Sarah Oppenheimer
610-3356, 2008. View from the fourth floor; milled plywood, existing architecture,
and view into neighboring yard, dimensions variable. Photo Tom Little
MF-142, 2009. Construction material, existing architecture, and view into adjacent airshaft,
total dimensions variable. Photo Steven White
BIOGRAPHY
Education
Yale University MFA, 1999
Brown University BA, 1995
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009 MF-142. Annely Juda Fine Art, London, UK
2009 VP-41. Art Unlimited, Art Basel. Switzerland.
2008 P21 x P41. Duve Berlin, Germany
2008 Horizontal Roll. Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
2006 554-5251. P.P.O.W., New York
2004 Screen. Momenta, Brooklyn, New York
2004 Box Man. Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
2003 Lid. Queens Museum of Art, New York
2002 Hallway. The Drawing Center, New York0
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
Automatic Cities, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Don't Perish. Leo Koenig Inc. New York, NY.
Infinite Possibilities, Momenta Art, New York
2008
Inner and Outer Space, The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh
2007
Frieze, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
Facts on the Ground, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York
Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
Islip Museum, Carriage House, Islip
Aporia: Aporia, LACE, Los Angeles
2005
Odd Lots, White Columns, Queens Museum of Art, New York
No Ordinary, Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm
Art Rocks - Containers @ Rockefeller Center, P.P.O.W., New York
Off the Wall, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, New York
2004
Impact: New Mural Projects, P.P.O.W., New York
2003
EAF Exhibition, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York
Reconfiguring Space, Art in General, New York
2002
Artists to Artists, Ace Gallery, New York
Storage and Retrieval, Midway Contemporary Art, St Paul
2001
Szuper, Galerie der Künstler, NVLP collaborative project, Munich
GZ '01, Public project, Curators: Erin Donnally, Susanna Cole, New York
Artists in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
2000
Transposed: Analogs of Built Space, Sculpture Center, New York
Selected Grants and Awards
2007 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
2007 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Art
2006 N.Y.F.A. Fellowship in Architecture and Environmental Structures
2003 Rema Hort Mann Fellowship
Bibliography
2009
Robin Clark, with an essay by Giuliana Bruno. "Automatic Cities: The Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art." San Diego: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 2009.
Daniel Morgenthaler. "Breakthroughs in Exhibition Architecture." The Source of Inspiration. Edition von Bartha. Basel, Switzerland. 2009.
Quinn Latimer. Art Basel Begins Art in America. June 11, 2009.
Cay Sophie Rabinowitz. MF-142 - catalogue essay, publ. Annely Juda Fine Art. 2009.
Heinrich Schmidt. Sarah Oppenheimer: VP-41 / Art 40 Basel 2009, Art Unlimited Vernissage.tv,
2008
Miguel Amado, "Inner and Outer Space." ARTFORUM.com, September 2008
David Bonetti, "Currents 102: Sarah Oppenheimer", St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 4 May 2008
Robin Clark, "Sarah Oppenheimer." interview with Sarah Oppenheimer in Currents 102: Sarah Oppenheimer, Saint Louis Art Museum
Tyler Green, "Sarah Oppenheimer at the Mattress Factory," Modern Art Notes, 21 and 22 May 2008
2007
H.G. Masters, "One to Watch." Artkrush, 19 September 2007
Patricia Phillips, "552-5152" Art Journal, Spring 2007
2006
Alyson Baker, "Socrates Sculpture Park." Yale University Press, 2006
Goings on About Town, "Sarah Oppenheimer." The New Yorker, 2 October 2006, p.22.
H.G. "Sarah Oppenheimer: 554-5251" Flavorpill, Issue #326, 5-11 September 2006
Nancy Princenthal, "Sarah Oppenheimer at PPOW." Art in America, November 2006
Jerry Saltz, "All Art is Contemporary Art" Modern Painters., November 2006
Roberta Smith, "Sarah Oppenheimer: 554-5251" New York Times, Art Listings, 29 September 2006
2005
Grace Glueck, "Off the Wall" The New York Times, Art in Review, 29 September 2005
Michael Kimmelman, "Inspiration From Real Estate Rejects." The New York Times, 9 September 2005
"Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clarke's Fake Estates" ed. Jeffrey Kastner, Sina Najafi, Frances Richard, Cabinet Books, DAP Catalog 2005
2004
Ken Johnson, "Impact: New Mural Projects." The New York Times, Art in Review, 30 July 2004
2002
"Drawing Papers #30a", The Drawing Center, New York, 2002
Michael Meredith, "Sarah Oppenheimer, Drawing Room." ARTFORUM, September 2002, pp.206-207
2000
Betti-Sue Hertz, "Transposed: Analogues of Built Space. Convergences of Architecture and Sculpture: The Consequences of Borrowing." Cat. Sculpture Center, New York, 2000