Born 1974 in Philadelphia, PA, USA

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA

Education

BA, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, 1996

MFA, Hunter College, City University of New York, NY, USA, 2002

Attended École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, France, 2002

Solo Exhibitions

2026

Zigzags and Curves, Galerie Nordenhake and Casa Roja, Mexico City, Mexico

2025

Coastal, Focus, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden

Faire Foyer: Sarah Crowner In Dialogue with Etel Adnan, Bass Museum, Miami, FL, USA

Platform as Platform, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, USA

Tableaux en Laine, Pierres en Bronze, Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris, France

2024

Night for Day, Gagosian, Athens, Greece

Hot Light, Hard Light, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY, USA

2023

The Sea, the Sky, a Window, Hill Art Foundation, New York, NY, USA

Spring, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden

Around Orange, Pulitzer Art Foundation, St. Louis, MO, USA

Blues in Greens / Greens in Blues, Auroras and Casa de Vidro, Instituto Bardi, São Paulo, Brazil

2022

Serpentear: Reading Between the Ancient and the Modern, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico

Platform (Blue Green Terracotta for JC), The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX, USA

2021

Plant Based, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany

Sarah Crowner: Landscape, Kayne Griffin, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2020

Sarah Crowner, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY, USA

2019

Post Jacaranda, Galerie Nordenhake, Mexico City, Mexico

Three Concrete Sculptures, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Paintings for the Stage, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong, China

2018

Clay Bodies: Moving Through Ceramics, KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY, USA

Weeds, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2016

Plastic Memory, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK

Beetle in the Leaves, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, USA
Sarah Crowner / Tutsi Baskets, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden

2015

Everywhere the Line is Looser, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2014

Interiores, Travesia Cuatro, Guadalajara, Mexico

Sunday in the Park, organized with Sari Carel, Exile Brooks, Miami, FL, USA

Motifs, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium

The Wave, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2012

Geometric Park, SAKS Galerie, Geneva, Switzerland

Rehearsal, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden

2011

Acrobat, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY USA

Ballet Plastique, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium

Zig Zags and Curves, Helena Papadopoulos, Athens, Greece

2009

Paintings and Pots, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2008

Handbuilt Vessels, Nice + Fit Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Ceramics and Other Things, with Paulina Olowska, DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany

Group Exhibitions

2026

In Solidarity: An Exhibition Benefitting the American Immigration Council and Journey's End, David Zwirner, New York, NY, USA

On Paper, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany

The Sentence, Commerce Street Studios Annex, Brooklyn, NY, USA

2025

Sliced Tropics & Cosmic Dancers, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY, USA

Welcome to the Multiscape, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, USA

2025 Annual Exhibition, The Campus, Hudson, NY, USA

On Paper, Galerie Max Hetzler, London, UK

2024

Luhring Augustine x MASA, MASA Galería, Mexico City, Mexico

Tessellations, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Patterns, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY, USA

Subjective Color: Stan Brakhage, Sarah Crowner, Rosha Yaghmai, Julian Hoeber, Probably Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2023

A Summer Arrangement: Object & Thing at LongHouse, LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY, USA

New Abstracts, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA, USA

2022

No Forms, Hill Art Foundation, New York, NY, USA

2021

Ceramica Suro: A Story of Collaboration, Production, and Collecting in the Contemporary Art, Museo de Arte De Zapopan (MAZ), Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico

Field of Vision, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY, USA

New to the Collection, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Contemporary Art + Design: New Acquisitions, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA

2020

Must Dream About Blue Tonight, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China

Painting, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Sculpture, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2019

Hinge Pictures: Eight Women Artists Occupy the Third Dimension, Contemporary Art Center (CAC), New Orleans, LA, USA

Notebook, 56 Henry, New York, NY, USA

Abstract, Representational, and so forth, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2018

Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, USA

Painting/Object, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY, USA

Hinge Picture, Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), New Orleans, LA, USA

Hog's Curve, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY, USA

57th Carnegie Invitational, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Clay Bodies: Moving Through Ceramics, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft (KMAC), Louisville, KY, USA

2017

Mauvaises Herbes, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong, China

5KV/ 5 years of Art and Design on Kvalitár Gallery, Kvalitár Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

Für Barbara, Hall Art Foundation | Schloss Derneburg Museum, Derneburg, Germany

99 Cents or Less, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), Detroit, MI, USA

Building 6/ Summer Season, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, USA
You Should Be An Artist, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium

The Centre Cannot Hold, North East, Istanbul, Turkey

Salon Hang, Kunstverein, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2016

We Are Not Things, Invisible Exports, New York, NY, USA
If Only Bella Abzug Were Here, Marc Straus Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2015

Repetition and Difference, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, USA

Surface Tension, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY, USA
Faux Amis, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK

Space Between, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY, USA

2014

Conversation Piece, Museum of Fine Art (MFA), Boston, MA, USA
From Pre-History to Post-Evening, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Sunday in the Park, organized by Sari Carel and Exile Books, Locust Projects, Miami, FL, USA

2013

Painter Painter, curated by Eric Crosby and Bartholomew Ryan, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Pathfinder: And to End, curated by Arlène Berceliot Courtin, -1, Paris, France

Work, organized by Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY, USA

DNA: Strands of Abstraction, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Experienz #2, WIELS Contemporary Art Center, Brussels, Belgium

Edge, Order, Rapture: Geometric Abstraction, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY, USA

Questioning the canvas, Geukens & De Vil, Knokke, Belgium

Excursus IV: Primary Information, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Philadelphia, PA, USA

Spendor Tkaniny, Zachęta National Museum of Art, Warsaw, Poland

Abstract Generation: Now in Print, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY, USA

Larry Bell and Sarah Crowner Meet Marlow Moss, Kunstverein Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Beyond the Object, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy

2012

A gathering, Athens Festival, Athens, Greece

Surface in Volume, Luce Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Material Occupation, University Art Museum, University of Albany, Albany, NY, USA

2011

WE REGRET TO INFORM YOU THERE IS CURRENTLY NO SPACE OR PLACE FOR ABSTRACT PAINTING, Martos Gallery, New York, NY, USA

New Shadow Old Legs, Eleven Rivington, New York, NY, USA

Paying a Visit to Marty Part 2, Kunstverein, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2010

Peter Saville's 'Accessory to an Artwork', Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, NY, USA

Creeds, Colors and Combinations, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Owl Stretching Time, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany

Whitney Biennial 2010, curated by Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA

2009

Looking Back: The White Columns Annual, selected by Primary Information, White Columns, New York, NY, USA

For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn't there, curated by Anthony Huberman, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO, USA; traveled to Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) London, London, UK; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI, USA; De Appel Arts Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal

Cave Painting: Installment #1, Nice + Fit Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2008

Ceramics and Other Things, with Paulina Olowska, DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany

Opportunity as Community: Artists Select Artists, Part Two, Dieu Donne, New York, NY, USA

2006

White Columns, group project with North Drive Press, New York, NY, USA

Issue Project Space, New York, NY, USA

2002

MFA Exhibition, Hunter College City University of New York, New York, USA

Surveillance, Printed Matter, New York, NY, USA

1999

Frango Sinatra, Lisbon, Portugal

Performance, Stage Design & Collaborative Projects

2025-26

Pastoral, choreography by Pam Tanowitz, décor by Sarah Crowner, music by Caroline Shaw, Fischer Center LAB Commission, The Richard B. Fisher Center at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA; traveled to Lincoln Center, New York, USA

2024

Φως (Light), composed by Apostolis Koutsogiannis; performed by Oros Ensemble. Presented in conjunction with Night for Day, Gagosian, Athens, Greece

Pentagon Dance, choreographed by Madeline Hollander. Presented within The Sea, the Sky, a Window, Hill Art Foundation, New York, NY, USA

2023

Garden Blue, choreographed by Jessica Lang, sets and costumes by Sarah Crowner, Ballet Austin, The Long Center, Austin, TX, USA

Platform (Blue Green Terracotta for JC), choreographed by Laura Gutierrez, performed by cellist Matt Haimovitz, The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX, USA

2018-19

Garden Blue, choreographed by Jessica Lang, sets and costumes by Sarah Crowner, American Ballet Theater, David, H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, New York, NY, USA

2011-14

VIDAS PERFECTAS, The Irondale Center, New York, NY, USA; traveled to The Serpentine Gallery, London, UK; Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA; Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX, USA

Site Specific Projects & Commissions

2025

Platform as Platform, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, USA

2024

Morgan Lewis, Philadelphia, PA, USA

2023

The Sea, the Sky, a Window, Hill Art Foundation, New York, NY, USA

Around Orange, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO, USA

2022

Valhalla with Tatiana Bilbao, Punta De Mita, Mexico

Platform (Blue Green Terracotta for JC), The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX, USA

US Embassy of Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Serpentear: Reading Between the Ancient and the Modern, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico

2019

Park House, Dallas, TX, USA

2018

57th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA

Foundation, Veracruz, Mexico

2017

The Wright, Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York, NY, USA

2016

Beetle in the Leaves, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, USA

2008

Beatrice's Library, Nice + Fit, Berlin, Germany

2001

Garden Chairs, Luxembourg Gardens, Paris, France

Brooklyn Monochrome Project, New York, NY, USA

Residencies, Awards and Honors

2022 — Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX, USA

2020 — Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy

2019 — The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Captiva, FL, USA

2008 — Skopelos Foundation for Art, Skopelos, Greece

2007-08 — Artist in Residency, Ceramics Department, Hunter College City University, New York, NY, USA

1999 — ARCO: Centro de Art Communication Visual, Lisbon, Portugal

Monographs and Artist Books

2023

Sarah Crowner: Serpentear, Turner Publishing, Madrid, Spain

The Sea, the Sky, a Window, A Project by Sarah Crowner, Hill Art Foundation, New York, NY, USA

Sarah Crowner Alexandre da Cunha, exhibition catalogue, auroras, São Paulo, Brazil

2020

Stripes, self-published, New York, NY, USA [edition of 200]

2019

Post Jacaranda, exhibition catalogue, Galerie Nordenhake, Mexico City, Mexico [edition of 400]

2018

Patterns, Primary Information, New York, NY, USA

2017

Sarah Crowner, exhibition catalogue, Massachusetts Museum of Modern Art (MASS MoCA), North Adams, MA; and DelMonico Books, with the support of Prestel Publishing, New York, NY, USA

2015

Everywhere the Line is Looser, exhibition catalogue, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2013

Flying Paintings, self-published, New York, NY, USA [edition of 100, signed]

2012

Format, Primary Information, New York, NY, USA

2009

Selective Geometries, Olney Press in collaboration with ANTEPROJECTS, New York, NY, USA [edition of 50]

2008

Beatrice's Library, exhibition catalogue, self-published, New York, NY, USA

The Blind Man, nos 1 and 2. Facsimile project with support and publishing by Dexter Sinister, produced for Whitney Biennial 2008, New York, NY, USA

Group Exhibition Catalogue, Periodicals, and Other Publications

2026

Oda a Color, Vogue México y Latinoamérica, February 2026

2025

Seibert, Brian. Having a Conversation with the Past, The New York Times, 1 July 2025

Seibert, Brian. Ongoings On About Town: Dance, The New Yorker, 30 June 2025

Mimms, Walker. Pam Tanowitz's 'Pastoral' Weaves Beethoven, Art and City Traffic, The New York Times, 26 June 2025

Anesti, Katerina. Sarah Crowner, Iefimerida, Greece, January 2025

2024

Odell, Jenny. Sarah Crowner: Meeting in Time and Place, Gagosian Quarterly, Winter 2024

Dessent, Blaire. Sarah Crowner: Around Painting, TL Magazine, 15 January 2024

2023

Curtain, Painting, Platform, Pool: Sarah Crowner in Conversation with Ingrid Schaffner, Chinati Newsletter, 28 October 2023

Meinzer, Melissa. Explore Space, Place, and Materials with the Pulitzer Arts Foundation's Fall Exhibitions, St. Louis Magazine, 11 September 2023

2022

Carrizosa, Paula. En la obra de Sarah Crowner, la geometría se expresa como gesto y la materialidad es composición, La Jornada de Oriente, 22 December 2022

2021

Sarah Crowner with Tom McGlynn, The Brooklyn Rail, February 2021

Crowner, Sarah. Hantaï: Color, Shape, Indecisions, La Marche du Crabe, in Simon Hantaï, ER Publishing, Philadelphia

2019

Dispatch: Carnegie International, 57th Edition, exhibition catalogue, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Hinge Pictures: Eight Women Artists Occupy the Third Dimension, exhibition catalogue, Siglio Press, Catskill, NY, USA

2018

The Guide: Carnegie International, 57th Edition, exhibition catalogue, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Hoffmann, Jens. 99 Cents or Less, exhibition catalogue, Karma, New York, NY, USA

2015

Hoffmann, Jens, and Susan L. Braunstein. Repetition and Difference, exhibition catalogue, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, USA

Hudson, Suzanne Perling. Painting Now, Thames and Hudson, London, UK

2014

Excursus I-IV, exhibition catalogue, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA

2013

Dumbadze, Alexander, and Suzanne Hudson. Contemporary Art: 1989 to the Present, Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, UK

Jachula, Michal, and Martha Kawalewska, The Splendor of Textiles, exhibition catalogue, Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuka, Warsaw, Polan

Painter Painter: Notes for an Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA

2012

Material Occupation, exhibition catalogue, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY, USA

2011

Cashdan, Marina. "Sarah Crowner" in Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting, Phaidon, London, UK

2010

Bonami, Francesco and Gary Carrion-Murayari, 2010: Whitney Biennial, exhibition catalogue, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA

2009

Huberman, Anthony. For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn't there, exhibition catalogue, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, USA

Public Collections

Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

The Contemporary Austin, TX, USA

Dallas Museum of Art, TX, USA

The Hall Art Foundation, Kunstmuseum Schloss, Derneburg, Germany

He Art Museum (HEM), Foshan, China

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA, USA

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), North Adams, MA, USA

Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA, USA

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY, USA

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA