Internationally recognized visual artist Sarah Sze will be the featured speaker at the annual
UNT Nasher Lecture Series on Wednesday, November 2 at 7 pm. The lecture is now at capacity, but will be streamed live via the Nasher Sculpture Center's Facebook page.
The lecture, presented by the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design, will be held at the Nasher Sculpture Center. This is the17th year of this distinguished series focused on bringing a working artist’s perspective to students and the general public.
Sarah Sze is an American artist whose work involves the use of everyday objects and materials that she arranges
into teeming, sculptural arrangements and site-specific installations. New acts
of discovery and encounter are encouraged in these uncanny and exquisite
configurations of utilitarian objects and quotidian remnants that often stretch
across floors, climb walls or hover in space. From tea bags to lightbulbs to
wire, string, and ladders, her work brilliantly challenges the tangled network
of things that both simplify and congest contemporary daily life.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1969, Sarah Sze received a BA in Architecture and Painting from Yale in 1991 and
a MFA in from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1997. Solo shows
of her work include the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, the Museum of
Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Malmö Konsthall in Sweden, and the Fondation
Cartier in Paris. Sze has participated in numerous national and international
exhibitions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Carnegie Museum
of Art, the 48th Venice Biennial, and the Biennale de Lyon 2009. Her work can
be found in museums and public collections such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art, and the Walker Art Center. Sze received a Radcliffe Fellowship in
2005, and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2003. In 2013, she represented the
United States in the 55th Venice Biennale with a highly-acclaimed
piece called Triple Point. She
currently lives and works in New York.
The lecture is sponsored by the Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Series in
Contemporary Sculpture and Criticism, endowed at UNT by Nancy A. Nasher, David
H. Haemisegger and grandchildren.