Artist Bio
Hilary Saner paints between worlds — California and Hawaii, oil and collage, the rigorously structured and the deeply intuitive. Her work moves fluidly across still life, large-scale representational painting, and abstraction, often within the same body of work, carrying a surrealist undertow that makes even the most ordinary object feel charged with concealed meaning.
Before painting became her primary language, she was a statistician, a theologian, a community founder — lives lived in numbers, in prayer, in care for others. All of it migrated into the work. Her abstractions layer dyed papers, embroidery, gold leaf, and buried text into surfaces that reward sustained looking. Her oils carry symbolic weight that quietly destabilizes the familiar.
Her work has been exhibited widely across the US and internationally, earning Best in Show recognition in both California and New York, alongside Jurors' Choice and Merit awards.