sawyer rose, FRSA, MRSS | CV

Awards & Honors

• 2024, The Puffin Foundation, Ltd. artist grant

• 2023, Sheridan Prize for Art, Monetary Prize & Honorable Mention

• 2022, The Janssen Commercial Data Sciences Data + Art Festival, Monetary Prize & 1st Runner Up, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

• 2021, The Commission on the Status of Women of Santa Clara County, with New Museum Los Gatos, grant in support of programming for “SAWYER ROSE: Carrying Stones” exhibition

• 2020, Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation artist grant

• 2020, Anonymous Was a Woman, with New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) artist grant

• 2020, The RASA: Ringholz Art Supply Awards 2020 artist grant

• 2020, Finalist, The Money For Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund

• 2018, Artist Grant, www.artistgrant.org

• 2017, The Awesome Foundation Grant

• 2016, Vermont Studio Center Merit Grant (also 2013, 2014)

• 2015, Juror's Choice (Juror: Maryanna Rogers, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, Stanford University)

• 2014, Center for Cultural Innovation, Creative Capacity Fund

Fellowships & Residencies

• 2024, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY

• 2023, Le Moulin à Nef Residency, Auvillar, France

• 2022, Member, Royal Society of Sculptors, London, England

• 2021, Fellow, Royal Society for Arts, London, England

• 2021, Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), Amherst, VA

• 2020, Finalist, SPACE at Ryder Farm, Family Residency (cancelled; COVID)

• 2018, The Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL

• 2017, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA

• 2016, The Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig, Newbliss, Co. Monaghan, Ireland

• 2016, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San Francisco, CA

• 2016, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC

• 2016, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont (also 2013, 2014)

• 2014 - 2016, Town of Fairfax Artist-in-Residence

Solo Exhibitions

Forthcoming

• 2025, Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, AL

2023

• “The Carrying Stones Project,” The Art Center Highland Park, Highland Park, IL

• “Sawyer Rose: The Carrying Stones Project,” University of Redlands, Redlands, CA

2022

• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 2022 Frank Porter Graham Lecture and exhibition for Honors Carolina

• Red Hat Corporate Headquarters, Raleigh, NC and Red Hat Corporate Offices, Boston, MA

2021

• “SAWYER ROSE: Carrying Stones,” New Museum of Los Gatos, works from The Carrying Stones Project, Los Gatos, CA

2019

• “For Neither Love Nor Money: Women's Invisible Labor,” Sculpture, photographic portraiture, social practice, from The Carrying Stones Project, San Marco Gallery, Dominican University, San Rafael, CA

• “Counting the Hours: Art, Data, and the Untold Stories of Women’s Work,” Sculpture, photographic portraiture, social practice, from The Carrying Stones Project, Code and Canvas, San Francisco, CA

2017

• "Force of Nature: Women’s Work Visualized," sculpture, photographic portraiture, social practice, from The Carrying Stones Project, Classic Cars West Gallery, Oakland, CA. Curated by Dasha Matsuura, director, Spoke Art

2016

• "Ties That Bind," public sculpture, social practice, and performance, from The Carrying Stones Project, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San Francisco, CA

2015

• “Flux,” Classic Cars West Gallery with Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland, CA

• "Subtle/Luminous," Marin County Free Library with Fairfax Artist in Residence Program, Fairfax, CA

2012-2014

• “Dusk to Dawn,” Inclusions Gallery, San Francisco, CA

• Marin Headlands Center, Sausalito, CA

• “NATIVE: California Plants in Metal, Glass & Light,” Inclusions Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Interactive Events & Performances

2021

• “Balance Due,” interactive sculpture co-created by visitors to New Museum Los Gatos using their own work data, Los Gatos, CA

• “SHIFT \ work,” interactive event exploring invisible labor by building data visualization sculptures, New Museum Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA

• “Women in the Workforce & Equitable Futures,” panel discussion featuring participants from The Carrying Stones Project, Los Gatos, CA

2020

• “The Weight of Your World,” dance collaboration with RAWdance, featuring movement artist Stacey Yuen and sculptures by Sawyer Rose, inspired by Covid-19’s impacts on domestic life.

2019

• “Backbone,” collaboration with RAWdance, choreographed by Co-Artistic Director Katie Wong, features a quartet of female movement artists and is inspired by the subjects, process and visual art works in the “Counting the Hours” exhibition.

• "Crafting Balance," social practice public interactive event, Code & Canvas, San Francisco, CA

2017

• "The Weight of Your World," social practice public interactive event, Classic Cars West Gallery, Oakland, CA

2016

• "Ties That Bind," social practice public sculpture assembly event, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San Francisco, CA

• "Ties That Bind," 10-minute performance with 13 actors, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San Francisco, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

• "(Re)Work It! Women Artists on Women’s Labor” Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT

• “Process,” Art Works Downtown, Curated by Karen Gutfreund, San Rafael, CA

• "25th International Open," Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

• “48 Pillars,” Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2023

• “Creativity offers us a new formula for life,” The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, RSA House, London

• “Now: As a consequence of fact,” Pen + Brush, New York, NY

• The Procreate Project Archive exhibition, Lewisham, London, UK

• “New Members Exhibition 2023,” National Association of Women Artists, New York, NY

• “Past Tense, Future Infinite,” with Sculptors Guild NY, CultureLab, New York, NY

• “Oh, Mother!” Hera Gallery, Hera Educational Foundation, Wakefield, RI

2022

• “Women Artists Making Their Mark,” O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA | Jurors: Donna Seager and Suzanne Gray

• “Agency: Feminist Art and Power,” Museum of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, CA

• “Data + Art Festival,” Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, with Janssen Commercial Data Sciences

• “Composing the Future 2,” DiNapoli Gallery, San José State University, San José, CA

2021

• “Seen x Unseen,” Radian Gallery with The Invisibility Collective, San Francisco, CA

• “48 Pillars,” Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA

• “Composing The Future,” Bankhead Theater Gallery, Livermore, CA

2020

• “Collectively Shifting,” with National Women’s Caucus for Art, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL

• “Us: What divides us and what unites us?” Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC

• “What Are You Voting For?” Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

• “Seen x Unseen,” Radian Gallery with The Invisibility Collective, San Francisco, CA

• “Women Artists Making Their Mark,” O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA

• “31 Women,” Whitney Modern Gallery, Los Gatos, CA

• “Changing a Point of View,” Curated by All SHE Makes + WoArtBlog

• “Family Matters,” Curated by Bonny Nahmias + Root Division, San Francisco, CA

• “Flora: The Other Endangered Species,” Chico Art Center, Chico, CA

• “Shelter in Place,” online exhibition, Fairfax Artist in Residence Collective, Fairfax, CA

2019

• “Crashing the Party,” The Plaxall Gallery, LIC, NY

• “Content Matters,” Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA

  “…dream again,” The Plaxall Gallery, LIC, NY

• “48 Pillars,” Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA

• “F213,” with Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA

• Desta Gallery, San Anselmo, CA

2018

• Art Market San Francisco, 2 main floor on-site installations

• SCOPE art fair, New York, NY

• Art on Paper art fair, New York, NY

• “Relevance, Women Expressed,” Desta Gallery, San Anselmo, CA

• "EARTH," Senator Scott Weiner's Office for the Governor's Global Action Climate Summit, San Francisco, CA

• “Politics of Space,” with Sculptors Guild, The Plaxall Gallery, LIC, NY

• CK Contemporary, San Francisco, CA

• “tiny & HUGE,” STUDIO Gallery, San Francisco, CA

• "Make Your Mark," Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA

• "eco-ART: The Art of Human Interaction with the Environment," The Art Center, Highland Park, IL

• "NOD to MOD," H Gallery, Ventura, CA

• "ka-POW! Heroic Women," with Northern California Women's Caucus for Art, Alameda, CA

• "Squared Alumni," Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2017

• "Currently 80," with Sculptors Guild, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY

• "Currently 80 on Governors Island," with Sculptors Guild, Governors Island, New York, NY

• "Selections 2017," with ArtSpan SF, Heron Arts, San Francisco, CA

• CK Contemporary, San Francisco, CA

• "Wood, Metal & Memory," 3-artist exhibition, Inclusions Gallery, San Francisco, CA

• "Crop Up," Third Street Village Gallery, San Francisco, CA

• "Legacy of Creativity," Hance Fine Arts Center, Charlotte, NC

• "American Twist," Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA

• “Bike,” Back to the Picture Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2016

• "Seeds of the Monoliths," 9-piece sculpture installation, Room Art Gallery, Mill Valley, CA

• Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland, CA

• Art Market San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

• "American Twist," Sculptors Guild, New York, NY

• "The Alchemist," Root Division, San Francisco, CA

• "Abstract Sanctuary," Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland, OR

• "Surface & Strata," GearBox Gallery, Oakland, CA (two-artist show)

• "Terrain," STUDIO Gallery, San Francisco, CA

• "tiny," STUDIO Gallery, San Francisco, CA

• "Backyard Beauty," Harrington Gallery, Pleasanton, CA

• "International Sculpture Day Exhibit," Art Object Gallery, San Jose, CA

• "Impulse," ARC Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2015

• 9-piece sculpture installation, Room Art Gallery, Mill Valley, CA

• Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland, CA

• StARTup Art Fair, ArtSpan Artist Exhibit, San Francisco, CA

• "14th National Prize Show," Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge Art Assn., Cambridge, MA

• "Hilton Head Biennial," Walter Greer Gallery, Hilton Head, SC

• Waterloo Arts Gallery, Cleveland, OH

• "ArtSpan Juried Benefit Art Auction," SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA

• "Wetlands," Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA

Selected 2012-2014

• "Retrospective 7," Inclusions Gallery, San Francisco, CA

• "Crazy Big Art Show," Mine Gallery, Fairfax, CA

• “FourSquared,” Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA

• "ReThinkIt: New Ways of Thinking About Art & the Environment," Vernon Davis Foundation for the Arts, San Jose, CA

• “Rooted,” Lark & Key Gallery, Charlotte, NC

• “Explorations Westward,” Mine Gallery, Fairfax, CA

• The Grand Hand Gallery, Napa, CA

Major Commissions

• 2015, 9-piece suspended sculpture installation, Pacific Peninsula Group, Atherton, CA

• 2014, "Piquant," six-panel metalwork, Kaiser Permanente

• 2013, “Wild California,” large-scale silkscreen (12 x 25 ft.), silkscreen ink on glass, The Etta Building, San Francisco, CA

Curatorial

• 2021, “NCWCA Mentor/Mentee Exhibition,” Arc Gallery, San Francisco

• 2019, "F213," Arc Gallery, San Francisco, Co-curator with Tanya Augsburg, PhD, Karen Gutfreund, and Priscilla Otani. Artists include Mira Schor, Ester Hernandez, Indira Cesarine. Written responses from authors including Sandra Cisneros, Emily Sano, Ani Zonneveld.

• 2017, "F*ck U! In the Most Loving Way," Arc Gallery, San Francisco

Selected Bibliography & Public Appearances

2024

• Catalogue essay, "(Re)Work It! Women Artists on Women’s Labor” Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT

2023

• “With My Name in Your Hand - An ASN Project Spotlight,” The RSA, London, UK (watch)

• “Creativity Offers Us A New Formula For Life,” Exhibition Guide, The RSA, London, UK (read)

• National Charity League, Austin TX chapter

2022

• “Carrying Stones: Visualizing Women’s Labor Inequity Using Data, Art, and Storytelling” for The Feminist Art Project panel “The Unfinished Battle: Women, Art/Work, and Feminisms,” College Art Association Conference

• Red Hat artist talk in Raleigh, NC, live-streamed globally and recorded for Red Hat employees

• Create! Magazine, Issue #30, Special Mention

2021

• “SAWYER ROSE: Carrying Stones,” by Luke Williams, SF/Arts & The New York Times (read)

• “NUMU Los Gatos reopens with tribute to women’s work,” The Mercury News and Marin Independent Journal, Anne Gelhaus, May 15, 2021 (read)

• “Paid, Unpaid... Women's Work Visualized in Sculptures by Sawyer Rose,” Karen Gutfreund for Museum of Sonoma County, March 22, 2021 (read)

• “Sawyer Rose: Carrying Stones at New Museum Los Gatos,” by Daniel Garcia, Content Magazine (read)

• She-Radio, KKUP Cupertino, November 3, 2021 (listen begin 8:35am)

• “NUMU: Bringing the Community Together with Art,” Los Gatos Living Magazine, Genevieve Laucher, May 2021

• “SHIFT\work at NUMU on Saturday,” Los Gatos Weekly Times - Bay Area News Group, October 22, 2021

• “Composing the Future,” by Elizabeth Addison et al eds. (read)

• “Premier of four thought provoking new works reveal the truth about women’s invisible labor,” Willow Glen/Almaden/Evergreen Times, Nov. 12, 2021

• “In Her Studio,” by Alyssarhaye Graciano, Los Gatos Living Magazine, November 2021

2020

• “Amplifying Inclusion: Intersectional Feminism in Contemporary Curatorial Practice,” panel chair, College Art Association Conference, February 13, 2020

• “Amplifying Inclusion,” Artlines, 2020 Summer Edition (read)

• “Not Normal: Art in the Age of Trump,” by Karen M Gutfreund (view & buy)

2019

• “The Sculptures Embodying Women’s Unpaid Work,” Ms. Magazine, Sheila Wickouski, September 12, 2019 (read)

• “For Neither Love Nor Money”: Artist Sawyer Rose Shines A Light On Women’s Invisible Labor,” Bust Magazine, Sally Douglas Arce, December 6, 2019. (read)

• “For Neither Love Nor Money: Women’s Invisible Labor,” CAA (College Art Association) Committee on Women the Arts selection for the best in feminist art and scholarship, December 2019 (read)

• “Counting the Hours: Art, Data and the Untold Stories of Women's Work,” ARTFIXdaily, September 17, 2019 (read)

• “Hard Knock Radio,” radio interview with Anita Johnson about Counting the Hours, KPFA Radio, September 12, 2019 (listen)

• “Wanda’s Picks,” radio interview with Wanda Sabir about Counting the Hours, September 6, 2019 (listen)

• ARTIST/MOTHER Podcast Instagram Takeover, September 12 & 13, 2019 (visit)

• “Making Political Art: Expression of a Movement,” Oakland Originals Art Speaker Series, moderated by Jeff Kelley (view)

• “Feminists’ fury rises in ‘F213’,” San Francisco Examiner, Anita Katz, April 16, 2019 (read)

• “Feminist artists, writers rage in ‘F213’ exhibition in San Francisco,” San Jose Mercury News, Linda Zavoral, April 24, 2019 (read)

  • Also featured in East Bay Times (read) and Marin Independent Journal (print edition)

• “Asian American Women’s Protests are Strong and Clear in F213,” Hyphen Magazine, Sally Douglas Arce, April 24, 2019 (read)

• “F213”, exhibition catalogue by Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art, Karen Gutfreund et al., Eds (view & buy)

• “How to Finally Land That Artist Grant”, Katie Carey for Artwork Archive, February 20, 2019 (read)

2018

• Creative Mornings Oakland for The Carrying Stones Project, New Parkway Theater, Oakland, CA (view)

• “Three Works,” The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Thought, Fall 2018 (view)

• CK Contemporary Speakers Series for The Carrying Stones Project

• “Organizing Your Career in the Cloud,” re:sculpt, International Sculpture Center, July 25, 2018 (read)

• Gender and Economics guest lecturer for Professor Lucie Schmidt, Williams College, MA

• “Sawyer Rose,” The Creative Chronicle, September 8, 2018 (read)

• "NOD to MOD," panelist, H Gallery, Ventura, CA

2017

• SFMOMA Tumblr, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, October 6, 2017 (read)

• “About Town,” San Francisco Magazine, J. Steinberg (et al Eds.), November 2017

• “Women’s work visualized in Fairfax artist’s project,” Marin Independent Journal, Vicki Larson, September 6, 2017 (read)

• “Force of Nature,” East Bay Express, A. Soriano, August 30, 2017 (read)

• “A woman’s work is never done, and there is an app for that,” Artful Living, Kate Patterson, August 10, 2017 (read)

• “Woman's Work,” Williams Magazine, Julie Munemo, Spring 2017 (read)

• “Interview with Sawyer Rose: ArtSpan 2017 Selections Exhibit,” Directed by Sandra Yagi. Northern California Women's Caucus for Art, February 15, 2017 (view)

• “What Does it Take to Make it as an Artist?,” Artwork Archive, Katie Carey, June 27, 2017 (read)

• “International Artist Residencies”, Panelist, ArtSpan, San Francisco, CA, January 27, 2017

Selected 2016

• “Artist Spotlight: Sawyer Rose on Women's Labor and How to Land the Perfect Residency,” Artwork Archive, Katie Carey, December 1, 2016 (read)

• "Matilija Poppy," Berkeley Fiction Review, Lauren Cooper, Hannah Harrington, and Ben Rowen, eds., Volume 36, 2016

• "Bronwen" and "Liaison," Nature Inspired, Christine Argo, ed., Spring 2016

• "Carrying Stones," Northern California Women's Caucus for Art, February 11, 2016

• “MFA Never,” Root Division, Rihannon Evans MacFadyen, Donna Napper, and Brion Nuda Rosch, eds., Vol. 1., 2016

Selected 2015

• SFMOMA Tumblr, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 17, 2015

• Hyperallergic LABS, Hyperallergic.com, July 7, 2015

• "Mixed in Oakland," Panelist, Oakland Art Murmur Symposium, Oakland, CA, April 26, 2015

• West Marin Review, Doris Ober, ed., Issue 6, 2015

Selected 2012-2014

• "Women's Magazine," KPFA, November 3, 2014 (listen)

• “Fairfax artist pays tribute to wild California.” Marin Independent Journal, Vicki Larson, April 4, 2013 (read)

• “Super-Chic Art Opening at Inclusions, Saturday,” Bernalwood, Todd Lapin, July 13, 2012

Education

• 1996, BA, Art, Williams College, Mass., cum laude

• 1995, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland

Professional Affiliations & Experience

• 2017- current, Past President, Past VP, current Communications Chair, Northern California Women's Caucus for Art, San Francisco, CA (member since 2015)

• 2019-current, Founder and Mentor, NCWCA Mentorship Program, supporting women and non-binary artists

• 2023-current, Signature Member, The National Association of Women Artists (NAWA)

• 2015-2023, Member, Sculptors Guild, New York, NY (Admissions Committee, 2019)

• 2015-2017, Board of Directors, Oakland Art Murmur, Oakland, CA

• 1997, Director, Fothoui Kramer Gallery, East Hampton, NY