Picture documenting an installation at the Seoul Art Museum. Outside in the courtyard with an urban backdrop there is a wooden ramp that Alice is in the center of in their wheelchair. There is a small crowd around the performer.Portrait Photo: C. Holley; Cover Photo: Seoul Museum of Art.
Headshot of Sara smiling against a black wall.

Sara Hendren

Since 2023

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Sara Hendren is an artist, design researcher, writer, and professor at Northeastern University. Her art and design works have been exhibited on the White House lawn under the Obama presidency, at the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Seoul Museum of Art, the Vitra Museum, and many others, and her work is held in the permanent collections at MoMA and the Cooper Hewitt. Her book What Can A Body Do? How We Meet the Built World explores the places where disability shows up in design at all scales: assistive technology, furniture, architecture, urban planning, and more. It was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by NPR and won the 2021 Science in Society Journalism book prize. She has held residencies at Yaddo and the Carey Institute for Global Good, and she has been an NEH Public Scholar, a fellow at New America, and an artist fellow with the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her commentary and criticism have been published in Art in America, The New York Times, Wired, the Washington Post, and elsewhere.

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A public art installation by artist Sara Hendren. On a "reserved parking" sign there is a new figure painted over the wheelchair figure on the sign. This new wheelchair figure, in red paint, has their bent behind them as if they are in the act of pushing their wheelchair forward.

Photo: Brian Funck

An installation of an amorphous shape on the corner of the street. This shape is created by a black synthetic fabric stretched over bodies underneath. In the background a blurred truck is driving past.

Photo: Justin Knight

A series of photos showing the creation of a stool-like 3-dimensional piece. First there is an image showing the three parts that will make the object. Then there is an image with artist Amanda talking to a group with those pieces in their arms. Below the first image shows a close up of two pairs of gloved hands working together to get one of the pieces painted black. Last on the bottom right we see the 3D object fully assembled.

Photos: Sara Hendren

The point of view is from above looking down. Two artists clothed in all black and in wheelchairs have their bodies facing one another but their faces are turned away from the camera. They are looking towards what looks like a wooden ramp made of light-stained wood.

Photo: Sara Hendren

Pictured is the cover of Sara's book. Against a light blue background we see a book with a mustard yellow cover that has the book title and authors name left jusified and spanning the entire height on the book. At the top is "What Can a Body Do?" in black, sans serif type that is running off the top of the book. Below that is "How We Meet the Built World" in lighter yellow, sans serif type. Below that is "Sara Hendren" in black, sans serif type that is running off the bottom of the book.

Photo: Riverhead Books