Alison Saar (American, born 1956)

Alison Saar was born in Los Angeles in 1956. She earned her B.A. from Scripps College, Claremont California in 1978 and her M.F.A. from Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles in 1981. She has received grants and awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1989 and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work has been exhibited at: the University of California Los Angeles’ Fowler Museum of Cultural History; Los Angeles Louver Gallery; Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York City; and the Pasadena Museum of Art, California. Saar’s work is represented in collections including: the Baltimore Art Museum; the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.