Liên Art

Celebrate Betye Saar’s 100th birthday with us.
She is one of the most important artists who confronted racism and historical stereotypes in America through assemblage art and mixed media.
Her artistic journey is rooted in a childhood experience, where she did not have a Black doll that looked like her, at a time when racial stereotypes were strongly present in American culture. This created an early sense of underrepresentation and a search for identity and belonging.
The exhibition at the New-York Historical Society celebrates her rare collection of Black dolls, gathered over decades and later transformed into powerful artworks that reinterpret history and give these objects new meanings of strength, dignity, and memory.

A crown of bright yellow blossoms and a bold split of earth clay, this is how she to her story to the world. For the young women of the Suri tribe, the wild landscape is a personal canvas, and every creation is a reflection of who they are in that exact moment.

Captured her steady gaze, holds a quiet confidence, a story of a young artist who steps into the wild, gathers the earth, and effortlessly transforms it into a statement of absolute pride and grace.

What story do you see in her eyes?

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