Grants & Awards
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2024, The Puffin Foundation, Ltd. artist grant
2023, Sheridan Prize for Art, artist grant & Honorable Mention
2022, The Janssen Commercial Data Sciences Data + Art Festival, 1st Runner Up, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2021, The Commission on the Status of Women of Santa Clara County, grant through New Museum Los Gatos
2020, Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation artist grant
2020, Anonymous Was a Woman Emergency Grant, with New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
2020, The RASA: Ringholz Art Supply Award
2020, Finalist, The Money For Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund
2018, Artist Grant, www.artistgrant.org
2017, The Awesome Foundation grant

Fellowships & Residencies
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2024, Residency, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2023, Residency, Moulin à Nef, Auvillar, France
2022, Member, Royal Society of Sculptors, London, England
2021, Fellow, Royal Society for Arts, London, England
2021, Residency Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), Amherst, VA
2020, Residency Finalist, SPACE at Ryder Farm, Family Residency (cancelled; COVID)
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)
2015-2023, Member, Sculptors Guild, New York, NY (Admissions Committee, 2019)

Selected Solo Exhibitions
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(Forthcoming 2025) Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, AL
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
2015, “Flux,” Classic Cars West Gallery with Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland, CA
2014, “Dusk to Dawn,” Inclusions Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012, “NATIVE: California Plants in Metal, Glass & Light,” Inclusions Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Interactive Events & Performances
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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
2021, “Women in the Workforce & Equitable Futures,” panel discussion featuring participants from The Carrying Stones Project, 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
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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, “Seen x Unseen,” Radian Gallery with The Invisibility Collective, San Francisco, CA
2020, “Women Artists Making Their Mark,” O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
2020, “31 Women,” Whitney Modern Gallery, Los Gatos, 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, “EARTH,“ Senator Scott Weiner’s Office for the Governor’s Global Action Climate Summit, San Francisco, CA
2018, “Politics of Space,” with Sculptors Guild, The Plaxall Gallery, LIC, NY
2018, “Make Your Mark,“ Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA

Selected Bibliography & Public Appearances
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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, “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, “Making Political Art: Expression of a Movement,” Oakland Originals Art Speaker Series, moderated by Jeff Kelley
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
2018, Creative Mornings Oakland for The Carrying Stones Project, New Parkway Theater, Oakland, CA
2018, Gender and Economics guest lecturer for Professor Lucie Schmidt, Williams College, MA

Professional Affiliations & Experience
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2017- current, Past President, Past VP, current Communications Chair, Northern California Women’s Caucus for Art, San Francisco, CA (member since 2015)
2015-2017, Board of Directors, Oakland Art Murmur, Oakland, CA
2023-current, Signature Member, The National Association of Women Artists (NAWA)

Education
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1996, BA, Art, Williams College, Mass., cum laude
1995, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland