☁︎EXHIBITIONS

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

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

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

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

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)... 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

Whitney Biennial 2014

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Mar 7 - May 25, 2014 The 2014 Whitney Biennial will take a bold new form as three curators from outside the Museum—Stuart Comer (Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art at MoMA), Anthony Elms (Associate Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia), and Michelle Grabner (artist and Professor in the Painting and Drawing Department... 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

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