Sawyer Rose, FRSA, MRSS | CV highlights
Selected Grants & Awards
2024, Grant, The Puffin Foundation, Ltd.
2024, 1st place prize, Creative West, “50 Years, 50 Artists: A Celebration of the West”
2024, 2nd place prize, National Association of Women Artists, “Stories in Frames”
2020, Grant, Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation
2020, Grant, The RASA: Ringholz Art Supply Award
2020, Finalist, The Money For Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund
2018, Grant, www.artistgrant.org
2017, Grant, The Awesome Foundation
Selected Fellowships & Residencies
2024, Residency, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2023, Residency, Moulin à Nef, Auvillar, France
2021, Residency Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), Amherst, VA
2018, Residency, The Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL
2017, Residency, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
2016, Residency, The Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig, Newbliss, Co. Monaghan, Ireland
2016, Residency, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San Francisco, CA
2016, Winter Residency, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
2016, Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont (also 2013, 2014)
Selected Solo & Two-Artist Exhibitions
2025-2026, “Sawyer Rose: Carrying Stones,” Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, AL
2025, “Rules, Responsibilities, Restraints: Women’s Pursuit of Equity,” The United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY (two-artist exhibition); cancelled for
political reasons 2 weeks before opening; rebranded “(UN)censored” and exhibited with community support in Brooklyn as a symbol of resistance
2023, “The Carrying Stones Project,” The Art Center, Highland Park, IL
2023, “Sawyer Rose: Carrying Stones,” University of Redlands, Redlands, CA
2022, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, Frank Porter Graham Lecture and exhibition for Honors Carolina
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,” San Marco Gallery, Dominican University, San Rafael, CA
2019, “Counting the Hours: Art, Data, and the Untold Stories of Women’s Work,” Code and Canvas, San Francisco, CA
2017, “Force of Nature: Women’s Work Visualized,“ Classic Cars West Gallery, Oakland, CA. Curated by Dasha Matsuura, director, Spoke Art
2016, “Ties That Bind,“ Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San Francisco, CA
Selected Interactive Events & Performances
2026, “The Weight of Your World,“ social practice public interactive event, Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, AL
2021, “Balance Due,” interactive sculpture co-created by visitors to New Museum Los Gatos using their own work data, Los Gatos, CA
2021, “SHIFT \ work,” interactive event exploring invisible labor by building data visualization sculptures, New Museum Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA
2020, “The Weight of Your World,” dance collaboration with RAWdance, featuring movement artist Stacey Yuen and sculptures by Sawyer Rose
2019, “Backbone,” collaboration with RAWdance, choreographed by Co-Artistic Director Katie Wong
2019, “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
Selected Group Exhibitions (*invitational)
2026, “Surface Tension,” Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA*
2025, “Mending Together: Narratives of Hope and Resilience,” Luna Gallery, San Juan Bautista, CA*
2024, “(Re)Work It! Women Artists on Women’s Labor“ Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT*
2024, “Process,” Art Works Downtown, Curated by Karen Gutfreund, San Rafael, CA*
2024, “25th International Open,“ Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2024, “Women Create Space,” Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont, CA
2024, “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*
2023, “Now: As a consequence of fact,” Pen + Brush, New York, NY
2022, “Agency: Feminist Art and Power,” Museum of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, CA*
2022, “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*
2021, “48 Pillars,” Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA*
2020, “Collectively Shifting,” with National Women’s Caucus for Art, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago, IL
2020, “Us: What divides us and what unites us?” Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC
2020, “What Are You Voting For?” Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2020, “Women Artists Making Their Mark,” O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
2020, “Family Matters,” Curated by Bonny Nahmias + Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2019, “Crashing the Party,” The Plaxall Gallery, LIC, NY*
2019, “Content Matters,” Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA
2019, “…dream again,” The Plaxall Gallery, LIC, NY*
2018, Art Market San Francisco, 2 main floor on-site installations*
2018, SCOPE art fair, New York, NY*
2018, “Make Your Mark,“ Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA
Selected Bibliography & Public Appearances
2025, “Nevertheless, These Two Artists Persisted,” The Village Voice, Shana Nys Dambrot, March 20, 2025
2025, “Women Empowering Women,” Panel of women leaders in the arts, The Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, March 20, 2025
2025, “WCA Member's UN Exhibition Silenced,” PULSE, National Women's Caucus for Art, March 2025
2025, “The Carrying Stones Project: Visualizing Women’s Work,” Art Insights, National Women's Caucus for Art, January 2025
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
2023, “Creativity Offers Us A New Formula For Life,” Exhibition Guide, The RSA, London, UK
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, February 2022, Chicago, IL
2021, “SAWYER ROSE: Carrying Stones,” by Luke Williams, SF/Arts & The New York Times
2021, “NUMU Los Gatos reopens with tribute to women’s work,” The Mercury News and Marin Independent Journal, Anne Gelhaus, May 15, 2021
2021, “Paid, Unpaid... Women's Work Visualized in Sculptures by Sawyer Rose,” Karen Gutfreund for Museum of Sonoma County, March 22, 2021
2021, “Sawyer Rose: Carrying Stones at New Museum Los Gatos,” by Daniel Garcia, Content Magazine
2020, “Amplifying Inclusion: Intersectional Feminism in Contemporary Curatorial Practice,” panel chair, College Art Association Conference, Chicago, IL
2019, “The Sculptures Embodying Women’s Unpaid Work,” Ms. Magazine, Sheila Wickouski, September 12, 2019
2019, “For Neither Love Nor Money”: Artist Sawyer Rose Shines A Light On Women’s Invisible Labor,” Bust Magazine, Sally Douglas Arce, December 6, 2019.
2019, “For Neither Love Nor Money: Women’s Invisible Labor,” College Art Association Committee on Women the Arts selection, December 2019
2019, “Counting the Hours: Art, Data and the Untold Stories of Women's Work,” ARTFIXdaily, September 17, 2019
2019, “Feminists’ fury rises in ‘F213’,” San Francisco Examiner, Anita Katz, April 16, 2019
2019, “Feminist artists, writers rage in ‘F213’ exhibition in San Francisco,” San Jose Mercury News, Linda Zavoral, April 24, 2019
Selected Professional Affiliations & Experience
2023-current, Signature Member, The National Association of Women Artists (NAWA)
2022-current, Member, Royal Society of Sculptors, London, England
2021-current, Fellow, Royal Society for Arts, London, England
2017- current, Past President, Board Member, Northern California Women's Caucus for Art, San Francisco, CA (member since 2015)
2015-2017, Board of Directors, Oakland Art Murmur, Oakland, CA
Education
1996, BA, Art, Williams College, Mass., cum laude
1995, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland