Selected Museum Collections

Selected Museum Collections

Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
The Anne Gary Pannell Art Gallery, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar College, VA
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
DePaul University Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IO
Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
Munson-Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
The Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA
The Paul R. Jones Collection, The University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Saint Joseph College Art Gallery, West Hartford, CT
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, WA
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Sweet Briar College Art Gallery, Sweet Briar, VA
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Solo Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

1972		One Woman Exhibit, Multi-Cul Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1973		Betye Saar, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
1975		Betye Saar, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1976		Matrix 22: Betye Saar, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT Betye Saar, Monique Knowlton Gallery New York, NY
1977		Betye Saar, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Ritual, Baum-Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1979		Betye Saar: New Work, Baum-Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Betye Saar: Collages, Gallery 62, National Urban League, Inc., New York, NY
1980		Rituals, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
1981		Betye Saar: New Work, Baum-Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Betye Saar: New Collages, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY
1982		Betye Saar: Collages, Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1983		Betye Saar: Collages & Installations, Woman’s Art Movement, Adelaide, Australia Uneasy Dancer, Canberra School of Art, Canberra ACT, Australia
1984		In Context, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Secrets & Revelations, Georgia State University Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1987		Sentimental Sojourn: Strangers & Souvenirs, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Mojotech, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
1988		Connections: Site Installations/USIA Voyages: Dreams & Destinations, Taichung Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan Shadow Song, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Betye Saar: Resurrection: Site Installations, 1977 to 1987, Main Art Gallery, Visual Arts Center, California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, California House of Fortune, Manila, Philippines
1989		Connections: Site Installations/USIA llusions, Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand Fragments of Fate, Auckland, New Zealand
1990		Sanctified Visions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1991		Sentimental Souvenirs, Objects Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992		Signs of the Times, Hypo Square, Hypo-Bank, New York, NY The Ritual Journey, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
1993		Betye Saar: The Secret Heart, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
1994		Limbo, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
1995		Personal Icons, Desaisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA and Joselyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE; The University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, CO
1996		Visual Journey, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA Bearing Witness, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA Tangled Roots, The Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State College, PA
1997		Ritual and Remembrance, The Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA; California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1998		Workers + Warriors: The Return of Aunt Jemima, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC; The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI Crossings, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA A Woman’s Boat: Voyages, Saddleback College Art Gallery, Mission Viejo, CA
1999		Personal Icons, The University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Personal Icons, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass, Village, CO
2000		Betye Saar: As Time Goes By…1591-1951, Pinnacle Galleries, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA In Service: A Version of Survival, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
2002		Betye Saar: Personal Icons, Merrill Lynch & Co, Inc., Princeton, NJ Betye Saar: Colored – Consider the Rainbow, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; The Columbus Museum Uptown, Columbus, GA
2003		Betye Saar: Personal Icons, Kirkland Fine Art Center, Millikin University, Decatur, IL
2005		Betye Saar: Extending the Frozen Moment, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm, Beach, FL, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA
2006		Betye Saar: Migrations/Transformations, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

1973		Women Artists in the Museum Collection, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
1975		Collage & Assemblage, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1976		20th Century Black American Artists, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
1977		Painting & Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
1982		Ritual & Myth, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
1983		On & Off the Wall: Shaped & Colored, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA Visions: Margit Omar/Betye Saar, Mt. St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA
1984		Return of the Narrative, Palm Spring Desert Museum, Palm Spring, CA
1985		Tradition and Conflict: Images of a Turbulent Decade 1963-1973, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
1986		Art Expressions in Paper, Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, CA
1987		Sculpture Trends of the 80’s, The Queen’s Museum, Flushing, NY The Afro-American Artist in the Age of Pluralism, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ Passages: A Survey of California Women Artists, Part II, Fresno Center & Museum, Fresno, CA
1988		As a Verb, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD; traveled to The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY The Poetic Object, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX; traveled to Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christie, TX; Art Museum of Amarillo, Amarillo, TX Lost and Found in California: Four Decades of Assemblage Art (The Narrative), Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Frontiers in Fiber: The Americans, North Dakota Museum of Art, ND
1989		Appropriate Object Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York, NY The 1960s: A Cultural Awakening, Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles, CA Forty Years of California Assemblage, Wright Art Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
1990		Among Africas/In America: Betye Saar & Jose Bedia, Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada The Decade Show, The New Museum, New York, NY Secrets, Dialogues, Revelations: The Art of Betye and Alison Saar, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Smith College of Art, Northampton, MA; Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, TX; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Wright Art Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
1992		500 Years: With the Breath of Our Ancestors, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993		Out of the Cold, Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA Fibers: USA Today, Netherlands Textile Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands, Museum of Applied Arts, Helsinki Finland
1994		The Art of Betye Saar and John Otterbridge, 22nd Biennial of Sao Paulo, Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil The US Delegation Fifth Biennial of Havana, Wilfredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba Generation of Mentors, National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, DC 25 Years of African-American Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Traveled to The Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA (Sept. – Oct. 1994); The Art Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (Nov. – Dec. 1994); The Scottsdale Art Center, Scottsdale, AZ (March – May 1995); Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY (June – July 1995); Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX (Aug – Oct 1995); The New York State Museum, Albany, NY (Jan. – Feb. 1996); The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA (Sept. – Dec. 1996); Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA (Feb. – March 1997); Heckscher Museum, Huntington Long Island, NY (April – Aug. 1997); The Lowe Art Gallery, University of Miami, Miami, FL (Sept. – Nov. 1997)
1995		African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, II, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA The Art of Betye Saar and John Otterbridge, Africus Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa
1996		African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, III, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY Fiber and Form: The Woman’s Legacy, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY Bearing Witness, Spelman College Museum of Art, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA Three Outdoor Installations, 1996 Olympic Arts Festival, Atlanta, GA
1997		Hanging by a Thread, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, IV, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Fisk University Galleries, Nashville, TN Going the Distance: A Generational Survey of Women Artists, Lawrence Gallery, Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA
1998		The Tip of the Iceberg: A Response to New York Museums III, Dorfman Projects, New York, NY African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, V, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
1999		African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, VI, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI Beyond the Veil: African-American Artists and Their Art at Century’s End, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Toward A Society for All Ages: World Artists at the Millennium, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, United Nations, New York, NY
2000		The Likeness of Being: Contemporary Self Portraits by 50 Women, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY Remnants of Memory: Contemporary American Art in Textile, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, VII, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Appleton Museum of Art, Florida State University and Central Florida Community College, Ocala, FL re-righting History II, UFA Gallery, New York, NY Strength and Diversity: A Celebration of African American Artists, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Michael Rosenfeld Gallery: The First Decade, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY Rivers of Spirit: Art Women in the African Diaspora, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL American Art Today: Fantasies & Curiosities, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL Icons of a Century: A Retrospective, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
2001		Uncommon Threads: Contemporary Artists and Clothing, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Contemporary Romanticism, The African American Museum, Philadelphia, PA Art of the Masters: A Survey of African American Images, 1980-2000, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY On Common Ground, Tobey Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, VIII, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
2002		Creative Expressions: Prints and Works on Paper, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Free Expressions: Community Voices and Contemporary African American Art from the Collection, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, IX, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Tubman African American Museum, Macon, GA Consequences of Empire, Public Resource Center for Activism and Arts, Washington, DC Successions: Prints by African-American Artists from the Jean & Robert Steele Collection, Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; Carleton College, Northfield, MN; University Art Gallery, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA; Muscarelle Museum of Art, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA; The James E. Lewis Museum of Art, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD; Art Museum, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC; Tubman African American Museum, Macon, GA The Belles of Amherst: Contemporary Women Artists, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA In Memory: The Art of Afterward, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York, NY Personal & Political: The Women’s Art Movement, 1969-1975, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY Some Assemblage Required: Collage Culture in Post-War America, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL 2002 Collectors Show and Sale, The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
2003		African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, X, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY American Art and Artifacts Featuring the Chris Webber Collection, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA My Mother’s an Artist, The Educational Alliance Art School and Gallery, New York, NY Layers of Meaning: Collage and Abstraction in the late 20th Century, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA An American Legacy: Art from the Studio Museum in Harlem, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY African American Masters: Highlights of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, New York Historical Society, New York, NY; Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN; The Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH; The Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT Turning Corners, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA Seizing the Myths: Arts of Rebellion, Resource Center for Activism and Arts, Washington, DC Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Focus on the Figure: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Marks Graphic Center, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA Popular, Pop & Post-Pop: Color Screenprints 1930s to Now, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2004		African American Artists in Los Angeles, A Survey Exhibition: Fade (1990-2003), Los Angeles Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, CA Seeds and Roots: Selections from the Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY Embracing the Muse: Africa and African American Art, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY African-American Works on Paper from the Cochran Collection, Long Island Museum of Art, Stony Brook, NY What’s That?, Children’s Museum of Manhattan, New York, NY Women Artists of the Twentieth Century, Sweet Briar College Art Gallery, Sweet Briar, VA
2005		Family Legacies: The Art of Betye, Alison and Lezley Saar, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; Pasadena Art Center, Pasadena, CA; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Palmer Art Museum, Pennsylvania State, University Park, PA Back to Black: Art, Cinema and the Racial Imaginary, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England; New Art Gallery, Warsall, England Eye Contact, American Painting and Drawing, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY LA-Paris: 1955-1985, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Syncopated Rhythms: 20th Century African American Art from the George and Joyce Wein Collection, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA Art of Engagement, Jack Ruberg Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA How American Women Artists Invented Postmodernism: 1970 - 1975, Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ
2006		Double Exposure: African Americans Before and Behind the Camera, Wadsworth Antheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT Shifting Dimensions: Sculptors on Paper, Tobey Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery, New-York Historical Society, New York, NY L.A Object and David Hammons Body Prints, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
2007		Multiple Vantage Points: Southern California Women Arts, 1980-2006, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdale, CA Agents of Change: Women, Art and Intellect, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY Big Picture: Provisions for the Arts of Social Change, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY At Freedom's Door: Challenging Slavery in Maryland, Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Baltimore, MD Crossing the Line: African American Artists in the Jacqueline Bradley and Clarence Otis, Jr. Collection, The George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL Multiple Vantage Points: Southern California Women Artists, 1980-2006, Women's Caucus for the Art at The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, 1965-1980, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA Modern Times: Alumni Collect, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME Image and Identity in African American Art, Highlights from the Collection, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL Beyond the Mountaintop, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT Blacks: In and Out of the Box, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s from LACMA’s Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA West Coast Masters of Assemblage & Collage, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT ART in Embassies Exhibition, United States Ambassador Maurice Parker Residence, Mbabane, Swaziland
2008		Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT; Copper Village Museum and Art Center, Anaconda, MT; University of Montana-Western, Dillon, MT; Carbon County Arts Guild and Depot Gallery, Livingston, MT; Custer County Art and Heritage Center, Miles City, MT; Paris Gibson Square Art Museum, Great Falls, MT; Mondak Heritage Center, Sidney, MT; The Emerson Center for the Arts and Culture, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT; Montana Museum of Arts and Culture, Missoula, MT; Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT A New Cosmopolitan: Preeminence of Place in Contemporary Art, Main Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, CA Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA; Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA African American Art: 200 Years, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY Reimagining the Distaff Toolkit, Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT; Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA; Gardiner Art Gallery, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK; Wilson Museum, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA; The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ; Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, NY; Denison University, Granville, OH; Beard Gallery, Wheaton College, Norton, MA NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX; PS.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY; Miami Art Museum, Miami Beach, FL Artist as Social Critic: Enrique Chagoya, Betye Saar, Roger Shimomura, and Ben Sakoguchi, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR Through the Eyes of Others: African Americans and Identity in American Art, New York State Historical Association, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN Modernist Women, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (un)common threads, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY Double Exposure: African-Americans Before and Behind the Camera, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA (traveling exhibition)
2009		Africana Woman: Her Story Through Time, Trust for Museum Exhibitions (traveling exhibition) Inside/Insight LA Art, José Drudis-Biada Art Gallery, Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles, CA Some Assembly Required: Race, Gender, and Globalization, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA; Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA Gallery 32 and Its Circle, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA Layered / Boxed, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY The Chemistry of Color, The Sorgenti Collection of Contemporary African American Art, Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC The Watts Towers/50 Years Inspiring Art, Watts Towers, Los Angeles, CA California Calling: Works from Santa Barbara Collection, 1948-2009, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA Installations: Inside/Out 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA LAPS 20th National Exhibition, LA Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010		Successions: Prints by African-American Artists from the Jean and Robert Steele Collection, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
2011		Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Public Art

Public Art

1983		L.A. Energy, 5th Street, Los Angeles, CA
1984		Fast Trax, Newark Train Station, Newark, NJ
1986		On Our Way, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Metrorail Station, Miami, FL
1989		House of the Open Hand, Assemblage/Mural at Broadway-Spring Center, 3rd & Spring Streets, Los Angeles, CA
1997		Roots & Wings Garden, Public Art Fund, New York, NY (collaboration with Alison Saar)

Awards

Awards

1974		National Endowment for the Arts
1984		National Endowment for the Arts
1989		Women’s Caucus for Art Conference, San Francisco, CA
1990		J. Paul Getty Fund for the Visual Arts Fellowship, Malibu, CA 22nd Annual Artist Award, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
1991		John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, NY Honorary Doctorate Degree, California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA
1992		James VanDerZee Award, Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, PA Honorary Doctorate Degrees: Otis/Parson, Los Angeles, CA; San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA; Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1993		Distinguished Artist Award, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
1995		Honorary Doctorate Degree, California Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
1998		Flintridge Foundation Visual Artists Award
1999		National Artist Award, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, CO Living Artists Award, The California Art Education Association, Pasadena, CA
2000		Distinguished Lecturer, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA Annual Pioneer Awards, I.A.M., New York, NY
2007		Distinguished Body of Work Award, College Art Association, 95th Annual Conference, New York, NY
2008		Lifetime Achievement Award in the Fine Arts, Congressional Black Caucus, Washington, DC 2008 Religion in the Arts Award, co-honored with Alison Saar, Academy of Religion (AAR), Atlanta, GA Trailblazer Award for the Visual Arts, Weeksville Heritage Center, New York, NY
2009		Through the Flower Achievement Award, The Feminist Art Project, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Film/Video

Film/Video

1978		Spiritcatcher: The Art of Betye Saar, The Originals: Women in Art Series, Perry Miller Adato producer for WNET, New York, NY
1987		Sculpture of the Eighties, produced by The Queens Museum, Queens, NY
1989		Art is a Verb, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1990		Similar Differences: Betye & Alison Saar, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1994		Betye & Alison Saar: Conjure Women of the Arts, produced by Linda Freeman, distributed by L & S Video, Inc.
1997		Voices & Images of California Art, CD-ROM, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
1998		Digital Griot: The Art of Betye Saar, CD-ROM, Voyager/LTI, New York, NY