Awards
Pollock-Krasner Artist’s Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation; 2006-7
Faculty Research Grant, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; 2006
(also 2004, 2002, 2000, 1998, 1996, 1994 & 1993)
Visual Artist Fellowship, North Carolina Arts Council; 2004
Mecklenburg Regional Artist Project Grant; 2004
Residency Fellowship; Vermont Studio Center; 1998
Visual Artist Fellowship, North Carolina Arts Council; 1994/95
Southern Arts Federation/NEA Regional Fellowship in Painting and Works on Paper; 1992
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Susan Brenner: After Migrations, Winston-Salem, NC; 2007
Rowe Arts Gallery, UNC Charlotte,Susan Brenner, Charlotte, NC; 2005
Salem College, This is history…that is not over, Winston-Salem, NC; 2002
Hodges Taylor Gallery, Susan Brenner, Charlotte, NC; 2002
Smith Gallery, Dissections, Davidson College Visual Arts Center, Davidson, NC; 2001
Presbyterian College, Tending the Corporeal Garden; Clinton, SC; 1998
Winthrop University Galleries: The Reproduction of Hysteria; Rock Hill; SC; 1994
The Mint Museum of Art: Susan Brenner: Memory Traces; Charlotte, NC; 1993 (catalog)
University of Colorado at Denver, School of the Arts: Susan Brenner, Denver, CO;1992
Helen Lindhurst Gallery, University of Southern California: This is history…that is not over; Los Angeles, CA; 1991
Selected Group Exhibitions
Winthrop University Galleries, Deliberate Interference, Rock Hill, SC; 2007
The Light Factory Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film, Intrinsic Artifice: Susan Brenner, David Maisel, Carl Chiarenza, and Stan Brakhage, Charlotte, NC; 2006
The Asheville Museum of Art, North Carolina Arts Council Film Video and Visual Artist Fellowship Recipients 2004-05, Asheville, NC; 2006 (catalog)
The Mint Museum of Art, Crosscurrents, Charlotte, NC; 2006
North Carolina Museum of Art, Crosscurrents, Raleigh, NC; 2005 (catalog)
Boston University 808 Gallery, The Boston Printmakers 2005 North American Print Biennial, Boston, MA; 2005 (work made collaboratively with Heather Hoover)
2005 International Digital Art Awards Exhibition; QUT Art Museum Brisbane Australia, VCA Gallery Melbourne University, UTAS Academy Gallery Tasmania, COFA Gallery Sydney Australia, Miami Institute of Art; and online at www.internationaldigitalart.com/IDAA/2005images/dirstatements.html
Hodges Taylor Gallery, The Figure: Inside Out, Charlotte, NC; 2004
Columbia Museum of Art, The Felt Moment, Columbia, SC; 2003 (installation)
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Homegrown II, Winston Salem, NC; 2001
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Turning the Century: Front Range Women in the Visual Arts, Boulder, CO; 2000 (catalog)
McColl Center for Visual Art, Residual Value, Charlotte, NC; 1999
Salina Art Center, Body, Salina, KS; 1999 (installation) (catalog)
The Art Gallery: University of Maryland at College Park, Terra Firma, College Park, MD; 1997
(featured six U.S. women artists: Susan Brenner, Nancy Fried, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith, Faith Wilding, and Barbara Zucker) (catalog)
West Virginia University, College of Creative Arts; After Appalachia, Morgantown, WV; 1995 (catalog)
City Gallery of Contemporary Art, North Carolina Artists Fellowship Exhibition, Raleigh, NC; 1995 (catalog)
Transmission Gallery, Exquisite Drawing: Lines of Correspondence, Glasgow, Scotland; 1994
North Carolina Museum of Art, North Carolina Artists Exhibition, Raleigh, NC; 1993 (catalog)
Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Southern Arts Federation NEA Fellowship Exhibition, Atlanta, GA; 1993 (catalog)
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, LACE Annuale, Los Angeles, CA; 1991
Selected Bibliography
Millet, Ann. “Crosscurrents: Art, Craft, and Design in North Carolina,” Art Papers, January/February 2006.
Virginia B. Spivey. North Carolina Arts Council Film/Video and Visual Artist Fellowship Recipients 2004-05 exhibition catalog, The Asheville Museum of Art, 2006.
Paschal, Huston. Crosscurrents exhibition catalog, North Carolina Museum of Art, 2005
Patterson, Tom. “Homegrown Style,” exhibition review of “Homegrown II,”_The Winston-Salem Journal_, September 2, 2001
Gluckerstern, J. “Front Range Women,” exhibition review “Elbows & Tea Leaves: Front Range Women in the Visual Arts, Boulder Daily Camera, 2000
Grossman, Wendy. Terra Firma exhibition catalog, The Art Gallery, University of Maryland at College Park, 1997
Dorsey, John. “Women artists address the subject of women,” exhibition review of “Terra Firma,” The Baltimore Sun, Sunday, February 23, 1997
Howell, George. exhibition review of “Terra Firma,” Art Papers, May/June, 1997
Richard, Paul. exhibition review of “Terra Firma,” The Washington Post, Sunday January 26, 1997
Withers, Josephine. response to exhibition review of “Terra Firma,” The Washington Post, Sunday, February 16, 1997
Brenner, Susan. artist’s statement in After Appalachia exhibition catalog, Mesaros Galleries, West Virginia University, 1996
Doss, Erica. “Susan Brenner,” North Carolina Arts Council Visual Artist Fellowships 1994-1995 exhibition catalog, Raleigh City Gallery of Contemporary Art, Raleigh, NC, 1995
Dougherty, Linda Johnson. exhibition review of the “North Carolina Arts Council Visual Artist Fellowships 1994-1995” exhibition, Art Papers, July/August, 1995
Auping, Michael. “Susan Brenner,” North Carolina Artists Exhibition 1993 exhibition catalog, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, 1993
Brown, Linda Luise. exhibition review of “Susan Brenner: Memory Traces,” Creative Loafing,
October 23, 1993
Fox, Catherine. review of “Southern Arts Federation/NEA Fellowship” exhibition, The Atlanta Journal/The Atlanta Constitution, June 11, 1993
Leach, Mark. Susan Brenner: Memory Traces catalog/brochure, Mint Museum of Art,
Charlotte, NC, 1993
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), 1993
Patterson, Tom. exhibition review of “Susan Brenner: Memory Traces,” The Charlotte Observer, October 31, 1993
Patterson, Tom. exhibition review of “Susan Brenner: Memory Traces,” The Winston-Salem Journal, November 7, 1993
Education
1991 – Master of Fine Arts, University of Southern California
1989 – Bachelor of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute