b. 1976, United States
Sara VanDerBeek (b. 1976, Baltimore, MD) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Recent solo exhibitions include Chorus Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA (2021); Women & Museums, Metro Pictures, New York, NY; VanDerBeek + VanDerBeek, (with Stan VanDerBeek), Black Mountain College Museum, Asheville, NC; Women & Museums, Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN (all 2019); Front Room: Sara VanDerBeek, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Sensory Spaces 6, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Electric Prisms, Concrete Forms, The Approach, London, UK (all 2015); Sara VanDerBeek, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH (2014); Sara VanDerBeek, Foundazione Memmo, Rome, Italy (2012); Sara VanDerBeek, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2011); and Sara VanDerBeek: To Think of Time, Whitney Museum of Art, New York NY (2010). Selected group exhibitions include Future Variations, Soft Network, Showroom, New York, NY, organised by the artist (2022); Up To and Including Her Limits: Sari Dienes, Carolee Schneemann, Sara VanDerBeek,” Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY (2021); Never Done: 100 Years Of Women In Politics And Beyond, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY; Controlling the Chaos, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (both 2020); Walt Whitman and the Poetry of Art, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL (2019); Remember to React, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL (2018); The Artist’s Museum, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (2016); and Photo-Poetics: An Anthology, Kunsthalle Berlin; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (2015).
VanDerBeek’s work is in art collections worldwide including Baltimore Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Cincinnati Art Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, New York, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, NSU Art Museum Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Florida, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 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 and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota.