Sawyer Rose, FRSA, MRSS
Sawyer Rose creates data visualization sculptures and installations that examine the inequities shaping women’s work.
Her ongoing series, The Carrying Stones Project, pairs large-scale sculptures with photographic portraits to translate data about women’s unpaid and invisible labor into tangible, physical works. Each piece profiles a different woman and her work story, transforming statistics about childcare, eldercare, domestic tasks, and community responsibilities into visible evidence of imbalance. The project has been featured in The New York Times, Ms., The Village Voice, and BUST, and is currently touring museums, universities, and corporate spaces across the United States.
Rose has held residencies at Yaddo, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), Ragdale, MASS MoCA, The Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland, and Moulin à Nef in France. Her work has been supported by grants from the Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation, the Puffin Foundation, and the Creative Capacity Fund.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors. Born in North Carolina, Rose studied Art History at Williams College in Massachusetts. She lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.
photo: New Museum Los Gatos