ABOUT TAD SAVINAR

Born in Portland, Oregon, Tad Savinar received his Bachelor of Arts degree in studio art from Colorado College. He then returned to Portland, where he established a studio practice that he has sustained for fifty years.

One-person and significant group exhibitions of his work have been held at the New Museum and Artists Space in New York City; the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art; the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; the Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle; The Art Gym at Marylhurst University in Marylhurst, Oregon; and the Portland Art Museum, the Portland Center for the Visual Arts, and the Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.

Savinar’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City; the Smithsonian Institution Archives in Washington, DC; the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia; and the city collections of San Jose, Seattle, Portland, Scottsdale, and Tempe. Selected private collections include those of Jordan Schnitzer, Chase Manhattan Bank, Philip Morris USA, Aratex, John Berggruen, and Terri Hopkins.
The artist has been the recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowships, in addition to numerous regional fellowships. In 1998 he received the Oregon Governor’s Arts Award.