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Margo Sawyer Faar MARGO SAWYER FAAR John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow Bright & Early Building, 119 Central Ave, Elgin, TX 78621 512-661-8689 [email protected] www.margosawyer.com Born: Washington, D.C./Resides in Elgin, Texas Education: 1980-82 M.F.A. Yale University 1980 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture 1977-80 B.A. Hon’s, Chelsea School of Art, London, Great Britain 1976-77 Foundation, Brighton Polytechnic Faculty of Art, Great Britain Teaching: 2002 - Present Professor - University of Texas at Austin 1997 - 1998 Assistant Chair of Studio, Department of Art & Art History, University of Texas at Austin 1993 - 2002 Associate Professor - University of Texas at Austin 1988 - 1993 Assistant Professor - University of Texas at Austin Honors: 2018-2019 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship College of Fine Arts Summer Research Grant, College of Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin Dean’s Fine Arts Research Fellowship, College of Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin Inductee of the Austin Hall of Fame 2016 The Brown Foundation Fellows Program at the Dora Maar House Visiting Artist at Franz Mayer of Munich, Germany 2015 Texas State Three-Dimensional Artist of the Year by the 84th Texas Legislature Austin Critics Table Awards: Artist of The Year 2014-2015 Austin Critics Table Awards nomination for best museum exhibition: Margo Sawyer, Reflect at the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum 2013 Awarded the CoD+A Award/ Design + Art Award. Torcasso Residence Artist - in - residence, Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, Washington College of Fine Arts Summer Research Grant, University of Texas at Austin 2009 Year in Review 2009. America for the Arts & Public Art Network 2008-09 University Research Institute, University of Texas at Austin 2007-08 Faculty Research Assignment, University of Texas at Austin 2004 Dean’s Fine Arts Research Fellowship, College of Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin 2003 Artist - in - residence, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2001 Artist - in - residence, Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, Washington College of Fine Arts Summer Research Grant, University of Texas at Austin The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award, 2001 2000 Artist - in - residence, Artpace San Antonio, Texas College of Fine Arts Summer Research Grant, University of Texas at Austin Faculty Research Assignment, University of Texas at Austin University Research Institute, University of Texas at Austin 1999 Nominated for The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award 1998 College of Fine Arts Summer Research Grant, University of Texas at Austin University Research Institute, University of Texas at Austin 1996 Japan Foundation Fellowship for Artists 1995-96 Fulbright, Senior Research Grant to Japan 1995 University Research Institute, University of Texas at Austin 1994 Travel Grants Fund for Artists, a joint project of the National Endowment for the Arts and Arts International University Research Institute Travel Grant, University of Texas at Austin 1993 College of Fine Arts Summer Research Grant, University of Texas at Austin University Research Institute, University of Texas at Austin 1990 College of Fine Arts Summer Research Grant, University of Texas at Austin University Research Institute, University of Texas at Austin 1989 C.A.M.L.S, University of Texas at Austin Change, Inc. College of Fine Arts Research Grant, University of Texas at Austin College of Fine Arts Research Grant, University of Texas at Austin University Research Institute, University of Texas at Austin 1988 Athena Corporation 1987 Art Matters, Inc. New York State Council for the Arts Grant 1986-87 American Academy in Rome Fellowship 1986 National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship 1982-83 Fulbright Grant to India. 1982 Susan H. Wheden Award, Yale University. 1981 Ford Foundation Travel Grant. 1980-82 Yale University. 1980 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Solo Exhibitions: 2021 Contemplation Visions, Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas January 23, 2021 – August 8, 2021 2020 Dreaming of Synchronicity of Color for Kosovo, Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art, Houston, Aug 08 – Sept 12 2020 2019 Reflect, Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art, Houston, May 10 – June 8, 2019 2017-18 Reflect, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, Texas November 18, 2017 – February 7, 2018 2017 Synchronicity of Color, Texas Art House, Johnson City, Texas April 29 –May 27, 2017 Reflect/Reflector, Playhouse, San Antonio, Texas January 29 – June 4 2017 2014 Reflect, Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum, Austin, Texas May 6 – October 19, 2014, catalogue Synchronicity of Color, The Gallery at Vaudeville, Fredericksburg, Texas April 4 – May 29, 2014 2009 Synchronicity of Color, AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas January 24 – May 9, 2009 Margo Sawyer and Tommy Fitzpatrick, The Gallery at UTA, Arlington, Texas. 12 September – 14 November 2009 2008 Synchronicity of Color, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, Texas June 21 – August 15, 2008 2005 Cloud of Unknowing, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, Texas, September 17 – October 15, 2005 2004 Contemplative Spaces, Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Texas, April 24 – June 13, 2004 2003 Margo Sawyer: New Installations, Artists in Residence, The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 25, 2003 – June 27, 2004 Fragment of an Index for Contemplation: Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico. March 7-31 2003 2002 Index for Contemplation, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, Texas, January 18 – March 15, 2002 2001 Ten + One Illuminations, University of Texas at El Paso, January 18 – February 15, 2001. 2000 Margo Sawyer: International Artist-in-Residency Program 00.2, Ten + One Illuminations, Artpace San Antonio, Texas, June 9 – July 16, 2000 Margo Sawyer, Rudolph Poissont Gallery, Houston, Texas, April 22 – May 30, 2000 1999 Transformation II, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas April 24 - May 30, 1999 Transformation, Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas January 21 - February 27, 1999 1998 Presence and Absence, Austin Art Museum at Laguna Gloria, Austin, Texas June 13 – August 30, 1998 1996 Elysium Room, GalleryGallery, Kyoto, Japan December 10 – 21, 1996 Margo Sawyer, International House of Japan, Tokyo, Japan December 4 – 13, 1996 Elysian Fields, Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo, Japan November 22 - December 15, 1996 1994 Projects (with Thana Lauhakaikul & Mike Scranton), DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas, January 29 - March 5, 1994 1992 The Journey, Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas May 14 - June 21, 1992 1991 Margo Sawyer, Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, New York January 3 - February 2, 1991 1989 Margo Sawyer, Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, New York February 18 - March 18, 1989 Special Projects, P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, New York January 13 - March 12, 1989 1982 Beginning and End, British Council, Bombay, India, April 1983 Group Exhibitions: 2020 Texas Women: A History of Abstraction, San Antonio Museum of Art February 7, 2020 – September 6, 2020 Back & Forth: Celebrating Women and our 15th, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, Texas. July 21, 2020 – September 26, 2020 2019 Summer Time Blues, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, Texas 2017 PAST/PRESENT, Texas Art House, Johnson City, Texas January 8 – February 12, 2017 2016 PURE, Texas Art House, Johnson City, Texas November 12, 2016 – January 8, 2017 Texas State Artists, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, Texas June 25 – August 13, 2016 TARGET TEXAS: The Meaning of Mixed, at the Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christie, Texas May 12 – August 21, 2016 2015 Margo Sawyer, Prizm Art Fair (Global African Diaspora Artists), Miami Basel, November 29 - December 15, 2015 Texas Abstract, The Gallery at Vaudeville, Fredericksburg, Texas October 2 – November 30, 2015 AMPlified ABStraction, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas July 12 – October 11, 2015 Texas Abstract, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, Texas April 18 – May 16, 2015 Back and Forth Celebrating 10 Years, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, Texas April 4 – June 20, 2015 Inquiry: Department of Art & Art History Faculty, Visual Art Center, University of Texas at Austin January 30 – February 21, 2015 ABSTRACT, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston Texas January 10 – February 22, 2015 2014 Texas Abstract, Wade Wilson Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico. October 2014 Faculty Picks, Cinnabar Art Gallery, San Antonio, Texas May 15 – July 30, 2014 Curated by Margo Sawyer and Liz Ward. Adriana Corral, Phil LaDeau, Clay Reuter, Margo Sawyer, and Liz Ward 2013 transFIGURATION: a Rino Pizzi Project, Big Medium, Austin, Texas November 22 - December 21, 2013 Part Two Department of Art & Art History Faculty Exhibition, Visual Art Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas November 9 – December 8, 2013 OF PRINTMAKING AT FLATBE 2012 Advancing Tradition: Twenty Years of Printmaking at Flatbed Press. Museum of Printing History, Houston, Texas June 14, 2012– August 11, 2012 The Mona Lisa Project, by Rino Pizzi, Peoples Gallery, Austin City Hall, Austin, Texas February 24, 2012 – January 10, 2013 2011 3D Design #3. Masolow Gallery, Marywood University, Scranton, Pennsylvania. November 7, 2011 – November 2011 The Mona Lisa Project, by Rino Pizzi, Grand Rapids Museum of Art, Michigan September 21 – November 6, 2011 New Works: The Mona Lisa Project, by Rino Pizzi, Austin Museum of Art, Texas June 4 – September 11, 2011 2010 Advancing Tradition: Twenty Years of Printmaking at Flatbed Press. Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas November 26, 2010 – February 13, 2011 Combined:
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