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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.

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