 Artist's arttributes:
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Female |
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Sculpture, Installation |
Most exhibitions in: |
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| USA | 76 |
| Austria | 1 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
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L.A. Louver Gallery, USA |
7 |
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New Museum of Contemporary Art, USA |
4 |
Biography: 
1956 Born in Los Angeles, CA (US)
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 77
from 12.9.
from 21.6.
Solo shows 16
2013
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| Still... - Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA |
2012
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| Alison Saar: Still . . . - Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA |
2011
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| Alison Saar - L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA |
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| Alison Starr - HD-LD PE - Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX |
2010
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| Alison Saar - Foisen and Fallow - L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA |
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| Alison Saar: Bound for Glory - Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR |
2008
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| Alison Saar - Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY |
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| Alison Saar - L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA |
2007
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| Duped: Prints by Alison Saar - Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts - DCCA, Wilmington, DE |
2006
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| Alison Saar - Coup - L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA |
2005
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| Artist in Residence - Alison Saar - Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA |
2002
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| Topsy Turvy - Sculpture by Alison Saar - ASU Art Museum - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ |
2001
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| Alison Saar - Tree Souls - Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL |
1999
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| Alison Saar - Traveling Light, Topsy Turvey, and Compton Nocturne - Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA |
1995
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| The Woods Within: Alison Saar - Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
1993
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| Catfish Dreamin': A Project By Alison Saar - - Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD (closed, 2012) |
Group shows 59
2013
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| 50/50 - Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, NY |
2012
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| Director’s Choice - Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC |
2011
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| In Context - Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA |
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| Tale Spinning - Bates College Museum of Arts, Lewiston, ME |
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| Visions from the Congo: Ancestral Contact - Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA |
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| Anxiety’s Edge - Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI |
2010
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| Visionaries: Contemporary Art from Santa Barbara’s Private Collections - Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA |
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| Freedom of Expression: Politics and Aesthetics in African American Art - Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME |
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| Disparate Spirits: Wood sculpture and Installation - Schneider Museum of Art , Ashland, OR |
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| From Then to Now : Masterworks of Contemporary African-American Art - MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH |
2009
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| Woodcuts Now - The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD |
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| The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African-American Art: Works on Paper - Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX |
2008
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| Provocative Visions: Race and Identity—Selections from the Permanent Collection - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| Highlights: African American Art from the Norton Collection - Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL |
2007
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| LA Live: Contemporary Art in Los Angeles - Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College, Claremont, CA |
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| Contemporary, Cool and Collected - Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC |
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| day and night - L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA |
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| From Africa to America - The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH |
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| The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art: Works on Paper and Selections from the AT&T Collection - The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH |
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| Works on Paper - The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH |
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| Incognito - Art Exhibition and Sale - Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA |
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| Family Legacies - The Art of Betye, Lezley and Alison Saar - Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA |
2006
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| Family Legacies. The Art of Betye, Lezley, and Alison Saar - San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA |
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| Family Legacies - Pasadena Museum of California Art- PMCA, Pasadena, CA |
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| Group Show - L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA |
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| successions: african-american art by contemporary artists - Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Virginia Beach, VA |
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| Generations - African-American Art in the VMFA Collection - Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Virginia Beach, VA |
2005
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| Family Legacies - Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC |
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| Incognito - Art Exhibition and Sale - Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA |
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| Artists In Residence At Pcc: A Twenty Year Retrospective - Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA |
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| HairStories - 40 Acres Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA |
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| C.O.L.A. 2005 Individual Artist Fellowships - Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG), Los Angeles, CA |
2004
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| Seeds and Roots - The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, NY |
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| Sculpture - L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA |
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| Making the Body in Contemporary Sculpture - The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH |
2003
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| HairStories - Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, Scottsdale, AZ |
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| Roads Taken: 20th Century Prints and Drawings from the Collection - University of Virginia Art Museums - The Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, VA |
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| Hands on, Hands down - The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, NY |
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| Generations - African-American Art in the VMFA Collection - Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA |
2002
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| The Human Factor: Figuration in American Art 1950-1995 - Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS |
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| Collecting Contemporary Art - Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC |
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| Escape from the Vault - Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI |
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| Subject Matters - Kravets / Wehby Gallery, New York City, NY |
2001
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| Looking Forward Looking Black - Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, Denver, CO |
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| Late Modern and Contemporary Sculpture - The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH |
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| Print Matters. New Works and Modern Treasures - Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA |
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| Looking Forward Looking Black - Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA |
2000
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| Picturing the Modern Amazon - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
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| Departures - 11 artists in the Getty - The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA |
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| An Exuberant Bounty: Prints and Drawings by African Americans - Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
1998
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| Skulptur Figur Weiblich - Landesgalerie am Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz |
1997
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| Lesley Dill, Alison Saar, Karen Walker - - Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York City, NY (closed) |
1996
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| A Glimpse of the Norton Collection As Revealed by Kim Dingle - Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM |
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| A Labor of Love - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
1995
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| Imaginary Beings - - Exit Art, New York City, NY (closed, 2012) |
1990
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| The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
1989
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| Currents - Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA |
1988
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| Girls Night Out (Femininity as Masquerade) - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
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| New Visions: James Little, Whitfield Lovell, Alison Saar - Queens Museum of Art (QMA), New York City, NY |
| Dealer Directory 3 |
USA
| | Alitash Kebede Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Diane Villani Editions, New York City, NY
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| | L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
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Collections 21
USA
| | The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
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| | University of Virginia Art Museums - The Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, VA
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| | Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
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| | The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
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| | Bates College Museum of Arts, Lewiston, ME
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| | Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
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| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum - Malibu, Malibu, CA
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| | New Orleans Museum of Art NOMA, New Orleans, LA
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| | Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
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| | Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA
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| | The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
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| | Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
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| | Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
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| | The RISD Museum - University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI
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| | Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
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| | The Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM
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| | Laumeier Sculpture Park, Saint Louis, MO
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| | Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
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| | Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
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| | Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA
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