Alison Saar’s sculpture, prints, and paintings address issues of race, gender, and spirit.
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Alison Saar’s sculpture, prints, and paintings address issues of race, gender, and spirit. She studied art and art history at Scripps College and received an MFA from the Otis Art Institute. Her numerous awards include a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, National Endowment Fellowships, and the United States Artists Fellowship.
Saar has exhibited extensively at institutions around the world including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the DakArt Biennial, Senegal; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. She is also an accomplished public artist, with public sculptures commissioned for the 2024 Paris Olympics and the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama, among others.
In 2021, Armory Center for the Arts and the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College jointly presented Alison Saar: Of Aether and Earthe, an exhibition of the artist’s sculptures and installations at both locations, and Mirror, Mirror: The Prints of Alison Saar, traveled extensively throughout the US. In early 2022, Galerie Lelong in Paris mounted a solo show of her prints. Saar currently resides in Los Angeles and is represented by L A Louver Gallery.