Sidonie Villere

Sidonie Villere has a BFA in Ceramics from the Newcomb School of Art at Tulane University and an MFA in Ceramics from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.

As an artist her work has been exhibited across the United States and is in the permanent collection of several museums including the New Orleans Museum of Art and Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Her work has also been acquired by Saks Fifth Avenue Department Stores in New York, Boston, Phoenix, San Francisco and Beverly Hills. Villere is an abstract artist exploring themes of the human condition and self-preservation. She has had solo exhibitions in Miami and New Orleans, and her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions in Atlanta, Miami, New York and New Orleans. As a curator, she has organized national ceramic exhibitions in New Orleans, LA and Portland, OR. Her large-scale works were featured in the Prospect.1 International Art Biennial Welcome Center in 2008, and included in the publication 500 Ceramic Sculptures: Contemporary Practice, Singular Work by Glen Brown (2009).