Sarah Oppenheimer (born 1972, in Austin, Texas)van Ryzin Jeanne Claire. "UT Landmarks to unveil a new public art commission by Sarah Oppenheimer," Sightlines, May 14, 2021. Retrieved July 14, 2021. is a New York City-based contemporary artist that explores the articulations and experiences of built spaces.Rose, Julian. "Mirror Travel: Julian Rose On Sarah Oppenheimer’s W-120301," Artforum, April 2013. Retrieved July 15, 2021.Hirsch, Faye. "Sarah Oppenheimer, P.P.O.W.," Art in America, December 2012.Galloway, Alexander. "Sarah Oppenheimer," BOMB. Fall 2016. Retrieved July 15, 2021. Her work transforms the built environment to disrupt, subvert or shuffle visitors' visual and bodily experiences.Rose, Julian. "Sarah Oppenheimer: S-281913," Artforum, July 2016. Retrieved July 15, 2021.Crow, Kelly. "A Baltimore Museum Becomes the Art Object," Wall Street Journal, October 19, 2012. Retrieved July 15, 2021.Kastner, Jeffrey. "Sarah Oppenheimer, P.P.O.W.," Artforum. November 2012. Retrieved July 15, 2021.

Career Oppenheimer exhibits her work internationally. The titles of her works are generated from a numerical typology.Amado, Miguel. "Inner and Outer Space," Artforum, September 12, 2008. Retrieved July 22, 2021. Each digit in a title tracks transactions and flow between spatial zones, and together, form a key to the orientation of the work within the built environment.

In her early exhibitions at The Drawing Center (2002) and Queens Museum (2004), Oppenheimer explored spatial navigation and interior architecture.The Drawing Center. Drawing Papers 30: Sarah Oppenheimer and Clarina Bezzola, 2002. Retrieved July 15, 2021.The New York Times. "Art Listings," April 14, 2003, p. E8. Retrieved August 4, 2021.Meredith, Michael. "Sarah Oppenheimer," Artforum, September 2002. Retrieved July 22, 2021.Johnson, Ken. "'Impact': New Mural Projects,'" The New York Times, July 30, 2004. Retrieved July 15, 2021. In the late 2000s, Oppenheimer changed the boundaries between exhibition spaces, displacing views within and outside galleries (e.g., Saint Louis Art Museum, 2008; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 2009).Gay, Malcolm. "Currents 102: Sarah Oppenheimer," Riverfront Times, April 16, 2008. Retrieved July 14, 2021.Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Sarah Oppenheimer, Artists. Retrieved July 14, 2021. 610-3356 (Mattress Factory, 2008) used a roughly seven-foot-long hole in museum's fourth floor which tunneled down to a third-floor window with an outside view.Mondello, Bob. "Find Unforgettable Art In A Most Unlikely Place: A Pittsburgh Mattress Factory," NPR, July 21, 2015. Retrieved July 14, 2021.Mattress Factory. 610-3356, Sarah Oppenheimer, Works. Retrieved July 14, 2021.

In D-33 (P.P.O.W., 2012) and 33-D (Kunsthaus Baselland, 2014), Oppenheimer modified the boundary between three contiguous rooms, inserting a pair of slanting openings at the spaces' corners.Smith, Roberta. "Sarah Oppenheimer’s D-33 at P.P.O.W.," The New York Times, October 12, 2012. Retrieved July 15, 2021.Raskin, Laura. "Sarah Oppenheimer," Architectural Record, August 2014, p 104. Retrieved August 4, 2021. W-120301 (Baltimore Museum of Art, 2012) was Oppenheimer's first permanent work in a museum.S-399390 (Mudam, 2016) featuring two glass passageways that changed positions in the museum's exhibition space, modifying visitors' movements and views.

During a two-year residency at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Oppenheimer developed a human-powered apparatus, which was patented.Artforum. "Wexner Center Announces Artist Residency Awardees for 2015–16," July 8, 2015. Retrieved July 15, 2021.Oppenheimer, Sarah. Biased-Axis Rotational Frame Mounting System. U.S. Patent 10,139,046 B2, November 27, 2018. Retrieved July 22, 2021.Oppenheimer, Sarah. "Pivot and Slide," Movement Research Performance Journal, #54: Spatial Practice, 2020, p. 74–5. It was used in three locations: S-281913 (Perez Art Museum Miami, 2016), S-337473 (Wexner Center for the Arts, 2017), and S-334473 (Mass MoCA, 2019).Mass MoCA. Sarah Oppenheimer, S-334473. Retrieved July 15, 2021.Heinrich, Will. "Don’t Miss These Art Shows and Events This Fall," The New York Times, September 12, 2019. Retrieved July 22, 2021. N-01 (Kunstmuseum Thun, 2020) featured a dynamic exhibition system of mechanically interconnected thresholds.Yoon, Soyoung. "Buffer Zone," N-01, Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2020.

Awards and collections Oppenheimer has been awarded fellowships from the John S. Guggenheim Foundation (2007), American Academy in Rome (2010–1),and New York Foundation for the Arts (2016, 2010, 2006).New York Foundation for the Arts. "NYFA Announces Recipients and Finalists for 2016 Artists’ Fellowship Program," July 8, 2016. Retrieved July 14, 2021.New York Foundation for the Arts. "Names You Know," Alumni. Retrieved July 14, 2021. She has also received awards from Anonymous was a Woman (2013), the Joan Mitchell Foundation (2011), Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation (2009),The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. Sarah Oppenheimer, Award Winners, 2009. Retrieved July 14, 2021. and American Academy of Arts and Letters (2007), among others.Artforum. "American Academy of Arts and Letters, Art Cologne Announce Awards," March 23, 2007. Retrieved July 22, 2021. Her work belongs to the public art collections of Mudam, Perez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Mattress Factory, Baltimore Museum of Art,Baltimore Museum of Art. P-010100, Sarah Oppenheimer, Objects. Retrieved July 14, 2021. and Brown University.Brown University. Sarah Oppenheimer, P-131317 (2011), Public Art. Retrieved July 14, 2021.

External links Artist's website Sarah Oppenheimer interview with Alexander Galloway in BOMB, Fall 2016 Sarah Oppenheimer interview, Clocktower, June 2011

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