Alison Saar

Alison Saar is a California-based sculptor, mixed-media and installation artist.
Her artwork focuses on the African diaspora and Black female identity, and addresses issues of race, gender and spirituality. Saar studied art and art history at Scripps College (Claremont, CA) and received an MFA from the Otis Art Institute (Los Angeles, CA).
Her awards include a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, National Endowment Fellowships and the United States Artists Fellowship. Saar’s work resides in the collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY) and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY). In 2010, her exhibition “Alison Saar: Bound for Glory” was presented at the Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR. Concurrently, Saar’s site-specific sculpture “York: Terra Incognita”, a tribute to the memory of an enslaved man who was part of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, was dedicated on Lewis & Clark’s campus. She is represented by L.A. Louver Gallery (Venice, CA).

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