Sascha Braunig

Sascha Braunig devotes her critical focus to the capaciousness and limitations of the feminine form under duress. Braunig’s figures teeter towards overextension—waists are pinched to extremity; appendages are restricted or decked in barbs; phantom silhouettes sinuously negotiate and adapt to the contours of their technicolor environments. Drawing on feminist artistic discourse, Braunig’s imaginaries engage the ways that gender performance and systems of power are replicated. Training, fitting, and reinforcement are recurring motifs in the severe and sometimes sinister crucibles which Braunig’s figures endure. Cast in vibrant complementary palettes and anchored through Braunig’s graphic, tensile formal vocabulary, her images recapitulate and usurp foundational codes of gendered visuality to create surreal and unequivocally emblematic scenes.

Braunig holds a BFA from Cooper Union and an MFA in painting from Yale University, and has been awarded residencies at MacDowell, the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, and Surf Point. Selected solo exhibitions include François Ghebaly, New York and Los Angeles, USA; Oakville Galleries, Ontario, Canada; Magenta Plains, New York, USA; Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium; Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, USA; and MoMA PS1, New York, USA. Her work has been featured in institutional exhibitions including the Quebec City Biennial; Oakville Galleries, Ontario, Canada; the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, USA; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon; Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, USA; and the New Museum Triennial, New York, USA. Braunig has forthcoming solo exhibitions at Magenta Plains, New York and the Portland Museum of Art, Maine.

Born in 1983, Qualicum Beach, BC
Lives and works in Portland, ME

Education

2008
MFA, Yale School of Art

2005
BFA, The Cooper Union

Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions

2026
Solo exhibition, Magenta Plains, New York, NY (forthcoming)
Solo exhibition, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (forthcoming)

2024
Sascha Braunig & Greg Parma Smith, François Ghebaly, New York

2023
Poseuses, François Ghebaly, Los Angeles

2022
Lay Figure, Oakville Galleries, ON
Lay Figure, François Ghebaly and Magenta Plains, New York

2019
Extra Spectral, two-person exhibition with Bianca Beck, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME

2018
The Crease, Office Baroque, Brussels

2017
Bad Latch, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
Free Peel, Foxy Production, New York

2016
Shivers, MOMA PS1, Queens, NY
Torsion, Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway

2015
Pillar, Rodolphe Janssen Gallery, Brussels
Foxy Production, New York

2012
Wrister, Blister, Plaster, Foxy Production, New York

2011
Foxy Production, New York

Group Exhibitions

2025
Resistance & Reimagination, Magenta Plains, New York, NY

2024
Tessellations, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY

2023
Hypervision, Magenta Plains, New York, NY

2022
New England Biennial, Fruitlands Museum and Decordova Museum, MA
Illusions are Real, Quebec City Biennial, Musée National des Beaux-Arts, Quebec City, QC

2021
Romancing the Surface, curated by Loie Hollowell, Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Sculptures by Painters, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, ON
Transmutations, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY

2020
A Love Letter to A Nightmare, Petzel Gallery, New York
All of Them Witches, organized by Dan Nadel and Laurie Simmons, Deitch Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Splay, Able Baker, Portland, ME
Structures of Feeling, curated by Piper Marshall, Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich, CH

2019
Shapeshifters, The Approach, London, UK

2018
An Assembly of Shapes, Oakville Galleries, Toronto, OT
Bang On, Divine Hammer, curated by Jenna Pirello, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME
Destruction of Pleasure, curated by Lea Cetera, Meta Meta Meta LLC, Brooklyn, NY
PMA Biennial, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

2017
Dreamers Awake, White Cube, London, UK
Fleming Faloon, Office Baroque, Brussels, BE
Hans Bellmer, Sascha Braunig, Matthew Ronay, Office Baroque, Brussels, BE
Hurts to Laugh, curated by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA
Mutations, High Line, New York, NY
NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AU
Strange Attractors: The Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Art: Vol. 1 Life on Earth, organized by Bob Nickas, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Trick Brain, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, LB

2016
A Big Enough Umbrella, Planthouse, New York, NY
8 Femmes, Office Baroque, Brussels, BE
Chatham Square, Foxy Production, New York, NY
Stranger, curated by Rose Bouthillier, MOCA, Cleveland, OH

2015
Condensed Matter Community, Synchrotron Radiation Center, Stoughton, WI
Unrealism, The Moore Building, Miami, FL
Tightrope Walk: Painted Images after Abstraction, curated by Barry Schwabsky, White Cube, London, UK
Bomber, LOYAL, Stockholm, SE
Where the Awning Flaps, organized by Franklin Melendez, Galerie Éric Hussenot, Paris, FR
Rio, curated by Louis-Philippe Van Eeckhoutte, Office Baroque, Brussels, BE
The Painter of Modern Life, curated by Bob Nickas, Anton Kern, New York, NY
Surround Audience, curated by Lauren Cornell and Ryan Trecartin, New Museum, New York, NY
Face It, Fullhaus, Los Angeles, CA

2014
Trioceros, Regina Rex, New York, NY
Farm to Table, curated by Michael Bell-Smith, Foxy Production, New York, NY
The Optical Unconscious, Kulturbüro Alte Fabrik, Zurich, CH
The Idea of North, curated by Daniel Fuller, Bowdoinham Ice Fishing Shacks, Bowdoinham, ME
Shakti, Brand New Gallery, Milan, IT

2013
Surreal Selves, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
The Reveal, LOYAL, Malmo, SE
Celluloid Brushes, Ludlow 38, New York, NY
DNA: Strands of Abstraction, Loretta Howard, New York, NY
Sourced in Alex Da Corte: Fun Sponge, ICA at MECA, Portland, ME
A Top-hat, a Monocle, and a Butterfly, Etablissement d’en Face Projects, Brussels, BE
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT
Rien Faire et Laisser Rire, curated by Bob Nickas, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, BE
The Stairs Turned Back into Stairs, Algus Greenspon Gallery, New York, NY

2012
Christian Sampson, Mira Dancy, Sascha Braunig, Matt Savitsky, Bull and Ram, Brooklyn, NY
East West Move to Middle, part 2, Bill Brady KC, Kansas City, MO

2011
Cloud, curated by Gabriel Hartley, Foxy Production, New York, NY
The Bridgehampton Biennial, curated by Bob Nickas, Martos House, Bridgehampton, NY
Friendship of the Peoples, Simon Oldfield Gallery, London, UK

2010
The Pencil Show, Foxy Production, New York, NY
Dump Art / Deponiekunst, Freudenreich bar and gallery, Berlin, DE
Baker, Braunig, Gokita, Hopkins, Foxy Production, New York, NY
Mise En Place, Recess Gallery, New York, NY

2009
X is just a little black letter…Port D’Or, Brooklyn, NY
The Crack-up, ATM Gallery, New York, NY
PIFAS Town Project: The Queue, Philadelphia Institute for Advanced Study, Philadelphia, PA
Everything Must Go, curated by Rachel Higgins, Century Plaza Shopping Mall, Birmingham, AL

2006
Flex Your Textiles, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY
Speed Limit, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY

2004
The Infinite Fill Show, curated by Cory and Jaime Arcangel, Foxy Production, NY

Public Collections
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Fondazione Memmo, Rome, IT
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AU
Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, LB
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH