RAYMOND SAÁ

Raymond Saá is a Cuban-American artist. Like Miró, Saá uses an abstract visual language that still feels rooted in the concrete, the observational. More broadly, Saá is inspired by the vitality and diversity of culture itself, drawing on Cuban Jazz music, as well as Cuban theater (musical comedies, zarzuelas, serious dramas, and one-act farces called sainetes), all of which celebrate ideas of persona and identity. 

RAYMOND SAÁ received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and his MFA from the Parsons School of Design. He exhibited at Untitled Art Miami Beach; White Columns, New York, NY; Queens Museum, Bulova Center, Queens, NY; Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ; Chautauqua Visual Arts Gallery, Chautauqua, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, CA; Islip Museum, Islip, NY; Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ; and more. 

His work is included in the permanent collections of the Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL; New Orleans Museum of Art, LA; Queens Museum of Art, NY; NYC Public Art for Public Schools, NY; among others. In 2023, the Philadelphia Museum of Art commissioned Saá, along with four other artists, to create artwork inspired by the exhibition “Matisse in the 1930s” taking place at the museum. 

Saá’s awards and residencies include the Joan Mitchell Center Artist-in-Residence Program, New Orleans, LA; the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY; the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, New York, NY; and the Public Art for Public Schools commission for PS 357X, New York, NY.