Biography

Born in 1956 in Los Angeles, Alison Saar was educated at Scripps College (B.A., 1978) and Otis Art Institute (M.F.A., 1981).  She is the daughter of noted artist Betye Saar, a champion of the black arts movement of the 1970s.  Saar has received artist residencies from The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY (1984); Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM (1985); Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C. (1986); and the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College, NH (2003).  Her awards include three Artist Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1984, 1985, and 1988), the Engelhard Award from the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (1985), a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1989), an Augustus St. Gaudens Memorial award and a Joan Mitchell Foundation award (1998), a Flintridge Foundation award for Visual Arts (2000), and a New York City Art Commission Excellence in Design Award (2005).  Her work is include in such museums as the Baltimore Art Museum, MD; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL; Columbus Museum of Art; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA; Studio Museum of Harlem, New York; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.  Saar currently resides in Los Angeles. (SJMA Collections Committee, 2011)


The daughter of the African-American artist Betye Saar, Allison was trained at Scripps College and the Otis Art Institute. American artist. Alison Saar ives in Los Angeles, CA.

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