Sara VanDerBeek
Sara VanDerBeek
Born 1976 Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Lives and works in New York
Education
1998
The Cooper Union School of Art and Science, B.F.A.
Solo Exhibitions
2011
Sara VanDerBeek, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2010
Of Ruins and Light, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Sara VanDerBeek: To Think of Time, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, USA
2008
The Principle of Superimposition, The approach E2, London
2006
Mirror in the Sky D'Amelio Terras, New York
Group Exhibitions
2011
From the Recent Past: New Acquisitions, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2010
That Place: Selections from the Collection, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Haute Romantics, curated by Art Fag City, Verge Gallery, Sacramento, USA
Image Transfer, Curated by Sara Krajewski, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA
At Home-Not At Home: The Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg Collection, CCS Bard, Annandale-on-the-Hudson, New York, USA
Knight’s Move, Curated by Fionn Meade, SculptureCenter, Long Island Ciy, New York, USA
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Curated by Jennifer Blessing and Nat Trotman, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA; Guggenheim Museum, Bilboa (2010-2011) [cat.]
In a Paperweight, Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago, USA
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, USA
See: Abstraction (disambiguation), Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, USA
New Photography, Curated by Eva Respini, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Amazement Park: Stan, Sara and Johannes VanDerBeek, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, USA
1992009, D’Amelio Terras, New York, USA
On From Here, Guild & Greyshkul, New York, USA
Bivouac, Curated by Fionn Meade, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, USA
Phot(o)bjects, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, curated by Bob Nickas
Weird Beauty, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
2008
Signs of the Times, Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Untitled (Vicarious): Photographing the Constructed Object, Gagosian Gallery New York, USA
Defining A Moment: 25 New York Artists, The House of Campari, New York, USA
Currents: Recent Acquisitions, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA
Past Forward, The Zabludowicz Collection, Project Space 176, London, UK
A New High in Getting Low, John Connelly Presents, New York, USA
2007
I Am Eyebeam, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, curated by Melanie Schiff and Lorelei Stewart, Chicago, Illinois
A New High in Getting Low, Art Forum Berlin, curated by John Connelly, Berlin, Germany
The Line of Time and the Plane of Now, Harris Lieberman and Wallspace, New York
Museum 52, London
Strange Magic, Luhring Augustine, New York
Radiant City, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles
Curacion Geometrica, The Reliance, London
Galerie Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark
Blood Meridian, curated by David Hunt, Michael Janssen Galerie, Berlin
To Build A Fire, curated by Yuri Masnyj, Rivington Arms, New York
Cosmologies, James Cohan Gallery, New York
2006
Dice Thrown (Will Never Annul Chance), Bellwether, New York
Thin Walls, curated by Sara Greenberger, Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
History Lesson 3, curated by Monica Moran, Gavin Brown's Passerby, New York
Psychic Reality, Bellwhether Gallery, New York
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
2011
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
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
The Brooklyn Museum, New York
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York