Zoe Dufour is an artist and sculptor, currently maintaining a studio in

Northern California. Her work is primarily centered on the human form as a

direct, visual way to communicate to one an other in an emotional or

allegorical way.

Zoe studied with Gerald Heffernon and at the Ashland Academy of Art before

graduating from Grand Central Atelier in NYC.

Following her graduation she worked at the prestigious Studio EIS, and led

the sculpture program at Grand Central Atelier until 2019.

After a decade living and working in NYC, Zoe opened Saypience Sculpture

in California in 2019, and continues to work on a wide variety of projects

across the United States, The most recent of which is a monumental scale

bronze sculpture of Harriet Tubman, installed spring of 2025, on Binghamton

University’s Campus, NY.

She is nationally recognized and has received a Hudson River Fellowship,

First Prize in Grand Central Atelier’s International 2015 Figure Sculpting

Competition, and First Place the National Sculpture Society's 2016, 2018,

and 2023 Portrait Sculpting Competition, the Alex J Ettl Grant from the

National Sculpture Society, and was awarded the Sculptor in residence at

Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park 2020-2021. Her work has been

published in Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, and in Sculpture Quarterly. She

has worked on sculptures that are in the Smithsonian African American

History museum, the Museum of the American Revolution and many other

prestigious institutions.