Lior Sa'ar Ellis is a multivalent artist residing in Portland, Oregon after 18 years of wandering through the Arizona desert. Their life's work is in connection with the hearts of artists and reflection of what inspires us to pursue global liberation. The smell of creosote when it rains and tomatoes on the vine are their favorite smells on Earth.

Lior Sa'ar Ellis (b. 1992, U.S.) is an Ashkenazi American Jewish artist with a current focus on visual art and design. Their paintings and prints reflect moments of resistance and greater global liberation. Their ceramics and songwriting indicate the impacts of these moments, portraying soft vulnerability and intimacy of the spiritual human psyche.

• 2024 - Lior received the Emily Tremaine Foundation
• 2025 - "Intifada" exhibited at North View Gallery's Art Out Loud: 24|25, Juried PCC Art Student Exhibition
• 2026 "Throwing Rocks" first original print and "Doykeit" exhibited at Emerging: 25|26, Juried PCC Art Student Exhibition
• "Kilmar Abrego Garcia" chosen for non-juried exhibition, to be displayed with a curtain and advisory label written by the artist, as requested by the gallery curator

In a past life, their music video 'Dead Inside' under the name Rae (Not) Lydia won the People's Choice Award at the 2019 Phoenix Independent Film Festival.