Sarah Oppenheimer

Sarah Oppenheimer is a contemporary artist based in New York, born in Texas.

Artwork and themes
Oppenheimer involves the architecture of the exhibition-space as a material in itself, her calculated and deliberate excisions from existing vertical partitions accented by minimal aesthetic additions, manipulate our expected experience with the three dimensions. Our vision moves to points on a wall which we typically ignore, we walk into space we usually walk past - the result puts our entire being in places where we have never concentrated our efforts. Perception and physical involvement are challenged by absence; disorientation and clarity result from the ability to observe through and exist in previously opaque barriers. Oppenheimer's acts of manipulated negation result in an experiential addition to space.

Education

 * Yale University MFA - 1999
 * Brown University, Semiotics, BA - 1995

Grants and awards
2004 2006 2007 2009 2010
 * Rema Hort Mann Fellowship
 * L.M.C.C. World Views Artist Residency
 * N.Y.F.A. Fellowship in Architecture and Environmental Structure
 * John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
 * American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Art
 * Freund Fellowship
 * Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
 * Rome Prize Fellowship. American Academy in Rome

Exhibitions
2002 2003 2004 2006 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
 * Hallway. The Drawing Center. NY
 * Lid. Queens Museum of Art. Queens, NY
 * Screen. Momenta. Brooklyn, NY.
 * Box Man. Youkobo Art Space. Tokyo, Japan.
 * 554-5251. P.P.O.W. NY
 * P41 x P21. DUVE Berlin.
 * Currents: Sarah Oppenheimer. Saint Louis Art Museum. St. Louis, MO
 * Annely Juda Fine Arts. London, UK
 * VP-41. Art Unlimited @ Art Basel. Basel, Switzerland, group project of DUVE Berlin, Annely Juda Fine Arts, von Bartha and PPOW
 * Art Forum Berlin. DUVE Berlin. Berlin, Germany
 * OE-15, Galerie Von Bartha Garage, Basel, Switzerland
 * Art Kabinett at Art Basel Miami Beach. Annely Juda Fine Art. Miami, FL
 * P.P.O.W. New York, NY
 * Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore, MD (upcomming)