Seda Saar
Award-winning Los Angeles based Iranian -Armenian artist Seda Saar has been recognized by museum curators and institutions for her meditative abstractions. Her works appear in private collections across the globe, from modernist homes in the Hollywood Hills and West Hollywood, to London, Toronto, New York, Dubai, and Tokyo. For over 35 years, Saar has created Interior and environmental design concepts for themed entertainment, including Universal Studios, Orlando, Osaka, and Beijing, as well as corporations like Apple and Intel, institutions such as Arizona State University, City of Las Vegas, City of Malibu, and the city of west Hollywood. Saar’s artwork is shortlisted as a public artist for City of San Francisco, City of Los Angeles, and Santa Monica among many others. Saar also works directly with collectors, high end architects, designers, and art consultants to provide her unique pieces for galleries, commercial & public spaces or specialty retailers.

California-based Seda Saar creates environments, paintings and installations that engage architectural and geometric structures with space, line, form, hue and value, showcasing the reflection and refraction of light. Saar trained in architectural design at London Metropolitan University, graduating in 1982 with an BA in Interior Architecture. She has designed theme parks for major Hollywood studios in Orlando, Osaka, and Beijing. Since 2000 Saar has exhibited her fine art nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions in the Los Angeles area include the one-person show Refractions – a Lens Through Time at the Neutra Museum (2020) and many thematic shows: California Sculpture Slam, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, (Museum Award) (2020); Polyhedron, Gallery 825 (2016); Spacelines, Neutra Museum (2016); LA Art Show (2015- 2019); Luminosity 2.0, Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles (2019); Buzzsaw, ArtShare LA (2019); Pulse of LA, SOLA Contemporary (2019); Prism, LA Artcore (2015); California Open - TAG Gallery (2019-2020). Saar’s work is in public collections including the Neutra Museum; LA Artcore; Living National Treasure Museum, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan; The Wonder Museum, Chicago; City of Toronto, City of Montreal, City of Malibu. Her work is also in corporate and private collections in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Beverly Hills, Malibu, West Hollywood, Agoura Hills, Calabasas, Pasadena, Glendale, New York, Philadelphia, London, Beijing, Montreal, and Dubai. Between 2011 and 2014 she was the director of MLY Gallery in Malibu curating celebrated artists and architects: ( Andy Warhol : Icos and Symbols; Harry Gesner, Houses of the Sundown Sea; Eric Lloyd Wright, A Life's Work; Elements: Mary Wright, and many others. Having served as artist-in-residence at the Neutra Museum in 2020, she currently works from her home studio in Malibu.