Sara VanDerBeek

Sara VanDerBeek was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1976 and studied at The Cooper Union School of Art and Science in New York. Her father was the experimental film maker, Stan VanDerBeek, who died when she was just seven.

Sara VanDerBeek’s semi-abstract photographs are based mostly on sculptural forms created by the artist. In the past, she has collected pictures from various sources, including art history books, archives, magazines, and newspapers, incorporating them into sculptures which are photographed in the artist’s studio.

Her work has been included in numerous thematic exhibitions such as Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, N.Y.C.; New Photography 2009 at the Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.C.; Signs of the Times at the Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y.C.; A New High in Getting Low at Art Forum Berlin, Berlin, Germany; The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place at the Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK; and Radiant City at Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA. In 2010 she held her first solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Sara VanDerBeek lives and works in New York City.

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