Sara VanDerBeek

♀ *1976 / United States

Works

Solo exhibitions

Veiled Presence

The Hidden Mothers and Sara VanDerBeek

Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach (US)
1 Oct 2025 – 30 Nov 2025
Women & Museums

Metro Pictures, New York (US)
5 Sep 2019 – 19 Oct 2019
Sara VanDerBeek

Altman Siegel, San Francisco (US)
27 Jun 2019 – 31 Aug 2019
Sara VanDerBeek

The Minneapolis Institute, Minneapolis (US)
7 Mar 2019 – 28 Jul 2019
Sara VanDerBeek

Metro Pictures, New York (US)
15 Sep 2016 – 29 Oct 2016
Electric Prisms, Concrete Forms

The Approach, London (GB)
14 Oct 2015 – 13 Dec 2015
Front Room: photography and sculpture

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore (US)
12 Apr 2015 – 20 Sep 2015
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Altman Siegel, San Francisco (US)
5 Jun 2014 – 2 Aug 2014
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MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland (US)
7 Mar 2014 – 8 Jun 2014
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Metro Pictures, New York (US)
2 May 2013 – 8 Jun 2013
Sara VanDerBeek

The Approach, London (GB)
24 May 2012 – 24 Jun 2012
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UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (US)
10 Sep 2011 – 8 Jan 2012
Of Ruins and Light

Altman Siegel, San Francisco (US)
12 Nov 2010 – 23 Dec 2010
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Whitney Museum Art, New York (US)
17 Sep 2010 – 5 Dec 2010
Mirror in the sky

D'Amelio Terras, New York (US)
8 Sep 2006 – 14 Oct 2006

Group

Cut Up/Cut Out: Photomontage from the Collection

Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach (US)
3 Aug 2024 – 17 Nov 2024

with Romare Bearden, Jay DeFeo, Barbara Kruger, Martha Rosler
Tabula Rasa

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (US)
30 May 2024 – 12 Jul 2024

with Michele Abeles, Sarah Charlesworth, Talia Chetrit, Aria Dean, Liz Deschenes, Sam Durant, Douglas Huebler, Larry Johnson, Mike Kelley, Joseph Kosuth, Deana Lawson, Glenn Ligon …
Signals

How Video Transformed the World

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
5 Mar 2023 – 8 Jul 2023

with John Akomfrah, Gretchen Bender, Dara Birnbaum, Tony Cokes, Emily Jacir, Amar Kanwar, Nam June Paik, Sondra Perry, Martine Syms, Ming Wong
You Are Looking at Something That Never Occurred

Zabludowicz Collection, London (GB)
30 Mar 2017 – 9 Jul 2017

with Lucas Blalock, Anne Collier, Sara Cwynar, Natalie Czech, Andreas Gursky, Elad Lassry, Richard Prince, Thomas Ruff, Cindy Sherman, Erin Shirreff, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jeff Wall …
The Artist’s Museum

ICA Institute Contemp Art, Boston (US)
16 Nov 2016 – 26 Mar 2017

with Rosa Barba, Carol Bove, Rachel Harrison, Louise Lawler, Mark Leckey, Pierre Leguillon, Goshka Macuga, Christian Marclay, Xaviera Simmons, Rosemarie Trockel
Artists' Choice

An Expanded Field of Photography

Mass MoCA, North Adams (US)
23 May 2015 – 24 Apr 2016

with Dana Hoey, Craig Kalpakjian, Miranda Lichtenstein, Josh Tonsfeldt, Randy West
Photo-Poetics: An Anthology

Guggenheim New York, New York (US)
20 Nov 2015 – 23 Mar 2016

with Claudia Angelmaier, Erica Baum, Anne Collier, Moyra Davey, Leslie Hewitt, Elad Lassry, Lisa Oppenheim, Erin Shirreff, Kathrin Sonntag
Photo Poetics - An Anthology

PalaisPopulaire, Berlin (DE)
10 Jul 2015 – 30 Aug 2015

with Claudia Angelmaier, Erica Baum, Anne Collier, Moyra Davey, Leslie Hewitt, Elad Lassry, Lisa Oppenheim, Erin Shirreff, Kathrin Sonntag
Under Construction

New Positions in American Photography

foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam (NL)
14 Mar 2015 – 26 Apr 2015

with Joshua Citarella, Sara Cwynar, Jessica Eaton, Daniel Gordon, Matt Lipps, Matthew Leifheit & Cynthia Talmadge, Matthew Porter, Kate Steciw
Under Construction

New Positions in American Photography

foam Fotografiemuseum, Brooklyn (US)
14 Mar 2015 – 26 Apr 2015

with Joshua Citarella, Sara Cwynar, Jessica Eaton, Daniel Gordon, Matt Lipps, Matthew Leifheit & Cynthia Talmadge, Matthew Porter, Kate Steciw
Under Construction

New Positions in American Photography

foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam (NL)
17 Sep 2014 – 10 Dec 2014

with Lucas Blalock, Joshua Citarella, Jessica Eaton, Daniel Gordon, Owen Kydd, Matt Lipps, Matthew Porter, Kate Steciw
Soft Target

Casa MB., Los Angeles (US)
26 Jun 2014 – 30 Aug 2014

with Richard Caldicott, Julie Cockburn, Sara Cwynar, Shannon Ebner, Andrea Galvani, David Goldes, Peter Holzhauer, Whitney Hubbs, Tim Hyde, Ron Jude, Soo Kim, Anna Kleberg …
Daegu Biennale 2012 - PHOTOGRAPHY IS MAGIC!

Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu (KR)
20 Sep 2012 – 28 Oct 2012

with Lotta Antonsson, Seung Woo Back, Sara Blokland, Sebastiaan Bremer, Bianca Brunner, Denis Darzacq, Nancy de Holl, Liz Deschenes, Charlotte Dumas, Jessica Eaton, Shannon Ebner, Emmeline De Mooij / Viviane Sassen …
Photography sculpture figure

Casa MB., Los Angeles (US)
15 Sep 2012 – 27 Oct 2012

with Daphne Fitzpatrick, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, K8 Hardy, Mariah Robertson
OUT OF FOCUS: PHOTOGRAPHY

Saatchi Gallery, London (GB)
23 Apr 2012 – 22 Jul 2012

with Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou, Olaf Breuning, Jonny Briggs, Elina Brotherus, Anders Clausen, Mat Collishaw, Matthew Day Jackson, JH Engstroem, Mitch Epstein, Andreas Gefeller, Luis Gispert …
The Anxiety of Photography

Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (US)
13 May 2011 – 17 Jul 2011

with Miriam Boehm, Colby Bird, Liz Deschenes, Roe Ethridge, Mario Garcia Torres, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Leslie Hewitt, Matt Keegan, Annette Kelm, Elad Lassry, Anthony Pearson, Matt Saunders …
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance

Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao (ES)
9 Nov 2010 – 13 Mar 2011

with Marina Abramovic, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Walead Beshty, Christian Boltanski, Slater Bradley, Sophie Calle, James Casebere, Anne Collier, Gregory Crewdson, Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Lucinda Devlin …
Haunted : Contemporary photography / video / performance

Guggenheim New York, New York (US)
26 Mar 2010 – 6 Sep 2010

with Marina Abramovic, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Walead Beshty, Christian Boltanski, Sophie Calle, James Casebere, Paul Chan, Sarah Charlesworth, Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Stan Douglas, Ori Gersht …
In a Paperweight

Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago (US)
16 Apr 2010 – 15 May 2010

with Walead Beshty, Sebastiaan Bremer, Daniel Gordon, Tamar Halpern, Barbara Kasten, James Welling
New Photography 2009

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
30 Sep 2009 – 11 Jan 2010

with Walead Beshty, Daniel Gordon, Leslie Hewitt, Carter Mull, Sterling Ruby
Weird Beauty: Fashion Photography Now

International Center of Photography - Year of Fashion

ICP Center of Photography, New York (US)
16 Jan 2009 – 3 May 2009

with Miles Aldridge, John Baldessari, Laurie Bartley, Richard Burbridge, Jessica Craig-Martin, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Marcus Gaab, Nan Goldin, Inez & Vinoodh, Mikael Jansson, Krisanne Johnson, Greg Kadel …
Signs of the Time

Whitney Museum Art, New York (US)
19 Sep 2008 – 31 Dec 2008

with James Casebere, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Sam Durant, Katy Grannan, Gordon Parks, Sam Samore
Untitled (Vicarious): Photographing the constructed object

Gagosian Gallery, New York (US)
23 Sep 2008 – 20 Dec 2008

with Roger Ballen, Gregory Crewdson, Neville D'Almeida, Thomas Demand, Shannon Ebner, Fischli & Weiss, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Anne Hardy, Leslie Hewitt, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Carter Mull, Vik Muniz …
untitled (vicarious) - photographing the constructed object

Gagosian Gallery, New York (US)
23 Sep 2008 – 1 Nov 2008

with Roger Ballen, Gregory Crewdson, Thomas Demand, Shannon Ebner, Fischli & Weiss, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Anne Hardy, Leslie Hewitt, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Carter Mull, Vik Muniz, Hélio Oiticica …

Events

OFFSCREEN 2024

Installations, Still and Moving images

OFFSCREEN, Paris (FR)
16 Oct 2024 – 20 Oct 2024

with Laurence Aegerter, Kelani Abass, Chantal Akerman, Lita Albuquerque, Ever Astudillo, Andres Denegri, Jonas Englert, TR Ericsson, Yannig Hedel, Benjamin Heisenberg, Lukas Hoffmann, Alfredo Jaar …
New Visions

The Henie Onstad Triennial for Photography and New Media

Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden (NO)
21 Feb 2020 – 16 May 2020

with Morten Andenaes, Viktoria Binschtok, Lucas Blalock, Lucile Boiron, Asger Carlsen, Louisa Clement, Sara Cwynar, Ingrid Eggen, Roe Ethridge, Espen Gleditsch, Andrea Gruetzner, Annette Kelm …
Frieze Art Fair | Los Angeles

Frieze art fair, Los Angeles (US)
14 Feb 2020 – 16 Feb 2020

with Francis Alys, William Eggleston, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Idris Khan, Danny Lyon, Florian Maier-Aichen, Richard Misrach, Richard Mosse, Trevor Paglen, Gordon Parks, Diana Thater, Hank Willis Thomas …
Art Basel Miami Beach 2018

Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami (US)
6 Dec 2018 – 9 Dec 2018

with Ignasi Aballi, Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Darren Almond, Darren Almond, Erica Baum, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Vanessa Beecroft, Valerie Belin, Dirk Braeckman, Kwame Brathwaite, Nancy Burson …
LISTE - Art Fair Basel

Liste - The young Art Fair, Basel (CH)
11 Jun 2018 – 17 Jun 2018

with HAN Bing, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Danielle Dean, Lynn Hershman, Lauren Huret, Paul Maheke, Willa Nasatir, Perejaume, Em Rooney