About the artist
Tom Sachs was born in 1966 in New York, where he lives and works. He studied at the Architectural Association, London in 1987 and graduated from Bennington College, Vermont in 1989. In an early exhibition, he made Knoll office furniture from phone books and duct tape; later, he recreated Le Corbusier's 1952 Unité d'Habitation using only foam core and a glue gun. Major projects have included his versions of the Apollo 11 Lunar Excursion Module, the bridge of the battleship USS Enterprise, and a 1:1 model of a McDonald's Frying Station, now in the collection of the Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo. An important survey of his work was shown at the Astrup Fearnley in 2006, followed by solo exhibitions at the Fondazione Prada, Milan (2006); ​Space Program: Mars​, Park Avenue Armory, New York (2012); ​Space Program: Europa, Y​erba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2016); and ​Boombox Retrospective 1999–2016, Brooklyn Museum, New York (2016). In 2016–17, he created ​Tea Ceremony for the Noguchi Museum, New York and the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas – a distinctive reworking of ​chanoyu,​ a traditional Japanese tea ceremony, including the myriad elements essential to the ritual. His ​Swiss Passport Office​, created for Thaddaeus Ropac, London in 2018, reflected contemporary concerns relating to Brexit, the Syrian crisis, Trump's immigration policies and global citizenship. A retrospective of his work was shown at SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen, Germany in 2019-20, followed by ​Space Program: Rare Earths​ at Deichtorhallen Hamburg in June 2021.