Portable planetarium sarah sze biography

American artist

Sarah Sze (; born 1969) is an American artist and professor of visual arts at Columbia University.^[1] Sze's work explores the role of technology, information, and memory with objects in contemporary life utilizing everyday materials.^[2] Her work often represents objects caught in suspension.

Drawing from Modernist traditions, Sze confronts the relationship between low-value mass-produced objects in high-value institutions, creating the sense that everyday life objects can be art.^[3] She has exhibited internationally and her works are in the collections of several major museums.

Portable planetarium sarah sze biography

Early life and education

Sze was born in Boston in 1969. Her father, Chia-Ming Sze, was an architect who moved to the United States from Shanghai at age four and her mother, Judy Mossman, was an Anglo-Scottish-Irish schoolteacher.

Sze reports that as a child she would draw constantly.^[4] She attended Milton Academy as a day student a