Biography
Sarah Crowner (b. Philadelphia, 1974) is an artist whose practice spans painting, architectural installation, sculpture, and stage design. Using geometry and color as a visual language, she creates work that invites viewers to move through and inhabit painting. Developed in dialogue with architecture and art history, her projects often extend beyond the gallery wall into distinctive sites and environments. Through sewn canvas paintings, tiled platforms, and large-scale installations, Crowner explores how individual elements come together to form a larger whole and how color, line, light, and movement shape our experience of space.
Collections include the Art Institute of Chicago; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Contemporary Austin, Texas; Dallas Museum of Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Selected exhibitions and installations include Beetle in the Leaves, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts (2016–17); Platform (Blue Green Terracotta for JC), Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas (2022–24); Serpentear, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico (2022–23); Blues in Greens | Greens in Blues, Instituto Bardi / Casa de Vidro and Auroras, São Paulo, Brazil (2023); Around Orange, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis (2023–24); The Sea, the Sky, a Window, Hill Art Foundation, New York (2023–24); and solo exhibitions at the Bass Museum of Art, Miami, and the Museum of Art at Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia (2025). Her recent work for performance includes Pastoral (2025-26), a Fischer Center LAB Commission created with choreographer Pam Tanowitz and composer Caroline Shaw, presented at Bard College's Fischer Center and later at Lincoln Center. Forthcoming projects include a solo exhibition at The Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe (2027).
Sarah Crowner (b. Philadelphia, 1974) is an artist whose practice spans painting, architectural installation, sculpture, and stage design. Using geometry and color as a visual language, she creates work that invites viewers to move through and inhabit painting. Developed in dialogue with architecture and art history, her projects often extend beyond the gallery wall into distinctive sites and environments. Through sewn canvas paintings, tiled platforms, and large-scale installations, Crowner explores how individual elements come together to form a larger whole and how color, line, light, and movement shape our experience of space.
Collections include the Art Institute of Chicago; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Contemporary Austin, Texas; Dallas Museum of Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Selected exhibitions and installations include Beetle in the Leaves, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts (2016–17); Platform (Blue Green Terracotta for JC), Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas (2022–24); Serpentear, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico (2022–23); Blues in Greens | Greens in Blues, Instituto Bardi / Casa de Vidro and Auroras, São Paulo, Brazil (2023); Around Orange, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis (2023–24); The Sea, the Sky, a Window, Hill Art Foundation, New York (2023–24); and solo exhibitions at the Bass Museum of Art, Miami, and the Museum of Art at Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia (2025). Her recent work for performance includes Pastoral (2025-26), a Fischer Center LAB Commission created with choreographer Pam Tanowitz and composer Caroline Shaw, presented at Bard College's Fischer Center and later at Lincoln Center. Forthcoming projects include a solo exhibition at The Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe (2027).