Deirdre Saunder:
Deirdre Saunder is a well-known D.C. area artist and has exhibited extensively in the United States and internationally. She is also a highly respected public artist whose installations have received international acclaim. Saunder was born in Zimbabwe and received her MFA from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, her BFA and Higher Degree in Education from the University of Cape Town in South Africa, and was a Knox Fellow at Harvard University. She has been featured in numerous publications including Washingtonian Magazine's "People to Watch," Washington Post, City Paper, and The Gazette. She currently teaches at the Maret School in Washington, DC and at the Art League School in Alexandria , VA.
Selected site-specific commissions include:
- Silver Spring Interactive Mosaic Fountain and Stair Risers, Downtown Silver Spring, MD
- Glenmont Metro Mosaic, Glenmont, MD
- Hopscotch Bridge Mosaic, Union Station, Washington, DC
- Germantown Aquatic Center Mosaic, Germantown, MD
- Carroll Creek Park Mosaics, Frederick, MD
Selected exhibitions include:
- Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
- The Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC
- Troyer Fitzpatrick Lassman Gallery, Washington, DC
- University of Maryland, College Park, MD
- Rodger Lapelle Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
- Marilyn Butler Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
- Valerie Miller, Los Angeles, CA
- Ariel Gallery, New York, NY
- Cohn Drennan Contemporary, Dallas, TX
- Musee des Tapisseries, Aix -en-Provence, France
- Gallery Delta, Harare, Zimbabwe
Selected Collections include:
- Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC
- World Bank, Washington, DC
- National Gallery of Art, Harare, Zimbabwe
- Oxford University., Oxford, UK
Selected Grants and Awards include:
- Spectrum International Tile Awards for Silver Spring Fountain Mosaic and Hopscotch Bridge Mosaic
- Recipient of numerous scholarships, grants and residencies including Rhodes Scholarship, Frank Knox Fellowship, McIver Scholarship, Commonwealth Scholarship, Karolyi Foundation Residency, three DC Commission on the Arts Visual Artists Grants, DC Commission on the Arts Public Art Building Communities Grant.
- Juror and Curator for numerous exhibitions