Sarah Cain

(American, born 1979)

dance moves by sarah cain

Sarah Cain

dance moves, 2017

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$seventy-eight by sarah cain

Sarah Cain

$seventy-eight, 2014

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wild flower by sarah cain

Sarah Cain

Wild Flower, 2018

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future ways by sarah cain

Sarah Cain

Future Ways, 2015

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$ninety by sarah cain

Sarah Cain

$ninety, 2015

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Sarah Cain

book jacket eight (loving promises), 2016

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actual air by sarah cain

Sarah Cain

Actual Air, 2019

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you can see the sky by sarah cain

Sarah Cain

You Can See the Sky, 2020

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whirlpool by sarah cain

Sarah Cain

Whirlpool, 2020

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Sarah Cain

sky and sea, 2017

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deep blue by sarah cain

Sarah Cain

deep blue, 2016

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Sarah Cain

keep it safe and legal, 2018

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Biography

Timeline

1979
Born in Albany, NY
2001
Received Bachelor of Fine Art at The San Francisco Art Institute, California
2006
Studied at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
Received Master of Fine Art at University of California, Berkeley
Received the SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2007
Awarded The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2011
Awarded The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

Exhibitions

2017
Sarah Cain Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, California (solo exhibition)
Sarah Cain, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado (solo exhibition)
Now i’m going to Tell you everything, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California (solo exhibition)
Jump ball, Dio Horia Residency, Platform & Dio Horia Gallery, Mykonos, Greece
2016
Sarah Cain Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Sarah Cain: Dark Matter, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York(solo exhibition)
Holdings: Selections from MCASD's Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, California
Contemporary Collection, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas Surrogates, Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver, Canada
2015
Sarah Cain Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Sarah Cain: The Imaginary Architecture of Love, Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, North Carolina(solo exhibition)
Sarah Cain: BOW DOWN, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, California(solo exhibition)
SARAH CAIN: blue in your body, red when it hits the air, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, California(solo exhibition)
Pure Paint for Now People, Shaw Gallery, Webster State University, Ogden, Utah
Variations: Conversations In And Around Abstract Painting, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Sarah Cain Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Burning Bush, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York(solo exhibition)
hey babe take a walk on the wild side, A LAND Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA(solo exhibition)
Variations: Conversations In And Around Abstract Painting, Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
In _ We Trust: Art and Money, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
Drawings & Works on Paper, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Now-ism, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio
Reading Los Angeles, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
I was a double, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga, New York
2013
Sarah Cain Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
Loud Object, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, California(solo exhibition)
Feral, Cardi Black Box Gallery, Milan, Italy(solo exhibition)
My Crippled Fried, Columbus College of Arts and Design, Columbus, Ohio
Something about a Tree, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, New York
Outside The Lines, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
Untitled (Hybrid), Robert Miller Gallery, New York, New York
Set Pieces, Cardi Black Box, Milan, Italy
Wall, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio
Paint Things: Moving Beyond the Stretcher, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Painting in Place, Los Angeles Nomadic Division, Los Angeles,CA
2012
Sarah Cain Selected Exhibitions in 2012:
Freedom is a Prime Number, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, California(solo exhibition)
For the Martian Chronicles, L&M Arts, Los Angeles, California
Bold Tendencies 6, London, England
Made in L.A. 2012, organized by the Hammer Museum in collaboration with LAXART, Los Angeles, California
Stretching Painting, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Gold, Imperial Belvedere Palace Museum, Vienna, Austria
2011
Sarah Cain Selected Exhibitions in 2011:
Sarah Cain: Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum Bloom Projects, Santa Barbara, California(solo exhibition)
Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Soft Math, Bryan Miller Gallery, Houston, Texas
Nothing Beside Remains, LAND: Marfa, Los Angeles, California
The Thingness of Color, Dodge Gallery, New York, New York
Two Schools of Cool, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
Teasers: Selected Works from the Pizzuti Collection by Women Artists, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
2010
Sarah Cain Selected Exhibitions in 2010:
California does psychic, Sara Meltzer Gallery/Projects, New York, New York(solo exhibition)
little by little, CTRL Gallery, Houston, Texas(solo exhibition)
Feather Throat, Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany
Fade to Black, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, New York
2009
Sarah Cain Selected Exhibitions in 2009:
Midnight Mission, off site installation for the California Biennial, Five Thirty Three Gallery, Los Angeles, California(solo exhibition)
Double Future, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland(solo exhibition)
You Aurora Borealis Me, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, New York(solo exhibition)
As if only as Atmosphere, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, California(solo exhibition)
Rebecca Morris and Sarah Cain, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
2008
Sarah Cain Selected Exhibitions in 2008:
2008 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
Raw Boundaries, KN Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Landscapes for Frankenstein, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, New York
California Dreamin', Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Six from LA, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland

Public Collections

Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, California
Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, Florida
Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, California
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga, New York
The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, New York

Literature

2016
Cascone, Sarah. "Now You Can Dance All Over Sarah Cain’s Stunning, 70-Piece Floor Mural." Artnet, September 26, 2016.
Gleeson, Bridget. "Floored: Step Into and Onto Sarah Cain’s Latest Paintings at Galerie Lelong." Artsy, October 12, 2016.
"Sarah Cain, Why I Paint." Phaidon, September 29, 2016.
Frank, Priscilla, "Abstract Painting Was Never A Boy’s Club, And It’s Time To Stop Treating It Like One." Huffington Post, October 13, 2016.
2008
Orange County Museum of Art. 2008 California Biennial. Lauri Firstenberg, curator. Orange County Museum of Art, Orange County, 2008.
MacMillan, Kyle. “Color makes a comeback in this Aspen show,” The Denver Post, 30 March 2007, pp 1FF and 7FF.
Janku, Laura Richard. “San Francisco 2006 SECA Art Award: Sarah Cain, Kota Ezawa, Amy Francheschini, Mitzi Pederson, Leslie Shows at SFMOMA,” art ltd, March 2007, pg. 22.
Ruiz, Alma. “Juror’s Comments,” New American Paintings: Juried Exhibitions-In-Print 73, Volume 13 Issue 6. December 2007 - January 2008, pp 4-5, 32-35.
2007
Benedetti, Christine. “Like Color…,” Time Out Denver, 9 – 15 February 2007, pg. 14, Cover image.
Brenneman, Christine. “Big bold and bright,” Marin Independent Journal, 30 January 2007, pp D1-D2, Cover image.