Blair Saxon-Hill
Bio
Blair Saxon-Hill currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. While adept in many art mediums including assemblage and sculpture, Saxon-Hill has most recently been consumed with a return to oil painting. Her works are vibrant and playful, and they are filled with an overarching sense of empathy and love for the world and people around her. In her 2024 New York Times review of Blair Saxon-Hill's exhibition at SHRINE, Roberta Smith stated, “Saxon-Hill, who was born in Eugene, Ore., works with untroubled ease and zero pretension, when painting still lifes of wilting flowers or inhabited interiors.”
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EDUCATION
2002
Reed College, Portland, OR
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Women, Wildflowers, Goats and the Sea, Collaborations, Copenhagen, Denmark
Even Then Flowers Bloom, SHRINE, New York, NY
2023
Spirits, Queens, Dogs and Flowers, SHRINE, LA
2022
Shrimp Head Momma, Nino Mier Gallery Glassell Park, Los Angeles, CA
City Dip, Pace Prints, New York, NY
2018
As If Without Us We Could Be We, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017
LAID ME OUT, Tahoe Gallery, Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, NV
Diagnostic, Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2016
to no ending except ourselves, JOAN, Los Angeles, CA
2015
No Edge to Nature, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, OR
2014
From the Beginning (Yet Further On), Littman Gallery, Portland, OR
Confounding Medium, North View Gallery, Portland, OR
2011
Tonal Sequence, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, OR
2008
Beyond the Way Station, Lunar Boy Gallery, Astoria, OR
2002
Evocation of the Empathetic Response Through a Material Linguistic, Feldenheimer Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Color and Form, Pace Prints, New York, NY
Effetto Notte: Day for Night, Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica in collaboration with Aïshti Foundation, Rome, IT
Halfway to Sanity, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA
2022
Some Dogs, Curated by Pamela Hornik, San Fransisco, CA
New Editions, Pace Prints, New York, NY
Indie Folk, WSU Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Pullman, WA
2021
Soft Water, Hard Stone, New Museum International Triennial of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
The Inaugural Exhibition, Nino Mier Gallery, Brussels, BE
2020
Gest, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Five Year Anniversary Exhibition, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Indie Folk, Adams & Ollman, Portland, OR
PAPER (and one on wood), Nino Mier, Los Angeles, CA
What Needs To Be Said, Disjecta, Portland, OR
2019
What Needs To Be Said, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, OR
What Needs To Be Said, Umpqua Community College, Roseburg, OR
2018
Pussy, King of the Pirates, Maccarone, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Concrete Island, VENUS Over Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Sister City Project: Portland, 500m Museum, Sapporo, JP
Outside the Museum, PICA’s TBA Festival, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland, OR
Out of Sight, King Street Station, Seattle, WA
Good Neighbor, Seattle University’s Hedreen Gallery, Seattle, WA
Plus One, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2015
Stilleven: Contemporary Still Life, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, OR
The World Is Not The Earth, Adams & Ollman Gallery, Portland, OR
Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, Jacobs Gallery, Eugene, OR
Dirty Peach, LA Art Book Fair, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Portland2014: A Biennial of Contemporary Art, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR
New Art 2.0, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN
2013
Subject, Answer, Countersubject, Disjecta Center for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
2012
Interior Margins, The Lumber Room, Portland, OR
Group Exhibition, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR
2020
Gest, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Five Year Anniversary Exhibition, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Indie Folk, Adams & Ollman, Portland, OR
PAPER (and one on wood), Nino Mier, Los Angeles, CA
What Needs To Be Said, Disjecta, Portland, OR
2019
What Needs To Be Said, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, OR
What Needs To Be Said, Umpqua Community College, Roseburg, OR
2018
Pussy, King of the Pirates, Maccarone, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Concrete Island, VENUS Over Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Sister City Project: Portland, 500m Museum, Sapporo, JP
Outside the Museum, PICA’s TBA Festival, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland, OR
Out of Sight, King Street Station, Seattle, WA
Good Neighbor, Seattle University’s Hedreen Gallery, Seattle, WA
Plus One, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2015
Stilleven: Contemporary Still Life, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, OR
The World Is Not The Earth, Adams & Ollman Gallery, Portland, OR
Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, Jacobs Gallery, Eugene, OR
Dirty Peach, LA Art Book Fair, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Portland2014: A Biennial of Contemporary Art, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR
New Art 2.0, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN
2013
Subject, Answer, Countersubject, Disjecta Center for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
2012
Interior Margins, The Lumber Room, Portland, OR
Group Exhibition, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR
2011
Blair Saxon-Hill and Emily Bixler, Union Pine, Portland, OR
2010
Morph/Shift: perspectives on non-objective, abstract, experimental painting,Pacific Northwest College of Art (curated by Mack McFarland), Portland, OR
SUMMER SHOW 2010, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, OR
COLLECTIONS
Aïshti Foundation, Rome, IT
Beth DeWoody Collection
Pretty Bird, 2024, oil on canvas, 72 x 54 in.
Buttercup, 2024, oil on canvas, 44 x 33 in.
Fragrant Occasion, 2023, oil on canvas, 72 x 54 in.
Red Carpet, 2024, oil on canvas, 80 x 60 in.
Love Note, 2024, oil on canvas, 44 x 33 in.
Greeted with Gratitude, 2024, oil on canvas, 44 x 33 in.
In Her Care, 2024, oil on canvas, 72 x 54 in.
Between Honey and Soil, 2023, oil on canvas, 20 x 16 in.
Desert Star (Dadura), 2023, oil on canvas, 44 x 33 in.
The Lovers, 2023, oil on canvas, 20 x 16 in.