Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio.
Crisp Museum in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Narrows Center for the Arts in Fall River, Massachusetts. Mesa Contemporary Arts Center in Mesa, Arizona. Clinton Library in Little Rock, Arkansas. Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey. Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor, New York. Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland, Oregon. The Imperial Centre for the Arts & Sciences in Downtown Rocky Mount, North Carolina. MASS MoCA in North Adams, MassachusettsĪnd has been featured at museum venues worldwide, including:. The New Orleans Public Library public art display in New Orleans, Louisiana. The National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia. Time Warner Center public art display in New York, New York. The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York. Nathan Sawaya's work is in many collections, including: His artwork is commissioned by collectors, athletes and celebrities. In 2012, Artnet ranked Sawaya the 8th most popular artist in the world. It is estimated that Sawaya owns more Lego bricks than any other single individual with 1.5 million bricks in each of his studios. Sawaya keeps two, full-time working art studios - one in Manhattan and the other in Los Angeles. On display in the National Museum of the Marine Corps and Heritage Center gift shop Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima reproduced in Lego form by Nathan Sawaya. His tours have repeatedly broken attendance records and been widely acclaimed. He has also exhibited at the world famous ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore (November 2012 - May 2013) and Discovery Times Square in New York City (June 2013 - current). In July 2012 Sawaya's Asian tour began with record-breaking shows in Taipei, Kaohsiung and Taichung. The exhibition since traveled around Australia, including stops in Adelaide and at the Sydney Town Hall. Sawaya had his first exhibition in the Southern Hemisphere at Federation Square in Melbourne, Australia in June 2011. " The Art of the Brick" is one of the first major museum exhibition in the world to focus exclusively on the use of Lego building blocks as an art medium. He had his first solo art exhibit in the Spring of 2007 at the Lancaster Museum of Art. "Blue" sold for an undisclosed sum at the Agora Gallery in 2010. His signature pieces include human form sculptures titled "Yellow", "Red" and "Blue". Sawaya's art creations include a 7-foot (2.1 m)-long replica of the Brooklyn Bridge, a life-size tyrannosaurus rex, a 6-foot (1.8 m)-tall Han Solo frozen in carbonite. However, he has been officially recognized by The Lego Group as one of the best Lego builders in the world and is endorsed as a Lego Certified Professional. HAN SOLO IN CARBONITE LEGO LIFE SIZE WHO OWNS PROFESSIONAL
As a professional artist, Sawaya is not an employee of the toy company. He first came to national attention in 2004, when he left his job as an attorney to work full-time as a Lego artist.Īfter working for the Lego Group less than six months, he branched off and in 2004 opened an art studio in New York City. Nathan Sawaya (born July 10, 1973) is an American artist who builds custom three-dimensional sculptures and large-scale mosaics from popular everyday items and is best known for his work with standard Lego building bricks.īorn in Colville, Washington and raised in Veneta, Oregon, Sawaya attended New York University, where he earned bachelor's and law degrees, eventually practicing law at the firm Winston & Strawn in Hollywood.
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