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Biographic Satement Susan Crile grew up in Cleveland Ohio. After graduating from Bennington College in1965, she moved to New York City. Since then, she has had over fifty solo exhibitions. Ten of these have been museum or university museum exhibitions: The Phillips Collection (1975), MOCA Cleveland (1984), The Saint Louis Museum of Art, The Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, and The University Art Museum at CA State, Long Beach (all in 1994). In 1995, she had an exhibition at The Herbert Johnson Museum at Cornell University and The Middlebury College Museum of Art. In 1996 her exhibition, The Fires of War, took place in Kuwait City at The National Council for Culture, Art and Letters, a temporary replacement for the destroyed Kuwait National Gallery. In 2003, she had an exhibition at The University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson AZ. Crile is scheduled for an exhibition, Abu Ghraib: The Abuse of Power, in September of 2006 at the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College, CUNY in New York City. Crile has also had over forty one-person exhibitions in New York City and around the country. In New York, she was represented by the Jill Kornblee Gallery in the early seventies, the Fischbach Gallery in the mid-seventies, and in the late seventies and early eighties Droll/ Kolbert Gallery; from 1985-2004 she was represented by James Graham & Sons. Currently, Crile is represented by Michael Steinberg Fine Art in Chelsea. She has also had solo exhibitions at Bucknell University, The Federal Reserve Board in Washington D.C. Her exhibition at The Piper Gallery at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design was held in conjunction with The Boston Symphony Orchestra. Among the more than 100 group exhibitions in which Crile has been included, are the Whitney Annual, The Corcoran Biannual, The American Academy of Arts and Letters Annual Purchase Exhibition, and Painting of the Nineties, which was curated by Barbara Rose and traveled to museums in Europe and Eastern Europe. Crile has taught widely, at such institutions as, Princeton University, The School of Visual Arts, Barnard College, The University of Pennsylvania, Sarah Lawrence and Hunter College, where she has been on the faculty since 1982 and a full professor since 1996. Travel has been an important influence on Crile’s work. She has been to China, India (where she has worked on a printing on silk project), Ethiopia, Turkey, Kuwait, Morocco, Hungary, much of Europe and some of Eastern Europe. Since the late eighties, she has spent great deal of time in Italy. She was awarded a three-month Residency to The American Academy in Rome in 1989-90 and spent a sabbatical year in Rome in 1995-96 with a studio at the American Academy. In addition to the Residency at AAR, Crile has received several grants: two NEA fellowships, one in painting in 1982 and the other in drawing in 1989; and in 1972 an Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant. She has also been awarded a number of residency grants: to the MacDowell Colony in 1972, and to Yaddo in 1970, 1971, 1975, & 1978. Since 1985, she has been a member of the Yaddo Corporation (Saratoga Springs, NY) and on the Yaddo Board of Trustees from 1991-2004. She has served as well on the Board of Trustees of Bennington College and the Advisory Board of The Lehman College Art Museum, CUNY. She has participated in two NEA panels, been on innumerable Yaddo admissions panels as well as admissions panels for The American Academy in Rome and The Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Civitella, Italy. Among the writers who have written about her work are: Michael Brenson, Susan Cheever, Holland Cotter, Ruth Fine, Elizabeth Frank, Grace Glueck, Judith Goldman, Hayden Herrera, Ken Johnson, Diane Kelder, Ann Lauterbach, Lucy Lippard, Linda Nochlin, Robert Pincus-Witten, Vivian Raynor, Barbara Rose, John Russell, Peter Schjeldahl, Mark Stevens, Jeremy Strick, Stephen Westfall and William Zimmer. Her work is in the collections of The Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Hirshhorn Museum, The Phillips Collection, The Albright Knox, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Denver Art Museum, The Carnegie Institute Museum of Art and The Library of Congress among others, as well as many corporate collections. Susan Crile lives and works in New York City |