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

2023

Even Then Flowers Bloom, SHRINE, New York, NY

Spirits, Queens, Dogs and Flowers, SHRINE, LA

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

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