LARA SAGET
Iris Project Resident: January 2021
Lara Saget was born in Los Angeles, California in 1989. She lives and works in New York, NY. She received her BA from Barnard College, Columbia University and her MFA in Fine Arts from New York University. Her work has been exhibited in the US and abroad in varied spaces including Art Ichol, Maihar, India; Fortnight Institute, New York, NY; 80 Washington Square East Gallery, New York, NY; Studio 106, Los Angeles, CA; Wells Studio, Paris, France; Peninsula Art Space, Brooklyn, NY; A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Art Helix, Brooklyn, NY, and more. Public art projects include Native Woodland Garden Public Art Project, Schwartz Plaza, Washington Square Park, New York, NY and Collaborative Concepts, Saunders Farm, Garrison, NY. Residencies include Art Ichol Bronze Casting and Stone Carving Residency, Maihar, India and CCA with Grzegorz Kowalski and Artur Żmijewski, Warsaw, Poland. She has received grants and awards including the 2017 New York University MFA Artistic Practice Award, the 2016 Steinhardt Scholarship Award, and the 2017/18 Urban Glass Scholarship Award. Lara co-founded Studio 200, an art exhibition collective in which shows curated coincide thematically with workshops, lectures, and installations of various media.