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M.F.A. Yale University
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
B.A. Hon’s, Chelsea School of Art, London, Great Britain
Foundation, Brighton Polytechnic Faculty of Art, Great Britain
Jack G. Taylor Regents Professor in Fine Art - University of Texas at Austin
Professor - University of Texas at Austin
Assistant Chair of Studio, Department of Art & Art History – University of Texas at Austin
Associate Professor - University of Texas at Austin
Assistant Chair of Studio, Department of Art & Art History – University of Texas at Austin
Assistant Professor - University of Texas at Austin
CoD+A award/Design + Art Award Top 100: Synchronicity of Color for Sam Houston State University Project
CoD+A Award/Design + Art Award: WINNER: Merit Award for Institutional Public Art: Synchronicity of Color for Kosovo
CoD+A award/Design + Art Award Top 100: US Embassy Project & Sam Houston State University Project
CoD+A award/Design + Art Award Top 100: US Embassy Project
Honored as the Jack G. Taylor Regents Professor in Fine Art
Austin Arts Hall of Fame, Austin Critics Table
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
Dean's Fine Arts Research Fellowship, College of Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin
College of Fine Arts Summer Research Grant, College of Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin
The Brown Foundation Fellows Program at the Dora Maar House
Visiting Artist at Franz Mayer of Munich, Germany
84th Legislature Texas State Artist of the Year
Austin Critics Table Awards: Artist of The Year 2015
CoD+A Award/ Design + Art Award. Torcasso Residence
Artist-in-residence, Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, Washington
Year in Review 2009. America for the Arts & Public Art Network
University Research Institute, University of Texas at Austin
Faculty Research Assignment, University of Texas at Austin
Dean’s Fine Arts Research Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin
Artist-in-residence, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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
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
2000 University Research Institute, University of Texas at Austin
Nominated for The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award
College of Fine Arts Summer Research Grant, University of Texas at Austin
University Research Institute, University of Texas at Austin
Japan Foundation Fellowship for Artists
Fulbright, Senior Research Grant to Japan
University Research Institute, University of Texas at Austin
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
College of Fine Arts Summer Research Grant, University of Texas at Austin
University Research Institute, University of Texas at Austin
College of Fine Arts Summer Research Grant, University of Texas at Austin
University Research Institute, University of Texas at Austin
C.A.M.L.S, University of Texas at Austin
Change, Inc
College of Fine Arts Research Grant, University of Texas at Austin
University Research Institute, University of Texas at Austin
Athena Corporation
Art Matters, Inc
New York State Council for the Arts Grant
American Academy in Rome Fellowship
National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship
Fulbright Grant to India
Ford Foundation Travel Grant
Yale University
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
General Services Administration Commission for the Frank E. Moss Court House, Salt Lake City, Utah. In Progress, due to be completed December 2023
Art in Public Places Commissioned for the City of Austin Fire Station 51 & EMS Station 40
Austin Art in Public Places 2021-2023 Pre-Qualified Artist Pool
Synchronicity of Color: Huntsville, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX
Synchronicity of Color: Holdsworth Center for Excellence, Austin, TX
Austin Art in Public Places 2021-2023 Pre-Qualified Artist Pool
Synchronicity Spiral for Kosovo, Art in Embassy Program, United States Embassy in Pristina, Kosovo
Synchronicity of Color: Victoria, University of Houston System at Victoria, TX
Synchronicity Chapel, TX
Synchronicity of Color, The Alexander Hotel, Houston, TX
Austin Bergstrom International Airport, Public Commission, Art In Public Places Program, Austin, TX, alternate
TEMPO on Lamar, Public Commission, Art in Public Places Program, Austin, TX, finalist
SkySong Center, The Arizona State University Innovation Center, Scottsdale, AZ, finalist
Synchronicity of Color: Eskenazi Health, Indianapolis, IN
Torcasso House, Collaboration with Larry Speck of Page, Santa Fe, NM
Torcasso Garden, Collaboration with Page and Mesa Design, Santa Fe, NM
Synchronicity Light Receptors, Collection of the City of Dallas, City Place, Dallas, TX
Index of Contemplation: Wexler, San Francisco, CA
Ohio House, Hamilton, OH
The New Wishard Hospital Infant and Adult Waiting Room, Indianapolis, IN, finalist
Cloud of Unknowing, The New Wishard Hospital South Parking Garage, Indianapolis, IN, finalist
Synchronicity of Color, Public School IS 314 Building Facade, The Percent for Art Program of New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York City, NY, finalist
Lead Artist for Lady Bird Lake Boardwalk Trail, Art in Public Places Program, Austin, TX, finalist
Denver 12th Street Project, Denver, CO, finalist
Austin Ranch - Contemplation Plaza, Billingsley Corp. Dallas, TX
Synchronicity of Color: Red & Blue, Discovery Green, Houston, TX
Synchronicity of Color: Yellow & Violet, Discovery Green Conservancy, Houston, TX
Index for Contemplation, One Arts Plaza, Dallas, TX
Contemplation Garden, Schlosser Development for Whole Foods World Headquarters, Austin, TX
Index for Contemplation, San Antonio International Airport Landscape Enhancement, San Antonio, TX
Index for Contemplation, The Collection of Art House, Dallas, TX
Index for Contemplation: Austin Convention Center Expansion, Art in Public Places Program, Austin, TX
Margo's World, The Sharir Dance Company, Bass Concert Hall, Austin, TX
Margo's World, The Sharir Dance Company, B. Iden Payne Theater, Austin, TX
The Birdhouse Project, Collaboration with architect Marek Walczak for Hong Ning Apartments, Produced and funded by City Arts Workshop and New York Depart of Cultural Affairs, New York City, NY
Capital Elm, Hyde Park, London, Great Britain
Presence and Absence of Color, The Neidorff Art Gallery at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, January 18 – February 11, 2023.
Synchronicity of Color – Kosovo Muse, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, Texas, April 9, 2022 – August 6, 2022
Contemplation Visions, Grace Museum, Abilene, TX
Dreaming of Synchronicity of Color for Kosovo, Nancy Littlejohn Gallery, Houston, TX
Margo Sawyer and William Anzalone, Nancy Littlejohn Gallery, Houston, TX
Reflect, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX
Synchronicity of Color, Texas Art House, Johnson City, TX
Reflect/Reflector, Playhouse, San Antonio, TX
Reflect, Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum, Austin, TX
Synchronicity of Color, The Gallery at Vaudeville, Fredericksburg, TX
Synchronicity of Color, AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center, University of Texas at Austin, TX
Margo Sawyer and Tommy Fitzpatrick, The Gallery at UTA, Arlington, TX
Synchronicity of Color, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX
Cloud of Unknowing, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX
Contemplative Spaces, Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, TX
Margo Sawyer: New Installations, Artists in Residence, The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
Fragment of an Index for Contemplation, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Index for Contemplation, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Ten + One Illuminations, University of Texas at El Paso, TX
Margo Sawyer: International Artist-in-Residency Program 00.2, Ten + One Illuminations, Artpace San Antonio, TX
Margo Sawyer, Rudolph Poissont Gallery, Houston, TX
Transformation II, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX
Transformation, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX
Presence and Absence, Austin Art Museum at Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX
Elysium Room, GalleryGallery, Kyoto, Japan
Margo Sawyer, International House of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
Elysian Fields, Sagacho Exhibit Space, Tokyo, Japan
Projects (with Thana Lauhakaikul & Mike Scranton), DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
The Journey, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX
Margo Sawyer, Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, NY
Margo Sawyer, Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, NY
Special Projects, P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, NY
Beginning and End, British Council, Bombay, India
TWO X TWO, Howard & Cindy Rochofsky House, Dallas, October 22. Benefit amfAR and the Dallas Museum of Art.
Texas Women: A History of Abstraction, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
Back & Forth: Celebrating Women and our 15th, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX
Summertime Blues, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX
PAST/PRESENT, Texas Art House, Johnson City, TX
PURE, Texas Art House, Johnson City, TX
Texas State Artists, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX
TARGET TEXAS: The Meaning of Mixed, The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christie, TX
Margo Sawyer, Prizm Art Fair (Global African Diaspora Artists), Miami Basel, Miami, FL
Texas Abstract, The Gallery at Vaudeville, Fredericksburg, TX
AMPlified ABStraction, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
Texas Abstract, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX
Back and Forth Celebrating 10 Years, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX
Inquiry: Department of Art & Art History Faculty Exhibition, Visual Art Center, University of Texas at Austin
ABSTRACT, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
Texas Abstract, Wade Wilson Art, Santa Fe, NM
Faculty Picks, Cinnabar Art Gallery, San Antonio, TX
transFIGURATION: A Rino Pizzi Project, Big Medium, Austin, TX
Part Two Department of Art & Art History Faculty Exhibition, Visual Art Center, University of Texas at Austin
Advancing Tradition: Twenty Years of Printmaking at Flatbed Press, Museum of Printing History, Houston, TX
The Mona Lisa Project by Rino Pizzi, Peoples Gallery, Austin City Hall, Austin, TX
3D Design #3, Maslow Gallery, Marywood University, Scranton, PA
The Mona Lisa Project by Rino Pizzi, Grand Rapids Museum of Art, MI
New Works: The Mona Lisa Project by Rino Pizzi, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Advancing Tradition: Twenty Years of Printmaking at Flatbed Press, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Combined: Department of Art & Art History Faculty Exhibition, Visual Art Center, University of Texas at Austin
Neither Model Nor Muse, Women as Artists, McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
Gallery, Austin City Hall, Austin, TX
Water: A Student Curated Exhibition, The Maslow Study Gallery for Contemporary Art, Marywood University, Scranton, PA
Group Exhibition, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
The Texas Chair Project, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Atelier 10, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin
Double X, Step Gallery, Arizona State University, AZ
5 x 7, Arthouse, Austin, TX
Two by Two: For AIDS and Art, Seventh Annual Dinner and Art Auction Benefitting AMFAR and the Dallas Museum of Art,
The Rachofsky House, Dallas, TX
ASAp: Artist Salute Artpace, Benefit Auction to Celebrate Artpace San Antonio's 10th Anniversary, Christie's, New York, NY
Inaugural Exhibition, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX
Color, Pattern, Grid, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Gardens: Real and Imagined, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Hive, Creative Research Lab, University of Texas at Austin, TX
Upwards, Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, TX
Art Faculty Exhibition, Creative Research Lab, University of Texas at Austin, TX
Loudly Minimal, Quietly Baroque: The Best of 1/4 Hora Projects Space, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX
Texas Dialogues: Scenic Overlook, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX
62nd Art Faculty Exhibition, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, TX
Sculptors Drawing, 1/4 Hora Project Space, Elgin, TX
Drawings, David Berman Gallery, Austin, TX
1/4 Hora Perennial, 1/4 Hora Project Space, Elgin, TX
Contemplative Exactitude, 1/4 Hora Project Space, Elgin, TX
61st Art Faculty Exhibition, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin
Fault Lines, ArtScan, Houston, TX
60th Art Faculty Exhibition, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, TX
It's About Design, Auction for Women & Their Work, Austin, TX
New Airport Art, Dougherty Arts Center Gallery, Austin, TX
15th Annual Abilene Outdoors Sculpture Exhibition with Works by Four Major Texas Sculptors, Nelson Park, Abilene, TX
Transformations: The Alchemy of Change, Auction for Women & Their Work, Austin, TX
Drawing: Crossing the Line, DiverseWork, Houston, TX
56th Art Faculty Exhibition, The Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, TX
In Response to Nature, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX
55th Art Faculty Exhibition, The Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, TX
My Blue Heaven, Silent Auction for Texas Fine Art Association, Austin, TX
54th Art Faculty Exhibition, The Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin TX
Contemporary Sculpture, University of Florida at Gainesville, FL
The Box, Silent Auction for Women & Their Work, Austin, TX
Visions of Beauty, Baure House, Austin, TX
53rd Art Faculty Exhibition, The Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, TX
52nd Art Faculty Exhibition, The Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, TX
L.A. Art Expo, Los Angeles, CA
Fresh Ideas/Idiosyncratic Perspectives, Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Sculptors Working, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York
Skowhegan Ten Year Retrospective: A Traveling Exhibition, University of Maryland Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Borsisti Americani, American Academy in Rome, Italy
Skowhegan Ten Year Retrospective: A Traveling Exhibition, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Skowhegan Ten Year Retrospective: A Traveling Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
Sculptors Drawings, Yale A & A Gallery, New Haven, CT
The New Contemporaries, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Great Britain
New Students, Yale A & A Gallery, New Haven, CT
Drawing Show, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Great Britain
The New Contemporaries, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Great Britain
Capital Elm, Hyde Park, London, Great Britain
Drawing Show, Mall Galleries, London, Great Britain
Laurie Anderson: Landfall, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin, TX
Faculty Picks, Cinnabar Art Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Loudly Minimal, Quietly Baroque: The Best of 1/4 Hora Projects Space, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX
Texas Dialogues: Scenic Overlook, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX
Sculptors Drawing, 1/4 Hora Project Space, Elgin, TX
1/4 Hora Perennial, 1/4 Hora Project Space, Elgin, TX
Contemplative Exactitude, 1/4 Hora Project Space, Elgin, TX
Robert Wilson Drawings, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
TWO x TWO for Aids and Art: TEN TWENTY-TWO TWENTY TWENTY-TWO Catalogue ill. 102.
Art Collection of the United States Embassy Pristina, Kosovo/ Art in Embassy, Catalogue. Cover, ill. 10, 56 pg.8-11, 56 – 59.
Embassy of the United States Pristina, Kosovo, Department of State, Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations. Catalogue. Cover, ill. 23, 26-27, 28-29, 32, 37, 38.
Weaver, Susanne & Meador, Lana. Texas Women: A History of Abstraction, San Antonio Museum of Art. Catallogue. p. 44. ill. 45, 59
Van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire. Reflect, Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum. 2014. Catalogue
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.
Sultan, Terrie. “Margo Sawyer: Contemplative Spaces”, Blaffer Gallery the Art Museum of the University of Houston. Catalogue, 2004.
“The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, 2001 Awards.” Catalogue. p. 64-65.
Segal, Katie. “Ten + One Illuminations,” Artpace San Antonio, Catalogue, 2000.
Friis-Hansen, Dana. “Margo Sawyer: Presence and Absence,” Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, 1998. Catalogue.
Shimizu, Toshio. “Margo Sawyer: Elysian Fields”, Sagacho Exhibit Space 1996. Catalogue.
Buron, Bernard. "Drawing Crossing the Line,” DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas. p.16, 18, ill. 24. Catalogue.
Bourgeult, Cynthia. "Skowhegan Ten-Year Retrospective 1975-1985," Exhibition Catalogue, p. 52.
Thompson, Helen. “Santa Fe Modern”, Book The Monacelli Press, 2016 p. 168-179, ill. 169-171.
Wilks, Barbara, Dynamic Geographics, 2021. book. Reflect, Included p. ill. 52, 57.
Robinson, Riley. Artpace at 25, Book
Gaztambide, Maria 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
“Margo Sawyer.” Flatbed Press at 25, by Mark Lesly Smith and Katherine Brimberry, University of Texas Press, 2016, pp. 202–207.
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.
Paglia, Michael & Edwards, Jim. Texas Abstract: Modern/Contemporary. Fresco Books. p.180 -185. Book
Keim, Kevin. Place Notes Houston, Cover Image
Pizzi, Rino. The Mona Lisa Project, with essays by Janis Bergan-Carter and Dana Friis-Hansen, 2011, p. 48-49
Duval Reese, Becky. “Texas 100 Selections from the El Paso Museum of Art”, p. Book, 2006.
King-Hammond, Leslie. “Masks and Mirrors: African American Art, 1750-NOW” Book Abbeville Press.
Faires, Robert. “Nominees for the 2018-19 Austin Critic Table Awards Announced” Austin Chronicle & Austin American Statesman, May 13, 2019
Smith Ford, Lauren. “An Artist's Loft in Historic Downtown Elgin.” Texas Monthly, 2018, pp. 70–74.
Wright, Kevin. “Reclaiming A Dream.” GIN Magazine, June 2018, pp. 18–22.
Miller, Amy. “Margo Sawyer Is Recognized with Guggenheim Fellowship.” Downtown 78621 Magazine, 2018, pp. 6–7.
Brand, Heather. “Art for Everyone.” Texas Highways, Sept. 2017, p. 51, 54-55.
Murphy, Jack. Assoc. AIA. “Field with NO Center”, Texas Architect, Color, May/June. pg. 79- 81 ill. 5, 79-81
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
Whitney, Kathleen. “Margo Sawyer: Synchronicities”, Sculpture Magazine: June 2014: P. 5,36-39
McKinney, FAIA, Heather. “Subtle Layers.” Texas Architect Magazine, May-June 2014, p. 60–68
CoD+A Awards, Interior Design Magazine, August 21, 2013, ill.
Discovery Green, Houston. 5th Anniversary p. 38-39
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
"Cityplace. Adorned with Art." Looking Uptown, October 2011. Vol.3, Number 3. p. 2
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
Jost, David. “The Biggest Little Park in the World,” Landscape Architecture, December, 2009. p.82-93
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.
Elizabeth, Lynch. “Commissions”, Sculpture, International Sculpture Center. April 2009, Vol.28 No. 3 p. 23.
“Margo Sawyer A life by Design”, Austin Woman Magazine, Vol. CII, No.2 October 2008. Cover, p. 11, 6268.
Public Art in Review, Issue 39 Fall/Winter 2008 p. 75
“Commissions in Brief”, Sculpture, International Sculpture Center. April 2008 Vol. 27 No. 3 p. 65.
Keim, Kevin. Multi-Sourcing, Places Journal, Volume 16 Issue 2, 2004
Moloney, Tim. “Blaffer Gallery is Fast Becoming the Exhibition Space for the Uber-Hip,” 002 Magazine, June 2004, p. 16-17.
Shaw, Kurt. “Mattress Factory Goes Above and Beyond for Its Artists,” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, September 7, 2003.
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.
Bonansinga, Kate. “Ephemerality of the Moment: A Conversation with Margo Sawyer,” Sculpture Magazine, July/August 2001,
Vol. 20, No. 6.
Bonansinga, Kate. “Margo Sawyer: Ten + One Illuminations,” Sculpture Magazine, Summer 2001, p. 1ll.
Knudson, Rainey. “Alternative Spaces,” Canvas Magazine, Fall 2000, p. Cover, 5,13
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.
Barnes, Michael. “Last Word in the Arts,” Austin American Statesman, Saturday, May 4, 2000, p. Arts,
Ward, Liz. “Margo Sawyer: Ten + One Illuminations,” ArtLies, No. 27, Summer 2000, p. 80.
van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire. “1/4 Hora gets into the Spring of Things,” Austin American Statesman, Saturday, April 15, 2000, p. D7.
van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire. “Exhibition Worthy of Quiet Contemplation,” Austin American Statesman, Saturday, February 12, 2000 D8, p.
van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire. Austin American Statesman, Sunday, January 30, 2000, p. K14.
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.
Shade, Christopher. “Margo Sawyer: Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria,” ArtLies, No. 20, Fall 1998, p. 49.
Cohen, Rebecca. “Spiritual Presence,” The Austin Chronicle, August 21, 1998, p. 42, 44.
Bonansinga, Kate. “Gardens of Meditation,” Willamette, August 5, 1998, p. 57, 58.
van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire. “Rooms with a View,” Austin American Statesman. June 25, 1998, p. 51.
Connolly, Mary Anne. “Culture Calendar,” Brilliant Magazine, Image (Blue, 1998), p. 45.
Rosenthal, Mila. "Pachinko Fields of Paradise,” Asahi Evening News, Thursday, December 5, 1996, pg. 11.
Kasama, Akiko. "The Pachinko Garden,” The Daily Yomiuri, Tuesday, December 3, 1996, p. 10.
Kasama, Akiko. "The Pachinko Garden,” The Yomiuri Shimbun, Tuesday, November 22, 1996, p. 35.
Cohen, Rebecca. "New Airport Art", The Austin Chronicle, January 12, 1996, p. 24.
Clarke, John. "Margo Sawyer at DiverseWorks,” Art in America, September 1994, p. 121.
Kalil, Susie. "Art as Ecstasy: Three Disarming and Mesmerizing Installations at DiverseWorks,” The Houston Press.
March 3-9, 1994, p. 31.
Lomax, Sandra. "Sharir Does the Unexpected with Traditional New Show,” The Austin American Statesman, D7, November 17, 1992.
Levy, Rebecca. "The Artists' Eye," The Austin Chronicle, June 12, 1992, Vol. X1, No.41.
Kelly, Lee. The Austin American Statesman, June 20, 1992.
Kelly, Lee. The Austin American Statesman, May 14, 1992, D3
Robertson, John. "Artistic Faculties," The Austin Chronicle, November 30, 1990, Vol. X, No. 14.
"Going on about Town," The New Yorker, March 6, 1989, p. 16, 17.
Kimmelman, Michael. "Margo Sawyer," The New York Times/Living Arts, Friday, February 24, 1989, p. Y23.
de Candia, Mario. "Il Piacere dell'occhio," La Repubblica, Trova Roma, May 22-28, 1987, p. 48
Pardee, Hearne. "The Arts: Skowhegan: A 10 Year Retrospective," Portland Monthly, April 1987
Phillips, Patricia. "Margo Sawyer & Marek Walczak: The Birdhouse Project," Artforum, p. 117, December 1986, p. 117.
Russell, John. "Alumni of the Skowhegan School," New York Times, October 24, 1986
Clerk, S.I. "American Sculptor's Discovery of India," Free Press Bulletin, Bombay, India. April 14, 1983, Vol. 36, No. 220
Lal, Laksmi. "Beginning and End," Sunday Times of India, April, 1983.
Morgan, Stuart. "New Contemporaries," Artscribe, 1980
Morgan, Stuart. "New Contemporaries," Artscribe, 1980
Brown, Mick. "Dead Trees Become Something to Enjoy," London Sunday Times, May 28, 1978
“Margo Sawyer Unveils New Installation at University of Houston-Victoria.” Glasstire, 22 Sept. 2018.
Zech, Brandon. “Seventeen Texas Museum Gifted Over 500 Artworks from The Contemporary Austin’s Collection.” Glasstire,
22 Aug. 2018
Moody Castro, Leslie. “Texas Studio: Margo Sawyer.” Arts and Culture Texas Magazine. 14 June 2018
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
“Organizations Across Texas Receive Hurricane Harvey Relief Grants.” Glasstire, 9 Dec. 2017
Zech, Brandon. “Margo Sawyer: Reflect.” Glasstire, 7 Nov. 2017
“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
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
Newton, Paula. “The Results Are In: Austin Critics' Table Awards.” Glasstire, 2 June 2015
Rees, Christina. “Texas Has Appointed Its Official Visual Artists, and You Know Them!” Glasstire, 7 May 2015
Welch, A.J. “Torcasso Residence in Mexico”, e-architect. January 7, 2015
Quinton, Luke. Art, Architecture mix at different kind of Umlauf Exhibition, Austin American Statesman, July 30, 2014.
Schwaiger, Seth Orion. “Tiny Park: A Catalogue.” Glasstire, 13 Jan. 2014.
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
"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.
Shilcutt, Katherine. ”Local Landmarks Dominate the 3rd Annual Gingerbread Build-Off”, Houston Press December 12, 2011
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.
“Geometry in Reflection: Tommy Fitzpatrick / Margo Sawyer.” Glasstire, 10 Oct. 2009.
“Margo Sawyer: Synchronicity of Color.” Glasstire, 9 May 2009.
Webb, Bruce. “The Grove in Discovery Green, Houston”, Architect Magazine. March, 2009.
“Margo Sawyer: Synchronicity of Color.” Glasstire, 16 Aug. 2008.
Blumenthal, Ralph. “No Need to Apologize: City Tries a Little Boasting.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 2 Apr. 2008.
Terranova, Charissa N. “Margo Sawyer: The Warp and Woof of Impossible Play.” Glasstire, 2 Oct. 2005
Klaasmeyer, Kelly. ”Sawyer's Adventures"Contemplative Spaces" explores the sublime in blue and yellow,” Houston Press. April 22, 2004
Duncan, Michael. “Report from San Antonio,” artnet.com, August 2, 2000
Faires, Robert. “Articulations,” Austin Chronicle, May 11, 2000
Margo Sawyer Guggenheim Fellow, Rag Radio, Austin, Texas
PBS Houston, features Synchronicity of Color at Discovery Green, Houston, TX
Downtown, KLRU, PBS affiliates for Austin, Texas, Channel 18
Because Art Matters, artpace San Antonio mini-documentary
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)
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)
Channel 7 News, Abilene, Texas. Filmed at the Fifteenth Annual Abilene Outdoors Sculpture Exhibition at Nelson Park, Abilene, Texas.
(Shown September 17 1995)
Channel 36 News, Austin, Texas. Filmed at the Laguna Gloria Art Museum. (Shown on November 20 1992)
Channel 36 News, Austin, Texas. Filmed the installation of my exhibition at Women & Their Work. (Shown on May 12 1992)
Capital Elm Project on Capital Radio, London, England
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)
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
The Maslow Study Gallery for Contemporary Art at Marywood University, Scranton, PA
Holdsworth Center, Austin, TX
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 of Austin, TX
City of Dallas, TX
City of Houston, TX
City of San Antonio, TX
City of New York, NY
University of Houston System
Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX
United States State Department Art in Embassy Collection at the United States Embassy in Pristina, Kosovo
Jim & Caroline Clark
David Beitzel
Martin & Charlene Cohen
Howard & Judy Ganek
Leon Hess, Amerada Hess
Linda & Jerry Janger
Lester Marks
Ned Rifkin
John Robertson
Martin Sklar
Rick & Cynthia Torcasso
Lawrence Speck
Mary Parker
Mckay Otto & Keith Coffee
Stieren Arts Enrichment Series, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
School of Art, Syracuse University, NY
Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, WA
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
University of Colorado at Boulder, CO
Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, WA
University of Texas, El Paso, TX
Universidad de Valencia, Spain
University of Colorado at Boulder, CO
Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Kyoto City University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Abilene Christian University, Abilene, TX
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Rhode Island School of Design, Rome, Italy
Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy
Yale University, New Haven, CT
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
West Surrey College of Art and Design, Great Britain
Baroda School of Art, Gujarat, India
Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay, India
Chelsea School of Art, London, Great Britain
Sir J.J. School of Art, Bombay, India
Stieren Arts Enrichment Series, Trinity University, Margo Sawyer and Absence of Color, San Antonio, TX
Margo Sawyer, Holdsworth Center, Austin, Texas
Texas Women: A History of Abstraction, Museum of South Texas Corpus Christi
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.
Exaltation of the Ordinary, a view into the work of Sir Michael Craig-Martin, Discovery Green Houston, October 1 2019
Illuminations, Conversation with Margo Sawyer, Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art, Houston, Texas
Lancaster Hotel, Houston, Texas. With Alison de Lima Green, is the Isabel Brown Wilson Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas.
University of Houston at Victoria, TX
City of Elgin, TX
Gallery talk with Margo Sawyer & Curator Katie Robinson Edwards of Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum at Texas Art House,
Johnson City, TX
Margo Sawyer, TARGET TEXAS: The Meaning of Mixed, The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christie, TX
PURE, Texas Art House, Johnson City, TX
Art & Architecture: a lecture by Larry Speck and Margo Sawyer, Texas AIA Conference, Dallas, TX
Reflect, Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum, Austin, TX
Gallery talk with Margo Sawyer and Tommy Fitzpatrick, The Gallery at UTA, Arlington, TX
The Mona Lisa Project, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
Advancing Tradition: Twenty Years of Printmaking at Flatbed Press, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Neither Model nor Muse, Women as Artists, McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
The Mona Lisa Project, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX
Eaton Lecture Series at the National Humanities Center, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO
The Texas Chair Project, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Participant in the seminar "The Work of Religion: Past, Present, Future," Humanities Institute Faculty Fellows, University of Texas
at Austin, TX
"The Field and Its Knower: Lessons for an Installation Artist from the Far East," Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
"The Field and Its Knower: Lessons for an Installation Artist from the Far East," Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA
University of Texas at El Paso, TX
University of Colorado at Boulder, CO
Discussion with Katie Segal, Joachim Koester, Maurizio Cattelan, and Kathryn Kanjo at ArtPace, San Antonio, TX
Lecture Series, Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, TX
Lecture Series, Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum, Austin, TX
Universidad de Granada, Spain
Universidad de Valencia, Spain
Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Abilene Christian University, Abilene, TX
Rhode Island School of Design, Rome, Italy
Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy
Chelsea School of Art, London, Great Britain
Yale University, New Haven, CT
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
Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas
Public Art Committee for the University of Houston System
Yard Works Public Art Committee for the University of Houston System
Artpace, An international artist residency program in San Antonio, Texas
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