Sarah Oppenheimer’s work spans the disciplinary boundaries between sculpture and architecture. Her calculated manipulation of standardized spaces disrupts the embodied experience of spatial continuity. Oppenheimer’s work both disorients and clarifies the physical and perceptual experience of the built environment. In Automatic Cities: The Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art, Giuliana Bruno writes, “Oppenheimer subjects the practice of architecture to inventive, analytic operations that question the inner structure of our forms of dwelling.”
Oppenheimer received a BA from Brown University in 1995 and an MFA from Yale Universityin 1999. Oppenheimer’s exhibitions and commissions include the Drawing Center, the Mattress Factory, PPOW gallery in New York, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Sculpture Center, White Columns, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and The Andy Warhol Museum.
Oppenheimer has been the recipient of many prestigious awards including the Guggenheim Fellowship (2007); the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation (2010-11); the Rome Prize (2010–11) and the Joan Mitchell Foundation fellowship (2011).
