Sarah Sze is a sculptor and installation artist based in New York City, where she is a professor of visual arts at Columbia University. Born in Boston in 1969, she trained in architecture and painting at Yale University, graduating summa cum laude in 1991, and earned an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 1997. Her intricate, often room-filling installations assemble everyday objects into constellations exploring memory, technology, and information overload, spanning painting, sculpture, video, and site-specific installation. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2003, represented the United States at the 2013 Venice Biennale, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020. Her work is held in the permanent collections of MoMA, the Guggenheim, and Tate Modern, and she has completed public commissions for the MTA, the High Line, and LaGuardia Airport's Terminal B.

Sarah Sze's immersive works challenge the static nature of art. Her work questions the value society places on images and objects and how they both ascribe meaning to the places and times we inhabit. Widely recognized for expanding the boundaries between painting, sculpture, video and installation, Sze's work ranges from intimate paintings that collapse time and space to expansive installations that create complex constellations of materials and public works that scale walls and colonize architectures. Sze was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2003 and a Radcliffe Fellowship in 2005. In 2013, she represented the United States at the Venice Biennale. Her work is exhibited in museums worldwide and held in the permanent collections of prominent institutions such as The Museum of Modern Art, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and The Tate Modern. Sze has created many public works including pieces for the Seattle Opera House, The Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York and The High Line in New York. In 2020, Sze completed "Shorter than the Day" for LaGuardia's new Terminal B.