Lezley Saar

Born 1953 Los Angeles, CA

Solo Exhibitions

"Encyclopedia Exotica," David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, May 3 - June 8, 2001

Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO, May 25 - July 28, 2001

"Paradox of the Unexpected Hanging," Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, September 22 - October 28, 2000

The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, September 8 - November 5, 2000

"Africans, Tragic Mulattos, Anomalies and Rap," David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY,  January 6 - February 5, 2000

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MI, November 19 - February 13, 2000

David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, September 11 - October 9, 1997

"Repetitive Ritual," Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, November 8 - December 21, 1996

"Recent Work," Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, November 4 - December 22, 1994

"The Athenaeum II," Mesa College Art Gallery, San Diego, CA, August 15 - September 14, 1994

"The Athenaeum," Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, April 15 - May 8, 1993

"Altar (ed) Books," Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, November 14 - December 28, 1991

"Altered Books," Art Works, Los Angeles, CA, 1990

Group Exhibitions

"Summer Group Exhibition," David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, July 20 - August 31, 2001

"The Next Wave, New Paintings in Southern California," California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA, June, 2000

"Works of Alison and Lezley Saar," Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, CA,  march 18 - April 16, 2000

"Re/Righting History: Counter narratives by Contemporary African-American Artists, II"  UFA Gallery, New York, NY, March 15 - April 15, 2000

"Women in Assemblage," Todd Madigan Gallery, CSU Bakersfield, CA  September 14 - October 9, 1999

"Out West, The Artists Book in California," San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA, September 13 - November 19, 1999

"Summer Group Exhibition," David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, July 8 - August 20, 1999

"Re/Righting History: Counternarratives by Contemporary African-American Artists,"  Curated by Barbara Bloemink, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, 
March 14 - May 16, 1999

"The Artist as Collector, The Collection of Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz, " Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL, May 27^th- July 19, 1998.

"Tip of the Iceberg," Dorfman Projects, New York, NY, 1998.

"Summer Group Show," David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, July 31 - August 29, 1997.

"Go Getty Go," Big Sail Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1996.

"L.A. Current; The Female Perspective," Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 1996

"The Inner Lives of Women: Psyche, Spirit and Soul," Spring Street Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1996.

"Muses," Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, 1995

"Exultations," Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, 1995.

"Works by Betye, Lezley and Alison Saar," Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis, MN, 1995.

"Inaugural Group Show," Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY, 1995.

"Localities of Desire," Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, 1995

"Gallery Group," Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1995

"In the Black," Irvine Center, Irvine, CA, 1995

"Relatively Speaking: Mothers and Daughters in Art," Snug Harbor Cultural Center, November 6 - January 15, 1995; Rahr West Museum, Manitowock, Wisconsin, 
April 14 - May 16, 1995; Sweet Briar College Art Gallery, Sweet Briar, Virginia
August 25 -October 25, 1994.

"Localities of Desire," Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, 1994.

"Relatively Speaking: Mothers and Daughters in Art", Snug Harbor, New York, 1994.

"Flora: In Artists Gardens," San Francisco Community Arts, 400 South Hope Street Associates, Los Angeles, CA, 1994.

"The Sacred and the Profane," Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1994.

"5th Biennial," Havana, Cuba.

The Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany, 1994.

"Trophies," California State University, Los Angeles Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA, 1994.

"Beyond the Written Words," San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, 1993.

"The Return of the Cadavre Exquis," originated by the Drawing Center, New York, NY.

"Books as Art VI," the National Museum of Women in the Arts Washington, DC

"Shaped Structures," Beckstrand Gallery, Palos Verdes, CA, 1993.

"Unification: Cultures in Collision," FHP, 1993.

Hippodrome Gallery, Long Beach, CA, 1993.

"The Elegant, the Irreverent and the Obsessive: Drawing in Southern California," Art Gallery-Visual Arts Center, California State University at Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, 1993.

"Under Cover: The Book Becomes Art," Scottsdale Cultural Center, Scottsdale, AZ, 1992.

"Sacred Forms Revisited," Security Pacific Bank, Seattle, WA, 1992.

"California Artists Books," Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, 1991.

"Photographic Book Art in the United States," University of Texas, San Antonio, TX (Traveling exhibition), 1991.

"A Book in Hand," Arvada Center for the Arts, Arvada, CO, 1989.

"The Book Show," Artworks, Los Angeles, CA, 1988.

"Book Art," The Brand Library, Los Angeles, CA. 1986.

"Bookworks", Franklin Furnace, New York, NY, 1985.

"Book Show," Miami Dade Library, Miami, FL, 1984.

"Generations," Conejo Valley Art Museum, Conejo Valley, CA, 1994.

California Book Works, Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA, 1984.

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Public and Museum Collections

Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO

Awards

J. Paul Getty, Mid Career Grant

Seagram's Gin Perspective in African American Art Fellowship

Education

California State University at Northridge, BA, 1978

San Francisco State University, 1976

L'Institute Francais de Photographie, Paris, France, 1972