Susan Brenner

3128 E. Ford Road, Charlotte, NC 28205

704/376-4784 (h) 704/650-9957 (cell) scbrenne@email.uncc.edu


 

Education

1991          Master of Fine Arts, University of Southern California

1989          Bachelor of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute

 

Selected Exhibitions

2005          North Carolina Museum of Art & The Mint Museum of Art, Crosscurrents, Raleigh & Charlotte, NC  (scheduled September – December, 2005 & January – August, 2006)

2004          Hodges Taylor Gallery, The Figure: Inside Out, Charlotte, NC

2003          Columbia Museum of Art, The Felt Moment, Columbia, SC (installation)

2002          Salem College, This is history…that is not over, Winston-Salem, NC  (solo exhibition)

                 Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC  (solo exhibition)

2001          Smith Gallery, Davidson College Visual Arts Center, Dissections, Davidson, NC (solo exhibition)

                 Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Homegrown II, Winston Salem, NC

2000          Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Turning the Century: Front Range Women in the Visual Arts,
Boulder, CO (curated by Cydney Payton) (catalog)

1999          Tryon Center for Visual Art, Residual Value, Charlotte, NC

                 Salina Art Center, Body, Salina, KS  (installation) (catalog)

1998          Presbyterian College, Tending the Corporeal Garden; Clinton, SC. (solo exhibition)

1997          The Art Gallery: University of Maryland at College Park, Terra Firma, College Park, MD
(featured work of six U.S. women artists: Susan Brenner, Nancy Fried, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith,
Faith Wilding, and Barbara Zucker) (catalog)

1995          West Virginia University, College of Creative Arts; After Appalachia, Morgantown, WV (catalog)

                 City Gallery of Contemporary Art, North Carolina Artists Fellowship Exhibition, Raleigh, NC (catalog)

1994          Winthrop University Galleries: The Reproduction of Hysteria; Rock Hill, SC (solo exhibition)

                 Transmission Gallery, Exquisite Drawing: Lines of Correspondence, Glasgow, Scotland
(guest curated by Linda James and Elaine Scheer of Artemesia Gallery in Chicago, IL)

1993          The Mint Museum of Art: Susan Brenner: Memory Traces; Charlotte, NC (solo exhibition) (catalog)

                 North Carolina Museum of Art, North Carolina Artists Exhibition 1993, Raleigh, NC
(guest curated by Michael Auping) (catalog)

                 Sawtooth Center for Visual Art, The Artist as Activist, Winston-Salem, NC

                 Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Southern Arts Federation NEA Fellowship Exhibition, Atlanta, GA.
(curated by Lisa Tuttle) (catalog)

1992          University of Colorado at Denver, School of the Arts: Susan Brenner, Denver, CO (solo exhibition)

1991          University of Southern California: This is history…that is not over; Los Angeles, CA  (solo exhibition)

                 Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, LACE Annuale, Los Angeles, CA. (guest curated by Randall Davis)

 

Selected Awards

2004          Visual Artist Fellowship, North Carolina Arts Council

                 Mecklenburg Regional Artist Project Grant

                 Faculty Research Grant, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (also 1992, 93, 94, 96, 98, 00, & 02)

1998          Residency Fellowship; Vermont Studio Center

1994/95     Visual Artist Fellowship, North Carolina Arts Council

1992          Southern Arts Federation/NEA Regional Fellowship in Painting and Works on Paper

 

Selected Bibliography

1997          Grossman, Wendy. Terra Firma exhibition catalog, The Art Gallery, University of Maryland at College Park

1996          Brenner, Susan. artist’s statement in After Appalachia exhibition catalog, Mesaros Galleries,
West Virginia University

1995          Doss, Erica. “Susan Brenner,” North Carolina Arts Council Visual Artist Fellowships 1994-1995 exhibition catalog, Raleigh City Gallery of Contemporary Art, Raleigh, NC.

1993          Auping, Michael. “Susan Brenner,” North Carolina Artists Exhibition 1993 exhibition catalog, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC.

                 Leach, Mark. Susan Brenner: Memory Traces catalog/brochure, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC.

                 Lazzari, Margaret. “Susan Brenner,” Southern Arts Federation NEA Fellowship Exhibition, exhibition catalog, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA. (also published as an insert in New Art Examiner)