Past
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Pothole²
Good Weather and M. LeBlanc; Hosted by Rainbo Club (Chicago) Mar 10 - Apr 21, 2024 Curated by Ron Ewert and Cameron Spratley Peppi Bottrop, Mike Cloud, COBRA, Ruby Eve Dickson, Liza Jo Eilers, Raque Ford, Judith Geichman, Gaylen Gerber, Max Guy, Tristan Higginbotham, Tony Hope, Arnold J. Kemp, Nazafarin Lotfi, Kunle Martens, Fern O’Carolan, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Zack Rafuls, Amber Renaye, JPW3, Jack Walls, Alex... Read more -
An Audience
DOCUMENT, Chicago Feb 23 - Apr 6, 2024 DOCUMENT is pleased to present the fourth solo exhibition of Brooklyn-based artist Sara Greenberger Rafferty (b. 1978), An Audience, opening February 23, 2024. Read more -
Body Maps: Works from the University at Albany Fine Art Collections in Conversation with Past Exhibiting Artists
University Art Museum, Albany, NY Jan 22 - Apr 3, 2024 The artists in Body Maps explore the intimate relationship between the body and the self. As they navigate personal geographies and histories, their bodies act as stand-ins for larger cultural experiences and as sites of resistance. They map their bodies and their world through tests of endurance or seemingly spontaneous... Read more -
&&&2 Ethan Greenbaum, David Kennedy Cutler and Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR Jan 13 - Feb 11, 2024 Read more -
&&&2
Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY Jan 6 - Feb 18, 2024 TSA is pleased to present &&&2 , a bi-coastal exhibition that serves as both a survey and sequel to the collaborations of Ethan Greenbaum, David Kennedy Cutler and Sara Greenberger Rafferty. Read more -
The Glass Show
Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY Oct 28 - Dec 31, 2023 The Glass Show brings together 25 contemporary artists working in glass. All of the artists in the exhibition use glass as a part of a larger palette of materials, and each have their own stylistic or conceptual motivation for their use of the medium. As curator, my interest in putting... Read more -
Perpetual Screw
International Objects, Brooklyn Sep 30 - Dec 17, 2023 Andy Ralph Arcana Cat Snodgrass Chris Beeston Clynton Lowry Cynthia Brothers by Nick Parker David Bordett David Kennedy Cutler Deville Cohen Dylan Ahern Gail Burr Halsey Rodman Imaan Sattar Jeff Williams Josephine Halvorson Malcolm Ransome Marie Lorenz Michael Joo Oscar Bedford Patrick Carlin Mohundro Permanent Maintenance Studio Peter Brock Philippe... Read more -
New Ground: Selections from Wingate Studio
Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery, Providence College Galleries, RI Sep 6, 2023 - Mar 1, 2024 Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery About the Exhibition Providence College Galleries is pleased to present a selection of contemporary prints from the Wingate Studio. Over its more than thirty-five-year history, Wingate Studio’s print workshop in New Hampshire has printed work for artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Sol LeWitt, and Robert Rauschenberg. Founded by... Read more -
Light Waves
DOCUMENT, Lisbon Aug 30 - Nov 4, 2023 DOCUMENT is pleased to present Light Waves, an exhibition featuring Matthew Fischer (b. 1981 Marshfield, WI), Victoria Fu (b. 1978, Santa Monica, CA), Mariko Makino (b. 1987, New York, NY), and Sara Greenberger Rafferty (b. 1978, Evanston, IL). The exhibition will open on Wednesday, August 30, with a reception from... Read more -
And down below the earth shown bright
ILY2, Portland, OR Jun 24 - Aug 5, 2023 ILY2 is pleased to present And down below the earth shown bright, our inaugural summer show featuring the work of seven international artists: Rae Davis, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Eve Fowler, sidony o’neal, Nicole Ondre, Paige Powell, Ido Radon, Sara Rahmanian, and Davina Semo. The works selected for the exhibition are... Read more -
Coming Across: Expression and Empowerment
Analog Diary, Beacon May 20 - Jul 24, 2023 Read more -
Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Luís Lázaro, Meg Lipke, & Claude Viallat
Foreland, Catskill, NY Oct 15 - Nov 21, 2022 Read more -
Re-Surface
The Fulcrum Press, Los Angeles Oct 1 - Nov 13, 2022 Re-Surface Brandon Lattu Sara Greenberger Rafferty Vincent Ramos Heather Rasmussen Asha Schechter Suzanna Zak October 1 - November 13, 2022 Opening Saturday, Oct 1, 2022 6-9p The Fulcrum Press is pleased to present Re-Surface, an exhibition of works by Brandon Lattu, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Vincent Ramos, Heather Rasmussen, Asha Schechter... Read more -
Reciprocity
Marinaro, New York Jul 6 - Aug 13, 2022 Marinaro is pleased to present Reciprocity, a group exhibition inhabiting Gallery Two. This exhibition centers upon the consumption and transmutation of the photographic image—focusing on modes of reproduction, physical and narrative representation, and the archive. Read more -
A Trillion Sunsets: A Century of Image Overload
ICP, New York Jan 28 - May 2, 2022 Are there too many images in the world? Too many of the wrong kind? Too many that we don’t like, or want, or need? These feels like very contemporary questions but they have a rich and fascinating history. A Trillion Sunsets: A Century of Image Overload takes a long look... Read more -
Views from Somewhere
Document, Chicago Nov 4 - Dec 18, 2021 In the bootleg stock photos of Lens Line (2021), women are no longer laughing alone with salad. Instead, a woman rotates a camera lens in one hand like a fidget gadget. The sequential images are fused into slim lengths of colored, translucent glass that encircle the gallery space, enacting a... Read more -
Forum 85: Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA Oct 15, 2021 - Feb 6, 2022 Read more -
Theorem X
Rachel Uffner, New York Jun 18 - Aug 13, 2021 Rachel Uffner Gallery is pleased to present Theorem X, the first iteration of a two-part exhibition curated by Rebekah Chozick (Director, Rachel Uffner Gallery) and Sara Maria Salamone (Co-Founder | Director, Mrs.) ‘Theorem’ is defined as a general proposition; not self-evident, but proved by a chain of reasoning, or a... Read more -
There is This We
Sculpture Milwaukee Jun 1, 2021 - Oct 1, 2022 Sculpture Milwaukee is an annual exhibition of public sculpture in downtown Milwaukee that serves as a catalyst for community engagement, economic development, and creative placemaking. Read more -
Out of the Camera: Beyond Photography, Chapter 4: Sara Greenberger Rafferty
John Young Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawai’I Mar 7 - Apr 11, 2021 CHAPTER FOUR: SARA GREENBERGER RAFFERTY March 7 – April 11, 2021 Commons Gallery, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (UHM), Art Building The Commons Gallery, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (UHM), is pleased to present a new work by Sara Greenberger Rafferty as part of the year-long exhibition series Out of... Read more -
In Real Life
Work by Sara Greenberger Rafferty and Arghavan Khosravi Jul 13 - Aug 21, 2020 In the large ground floor gallery, we are excited to show a selection of important and timely works by Sara Greenberger Rafferty. The Veldt, 2019, is Rafferty’s largest piece in the medium of kiln-formed glass to date. Utilizing licensed imagery from Adobe Stock photos, here, she selected the most basic... Read more -
The Lives and Loves of Images; Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie 2020
When Images Collide (Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen) Feb 29 - Jun 30, 2020 72 artists in six thematic exhibitions. Artists include: Dennis Adams, Claudia Angelmaier, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Jean-Marc Caimi & Valentina Piccinni, David Claerbout, Jojakim Cortis & Adrian Sonderegger, Jeff Cowen, Julia Curtin, Tim Davis, John Divola, Stéphane Duroy, Walker Evans, Camille Fallet, Joan Fontcuberta, Pablo Genovés, George Georgiou, Hein... Read more -
This Skin of Ours
Miller ICA, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA Oct 12 - Nov 17, 2019 We sense the world through this skin of ours. It is the surface that brokers our relationship to external forces and translates them as pain or pleasure. This organ gives each of us an identifiable shape, on which accrues a lifetime of experiences. With its distinct tone and texture, the... Read more -
Sara Greenberger Rafferty
JOAN, Los Angeles May 5 - Jul 21, 2019 Read more -
THE LAUGHTER
Document, Chicago Nov 2 - Dec 22, 2018 DOCUMENT is pleased to present THE LAUGHTER, an exhibition of new works by Sara Greenberger Rafferty, the artist’s second solo show with the gallery. Using images pulled from from archival, stock, and discarded commercial film, primarily purchased via eBay, Rafferty’s works in plastic and silver gelatin prints present both colorful... Read more -
Testing
Rachel Uffner, New York Sep 12 - Oct 28, 2018 Rachel Uffner Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Sara Greenberger Rafferty. For her fifth solo show with the gallery, Rafferty has created a suite of works in kiln-formed glass - a new process and medium for the artist. Using a limited palette, Rafferty's glass works... Read more -
The Fields
Art Omi, Ghent, NY Jun 16, 2018 - Jun 1, 2019 Read more -
Tailored Content
Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Jan 22 - Feb 25, 2018 Rafferty has been unwavering in her cultural critiques over the past decade. Although her work is often incisive, perhaps it's her use of humor that allows for the work to connect with so many viewers. As a result, she creates a space to confront topics that are culturally odious. By... Read more -
Gloves Off
Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, SUNY Stony Brook Nov 2 - Dec 17, 2017 Bringing together recent video, sculpture, and photography, Sara Greenberger Rafferty furthers her ongoing fascination with domesticity, the body, consumer culture, fashion, violence, and stand-up comedy in a kaleidoscopic view of contemporary culture on the edge. The boxing term “gloves off”—frequently used as a metaphor to characterize brutal political campaigns and... Read more -
New Information
Halsey McKay, East Hampton Oct 28, 2017 - Jan 6, 2018 OCTOBER 28, 2017 – JANUARY 6, 2018 In keeping with her decades-long project of making photographs and images into material objects, Sara Greenberger Rafferty and Halsey McKay Gallery present New Information, a show of new small-scale, photo-based plastic works that represent the synthesis and absorption of images and texts in... Read more -
Loss for Words
BAM NextWave Festival Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY Sep 14, 2017 - Feb 25, 2018 Sara Greenberger Rafferty employs the tactics and tools of advertising in a photo-installation adorning the doorways and arches of the Peter Jay Sharp Building lobby. In responding to the architecture’s theatricality, she creates a visual syntax from stock imagery of eyes, dresses, and shirts. Rafferty also created the cover of... Read more -
Gloves Off
University Art Museum, Albany Jun 30 - Sep 9, 2017 Bringing together recent video, sculpture, and photography, Rafferty furthers her ongoing fascination with domesticity, the body, consumer culture, fashion, violence, and stand-up comedy in a kaleidoscopic view of contemporary culture on the edge. Organized by the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz and curated by scholar and... Read more -
Gloves Off
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz Feb 4 - May 27, 2017 The exhibition Sara Greenberger Rafferty: Gloves Off will present recent work by the Brooklyn-based artist known for unsettling works that contend with topics such as domesticity, the body, consumer culture, fashion, and violence. Over the past decade, Rafferty (b. 1978) has referenced the language, gestures, and props associated with stand-up... Read more -
Dead Jokes
Document, Chicago Nov 11 - Dec 23, 2016 DOCUMENT is pleased to present Sara Greenberger Rafferty’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition will open on November 11 with a reception from 5pm to 8pm, and will continue through December 23, 2016. For this exhibition, Rafferty produced a new series of small-scale multimedia photographs using imagery from... Read more -
New Works: Dresses and Books
Rachel Uffner, New York Apr 3 - May 15, 2016 Rachel Uffner Gallery is pleased to present a selection of recent plastic works by Sara Greenberger Rafferty. For her fourth solo show with the gallery, Rafferty substitutes her persistent interest in moments both public and performative for those private and domestic. Her last show with the gallery (Untitled, 2014) contained... Read more -
Riga Repair
kim? Contemporary Art Center, Riga, Latvia Nov 21 - Dec 24, 2014 Read more -
Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Rachel Uffner, New York Oct 26 - Dec 21, 2014 Read more -
Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Fourteen 30 Contemporary, Portland, OR Jul 9 - Aug 24, 2014 Read more -
Remote
Rachel Uffner, New York Sep 7 - Oct 23, 2011 In a series of portraits that are arranged on a wall built at an angle within the gallery space, Rafferty presents worked-upon photographs of stills captured from disparate moving image sources, such as Steve Guttenberg in Police Academy or Gilda Radner from an uploaded YouTube performance clip, in addition to... Read more -
Surburban Studio
The Suburban, Oak Park, IL May 1 - Jun 22, 2011 Rafferty’s installation takes on the original Suburban gallery as an allegorical studio space. Replete with artist working, light kit, ladder, giant copy stand, and objects to be photographed – the work takes a half turn away from trompe l’oeil and toward a conflation and confusion of two and three dimensional... Read more -
Shame the Devil
The Kitchen, New York Mar 17 - Apr 30, 2011 Read more -
In Residence
Eli Marsh Gallery, Fayerweather Hall, Amherst College, Amherst, MA Mar 1 - 29, 2010 Read more -
Tears
Rachel Uffner, New York Sep 9 - Oct 25, 2009 Read more -
BANANAS
The Kitchen, New York Jan 9 - Mar 7, 2009 Read more -
The Human Face is a Monument
Guild & Greyshkul, New York Apr 2 - May 3, 2008 Read more -
De/Feat and Drawings
Sandroni Rey Gallery, Los Angeles Nov 4, 2006 - Jan 10, 2007 Sara Greenberger Rafferty De/Feat November 4, 2006 - January 10, 2007 Rafferty’s work combines the traditions of comedy and popular entertainment with the keen visual vocabulary of conceptual art. Rafferty borrows heavily from theatre, using elements such as stage props and sets to create work that plays off of practical... Read more -
Sara Greenberger Rafferty
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York Feb 26 - Jun 5, 2006 Sara Greenberger Rafferty 's (b. 1978) artwork is informed by slapstick and stand-up comedy, as well as photography and conceptual art. Theatrical elements such as props, sets, and stages are the building blocks of a visual vocabulary that revolves around jokes and gags, performance and the absurd. Pies ready to... Read more
