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Margo Sawyer was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in England. Before receiving her BA honors degree from the Chelsea School of Art in London, she completed her foundation education in art from Brighton Polytechnic. She then attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture before completing her MFA at Yale University. Sawyer’s work has exhibited at the Austin Art Museum, the University of Texas at El Paso, the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, the Art Museum at the University of Houston, and at Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas. She has received several honors, including an individual artist fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, Fulbright travel grants to India and Japan and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation biennial award. Sawyer’s public commissions include work for the San Antonio International Airport, Whole Foods World Headquarters in Austin, the Convention Center in Austin, One Arts Plaza in Dallas, Austin Ranch in Plano and Discovery Green in Houston, which received a Public Art Network Award for one of the 40 best projects in the U.S. in 2008. Since 1988, Sawyer has taught art at the University of Texas at Austin.
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