Saturday, Oct 11, 2025
Sara Magenheimer: Ill-Gotten Gains, Exhibition Tour
About
Join artist Sara Magenheimer and Curator-at-Large Laurel Ptak for a guided tour of Ill-Gotten Gains. Spread
across everyday sites on Fishers Island, the exhibition brings together fifteen years of Magenheimer's genre-defying video and text-based work. This event offers an opportunity to experience the exhibition in context, while engaging in conversation about the artist's practice and the themes present in her work.
Artist
Bio
Sara Magenheimer was born in 1981 in Philadelphia, PA, and lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR (2017); the Kitchen, New York (2017); Art in General in partnership with kim?, Riga, Latvia (2016); the Center for Ongoing Research & Projects (COR&P), Columbus, OH (2016); JOAN, Los Angeles (2015); and Recess, New York (2015). Her works have also been included in the group exhibitions “Body Language,” the High Line, New York (2017); “CCCC (Ceramics Club Cash and Carry),” White Columns, New York (2015); and “Amy Sillman: One Lump or Two,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and Aspen Art Museum (2013–14). Her videos have been screened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (2017); the New York Film Festival (2017, 2015, 2014); Images Festival, Toronto (2017); Anthology Film Archives, New York (2016); EMPAC, Troy, NY (2016); and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2015).
