Sara Magenheimer
Sara Magenheimer
Born in 1981, Philadelphia, United States
Lives and works in New York.
EDUCATION
2013 MFA Bard College
2004 BFA The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
BA Tufts University
Sara Magenheimer (b. 1981, Philadelphia) is an artist based in New York. Her works span a wide range of media: video, sound, performance, sculpture, collage, and installation. Magenheimer’s approach combines image and text in a bold way that aims to disrupt and broaden our typical perception of language. Her videos incorporate traditional filmic editing techniques alongside those inspired by music and collage. In syncopated progressions of pictures and words, Magenheimer pushes against the bounds of narrative, charting circuitous storylines through vernacular associations that invite individual interpretations. In 2018, the multi-channel video installation, NOON, was selected by the New Museum as part of the window installations. A selection of Magenheimer’s films is also on view as part of the Museum’s ongoing Screen Series, curated by Margot Norton.
Magenheimer has exhibited and performed at Brooklyn Academy of Music, the New York Film Festival, The Kitchen, White Columns, CANADA gallery, and MOMA PS1. Her works have been exhibited internationally at Futura Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic, Images Festival in Toronto, The Living Art Museum in Reykjavik, Iceland, the Performa 13 Biennial, International Film Festival Rotterdam, and C. off in Stockholm, Sweden. She has received commissions from Triple Canopy and EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She was the recipient of a 2014 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant, 2015 Artadia Grant, and winner of the Prix De Varti at the 2015 Ann Arbor Film Festival. Magenheimer has authored “Notes on Art and Resistance A–Z,” a downloadable PDF completed over the year following the 2016 US presidential election. The text comprises a sequence of personal meditations on making art in a time of profound political and social change.
Magenheimer has been teaching since 1999 and is Assistant Professor of New Media at SUNY Purchase College. She has been a visiting artist at NYU’s Steinhart School of the Arts and at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. As an educator she is dedicated to extending the discourse around the moving image to include various other artistic practices.
LuLLabIES, New York
March 20 - May 01, 2021
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Sara Magenheimer: NOON, New Museum, New York, NY
2017 I Collect Neglected Venoms, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
I Collect Neglected Venoms, The Kitchen, New York, NY
Five Places First, Chapter NY, New York, NY
2016 FEELS EVERYTHING LIKE SHOPPING, Art In General + kim?, Riga, Latvia
The Movie of the Same Name, COR&P, Columbus, OH
2015 Slow Zoom Long Pause, JOAN, Los Angeles, CA
False Alphabets, Recess, New York, NY
The Rhythm of Plain White, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Soap Opera Pop Music, Document, Chicago, IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Hello? God is the Space Between Us. anonymous gallery. New York, NY
Dear Delia . Shoot the Lobster. New York, NY
2018 Clay Club. Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York
Acoustic Holographic Language. Bureau Des Réalités, Brussels, Belgium
Frame Structures . Magenta Plains, New York, New York
I am a Scientist. V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017 GSM: Frequences on Sequences . National Radio, Reykjavik, Iceland
Sequences . Curated by Margot Norton. Kling & Bang Gallery. Reykjavik, Iceland
Surfacing . Curated by Cameron Martin. James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
Body Language . Sara Magenheimer and Hannah Black. The High Line, New York, NY
2016 Freud’s Mouth . Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Chatham Square . Foxy Production, New York, NY
MDF Blog . Planthouse, New York, NY
2015 White Rock #2SENSI2BCRITI . Curated by Siebren Versteeg. New Release Gallery, New York, NY
CCCC (Ceramics Club Cash and Carry). White Columns, New York, NY
Initial Conditions: Artists Make Spaces . Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT
A New Use of the Self . The Luminary Arts, St. Louis, MO
Hear: Time is Space . COR&P, Columbus, OH
Playlist . Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal, Canada
Telepathy or Esperanto? Futura Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic
2014 A Show of Hands . 247365 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Teen Glazed. Jane Harstock Gallery, Greenwhich House Pottery, New York, NY
Purple States. Andrew Edlin Gallery. New York, NY
The View from the Window. Chapter Gallery, New York, NY
Which arbitrary thing are you. Cleopatra’s, Brooklyn, NY
Artist Run. New Shelter Plan, Copenhagen, Denmark
Brucennial . Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, NY
Amy Sillman: One Lump or Two. Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
2013 Amy Sillman: One Lump or Two. ICA Boston, Boston, MA
ABRIKA. Court Square, Long Island City, Queens
2012 Parallelograms . Online publication, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Alula Editions. Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010. Residency . Berkeley Museum, Berkeley CA
The Secret Society . Berkeley Museum, Berkeley CA