Susan Kaprov is a multi-media artist based in New York. Her works encompass a wide range of thematic and media approaches such as fired enamel on fused glass, painting, installation, photomontage, printmaking, mosaic, and mixed media on various substrates. Although she has degrees in biology and art history, she is basically self-taught, her “teachers" being the world’s great museums, libraries, public collections, and galleries. She has exhibited widely both in the United States and abroad. Her work is represented in the permanent collections of major museums worldwide including the Museum of Modern Art NY, the Metropolitan Museum of Art NY, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among others. She has completed major public art projects for such institutions as the Port Authority of NY & NJ, the General Services Administration’s Art-in-Architecture Program, NASA, the Carver-Hawkeye Arena at the University of Iowa, and the Polytechnic Institute of N.Y.U., and others. In 2013 Kaprov created ‘Going to Pieces’ at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, an interactive art event involving jigsaw puzzles that included over one hundred members and audience participants. Please visit http://www.kaprov.com/kaprovmu... Kaprov’s work was included in the landmark exhibitions PhotoGENEsis at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, The Convergence of Art & Science, at the Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art and the exhibition, Stilled Life at the Islip Art Museum. Awards include a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting, three MacDowell Colony Fellowships, a Biever Artist Grant from Loyola University, and First Prize in the Rutgers University National Drawing Exhibition. Articles and reviews of her work have appeared in the New York Times, Art in America, Riot Material, Art News, New York Arts Magazine, Newsday, and other publications and books.
StatementAs an artist, I am a dedicated stylistic and conceptual explorer, gravitating toward discovery and avoiding allegiances to genres of any kind. I create by giving myself "assignments" or self-imposed ideas that I freely explore in great depth. I see my studio as a “laboratory” and my art as a series of “research projects” where I strive to merge imagery and media in unforeseen and unpredictable ways. By creating groups of related series in the same general idiom, I can work through their ramifications with great latitude. free from the constraints of a "signature style". Being curious is part of my job. My "voice" is actually a collection of voices, all authentic and all residing within me.
I try to embrace life with its unsettling ambiguities and uncertainties while experiencing through art the grandeur and universal connectedness of all things. All these seemingly disparate elements do reveal a subtle underlying conceptual and visual thread: one that evokes interconnection, randomness, and opposition, i.e., fragmentation vs. wholeness; the tangible vs. the intangible; chaos vs. order; and other “oppositions” that I seek to illuminate in visual terms.
CvPUBLIC COMMISSIONS:The Austin Company, Atlanta, GA Connecticut State Commission on the Arts, Hartford CT. New York Botanical Gardens Dormitory Authority of NYS (CUNY), Albany, NY Equitable Insurance Co, NY General Services Administration: Art in Architecture Program, Wash., DCHarvard Medical School, Boston MAIndependence Savings Bank HQ, Brooklyn, NYLiberty Science Center, Liberty State Park, NJKings County Medical Center, NY New York City Percent for Art Program, P.S. 29 NYC MetroTech Center/Polytechnic Institute of N.Y.U., Brooklyn NYNational Aeronautics and Space Admin. (NASA), Wash, DC Orlando Regional Healthcare System, Orlando Fl. Port Authority of New York & New JerseyPresbyterian Medical Center of Dallas, TexasPrinceton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJPrudential Insurance Co. of America HQ, Newark, NJ Reeves Communication Corporation, NYRegional Transportation Commission of Southern NevadaSchiphol Airport, Amsterdam, NetherlandsUniversity of Iowa, Carver-Hawkeye Arena, Iowa City, IA Queens College Science Center , Queens, NY Warner Lambert Company, Trenton, NJ
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS:Artist in Residence, Loyola Univ. New Orleans 2019Palenville Interarts Center, Palenville, NY 2017Brandywine Printmaking Workshop, Philadelphia, PA 2010MacDowell Colony Fellowship 1986; 1998; 2014The Banff Center, Alberta, Canada, Artist-in-Residence, Fine Arts 2010Photography Purchase Award, Stedman Gallery, Rutgers Univ. 1999Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester NY 1998Ossabaw Island Project Residence Fellowship 1997New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (CAPS): Painting 1997 PERMANENT COLLECTIONS:Air & Space Museum, Washington, DC;American University Art Museum, Wash, DC; Amico Library (Art Museum Image Consortium); Amoco Corporation, Chicago, Ill.; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT; Foosaner Museum of Art, Melbourne, Fla; Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands; The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn NY; Bristol Meyers Squibb Corporation, NJ; The Henry Buhl Collection, NY; Equitable Insurance Co. NY; Franklin Companies, Los Angeles; Gernsheim Collection, Geneva, Switzerland; Harcourt Brace Publishers, Orlando, Fla; Holland-America Passenger Ships, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Lauinger Library, Georgetown University; Library of Congress, Washington DC; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC; New York Public Library, NY; Pfizer, Inc., NY; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton NJ; Prudential Insurance Co. of America, Newark, NJ; Reiss-Engelhorn Museum, Manheim, Germany; Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA; .Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro NJ; Rutgers University, Camden NJ; Stamford Museum of Art, Stamford CT; University of Texas Art Museum, Austin TX; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven CT; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY.
EDUCATION: The City College of New York (CUNY) B.S. Biology; B.A. Art History 1986Post Graduate Studies: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Independent Study Program New York City Technical College, School of Architecture Pratt Institute, NYC Graphic Design, Architecture, and Photography
SOLO MUSEUM PROJECTS: Museum of Modern Art, NY: ‘Going to Pieces’: Interactive jigsaw-puzzle project 2013;National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC: Installation 2006; 20th Century Dilemma: The Brooklyn Museum NY, Grand Lobby Installation 1989
GROUP EXHIBITIONS: (selected): Chateau Gallery: The Art of Food Group show (online) 2023; Museum of Americana: Not So Still Life, (online) 2023; Winter Group: Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA 2022; The Future of Food, Usagi Gallery, NY 2019; A View from The Easel, Hyper Allergic Online 2019; Selections: The Flat Files: Pierogi Gallery, NY 2018; Open Call-Freize Projects, London 2017; In The Flesh, curated by Andrea Pollan, Torpedo Art Gallery 2011; Take-Out, Brevard Art Museum, Fla. 2011; New York Photo Festival ’09-Curated by Bill Ewing 2009; Nature (Re)Made: Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College, Easton PA 2009; Photography Now, Hunterdon Museum of Art, NJ 2009; Science as Muse, Montgomery Center for the Arts, NJ 2008; Stilled Life, Islip Art Museum, Islip NY 2007; Convergence of Art & Science: Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art 2008; Tomorrow: Digital 2004, New York Hall of Science NY 2007; PhotoGENEsis: Opus2, Santa Barbara Museum of Art 2006; Genomic Issues, CUNY Graduate Center Gallery 2004; Pushing the Limits: Aviation as Seen Through the NASA Art Collection,Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition. 2003; Best of The Art-X Gallery, Stamford Museum, Stamford CT. 2001; Design Brooklyn, Rotunda Gallery 2000; New York Vision/Art and Science, Merrick Gallery, St. Petersburg Fla 2001; Out of Obscura: Historical & Contemporary Women Photographers, International Museum of Photography, Oklahoma City 1999; Aurinko-Sun: Rauman Museum of Art, Rauma, Finland 1998; The Time Machine, Anchorage Museum of Art, Alaska 1998; New Acquisitions, Photography. Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, Ct. 1996; Selections: '95 Gernsheim Coll: Ikona Gallery, Venice Italy 1996; The Digitalists, Marymount Manhattan College 1996; Contacts/Proofs, The Jersey City Art Museum 1994; Five Contemporary Artists, Print Center of Philadelphia 1993; Art & Science: An Interaction, Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ 1991; The Artist & The Space Shuttle, Air & Space Museum, Wash DC 1990; National Drawing Exhibition, Rutgers University, Camden NJ 1990; Alternative Imaging Systems, Everson Museum, Syracuse NY 1989; Recent Acquisitions, Nat'l Museum of American Art, Wash. DC 1989; Prints: Acquisitions 1979-85 Museum of Modern Art, NY 1988; Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie NY 1978
BIBLIOGRAPHY (selected): Riot Material 2023 online; Novum Artis Magazine 1st Edition Jan 2024; The Digital Giraffe 2022; CODA magazine; The Written Word, Feature 2021; NY Arts Magazine Berliner Kunst 12/2015 Feature article by John Perreault; Los Angeles Times 2013; NY Times Magazine 2011 “Who Made That?”, review by Hilary Greenbaum; SHIE Magazine, 2013; Los Angeles Times 2012; Post Modern Currents Univ. of Michigan Press 2008; Digital Giraffe 2007, 2022; Public Art Review 2009; Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. feature profile 2009; NY Times review 2008; Shutterbug Magazine feature 2012; NY Times CT Section review 8/2011; Newsday 2010.Newark NJ Star-Ledger 2010; Art In America review 2009; Susan Kaprov - Feature Computer Graphics Mag 6/2008;Arts Magazine review 2007; Art News, Artist Profile 2004; Arts Calendar Newsletter; The Village Voice; Print Collector's Newsletter; Photography Magazine; Flash Art; History of American Printmaking feature by Donald Saff; NY Post; Atlanta Ledger-Enquirer; Boston Globe.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:Faculty: NYU School of Professional Studies; American Institute of Architects – Member, York Chapter; Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI).ArtTable, Inc. NY Chapter Member
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