About - Sarah Wentworth

Sarah Wentworth (MFA Tufts/Museum School, BFA MassArt) is a Boston area artist who uses photography and other forms of documentation in performative, conceptual projects. Her work has been exhibited at the Mills Gallery, Trustman Gallery at Simmons College, Danforth Museum, Brattleboro Museum, The Curated Fridge and included in White Columns’ Artist Registry. She is best known for her Postcard Project: Surreptitious Installations, in which she appropriated the use of museum shops as exhibition space to humorously subvert the sequence of art marketing in the creation of artists’ reputations. In other projects, including Passport Pictures and Tourist Pictures, she used performed photos of herself as various personae, considering image and identity. More recently, her Fishline Creature series of performed photos have set a fictional mythology within the reality of oceanic plastic contamination.

email: sarahwentworth@msn.com

Education

MFA Tufts/Museum School, Boston MA

BFA Mass College of Art, Boston MA

Exhibitions

2018

Indefinable Nature: Ashley Billingsley & Sarah Wentworth, Hynes Center, Boston, MA, Curator Caitlin Foley

2017

The Curated Fridge, Somerville MA Curator Arlette Kayafas

Nasty Women Boston, Boston

Nave 155, Nave Gallery, Somerville MA

Habitat/ion MassArt Bakalar Gallery, Boston MA

Landscape, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins CO

Small Works, Chandler Gallery, Cambridge MA

2016

Sarah Wentworth: The Fishline Creature, St Botolph Club, Boston MA 2016 (solo)

Fertile Solitude, Mills Gallery, Boston MA Curator Elizabeth Devlin

Caprices, Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston MA

2015

The Curated Fridge, Somerville MA, Curator Caleb Cole

In Sight, Lesley University, Cambridge MA

Who Might I Be? Pretending, Nave Gallery, Somerville MA

Islands on the Edge, Atlantic Wharf Gallery, Boston MA

2014

Winter, Nave Gallery Annex, Somerville MA

2013

Off the Wall, Danforth Museum, Framingham MA

Community of Artists, Danforth Museum, Framingham MA

Appearances, Fine Arts Center, Provincetown MA

2011

Sarah Wentworth: Performed Photos, 301 Gallery, Montserrat College, Beverly MA (solo)

Chain Letter, Samsøn Projects, Boston

2009

Gaze, Singer Editions Gallery, Boston MA

2008

As Others See Us: The Contemporary Portrait, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro VT

Your Documents Please, (Berlin, Budapest, Japan, etc.), traveling exhibition

2007

Word of Mouth, Gallery Diet, Bridge Art Fair, Miami, FL (organized by Brian Burkhardt)

Urban Space Off, FotoRio 2007 Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, & New Life Shop, Berlin

Urban Space Off, 7th Fotopub, Novo Mesto, Slovenia, and 5th FotoArte, Brasilia, Brazil

Anonymous Drawings 7, blütenweiss at Glue, Berlin, Germany

Tufts University Gallery, Medford MA

2006

Threads Counts Project, GASP Gallery (online), Brookline MA

2005

Small Works, Kingston Gallery, Boston MA

I Protest, Hallspace Gallery, Boston MA

2004

Somerville Museum, Somerville MA

2003

Cabinet of Wonders, Southeast Museum, Brewster, NY

2001

Postcards to New York, Columbia University, New York, NY

Inner Terrains, Lasell College, Newton MA

2000

THE POSTCARD PROJECT: Surreptitious Installations, Tufts University Gallery, Medford MA

Performances, Actions & Temporary Events

2012 The Nest (temporary installation), Sculpture Garden, TSKW, Key West FL

2010 Waiting for Enlightenment - Miami art fairs, (appearances), #rank, (organized by Jennifer Dalton & William Powhida) a Winkleman Gallery project at SEVEN, Miami Art Fairs, Miami, FL

2000 The Art Museum Matron/Patron (appearances) in Boston MA

2000 THE POSTCARD PROJECT: Surreptitious Installations (actions, in chronological order)

National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C

Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C

Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C

Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C

Teatre-Museu Dali, Figures, Spain

Museo Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain

1999 THE POSTCARD PROJECT: Surreptitious Installations (actions, in chronological order)

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston MA

Guggenheim Museum, New York

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

Awards, Talks and Other Activities

2016 White Columns Artist Registry, New York NY, (2016-2019): online

2012 Artist Talk, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2012 Residency, The Studios at Key West, Key West, FL

2011 Artist Talk, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly MA

2011 Massachusetts Cultural Council, Sculpture Finalist

2009 Somerville Arts Council, Sculpture Grant

2008 Panel presentation Tourist Pictures: Memory, Pilgrimage and the Art of the Souvenir, Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC), New Orleans LA

2001 Guest Curator, The Chicken Show, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston MA

Published

Shots Magazine, “Portraits”, Issue no 135, spring 2017

Michelman, Elizabeth, “No Risk, No Return: Seeking Fertile Solitude at Mills,” Artscope Magazine, Nov/Dec 2016

Kiers, Olivia, “Exploring a Labyrinth: Fertile Solitude at the Mills Gallery” Art New England, (October 28, 2016): online

Smee, Sebastian, “The Many Guises of Sarah Wentworth,” The Boston Globe, May 8, 2010

Beem, Edgar Allen, “As Others See Us,” Just Looking: New England Art Blog, Yankee Magazine, (January 16, 2009): online

Colson, Nicole, “An Unusual Contemporary Photo Exhibit at the Brattleboro Museum,” The Keene Sentinel, November 26, 2008

McQuaid, Cate, “Shadow and Misty Tones Dance,” The Boston Globe, July 12, 2007

Mulski, Susan, “The Chicken Show,” Art New England, December 2001

Rosenblatt, Mia. “The Discreet Subversion of Surreptitious Installations” PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Vol. 23, No. 2, The MIT Press, May 2001

Wentworth, Sarah, “Chicken Stuff(ing)” The Chicken Show exhibition catalog, BCA Boston, 2001

Freeman, Nan, and Mia Rosenblatt, The Postcard Project: Surreptitious Installations, School of the Museum of Fine Arts Press, Boston 2000, ISBN: 1-880515-57-1