Considered a key member of The Pictures Generation, Sarah Charlesworth (b. 1947, East Orange, NJ, d. 2013, Falls Village, CT) is known for her conceptually-driven and visually alluring photo-based works. Through her exacting forms, assiduous process, and subjective interventions, Charlesworth aimed to subvert and deconstruct cultural imagery.
Charlesworth’s work has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at a number of institutions, including the major survey, Sarah Charlesworth: Doubleworld, at the New Museum, New York (2015), which traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2017); Stills at the Art Institute of Chicago, IL (2014); a retrospective organized by SITE Santa Fe (1997), which traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (1998); the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC (1998); and the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art (1999). Her work is in important public collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Charlesworth taught photography for many years at the School of Visual Arts, New York; the Rhode Island School of Design; and Princeton University.
