Sarah Cain, 1979
Sarah Cain was born in Albany, New York in 1979 and lives in Los Angeles. She received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2001 and a MFA from the University of California at Berkeley in 2006.
Artworks
Everything is Everything, 2018, Acrylic and beads on canvas
Braids and tassels, 2018, Acrylic and beads on canvas
Emotions, 2018, Acrylic and chains on canvas
And the night never ended, 2018, Acrylic, beads, gold and silver leaf and bells on canvas
Black Widow, 2018, Acrylic, beads, gouache and prism on canvas
Clear Day, 2018, Acrylic on canvas and sticks
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Sarah Cain, 1979
Sarah Cain was born in Albany, New York in 1979 and lives in Los Angeles. She received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2001 and a MFA from the University of California at Berkeley in 2006.
Biography
| 2001 | BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA |
| 2006 | Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME |
| MFA, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA |
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2018 | Wild Flower, Timothy Taylor, London, UK |
| 2017 | Sarah Cain, Aspen Art Museum at the Elk Camp on Snowmass Mountain, CO |
| now I'm going to tell you everything, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA), CA | |
| racing with the moon, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA | |
| 2016 | Dark Matter, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY |
| 2015 | Sarah Cain: The Imaginary Architecture of Love, Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh, Raleigh, NC |
| Sarah Cain: blue in your body, red when it hits the air, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA | |
| BOW DOWN, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2014 | hey babe take a walk on the wild side, A LAND Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA |
| Burning Bush, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY | |
| 2013 | LOUD OBJECT, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA |
| feral, Cardi Black Box, Milan, Italy | |
| 2012 | freedom is a prime number, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2011 | Sarah Cain: Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Bloom Projects, Santa Barbara, CA |
| 2010 | California Does Psychic, Sara Meltzer Gallery/Projects, New York, NY |
| little by little, CTRL Gallery, Houston, TX | |
| 2009 | Midnight Mission, off-site installation for the California Biennial, Five Thirty Three Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| Double Future, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland | |
| You Aurora Borealis Me, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY | |
| As if Only as Atmosphere, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA | |
| 2006 | I Believe We Are Believers, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA |
| 2005 | A River of Ifs, Queens Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA |
| 2004 | The Tree Outside, San Francisco Art Commission, San Francisco, CA |
| 2003 | Epigram on Being Alone: A Golden Willow Hits You on the Head, Lucky Tackle Gallery, Oakland, CA |
| 2001 | Elephant Juice/ I Love You, The LAB Annex, San Francisco, CA |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2018 | Surface Work, Victoria Miro, London, UK |
| Artwork for Bedrooms, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA | |
| Platforms, Armory Art Fair, New York, NY | |
| 2017 | Jump ball, Dio Horos, Mykonos, Greece |
| 2016 | Holdings: Selections from MCASD's Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA |
| Contemporary Collection, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX | |
| Surrogates, Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver, BC | |
| 2015 | Pure Paint for Now People, Shaw Gallery, Webster State University, Ogden, UT |
| 2014 | Variations: Conversations In And Around Abstract Painting, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| In ----- We Trust, Columbus Museum of Art, OH | |
| Now-ism: Abstraction Today, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH | |
| I was a double, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga, NY | |
| 2013 | My Crippled Fried, Columbus College of Arts and Design, Columbus, OH |
| Something about a Tree, curated by Linda Yablonsky, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY | |
| Outside The Lines, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX | |
| Untitled (Hybrid), curated by Kate McNamara, Robert Miller Gallery, NY | |
| Set Pieces, curated by Lauren Mackler and Andrew Berardini, Cardi Black Box, Milan, Italy | |
| Painting in Place, Los Angeles Nomadic Division, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Wall, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH | |
| PAINT THINGS: beyond the stretcher, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA | |
| 2012 | For the Martian Chronicles, L&M Arts, Los Angeles, CA |
| Stretching Painting, curated by Veronica Roberts, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY | |
| Bold Tendencies 6, London, UK | |
| Made in L.A. 2012, organized by the Hammer Museum in collaboration with LAXART, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Gold, curated by Thomas Zaunschirm, Imperial Belvedere Palace Museum, Vienna, Austria | |
| 2011 | Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
| Nothing Beside Remains, Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), Marfa and Los Angeles, CA | |
| Soft Math, Bryan Miller Gallery, Houston, TX | |
| The Thingness of Color, Dodge Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Two Schools of Cool, curated by Sarah Bancroft, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA | |
| 2010 | Feather Throat, Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany |
| Fade to Black, curated by Rachel Gugelberger and Jeffrey Walkowiak, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 2009 | Rebecca Morris and Sarah Cain, curated by Nancy Meyer, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2008 | California Biennial, curated by Laurie Firstenberg, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA |
| California Dreamin’, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland | |
| 2007 | SECA Art Award Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
| Like Color in Pictures, curated by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO | |
| In the Fullness of Time, The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA | |
| 2006 | Busan Biennale, curated by Doryun Chong, Busan, South Korea |
| A Century of Collage, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR | |
| 2005 | The Sleight of Hand: The Artist’s Touch, Lincart, San Francisco, CA |
| Book of Small, Open Space, Vancouver, BC | |
| Space is the Place, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA | |
| 2003 | Makeshift World, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 2002 | Brilliant Pebbles, Kunst PLUS, Dusseldorf, Germany |
| Fly Away, The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA | |
| 2001 | Group Show, The Smell, Los Angeles, CA |
Selected Awards, Prizes, Grants and Honours
| 2011 | The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant |
| 2008 | Durfee Grant |
| 2007 | The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant |
| 2006 | SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
Selected Public and Private Collections
| Blanton Museum of Art: The University of Texas at Austin |
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
| Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego |
| North Carolina Museum of Art |
| Perez Art Museum Miami |
| Pizzuti Collection, Columbus Ohio |
| San Antonio Museum of Art |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
| Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga |
| The FLAG Art Foundation, New York |
| The Margulies Collection, Miami |
| UBS Art Collection |
| Zabludowicz Collection, London |
Selected Publications
| 2016 | Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting. London: Phaidon, 2016 |
| 2015 | Mayer, Bernadette, Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, and Julian Myers. Sarah Cain The Imaginary Architecture of Love, CAM Raleigh; North Carolina, Distributed Art Publishers, 2015 |
| 2014 | Cann, Tyler and Nannette V. Maciejunes. In __ We Trust: Art and Money. Columbus: Columbus Museum of Art, 2014 |
| Arning, Bill, Valerie Cassel Oliver, and Dean Daderko. Outside the Lines. Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; New York: Distributed Art Publishers | |
| Ibel, Rebecca, Greer Pagano, David Pagel and Ron Pizzuti. NOW-ISM: Abstraction Today. Columbus: Pizzuti Collection, Hopkins Printing, 2014 | |
| Cann, Tyler and Nannette V. Maciejunes. In ___ We Trust: Art and Money. Columbus: Columbus Museum of Art, 2014 | |
| 2013 | Deitsch, Dina and Evan J. Garza. PAINT THINGS: beyond the stretcher. Lincoln, MA: deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum; Minneapolis: Shapco Printing, 2013 |
| 2012 | Husslein-Arco, Agnes and Thomas Zaunschirm. Gold. Vienna: Belvedere; Munich: Hirmer, 2012 |
| Berardini, Andrew, Tara McDowell, Shamim Momin, and Franklin Sirmans. Sarah Cain. Los Angeles: LAND, 2012 | |
| Ellegood, Anne, Lauri Firstenberg, Malik Gaines, Cesar Garcia and Ali Subotnick. Made in L.A. 2012. Los Angeles Hammer Museum, University of California; New York: DelMonico Books, Prestel, 2012 | |
| 2011 | Gass, Alison and Tanya Zimbardo. Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2011 |
| Bancroft, Sarah. Two Schools of Cool. Newport Beach: Orange County Museum of Art; Los Angeles: Fellows of Contemporary Art; New York: DelMonico Books, Prestel, 2011 | |
| 2009 | New Museum of Contemporary Art. Younger than Jesus Artist Directory: The essential handbook to the future of art. London; New York: Phaidon, 2009 |
| 2008 | Firstenberg, Lauri, Joshua Decter, and Rene Peralta, 2008 California Biennial. Newport Beach: Orange County Museum of Art, 2008 |
| 2007 | Jacobson, Heidi Zuckerman, Rhonda Lieberman, and James Welling. Like color in pictures. Aspen, CO: Aspen Art Museum, Aspen Art Press, 2007 |
| McDowell, Tara. 2006 Seca Art Award. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2007 |
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