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: Department of Art and Art History Faculty Exhibition, Visual Art Center, University of Texas at Austin, Texas November 5 – December 18, 2010
Neither Model nor Muse, Women as Artists, McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas June 2 – September 12, 2010
2009 Gallery, Austin City Hall, Austin, Texas February 1 – January 2010
Water: A Student Curated Exhibition, The Maslow Study Gallery for Contemporary Art, Marywood University, Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Group Exhibition: Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio. September 15 - December 9, 2009
2008 The Texas Chair Project, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, November 15, 2008 – February 09, 2009
Atelier 10, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, April 9 – June 10, 2008
2008 Double X, Step Gallery, Arts, Arizona State University, October 22, 2007 – October 26, 2008
2006 5 x 7, Arthouse, Austin, Texas. May – June 2006
2005 Two by Two: For AIDS and Art, Seventh Annual Dinner and Art Auction Benefiting AMFAR and the Dallas Museum of Art, The Rachofsky House, October 8, 2005
ASAp: Artist Salute Artpace, a Benefit Auction to Celebrate Artpace San Antonio’s 10th Anniversary, Christie’s, New York, New York, April 28, 2005
Inaugural Exhibition, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, Texas April 2 – 30, 2005
Color, Pattern, Grid, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, March 5 – May 15, 2005
2004 Gardens: Real and Imagined, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas October 6, 2004 – September 25, 2005
Hive, Creative Research Lab, University of Texas at Austin, Texas September 10 – 30, 2004
2003 Upwards, Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, Texas January 21 – February 26, 2003
2002 Art Faculty Exhibition, Creative Research Lab, University of Texas at Austin, Texas October 9 – November 10, 2002
2000 Loudly Minimal, Quietly Baroque: The Best of 1/4 Hora Projects Space, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas November 2, 2001 – December 14, 2001
2001 Texas Dialogues: Scenic Overlook, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas December 1, 2000 – January 12, 2001
62ndArt Faculty Exhibition, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Texas November 9 – December 10, 2000
Sculptors Drawing, 1/4 Hora Project Space, Elgin, Texas October 22 – 31, 2000
Drawings, David Berman Gallery, Austin, Texas June 22 – August 26, 2000
1/4 Hora Perennial, 1/4 Hora Project Space, Elgin, Texas April 8 – 16, 2000
Contemplative Exactitude, 1/4 Hora Project Space, Elgin, Texas February 4 – 13, 2000
1999 61stArt Faculty Exhibition, The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin November 11 – December 1, 1999
Fault Lines, ArtScan, Houston, Texas February 27 – March 26, 1999
1998 60th Art Faculty Exhibition, The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin November 6 – December 6, 1998
It’s About Design, Auction for Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas September 18 – 26, 1998
1996 New Airport Art, Dougherty Arts Center Gallery, Austin, Texas January 2 – 29, 1996. Catalogue
1995 Fifteenth Annual Abilene Outdoors Sculpture Exhibition with Works by Four Major Texas Sculptors, Nelson Park, Abilene, Texas September 16, 1995 – August 31 1996
1994 Transformations: The Alchemy of Change, Auction for Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas April 21 – May 7, 1994
Drawing: Crossing the Line, DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas May 14 – June 18, 1994. Catalogue
56thArt Faculty Exhibition, The Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, Texas November 10 – December 11, 1994
1993 55thArt Faculty Exhibition, The Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, Texas November 11 – December 12, 1993
In Response to Nature, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas, November 14, 1993 – March 20, 1994
1992 My Blue Heaven, Silent Auction for Texas Fine Art Association, Austin, Texas November 20 – December 20, 1992
54th Art Faculty Exhibition, The Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, Texas November 19 – December 6, 1992
Contemporary Sculpture from the Permanent Collection of the Harn Museum of Art University of Florida at Gainesville, Florida October 11 – November 1, 1992
The Box, Silent Auction for Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas April 20 – May 9, 1992
Visions of Beauty, Baure House, Austin, Texas, April 7 – May 15, 1992
1991 53rdArt Faculty Exhibition, The Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, Texas January 17 – February 23, 1991
1990 52ndArt Faculty Exhibition, The Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, Texas November 9 – December 9, 1990
1989 L.A. Art Expo, (represented by Meyers/Bloom), Los Angeles, California December 1989
Fresh Ideas/Idiosyncratic Perspectives, Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, California September 9 – October 14, 1989
1988-89 Sculptors Working, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York October 16, 1988 – March 1989. Catalogue
1987 Borsisti Americani, American Academy in Rome, Italy May 27 – June 19, 1987. Catalogue
1986-88 Skowhegan Ten Year Retrospective: A Traveling Exhibition Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York October 18 – 26, 1986; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, June 13 – July 13, 1987; University of Maryland Art Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland, January 27 – March 8, 1988. Catalogue
1981 Sculptors Drawing, Yale A & A Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
1980 The New Contemporaries, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Great Britain
New Students, Yale A & A Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
1979 Drawing Show, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Great Britain
The New Contemporaries, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Great Britain
1978 Capital Elm, Hyde Park, London, Great Britain
Drawing Show, Mall Galleries, London, Great Britain
Commissions: 2020 Finalist: New Orleans Convention Center, Louisiana. Not commissioned
Synchronicity of Color: SAM Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas. Completed Jan 2020
2019 Synchronicity Spiral for Kosovo, 2019 United States Embassy in Pristina, Kosovo, commissioned by United States State Department - Art in Embassy Program.
Finalist: Austin Bergstrom International Airport. Not commissioned
2018 Synchronicity of Color: Victoria, 2018, University of Houston System at Victoria, Texas
Synchronicity Chapel, 2018. Private Commission, Texas
Synchronicity of Color, 2018, the Alexander Hotel, Houston, Texas
Finalist: Austin Bergstrom International Airport, Austin, Texas. Alternate
Finalist: Tempo on Lamar, Austin, Texas. Not commissioned
2016 Finalist: SkySong Center, The Arizona State University Innovation Center, Scottsdale Arizona. Not commissioned
2013 Synchronicity of Color, interior and Slip Garden, for Eskenazi Health (formerly, The New Wishard Hospital) Indianapolis, Indiana. 2011 - 2013
2012 Torcasso Commission, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Two art structures that are art, architectural and form a function. Collaboration with Larry Speck of Page, formerly: Page Southerland Page Architects. 2011-2012
Torcasso Commission, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Garden design and seven unique cast glass works. Collaboration with Mesa Design.
2011 Synchronicity Light Receptors, City Place, Dallas. Texas. Collection of the City of Dallas, Texas, 2011
Wexler Commission 2011, San Francisco, CA. Site-specific artwork.
Wilk Commission 2011, Hamilton, Ohio. Site-specific, color acrylic artwork. Installation August 2011
Finalist: Art installation for infant and adult waiting room at The New Wishard Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana. Consultants, Blackburn Architects. Not commissioned
Finalist: The Cloud of Unknowing, for façade of South Parking Garage, for The New Wishard Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana. Consultants, Blackburn Architects. Not commissioned
Finalist and Commissioned: Synchronicity of Color, interior and Slip Garden, for The New Wishard Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana. Consultants, Blackburn Architects.
Finalist: Synchronicity of Color, a building façade design, for The Percent for Art Program of New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Site is Public School, PS/IS 314. Consultants, Gruzen Samton Architects. Not commissioned
Finalist: Lead Artist, for the Lady Bird Lake Boardwalk Trail Art in Public Places project for the City of Austin, Austin Art in Public Places Program. Consultants, Limbacher & Godfrey Architects. Not commissioned
2010 Finalist for Denver 12th Street Project. Designed twelve colored acrylic towers. Not commissioned
Austin Ranch - Contemplation Plaza, a public artwork, as a plaza, Sawyer Pool, and monument with Mesa Design for Billingsley Corp. Dallas, Texas. 2007 - 2010
2008 Synchronicity of Color - Red & Blue, a public artwork designed for City of Houston at Discovery Green, Houston, Texas, new 20-acre park in Downtown Park this work was completed in late March 2008. 2005-2008 Synchronicity of Color- Yellow & Violet, a public artwork designed for Discovery Green Conservancy at Discovery Green, Houston, Texas. 2005-2008 Index for Contemplation, a public artwork designed for One Arts Plaza, Dallas Texas. 2007-2008
2007 Contemplation Garden, a public artwork designed for Whole Foods World Head Quarters, commissioned by Schlosser Development, Austin, Texas. (2005-2007)
2006 Index for Contemplation, a public artwork designed for the San Antonio International Airport Landscape Enhancement, San Antonio, Texas. (2003-2006)
2004 Index for Contemplation, an artwork created for Art House, Dallas, Texas.
2002 Index for Contemplation, a public artwork created for the Austin Convention Center Expansion. Funded by the Austin Art in Public Places Program and the City of Austin. This work spans a wall 40 ft. high and 300 ft. long. (2000-2002)
1992 Margo's World, The Sharir Dance Company, in its 10th Anniversary season at the Performing Arts Center, Bass Concert Hall, Austin, Texas, April 1 and 2, 1993.
Margo's World, B. Iden Payne Theater, Austin, Texas, November 20 and 21, 1992.
1986 The Birdhouse Project, collaboration with Architect Marek Walczak for Hong Ning Apartments, New York, New York. Produced by CityArts Workshop and funded by New York Department of Cultural Affairs, New York, New York.
1978 Capital Elm, Hyde Park, London, Great Britain.
Curated Exhibitions:
2014 Laurie Anderson: Landfall, Visual Art Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas September 27 – December 7, 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
Laurie Anderson: Landfall, Curate and initiated a collaboration with, Texas Performing Art Center, Department of Art & Art History, Visual Art Center and the Humanities Research Center, which named Laurie Anderson the Cline Professor for 2013-2014
2001 Loudly Minimal, Quietly Baroque: The Best of 1/4 Hora Projects Space, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas November 2, 2001 – December 14, 2001
Texas Dialogues: Scenic Overlook, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas December 1, 2000 – January 12, 2001
2000 Sculptors Drawing, 1/4 Hora Project Space, Elgin, Texas October 22 – 31, 2000
1/4 Hora Perennial, 1/4 Hora Project Space, Elgin, Texas April 8 – 16, 2000
Contemplative Exactitude, 1/4 Hora Project Space, Elgin, Texas February 4–13, 2000
1985 Robert Wilson Drawings, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, New York
Publications:
2020
“Margo Sawyer: installations of space and transcendence” Fahrenheit Magazine, 17 Aug. 2020
San Antonio Museum of Art, Reflect, Texas Women: A New History of Abstract Art. 2020. pp. 11, 44-45, 56, 59. Catalogue
2019
US Department of State, Davis Brody Bond, Synchronicity of Color for Kosovo, Embassy of the United States, Pristina, Kosovo. 2019. pp. 36-37. Catalogue
Gaztambide, María C. & Greene, Alison de Lima. "On Site: 50 Years of Public Art of the University of Houston System”. Book. pp. 70–74.
Public Art - University of Houston System, Houston Paper City, September Issue. Book. pp. 80 – 82
2018
“Margo Sawyer Unveils New Installation at University of Houston-Victoria.” Glasstire, 22 Sept. 2018.
Smith Ford, Lauren. “An Artist's Loft in Historic Downtown Elgin.” Texas Monthly, 2018, pp. 70–74.
Zech, Brandon. “Seventeen Texas Museum Gifted Over 500 Artworks from The Contemporary Austin’s Collection.” Glasstire, 22 Aug. 2018.
Wright, Kevin. “Reclaiming A Dream.” GIN Magazine, June 2018, pp. 18–22.
Moody Castro, Leslie. “Texas Studio: Margo Sawyer.” Arts and Culture Texas Magazine. 14 June 2018
Miller, Amy. “Margo Sawyer Is Recognized with Guggenheim Fellowship.” Downtown 78621 Magazine, 2018, pp. 6–7.
Newton, Paula. “Austin's Margo Sawyer Wins a Guggenheim.” Glasstire, 6 Apr. 2018.
“JOHN SIMON GUGGENHEIM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION 2018 Fellows – United States and Canada.” The New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018.
Smith Ford, Lauren. “An Artist's Loft in Historic Downtown Elgin.” Texas Monthly, 29 Jan. 2018.
Rees, Christina. “Notes on Margo Sawyer’s Installation at Holly Johnson.” Glasstire, 10 Jan. 2018.
2017
“Organizations Across Texas Receive Hurricane Harvey Relief Grants.” Glasstire, 9 Dec. 2017.
Zech, Brandon. “Margo Sawyer: Reflect.” Glasstire, 7 Nov. 2017.
Brand, Heather. “Art for Everyone.” Texas Highways, Sept. 2017, p. 51, 54-55.
“Contemporary Austin Moves Its Collection to the Blanton.” Glasstire, 31 May 2017.
Zech, Brandon. “Margo Sawyer: Synchronicity of Color.” Glasstire, 24 Apr. 2017.
Zech, Brandon. “Pure/Present.” Glasstire, 24 Jan. 2017.
2016 Thompson, Helen. “Marfa Modern”, The Monacelli Press, 2016 p. 168-179, ill. 169-171.
Zech, Brandon. “Pure.” Glasstire, 10 Nov. 2016.
Zech, Brandon. “IT'S OFFICIAL – Texas State Artists 2015 & 2016.” Glasstire, 27 June 2016.
Roesch, Ariane. “TARGET TEXAS: THE MEANING OF MIXED.” Glasstire, 16 May 2016.
Brimberry, Katherine & Smith, Mark Lesly: “Flatbed Press at 25”, University of Texas Press, 2016, pp. 202–207. Book
2015
Newton, Paula. “The Results Are In: Austin Critics' Table Awards.” Glasstire, 2 June 2015.
Murphy, Jack. Assoc. AIA. “Field with NO Center”, Texas Architect, Color, May/June. pg. 79- 81 ill. 5, 79-81
Rees, Christina. “Texas Has Appointed Its Official Visual Artists, and You Know Them!” Glasstire, 7 May 2015.
Gamerman, Amy. “Rammed – Earth Luxury Homes”, The Wall Street Journal, April 2, 2015. ill. Pg.
Banks, Emma, At Home in Elgin, Trebeza, Austin arts and Culture, April 2015. Pg. 80-95, ill, 95
Welch, A.J. “Torcasso Residence in Mexico”, e-architect. January 7, 2015.
2014 Wilks, Barbara, Struc-turing-con-flu-ence, Ohio House, 2014. p. 118-119. Book
“Margo Sawyer.” Texas Abstract: Modern, Contemporary, by Michael Paglia and Jim Edwards, Mankus Studios (Color and Reproduction), 2014, pp. 180–185.
Whitney, Kathleen. “Margo Sawyer: Synchronicities”, Sculpture Magazine: June 2014: P. 5,36-39.
Quinton, Luke. Art, Architecture mix at different kind of Umlauf Exhibition, Austin American Statesman, July 30, 2014.
Van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire. Reflect, Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum. 2014. Catalogue
McKinney, FAIA, Heather. “Subtle Layers.” Texas Architect Magazine, May-June 2014, p. 60–68.
CoD+A Awards, Interior Design Magazine, August 21, 2013, ill.
Paglia, Michael & Edwards, Jim. Texas Abstract: Modern/Contemporary. Fresco Books. p.180 -185. Book
Schwaiger, Seth Orion. “Tiny Park: A Catalogue.” Glasstire, 13 Jan. 2014.
2013 Glasstire Events. “TransFIGURATION: a Rino Pizzi Project.” Glasstire, 27 Dec. 2013.
Glasstire Events. “A Catalogue.” Glasstire, 27 Nov. 2013.
Newton, Paula. “Austin Sculptor Wins Design Award for Art Installation.” Glasstire, 22 Aug. 2013.
Mattingly, June. Texas Contemporary Artists. Digital Book, Second Edition
Keim, Kevin. Place Notes Houston, Cover Image
Discovery Green, Houston. 5th Anniversary p. 38-39
2012 Quilters of America, Cover
Raymond, Adam K. “Three Wonderful Days in Houston”, Hemisphere Magazine, United Airlines Magazine, April Edition 2012. ill. Cover, p. 8, 94-95. p.86-98.
2011 "Cityplace. Area District Installs Large Scale Commissioned Public Art in New Park Space donated to the City of Dallas." Dallas Monthly News, November 11, 2011.
"Cityplace. Adorned with Art." Looking Uptown, October 2011. Vol.3, Number 3. p. 2.
Shilcutt, Katherine. ”Local Landmarks Dominate the 3rd Annual Gingerbread Build-Off”, Houston Press December 12, 2011
Pizzi, Rino. The Mona Lisa Project, with essays by Janis Bergan-Carter and Dana Friis-Hansen, 2011, p. 48-49
Cover, Houston Press, March 10-16 2011. Volume 23 No. 11
Faires, Robert. “Mona Remix Leonardo's lady gets a modern makeover in Rino Pizzi's Mona Lisa Project”. The Austin Chronicle. Friday July 1, 2011, p.
McCray, Marilyn. “The Mona Lisa Project: What Happens When A Photographer and 16 Women Artists Explore One of The World’s Best-Known Paintings?” Austin Woman Magazine. October 2011. p. 26
2010
The Grove – Discovery Green Park, Houston, Texas, e-architect. UK. 13th December 2010.
Simek, Peter. “Austin Ranch Gets Margo Sawyer Sculpture (With Pic’s)”, D Magazine, Front Row A Daily Review of the Dallas Arts, February 17th 2010.
2009
Jost, David. “The Biggest Little Park in the World,” Landscape Architecture, December, 2009. p.82-93.
“Geometry in Reflection: Tommy Fitzpatrick / Margo Sawyer.” Glasstire, 10 Oct. 2009.
Rees, Christina. “I Dream of Architects” Catalog essay for “Geometry in Reflection-Tommy Fitzpatrick/Margo Sawyer” The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington. Catalogue 2009.
Naylor, June. “Houston’s Discovery Green Downtown Playground” Texas Highway, July 2009 ill. 48,49, p. 49-53.
Britt, Douglas. “Everyone’s a winner: Wayne Dolcefino, Margo Sawyer, HAA.” Houston Chronicle, Arts in Houston Thursday, June 25, 2009. p.17.
Elliott, Nathan. “Art in the Park”, Texas Architect, May/June 2009. p. 44-49.
“Margo Sawyer: Synchronicity of Color.” Glasstire, 9 May 2009.
Elizabeth, Lynch. “Commissions”, Sculpture, International Sculpture Center. April 2009, Vol.28 No. 3 p. 23.
Webb, Bruce. “The Grove in Discovery Green, Houston”, Architect Magazine. March, 2009.
2008
“Margo Sawyer A life by Design”, Austin Woman Magazine, Vol. CII, No.2 October 2008. Cover, p. 11, 62-68.
Public Art in Review, Issue 39 Fall/Winter 2008 p. 75
“Margo Sawyer: Synchronicity of Color.” Glasstire, 16 Aug. 2008.
“Commissions in Brief”, Sculpture, International Sculpture Center. April 2008 Vol. 27 No. 3 p. 65.
Blumenthal, Ralph. “No Need to Apologize: City Tries a Little Boasting.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 2 Apr. 2008.
2006 Duval Reese, Becky. “Texas 100 Selections from the El Paso Museum of Art”, p. Book, 2006.
2005
Terranova, Charissa N. “Margo Sawyer: The Warp and Woof of Impossible Play.” Glasstire, 2 Oct. 2005.
2004 Keim, Kevin. Multi-Sourcing, Places Journal, Volume 16 Issue 2, 2004
Sultan, Terrie. “Margo Sawyer: Contemplative Spaces”, Blaffer Gallery the Art Museum of the University of Houston. Catalogue, 2004.
Moloney, Tim. “Blaffer Gallery is Fast Becoming the Exhibition Space for the Uber-Hip,” 002 Magazine, June 2004, p. 16-17.
Klaasmeyer, Kelly. ”Sawyer's Adventures "Contemplative Spaces" explores the sublime in blue and yellow,” Houston Press. April 22, 2004.
2003 Shaw, Kurt. “Mattress Factory Goes Above and Beyond for Its Artists,” Pittsburgh Tribune- Review, September 7, 2003.
2002 Willour, Clint. “An Obsession with Compulsion,” ArtLies, No. 35, Summer 2002. p. 8 -11.
Ewing, John. “Reviews” Tema Celeste, Contemporary Art. No. 91. 2002. p. 95.
2001 Bonansinga, Kate. “Ephemerality of the Moment: A Conversation with Margo Sawyer,” Sculpture Magazine, July/August 2001, Vol. 20, No. 6. http://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag01/julaug01/sawyer/saw.shtml
Bonansinga, Kate. “Margo Sawyer: Ten + One Illuminations,” Sculpture Magazine, Summer 2001, p. 1ll.
“The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, 2001 Awards.” Catalogue. p. 64-65.
2000 Knudson, Rainey. “Alternative Spaces,” Canvas Magazine, Fall 2000, p. Cover, 5,13.
Duncan, Michael. “Report from San Antonio,” artnet.com, August 2, 2000.
Barnes, Michael. “Lightweight, But Not Empty,” Austin American Statesman, Saturday, July 29th, 2000, p. Arts, D8.
Goddard, Dan R. “ArtPace Works Play with Light, Conflict,” San Antonio Express News, Sunday, July 9, 2000, p. 8H.
Kutner, Janet. “Austin Museum of Art,” Dallas Morning News, Sunday, July 2000, pg. van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire. “Trio of Artists Make the Most of Space,” Austin American Statesman, Saturday, June 24, 2000, D5.
Faires, Robert. “Articulations,” Austin Chronicle, May 11, 2000.
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1999 Shaila Dewan. “Drawing: A Blank. The CAM can't get a line on lines”, Houston Press Arts Thursday, Mar 25 1999. van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire. “Transformation: An installation by Margo Sawyer,” Austin American Statesman, February 13, 1999, p. D9. van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire. “A New Kind of Art Place,” Austin American Statesman, December 2, 1999, p. Arts, 47.
1998 Shade, Christopher. “Margo Sawyer: Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria,” ArtLies, No. 20, Fall 1998, p. 49.
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1996 Rosenthal, Mila. "Pachinko Fields of Paradise,” Asahi Evening News, Thursday, December 5, 1996, pg. 11.
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Radio and Television: 2018 Margo Sawyer Guggenheim Fellow, Rag Radio, Austin, Texas
2005 Downtown, KLRU, PBS affiliates for Austin, Texas, Channel 18
2004 Because Art Matters, Artpace San Antonio mini-documentary
1998 El Paso Channel 8 News, Morning Show interview on Ten + One Illuminations. (Shown January 2001)
Channel 8 News & Fox News Austin. Interview on Art & Video: Part One, at 1/4 Hora Project Space, Elgin, Texas. (Shown on February 2001)
1996 NHK News, Kansai Area, Japan. Film interview at Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo, Japan. (Shown November 25, 1996)
TV Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Filmed, interview at Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo, Japan. (Shown December 5, 1996)
TV Osaka, Osaka, Japan. Filmed, interview at Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo, Japan. (Shown December 5, 1996)
1993 Channel 7 News, Abilene, Texas. Filmed at the Fifteenth Annual Abilene Outdoors Sculpture Exhibition at Nelson Park, Abilene, Texas. (Shown September 17 1995)
1994 Channel 36 News, Austin, Texas. Filmed at the Laguna Gloria Art Museum. (Shown on November 20 1992)
1991 Channel 36 News, Austin, Texas. Filmed the installation of my exhibition at Women & Their Work. (Shown on May 12 1992)
1985 Brits in America, Documentary on British People Working in USA. Filmed working in my studio. Produced by Peter Tiffin for Thames Television, England. (Shown in UK. January 15, 1985)
1987 Capital Elm Project on Capital Radio, London, England
In the Collection of:
Museum Collections: Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum The Maslow Study Gallery for Contemporary Art at Marywood University, Scranton, Pennsylvania
Corporate Collections: Austonia, Austin, TX Billingsley Company, Dallas, TX Champion Paper, New York, NY. Chemical Bank, New York, NY. Inter-Metro Industries, New York, NY. Progressive Corporation, New York, NY. Proskaver, Rose, Goetz, and Mendelson, New York, NY. Prudential Insurance, New York, NY.
City Collections: City of Austin, Texas City of Dallas, Texas City of Houston, Texas City of San Antonio, Texas City of New York, New York
University Collections University of Houston System, Houston, Texas Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas
International Collections: United States State Department Art in Embassy Collection at the United States Embassy in Pristina, Kosovo
Selected Private Collections: Jim & Caroline Clark David Beitzel & Darren Walker Martin & Charlene Cohen Howard & Judy Ganek Leon Hess, Amerada Hess Linda & Jerry Janger Jim Fissel & Jim Martinez Lester Marks Ned Rifkin John Robertson Martin Sklar Rick & Cynthia Torcasso Kendra Scott Lawrence Speck Mary Parker Mckay Otto & Keith Coffee Barbara Wilks Jordan Muraglia & Richard Boprae Visiting Artist: 2020 University of Houston, Public Art Program, Houston, Texas
2018 School of Art, Syracuse University, New York
2013 Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, Washington
2010 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
2008 University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado
2001 Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, Washington
University of Texas, El Paso, Texas
2000 Universidad de Valencia, Spain
1999 University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado
1996 Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan
1995 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas
1989 School of Visual Arts, New York, New York
1987 Rhode Island School of Design, Rome, Italy
Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy
1985 Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
1983 School of Visual Arts, New York, New York
West Surrey College of Art & Design, Great Britain
Baroda School of Art, Gujarat, India
Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay, India
1982 Chelsea School of Art, London, Great Britain
Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay, India
Selected Public Lectures:
2020 Conversation with Margo Sawyer & Jacob Hashimotto, University of Houston Public Art Program.
Conversation with Margo Sawyer & Suzanne Weaver, Curator at the San Antonio Museum of Art.
2018 University of Houston at Victoria, Texas City of Elgin, Texas
2017 Gallery talk with Margo Sawyer & Curator Katie Robinson Edwards of the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum at Texas Art House, Johnson City, Texas
2016 Margo Sawyer, TARGET TEXAS: The Meaning of Mixed, at the Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christie, Texas
PURE, Texas Art House, Johnson City, Texas
Art & Architecture a lecture by Larry Speck & Margo Sawyer, Texas AIA Conference, Dallas, Texas
2014 Reflect, Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum, Austin, Texas
2009 Gallery talk with Margo Sawyer and Tommy Fitzpatrick, The Gallery at UTA, Arlington, Texas.
2011 The Mona Lisa Project, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Advancing Tradition: Twenty Years of Printmaking at Flatbed Press. Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, December 13, 2011
2010 Neither Model nor Muse, Women as Artists, McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas. July 2, 2010
The Mona Lisa Project, Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas. Thursday, May 27, 2010
2008 “Juggling Fire an Artists Story”, Eaton Lecture Series at the National Humanities Center, University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado
The Texas Chair Project, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
2004 Participant in the seminar “The Work of Religion: Past, Present, Future,” Humanities Institute Faculty Fellows, The University of Texas at Austin
“The Field and Its Knower: Lessons for an Installation Artist from the Far East,” The Mattress Factory, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, February 18, 2004 & Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2001 University of Texas at El Paso, Texas
1999 University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado
1998 ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas. A discussion with Art Critic: Katie Segal, Joachim Koester, Maurizio Cattelan, and Kathryn Kanjo
Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, Texas, Lecture Series
Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum, Austin, Texas, Lecture Series
Universidad de Granada, Spain
Universidad de Valencia, Spain
Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, Texas
1997 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
1995 Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas
1987 Rhode Island School of Design, Rome, Italy
Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy
Chelsea School of Art, London, Great Britain
1985 Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
1983 Baroda School of Art, Gujarat, India
Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay, India
West Surrey College of Art & Design, Great Britain
Chelsea School of Art, London, Great Britain