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Brooklyn NY NY United States
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My installation, PRECAMBRIAN WALTZ, was initially commissioned by the Port Authority of NY & NJ in 1985 as a work of public art for the PA Technical Center in Jersey City, long before the unforeseen terrorist attacks on 9/11. The work was meant to be a tribute to the building of the Twin Towers in the 1960's, the first construction of its kind in the world. It carefully merges dynamic construction images from the PA's own photo archives (all destroyed on 9/11) with references from the natural and man-made worlds, into a seamless, meditative, yet vibrant photomontage. Since 9/11, Precambrian Waltz has gradually evolved, unintentionally so, into a statement of special memory and significance to the events of 9/11, as well as a symbol of our collective, unyielding strength as a nation.
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SUSAN KAPROV, Artist
149 Willow Street Brooklyn NY 11201 USA
phone: (718) 624-2775 www.kaprov.com email: susan@kaprov.com
PUBLIC 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 DC
Harvard Medical School, Boston MA
Independence Savings Bank HQ, Brooklyn, NY
Liberty Science Center, Liberty State Park, NJ
Kings County Medical Center, NY
New York City Percent for Art Program, P.S. 29 NYC
MetroTech Center/Polytechnic Institute of N.Y.U., Brooklyn NY
National Aeronautics and Space Admin. (NASA), Wash, DC
Orlando Regional Healthcare System, Orlando Fl.
Port Authority of New York & New Jersey
Presbyterian Medical Center of Dallas, Texas
Prudential Insurance Co. of America HQ, Newark , NJ
Reeves Communication Corporation, NY
Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, Netherlands
University of Iowa, Carver-Hawkeye Arena
Queens College Science Center
Warner Lambert Company, NJ
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS:
Biever Fellowhip: Artist in Residence, Loyola Univ. New Orleans 2009
Palenville Interarts Center, Palenville, NY 2002
Brandywine Printmaking Workshop, Philadelphia, PA 1996
MacDowell Colony Fellowship for Painting 1986; 1988; 2003
The Banff Center, Alberta, Canada, Artist-in-Residence, 1998
1985 Works on Paper Purchase Award, Stedman Gallery, Rutgers Univ.
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowhip (CAPS): Painting 1988
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester NY 1988
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS:
Air & Space Museum, Washington, DC
Amico Library (Art Museum Image Consortium)
Amoco Corporation, Chicago
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT.
Foosaner Museum of Art, Melbourne, Fl.
Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Netherlands
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn NY
The William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, Ct.
Bristol Meyers Squibb Corporation, NJ
The Henry Buhl Collection, New York
Equitable Insurance Co. NY
Franklin Companies, Los Angeles
Gernsheim Collection, Switzerland
Lauinger Library, Georgetown University
Library of Congress, Washington DC
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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
Prudential Insurance Co. of America, NJ
Reiss-Engelhorn Museum, Manheim, Germany
Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA.
Rutgers University, NJ
Stamford Museum of Art, Stamford CT.
University of Texas Art Museum, Austin
Yale University Art Gallery
EDUCATION:
The City College of New York (CUNY) B.S. Biology; B.A. Art History
Post Graduate Studies:
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Independent Study Program
New York City Technical College, School of Architecture
Pratt Institute, NYC Graphic Design as Fine Art
MUSEUM PROJECTS:
Museum of Modern Art, NY: Going to Pieces, Interactive project 2013
National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC: Installation 1994
20th Century Dilemma: The Brooklyn Museum NY: Lobby Installation 1988
GROUP EXHIBITIONS: (selected):
Selections: The Flat Files: Pierogi Gallery, NY 2014
Open Call-Freize Projects, London 2010
In The Flesh, curated by Andrea Pollan, Torpedo Art Gallery 2009
Take-Out, Brevard Art Museum, Fla 2009
New York Photo Festival ’09-Curated by Bill Ewing 2009
Nature (Re)Made: Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College, Easton PA 2009
Printmaking Now, Hunterdon Museum of Art, NJ 2007
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 Contemp Art 2006
Tomorrow: Digital 2004, New York Hall of Science NY 2004
PhotoGENEsis: Opus2, Santa Barbara Museum of Art 2004
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 Fl 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, 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 1993
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 1989
National Drawing Exhibition, Rutgers University, Camden NJ 1988
Alternative Imaging Systems, Everson Museum, Syracuse NY 1987
Recent Acquisitions, Nat'l Museum of American Art, Wash. DC 1986
Prints: Acquisitions 1979-85 Museum of Modern Art, NY 1986
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
CODA magazine, The Written Word, Feature 2/2014
NY Times Magazine,12/2011“Who Made That?”, review by Hilary Greenbaum.
SHIE Magazine, 2011
Post Modern Currents by Margot Lovejoy, Univ. of Michigan Press 2008
Digital Giraffe 8/2007; Public Art Review, 5/2003
Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. Feature profile 2005
NY Arts Magazine Berliner Kunst 12/05: Feature article-John Perreault
NY Times, review 3/15/03
Shutterbug Magazine, feature article 2002
NY Times CT Section, review 8/12/2001
Newsday, review 12/2001
Newark NJ Star-Ledger, review 8/10/2000
Art In America, review 12/2000
Susan Kaprov: The Art of Chance, feature Computer Graphics Mag6/99
Arts Magazine, review 1999
Art News, Artist Profile 1998
Mention:
Arts Calendar Newsletter; The Village Voice; Print Collector's Newsletter; Photography Magazine; Flash Art; History of American Printmaking, by D. Saff; NY Post; Atlanta Ledger-Enquirer; Boston Globe
LECTURES, WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS:
Artists Talk on Art, Museum of Modern Art, NY
Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. NY
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
Conversations With Artists, Santa Barbara Museum of Art
The City College of New York (CUNY), NY
Banff Center for the Arts, Alberta, Canada
Brooklyn College (CUNY), Brooklyn, NY
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn NY
The Cooper-Hewitt Museum, NY
The Cooper Union, NY
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
George Washington University, Washington DC.
Harvard University School of Design, Cambridge MA
Parsons School of Design, NY
Pratt Institute, NY, NY
New York University, NY
Rutgers University, Camden, NJ
School of Visual Arts, NY
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Faculty: N.Y.U. School of Continuing & Professional Education
American Institute of Architects-New York Chapter
Art & Science Collaborations, Inc.