Biography from AskART:
| Raymond Saunders studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in 1960 at Carnegie Institute of Technology. His Masters of Fine Arts was earned from the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California in 1961.
Saunders is a major figure in contemporary art, whose work has often dealt with imagery associated with the Black urban experience which he incorporates into rich, mixed-media paintings, according to Cuesta College Art Gallery Director Marta Peluso.
His works can be seen in many major museum collections, including The Whitney Museum of American Art, The metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Walker Art Center at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Saunders has had solo exhibitions at The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco, the Seattle Art Museum, the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Maine, and at Hunter College in New York City. He has received awards as the Prix de Rome, 1964-1966, and the National Endowment for the Arts Award in 1977 and 1984, and the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1976.
In the catalogue that accompanied Saunders' 1993 exhibition at the Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco, celebrated writer Toni Morrison wrote: "From an environment of the lost, the discarded, Saunders creates another wholly inscribed world of found things in which chalk and metal and paint and wallpaper and toys and insignia combine to destabilize and soothe us then to change us altogether like a tropical medicine belt."
Information of the above biography is from the Cuesta College News Release, March 16, 2001, Cuesta College Public Information and Marketing Office, San Luis Obispo, California.
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