Sara Greenberger Rafferty

Sara Greenberger Rafferty (b. 1978) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. In 2022, she was included in A Trillion Sunsets: A Century of Image Overload, curated by David Campany at the International Center of Photography, NY. In October 2021, she opened a solo exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, PA. In 2017, Gloves Off, a solo museum exhibition accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog opened at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, NY, and traveled to the University Art Museum in Albany, NY.

Other solo and two-person exhibitions include DOCUMENT, Chicago, IL; JOAN, Los Angeles, CA; the John Young Museum of Art at the University of Hawai’i, Manoa, HI; Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY; kim?, Riga, Latvia; The Kitchen, New York, NY; MoMA PS1, New York, NY; Eli Marsh Gallery at Amherst College, MA; The Suburban, Oak Park, IL; Fine Arts Center Gallery at University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR; and a commissioned sculpture for the Public Art Fund. Rafferty has participated in group exhibitions including Foreland, Catskill, NY; The Fulcrum Press, Los Angeles, CA; Marinaro, New York, NY; Sculpture Milwaukee 2021, Milwaukee, WI; the 2020 Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, Mannheim, Germany; the 2014 Whitney Biennial, New York, NY; the Hammer Biennial, Los Angeles, CA; the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA; Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, Austria; the Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY; Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY; and The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, among many others.

She is included in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; the Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, CT; the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, IL; and the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, NH.

She is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Photography at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Studio Visit, Rafferty’s recent experimental monograph, was published by Inventory Press in fall 2022.

Works

Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Sight Circle, 2022
Fused and kiln-formed glass, hardware
44 x 65 1/4 x 3/4 in

Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Arms, 2021
Fused and kiln-formed glass
11 1/2 x 15 1/4 in

Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Big Exercise, 2019
Direct substrate print on thin-type ballistic and bullet-resistant plastic
19 13/16 x 15 13/16 x 3/8 in

Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Search Emoji, 2021
Fused and kiln-formed glass and hardware
Carnegie Museum of Art

Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Samples, 2021
Fused and kiln-formed glass and hardware, with flowers
Carnegie Museum of Art

Sara Greenberger Rafferty
THE DEAD 20TH CENTURY (What was ♥ saved), 2021
inkjet print on wallpaper, 2021
Carnegie Museum of Art

Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Reflection Piece, 2021
Fused and kiln-formed glass and hardware

Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Lens Line, 2021
Fused and kiln-formed glass and hardware

Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Installation view at NADA New York, 2022

Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Wall Container I, 2020
Kiln-formed glass and hardware

Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Tester One, 2020
Kiln-formed glass, photograph mounted to board, and hardware

Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Body Suit with Tie, 2016
Acrylic polymer and inkjet prints on acetate on plexiglass, and hardware

Sara Greenberger Rafferty
1, 2018
Gelatin silver print mounted to 8-ply archival board

Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Red Hand, 2018
Acrylic polymer and inkjet print on acetate mounted to Plexiglass

Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Meds I, 2018
Acrylic polymer and inkjet print on acetate mounted to Plexiglass

Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Venipuncture Lesson, 2018
Fused and kiln-formed glass

Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Swatches, 2016
Acrylic polymer and inkjet print on acetate mounted to Plexiglass

Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Comedy Girl, 2016
Acrylic polymer and inkjet print on acetate mounted to Plexiglass

Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Floor, 2016
Acrylic polymer and inkjet print on acetate mounted to Plexiglass