Defining A Moment: 25 New York Artists, The House of Campari, New York NY
Currents: Recent Acquisitions, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
Past Forward, The Zabludowicz Collection, Project Space 176, London, UK
A New High in Getting Low, John Connelly Presents, New York NY
2007
The Line of Time and the Plane of Now, Harris Lieberman and Wallspace, New York NY
Museum 52, London, UK
Luhring Augustine, New York NY
Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles CA
Curacion Geometrica, The Reliance, London, UK
Galerie Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark
Blood Meridian, curated by David Hunt, Michael Janssen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
To Build A Fire, curated by Yuri Masnyj, Rivington Arms, New York NY
Cosmologies, James Cohan Glallery, New York NY
I am Eyebeam, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago IL
A New High in Getting Low, Art Forum Berlin, Germany
2006
Dice Thrown (Will Never Annul Chance), Bellwether, New York NY
Thin Walls, curated by Sara Greenberger, Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery,
Brooklyn, New York NY
History Lesson 3, curated by Monica Moran, Gavin Brown’s Passerby, New York NY
Psychic Reality, Bellwhether Gallery, New York NY
2005
The General’s Ja`mboree, Guild & Greyshkul, New York
2004
Guild & Greyshkul at Placemaker Gallery, Miami, Florida
2003
Downtown for Democracy, Phillips, New York
Central Park: An Exclusive Photography Exhibition and Event, curated by Vanina Holasek, The Central Park Arsenal, New York
The Vice Photography Show, Seize Sur Vingt, New York
2002
Benefit Show and Auction, Gale Gates Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Show, Xcin, Los Angeles, California
Last Night, Last Weekend, Rivington Arms Gallery, New York
2001
An Exhibition of Young Artists, Sotheby’s, New York
Move Eight, Chance Operations Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2000
NATO Arts, New York
Bibliography
2018
Sensory Spaces 2013-2019. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam: 92-107.
2017
Coleman, Patrick, ed. Time as Landscape, Inquiries of Art and Science. Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL: 90-91.
2016
Luckraft, Paul, You are Are Looking at Something that Never Occurred. Zabludowicz Collection, London: 34, 110-11.
Respini, Eva, On Defiance, Aperture (Fall): 100-107.
Sara VanDerBeek: Pieced Quilts, Wrapped Forms, Mousse (October/November): 295.
Byers, Dan, ed. The Artist’s Museum. ICA Boston and Delmonico Bools / Prestel, Munich, London, New York: 172- 79.
Vogel, Wendy. Critics’ Picks: Sara VanDerBeek, Artforum.com, October 7
Dafoe, Taylor. Elusive, Illusory: Q&A with Sara VanDerBeek, BlouinArtInfo.com, September 22
Allred, Ry, ed. Collected, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco: 150-51.
Allred, Ry, ed. Collected, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco: 60.
Dafoe, Taylor. Photo-Poetics: An Anthology, BrooklynRail.org, March 4
McCabe, Bret. Sara VanDerBeek pares down her memories of growing up in Baltimore using minimalist photography and sculpture, Citypaper.com, August 9
Kates, Elana. Review: Sara VanDerBeek Monograph, MuséeMagazine.com, September
Churner, Rachel. Best of 2016, Artforum (December): 257
2015
Hatt, Etienne, The Movement of Memory, Artpress.com, February 27
2014
Mangini, Elizabeth. Sara VanDerBeek: Altman Siegel, Artforum (November): 284.
Smith, Roberta. “When a Form is Given Its Room to Play,” The New York Times (February 7): C23.
2013
The Camera’s Blind Spot, published on the occasion of the exhibition at Museo d’Arte Provincia Di Nuoro, Nuoro, Nero Publishing and Museo d’Arte Provincia Di Nuoro, Nuoro, Italy
Goldstein, Andrew, Artist to Watch: Sara VanDerBeek on Making the Classical Past Contemporary, Artspace.com, July 30
Sutphin, Eric, Sara VanDerBeek at Metro Pictures, Art in America, October, pp. 174-5
Goodman, Abigail Ross, ed. Art for Rollins: The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art: Volume 1, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, pp. 122-3
Sholis, Brian, Interview with Sara VanDerBeek, Aperture.org, May 6
Johnson, Ken, Sara VanDerBeek, The New York Times, May 10, C30
Berry, Ian, Affinity Atlas, Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, p. 6
Cotton, Charlotte, Nine Years, A Million Conceptual Miles, Aperture (Spring), pp. 35-39
2012
Ewing, Walter A., Out of Focus: Photography, Saatchi Gallery and Booth-Clibborn Editions, London: SV.1-SV.5
Tavecchia, Elena, New York: Directions, Points of Interest, Massimo de Carlo, Milan and Mousse Publishing, Milan
Barliant, Claire, Photgraphy and the Objet Manqué, Art in America (March), p.108-117
Berry, Ian, Amazement Park: Stan, Sara and Johannes VanDerBeek, New York: The Fances Young Tang Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College and DelMonico Books
2011
Stoltz, Liv, Eslov Wide Shut, Eslovs Kommun, Sweden and Mallorca Landings, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, pp. 130-135
Thompson, Matthew, The Anxiety of Photography, Aspen Art Press, pp.60, 61, 310-20
Robertson, Rebecca, Building Pictures, Art News, March, pp. 76-83
Sholis, Brian, Sara VanDerBeek: Compositions, Aperture, #202, Spring, pp. 56-61
2010
Lines: Sara VanDerBeek, Tar, Issue #4, Fall, pp. 204-211
Krajewski, Sara, Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, pp. 74-79
Helfand, Glen, Critics’ Picks: Sara VanDerBeek, Artforum.com, December
Vogel, Carol, Putting Memories to New Use, The New York Times, September 14
Baker, Kenneth, VanDerBeek’s Conundrums, The San Francisco Chronicle, December 4
Scott, Andrea, Critic’s Notebook: Time Release, The New Yorker, October 11, pp. 20
Kukielski, Tina, To Think of Time, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (brochure)
Mary Ceruti and Fionn Meade (eds.), Knight’s Move, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, pp. 54-55
Kino, Carol, Putting Memories to New Use, The New York Times, September 14, pp. AR24
At Home/Not at Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, pp. 39
Smith, Roberta, In Fields of Art, Snapping Photos, The New York Times, April 2, C23
Blessing, Jennifer and Nat Trotman, Haunted Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance (cat), The Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Beck, Graham T., Sara VanDerBeek: Biography, autonomy, portals and portholes; photographs, assemblages and sculptures, Frieze Magazine, April, Issue 130, p. 106-107 (illus.)
Kane, Tim, ‘Oddly Alive’ and ‘Amazement Park’: Two adventurous exhibitions, Times Union, February 12
Blind Spot Magazine, Issue 41, January
Morse, Rebecca, Picture Structures: Intersections Between Photography and Sculpture, American Art Journal: Sculpture, Spring
2009
Colman, David, ‘The Nifty 50’, The New York Times, December 6
Katrib, Ruba and Bonnie Clearwater, ‘Reach of Realism’ (catalogue), The Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Florida
Rosenberg, Karen, ‘Into the Darkroom, With Pulleys, Jams and Snakes’, The New York Times, November 6, C32
Aletti, Vince, The New Yorker, November 2, p. 26
Cotton, Charlotte, ‘The Photograph as Contemporary Art’, second edition, Thames and Hudson world of art, pp 224-225
Schwendener, Martha, ‘Contemporary Art Photographers Mess With the Medium’, Village Voice, October 13
Hoptman, Laura, et al. ‘Younger Than Jesus Artist Directory’, London: Phaidon Press
2008
‘Goings On Around Town: Untitled (Vicarious)’, The New Yorker, October, p.16
Coxhead, Gabriele, ‘Sara VanDerBeek’, Time Out London, June
D’Aurizio, Michelle ‘The Fourth Dimension’, Mousse Magazine, April, p. 49-51
Mack, Joshua.’Future Greats: Sara VanDerBeek’, Art Review, March, pp.96-97.
2007
Freedman, Dennis and Wakefield, Neville. ‘Sara VanDerBeek’, W Magazine, November, p. 370-377.
Lowenstein, Kate. ‘Page turner,’ Time Out New York, February 22-28, p. 25.
Ellegood, Anne. ‘Sara VanDerBeek’, Artforum, January 2007, p. 216-217, illus.
2006
Mack, Joshua. ‘Sara VanDerBeek,’ Modern Painters, December 2006- January 2007, p.115, illus.
Smith, Roberta. ‘Dice Thrown (Will Never Annul Chance),’ The New York Times, November 3, 2006, p.34
Doran, Anne. ‘Dice Thrown,’ Time Out New York, November 2-8, p.94, illus.
Smith, Roberta. ‘Sara VanDerBeek: Mirror in the Sky,’ The New York Times, September 29, p. 33, illus.
‘Sara VandDerBeek,’ The New Yorker, September 25
O’Neill-Butler, Lauren. ‘Sara VanDerBeek,’ Critic’s Pick, Artforum.com, September, illus.
Smith, Roberta. ‘Trifecta,’ The Listings, The New York Times, February
2004
‘250 People who will Affect the Future,’ ID, December
Nylon, March
2003
Nylon, October
‘The Photography Issue,’ Vice, June
2000
‘NatoArts in New York,’ Frieze, November
Awards
1997
Benjamin J. Menschel Fellowship
Public Collections
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore MD
Brooklyn Museum, New York NY
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinatti OH
Cleveland Clinic Art Collection
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park FL
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas TX
Francis Young Tang Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs NY
Guggenheim Museum, New York NY
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle WA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston MA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami FL
Museum of Modern Art, New York NY
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham NC
UBS Art Collection, Zurich
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY
Zabludowicz Collection, London
