BLAIR SAXON-HILL
Born 1979, Eugene, Oregon,
Lives and works in Portland, Oregon
EDUCATION
Reed College, Studio Art
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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
2017 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
2002 Evocation of the Empathetic Response Through a Material Linguistic,
Feldenheimer Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 New Museum International Triennial of Contemporary Art (Forthcoming)
2021 The Inaugural Exhibition, Nino Mier Gallery, Brussels, BE
2020 Gest, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Five Year Anniversary Exhibition, Nino Mier, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Indie Folk, Adams & Ollman, Portland, OR
2020 PAPER (and one on wood), Nino Mier, Los Angeles, CA
2020 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, Japan
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
2015 Stilleven: Contemporary Still Life, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, OR
The World Is Not The Earth, Adams & Ollman Gallery, Portland, OR
2014 Portland2014: A Biennial of Contemporary Art, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center,Portland, OR
2013 Subject, Answer, Countersubject, Disjecta Center for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
2012 Interior Margins, The Lumber Room, Portland, OR
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2020 Oregon Arts Commission Career Opportunity Grant
2018 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Fellowship
2017 Oregon Arts Commission Career Opportunity Grant
2016 Hallie Ford Family Foundation Fellowship
Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship
2013 Oregon Arts Commission Career Opportunity Grant
Ford Family Foundation Career Opportunity Grant
Ford Family Foundation Golden Spot Award
2010 Regional Arts and Culture Council Professional Development Grant
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021 Murray, Yxta Maya, “GEST,” The Brooklyn Rail, February 2021
2019 Nawi, Diana, ed. What Needs to Be Said. Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 2019.
2017 Whiteford, Meg. “Critic’s Pick,” ArtForum Magazine, January 2017
Wagley, Catherine. “5 Art Shows to See in L.A. This Week,” LA Weekly,
December 14, 2016.
2016 Pinter, Antonia, ed. Women’s Autobiographical Artists’ Books: Volume II. Publication Studio.
Speer, Richard. “2015 Top Ten: Portland,” VisualArtSource.com, January 2016.
2015 Snyder, Stephanie. “Critic’s Pick,” ArtForum Magazine, May 2015.
Kim, Hye-Mi. “Portland: The Creative & Artistic Life?” pgs: 20-27
Cosmopolitan Magazine Korea. January 7, 2015.
2014 Nishiyama, Isao. “Blair Saxon-Hill,” [Cover story of bilingual Japanese magazine] pgs. 82-97
Knock: The Studio Journal, Issue 3, 2014.
Griffin, Jonathan. "Portland2014," Frieze Magazine, June/July 2014.