Blue Giardini

Born Boston, 1969
Lives and Works in New York

1997 School of Visual Arts, MFA, New York
1991 Yale University, BA, New Haven, CT

Solo Exhibitions and Projects
*indicates the exhibition accompanied by catalog
2015 Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, September 10-October 17, 2015 Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK, 2015, January 30-March 28, 2015
2014 “Sarah Sze: Triple Point (Planetarium),” Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, July 3-August
2013 Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
American Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

2012 Musee d Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Mudam Luxembourg
Permanent installation for Estuaire, Nantes, France
Solo presentation at the ADAA Art Show, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY

2011-2012 Sarah Sze: Infinite Line, Asia Society, New York, NY*
Sarah Sze: Still Life with Landscape (Model for a Habitat), public commission, The Highline Park, New York, NY

2011 Musee d Art Moderne et d Art Contemporain, Nice, France*
permanent installation, University of California, San Francisco Library, San Francisco, CA
choreographic collaboration with Trajal Harell, ICA Boston; traveling to the New Museum, New York, NY

2010 Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY
permanent installation, University of California, San Francisco Library, San Francisco, CA
permanent installation, Mott Haven School Campus, Bronx, New York
choreographic collaboration with Trajal Harell, ICA Boston; traveling to the New Museum, New York, NY

2009 Sarah Sze: Tilting Planet, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, UK

2008 Sarah Sze, Maison Hermes 8F Le Forum, Tokyo, Japan*

2007 Sarah Sze, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK

2006 Sarah Sze: A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Malmo Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden*
Corner Plot, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park, New York, commission for the Public Art Fund, New York
Model for Corner Plot, Agassiz House, Radcliffe Yard, Cambridge, MA

2005 Sarah Sze, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
An Equal and Opposite Reaction, Marion Oliver McCaw Hall of the Seattle Opera, Seattle, WA, (permanent installation)

2004 Blue Poles, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, (permanent installation)
Sarah Sze: The Triple Point of Water, Fondazione Davide Halevim, Milan, Italy*

2003 Sarah Sze: The Triple Point of Water, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2002 Sarah Sze, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
Grow or Die, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, (permanent installation)

2001 Sarah Sze, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY*
Drawn, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, San Diego, CA

2000 Sarah Sze, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, October 20- November 18, 2000

1999 Sarah Sze, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, IL*
Sarah Sze: Still Life with Flowers, Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany*
Sarah Sze, Foundation Cartier pour lart contemporain, Paris, France*

1998 Sarah Sze, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK*
Migrateurs, Musee d�Art Modern de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

1997 White Room, White Columns, New York

Group Exhibitions 2015 1st Asia Biennial/5th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, December 11, 2015-April 10, 2016, curated by Henk Slager and Zhang Quing Lines of Tangency, Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium, October 10, 2015-February 2016, curated by Catherine de Zegher 56th International Art Exhibition-All The Worlds Futures”, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy, May 9-November 22, 2015, curated by Okwui Enwezor (catalog)
2014 DRAW: Mapping Madness,” Inside Out Art Museum, Beijing, China, December 13, 2014-March 1, 2015 The Bigger Picture: Work from the 1990’s, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, New York, June 12-August 1, 2014 Vivid Memories, Foundation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France, July 5-August 24, 2014*
2013 Locating Ourselves, Scrap Metal Gallery, Toronto, Canada, October 25, 2013-February 22, 2014 Still Life with Landscape, Ekebergparken Sculpture Park, Oslo, Norway (permanent installation) Poetique d’objects (Poetics of Objects), LAAC, Lieu d’Art et d’Action contemporaine, Dunkerque, France, April 6-September 15, 2013 Drawing Line into Form: Works on Paper by Sculptors from the Collection of BNY Mellon, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, February 23-May 26, 2013
2012 you your shadow and the sun, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts, Richmond, VA

2010 Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum Rotunda, Guggenheim Museum, New York
Transformative, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

2009-2010 The Spectacle of the Everyday, 10th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France

2009 Hundred Stories about Love, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
The Collection, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK

2008 International 08: Made Up, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK*
Landscope, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France*
Artists in Depth: Works from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,Chicago, IL

2007 Not for Sale, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
Atelier Calder, The French Embassy, New York

2006 Selections from the LeRoy Neiman Center Studies, Columbia University, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Foundation Cartier Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan*

2005 Swarm, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA*
Artists & Prints: Masterworks from the Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York*
The Fluidity of Time: Selections from the MCA collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, IL

2004 The Encounters in the 21st Century, Polyphony Emerging Resonances, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan*
Beginning Here: 101 Ways, School of Visual Arts, New York
Seeing Other People, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
State of Play, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK*

2003 world rush_4 artists, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia*
Reflection: Seven Years in Print, The LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York
The Paper Sculpture Show, Sculpture Center, New York*
The Moderns, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy*

2002 Penetration, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Artist to Artist: A Decade of the Space Program, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Ace Gallery, New York*
177th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, Cidades: 25th Bienal de Sao Paulo, curated by Alfons Hug, Iconografias Metropolitanas, Sao Paulo, Brazil*

2001 The Americans-New Art, Barbican Centre, London, UK*
Let’s Get to Work, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
010101: Art in Technological Times, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA*
City of Tomorrow, European Housing Expo, Malmo, Sweden
Hidden Relief, Asia Society, New York October 1, 2001- October 1, 2004*

2000 2000 Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York*
La Beaute, Mission pour la celebration de l�an 2000, curated by Jean de Loisy, Avignon, France*

1999 48th International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, curated by Harald Szeeman, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy*
The Carnegie International 1999-2000, curated by Madeline Grynsztejn Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA*

1998 Berlin/Berlin, Berlin Biennial, curated by Klaus Biesenbach, Nancy Spector, and Hans- Ulrich Obrist, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany*
Deep Thought, Part II, Basilico Fine Arts, New York
Where: Allegories of Site in Contemporary Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT
People, Places, and Things, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Manifesta 2, Casino Luxembourg*
Construction Drawing, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY

1997 Cities on the Move, The Vienna Secession, Austria, curated by Hou Hanru and Hans- Ulrich Obrist. Traveled to Capc Musee de art Contemporian, Bordeaux: Louisiana Museum, Denmark; Haward Gallery, London
Some Young New Yorkers, curated by Klaus Biesenbach and Alanna Heiss, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
Drawings and Paintings, Wooster Gardens, New York
The Name of the Place, curated by Laurie Simmons, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York
Visual Arts Gallery, curated by Tommy Lannigan-Schmidt, School of Visual Arts, New York
New York Area MFA Exhibition, College Art Association, Hunter College Fine Arts Building, New York

1996 SoHo Annual, Pratt Artist�s League, curated by Michael Brenson, Susan Hort, Robert Storr and Simon Watson, 420 West Broadway Building, New York.
Museum Collections
21st Century Museum of Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Cartier Foundation, Paris, France
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
Fogg Museum of Art, Boston, MA
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, San Diego, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York
The New Museum, New York
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Awards and Residencies
2005 Radcliffe Institute Fellow
2003 MacArthur Fellow
Lotos Club Foundation Prize in the Arts
2002 Atelier Calder Residency, Sache`, France
1999 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award
1997 The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Studio Residency, New York
Rema Hort Mann Foundation Award
Paula Rhodes Memorial Award
1996 School of Visual Arts Graduate Fellowship