Sarah Seager

Sarah Seager
250px Axe Handles, 1991
Born	January 1958 Springfield, Massachusetts
Nationality	American
Education	University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Los Angeles
Movement	Conceptual art
Awards	Nominated for a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, 2011

Sarah Seager (born in 1958 Springfield, Massachusetts) is a conceptual artist associated with the California Conceptualism movement of the late 1980s through mid-1990s based out of Los Angeles, California. She is known for making "clean works, many of them white, in which objects seem not so much removed from function as between functions"[1] as described by Michael Brenson of the New York Times. She is also known for her published art work by the title "Excuse my Dust" that was done in conjunction with the curators of the Smithsonian Institution [2].

Life

Sarah Seager was born in January, 1958, and is the second child of David and Gretchen Seager. She lived for brief periods in Massachusetts, Florida, Texas, then Southern California, where she currently resides. Sarah received her Bachelor of Arts with Honors, at the University of California, Berkeley, in Spring of 1982. She was awarded a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles in the spring of 1987.

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions[3]

2002

• 188 loose elements, things like...., LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA

1999

• The World Of Sculpture, (theater of invisibles), - Galerie Michael Janssen - Köln, Cologne (closed, 2007)

1998

• Proposal for installation with sarong pants, Claremont Graduate University (catalogue)

1995

• Proposals, Tanja Grunert Gallery, Koln, Germany

1994

• Proposals, 1301PE Santa Monica, California

1993

• Excuse My Dust, 1301PE Santa Monica, California

1992

• New California Artist XX: Sarah Seager - Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California

1991

• Luhring Augustine, New York, New York
• Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, California

1989

• Dennis Anderson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Group Exhibitions[4]

2011

• WORD: Poetry Based work in Permanent Collection, MOCA, Miami, Florida
• On the Line, curated by Cody Trepte - Meg Cranston, Larry Johnson, Sarah Seager, Mitchell Syrop - LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions,

2010

• Index: Conceptualism in California from the permanent collection, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA

2008

• 560 Broadway, A New York Drawing Collection at Work, 1991-2006

2005

• Bleischrift - Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis BV:BKV, Bregenz

2004

• From House To Home - MOCA Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA
• IN SITU: INSTALLATIONS AND LARGE-SCALE WORKS IN THE PERMANENT COLLECTION, Daniel Arsham, Natalia Benedetti, Pablo Cano, Robert Chambers, Petah Coyne, Teresita Fernandez, Dara Friedman, Martin Kersels, Mariko Mori, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Jorge Pardo, Jason Rhoades, Raymond Pettibon, Jack Pierson, Matthew Ritchie, Sarah Seager, and Jennifer Steinkamp, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida

2002

• Primal Screams and Songs - Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL
• Michael Brewster/Sarah Seager - LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA

2001

• White Album, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2000

• Real places? - Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany
• Extra Art: A Survey of Artists’ Ephemera, 1960-1999, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, Ca

1999

• Deep Storage – Arsenale der Erinnerung - Stiftung Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany

1998

• Deep Storage: The Arsenal of Memory - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
• Brain Multiples, Metropole Gallery, National Gallery of Canada, AA Bronson, Angela Bulloch, Meg Cranston, Gretchen Faust, Paul McCarthy, Jorge Pardo, Jason Rhoades, Thaddeus Strode, Lincoln Tobier, Diane Thater, and Rirkrit Tiravanija

1997

• World Speak Dumb, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (catalogue)
• Bliss, L.A.C.E., Los Angeles, California (catalogue)
• Bring Your Own Walkman, W139 Voorzaal, Amsterdam, Denmark

1996

• Tangles - Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
• Just Past, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
• Neuger Rimsschneider, Berlin, Germany

1995

• temporary translations(s) Sammlung Schurmann, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (catalogue)
• Pure Beauty, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
• Oblique, Roger Merians Gallery, New York, New York

1994

• Pure Beauty, American Center Paris, France
• (cut) LOS ANGELES '90 ERNES KUNTSTSCENE, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark (catalogue)
• Bullock, Meg Cranston, Sarah Seager, Thadeus Strode, Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland (catalogue)
• Gary Graves, Sarah Seager, and Richard Wentworth, Patrick Callery, New York, New York

1993

• Whiteness and Wounds - The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada (catalogue)
• Nonspectacle and The Limitations of Popular Opinion, Hirsch Farm Project, Madison, Wisconsin(catalogue)
• restaurant, Marc Jancou, Paris, France (catalogue)
• Jorge Pardo, Sarah Seager, Rirkit Tiravanija, Lincoln Tobier, 1301PE Santa Monica, California

1992

• Facing the Finish, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California (catalogue)
• Paul McCarthy, Liz Larner, Sarah Seager, Thaddeus Strode, Chris Wilder, Meg Cranston, Tom Henry III, Galerie Max Hetzler, Koln, Germany

1991

• The Body [5] - The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
• Language, Conceptual Forms, S. Bitter-Larkin, New York, New York
• Wealth of Nations, Curated by Conelia Lauf, Warsaw, Poland (catalogue)
• Facing the Flnish, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California (catalogue)
• Selections From the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California

1990

• Group Show, Meg Cranston, Sarah Seager and Thaddeus Strode, Galerie Schurr, Stuttgart, Germany
• Gavin Brown, Moyra Davey, Jorge Pardo, Massimo Audiello, NY, NY
• Laib, Ruchrein, Seager, Spitzer, Umberg, Galerie Lelong, NY, NY
• Contingent Realms: Four Contemporary Sculptors, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY NY
• 5th Anniversary Exhibition, Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Tom Henry 11, Liz Larner, Jorge Pardo, Thaddeus Strode, Linda Rousch, Luhnring Augustine, Santa Monica, CA

1989

• Loaded, Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• Carl Bronson, Mike Gonzales, Tom Henry 111, Chris Wilder, Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Sources

1. Michael Brenson Review/Art; In the Arena of the Mind, at the Whitney [6] October 19, 1990

2. Smithsonian Institution Research Information System [7]

3,4. Artfacts.net [8]

External links

• Sarah Seager [9]
• Conversation with Cody Trepte [10]
• SFMOMA Collection [11]
• MOCA Collection [12]
• LA Times Review [13]
• LA Times Review [14]
• LA Times Review [15]
• Artleak [16]
• Frieze [17]