Susan Weil
b. 1930 New York, NY
Lives & works in New York, NY
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Education
Academe Julian, Paris, France
Black Mountain College, Asheville, North Carolina
Arts Students League, New York
Solo Exhibitions
2019
Once In A Blue Moon, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, München, Germany
2017
Susan Weil: Now and Then, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Chelsea, New York
2016
Susan Weil’s James Joyce: Shut Your Eyes and See, University at Buffalo, The
Poetry Collection of the University Libraries, Buffalo, NY
2015
Poemumbles: 30 Years of Susan Weil’s Poem | Images, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC
2014
Blueprints: A Collaboration, Susan Weil & José Betancourt, Asheville Art Museum,
Asheville, NC
2013
Blueprints: Cyanotypes by Susan Weil & José Betancourt, Tennessee Valley Museum
of Art, Tuscumbia, AL
Time’s Pace: Recent Works by Susan Weil, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY
2012
Blueprints, with José Betancourt, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN
2011
Reflections, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, NY
Blueprints, with José Betancourt, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
2010
Blueprints, with José Betancourt, Blue Sky, Portland, OR
2009
Motion Pictures, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong
2006
Now & Then: A Retrospective of Susan Weil, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY
2001
Galerie Aronowitsch, Stockholm, Sweden
2000
Wanas, Knislinge, Sweden
1998
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
Black Mountain Museum, Asheville, NC
1997
National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
1996
Galerie Simone Gogniat, Basel, Switzerland
1993
Gallery Astley, Seattle, WA
1992
The Printmaking Workshop, New York, NY
Museum Astley Nyhlen, Uttersberg, Sweden
1990
The Queens Museum, Queens, NY
1989
Mind’s Sky, Bayerischen Staatsghalerie Modern Kunst, Munich, Germany
1989
Livres d’Artiste, Lyrik Kabinett, Munich, Germany
1988
Flushing Council on Culture & The Arts, Flushing, NY
1988
Galerie Brandt’s Pakhus, Copenhagen, Denmark
1986
Gallerie Leif Stahle Paris, France
1985
Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden
1983
Galerie Artek, Helsinki, Finland
1981
Judith Christian Gallery, New York
Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
1980
Galeri Engstrom, Stockholm, Sweden
Konsthall, Harnosand, Sweden
Krognoshuset, Lund, Sweden
1979
Parsons-Dreyfus Gallery, New York
Art 10, Basel, Switzerland
1978
Wade Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Galleri Engstrom, Stockholm, Sweden
Galeriet, Lund, Sweden
1977
Parsons-Dreyfus Gallery, New York
1975
112 Greene Street Gallery, New York, NY
1974
112 Greene Street Gallery, New York, NY
1971
University of North Carolina, School of Design, Raleigh
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC
The Johnson Collection, South Carolina
2018
Still Life, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, München, Germany
Bauhaus and America: Experiments in Light and Movement, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Germany
Women of Black Mountain College, Yvette Torres Fine Art, Rockland, ME
New York Abstraction, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Singapore
Group Show, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York
2017
Group Show, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY
Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends, The Museum of Modern Art, NY
Lunar Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Madison Avenue, New York, NY
Begin to See: The Photographers of Black Mountain College, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC
2016
Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957, The Institute of
Contemporary Art/Boston, Boston, MA
Winter Group Show, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong
2014
Summer Group Show, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY
Frontiers Reimagined, Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, Italy
2013
To Be A Lady: An International Celebration of Women in the Arts, Sundaram Tagore
Gallery, Singapore, in collaboration with Norte Maar
2009
Seven Women/ Seven Stories New Work Historically Significant Woman Painters,
Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY
2005
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
2004
The Cracked Looking Glass, The graphic Center, Dublin, Ireland,
Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
2002
Una Aventura Americana, Museo National Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Black Mountain College, Ashville, NC
Sailor Snug Harbor, Staten Island, NY
2000
Butler Library, Columbia University, New York, NY
1996
Asheville Museum, Asheville, NC
1993
Museum Of Modern Art, New York, NY
1992
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Lyrik Kabinet, Munich, Germany
Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
1991
Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1989
Toledo Museum of Fine Art, Toledo, OH
American Craft Council, New York, NY
1988
The Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA
1986
Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT
Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
1984
Hirschhorn Museum, Washington D. C.
1983
Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
1981
City Gallery, New York, NY
1980
Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York, NY
1979
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
1977
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1976
Corcoran Gallery Of Art, Washington, D.C.
1968
Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C.
Press
Allen, Greg. “’A Beautiful Vision’: Artist Susan Weil on the Work of—and Her Life With—Bernard Kirschenbaum, Her Poetry, and More.” ARTNews, October 12, 2018.
http:// www.artnews.com/2018/10/12/beautiful-vision-artist-susan-weil-work-life- bernard- kirschenbaum-poetry/. [ill.] [online]
____. “American Beauty: Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and the Case of the Missing
Flag.” ARTnews, Summer 2016. http://www.artnews.com/2016/05/10/american-beauty- jasper-johns-robert-rauschenberg-and-the-case-of-the-missing-flag/. [ill.] [online]
Andrew, Jason. “Black Mountain College Veteran’s Curiosity Spurs Her Art.” Hyperallergic, June 13, 2013. https://hyperallergic.com/73260/susan-weil-sundaram-tagore-gallery/.
Avery, Lawrence. “Buckeyes.” North Carolina Literary Review (NCLR) 27 (2018). http://www.nclr.ecu.edu/issues/nclr-online.html. [ill.] [online]
Buraczeski, Danny. “People – Personal Stories.” Classic Jazz Dance – The Work of Danny Buraczeski and JAZZDANCE, Southern Methodist University, https://people.smu.edu/ dburacze/.
Chan, Charmaine. “The Exhibitionists.” South China Morning Post Magazine, October 11, 2014. https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1612789/exhibitionists. [ill.] [online]
Conrad, Barbara. North Carolina Literary Review (NCLR) 24, (2015): 30. https://issuu.com/eastcarolina/docs/nclr2015-online-final/30. [ill.] [online]
Crossman, Chris. “Revisiting the Legacy of Women at Black Mountain College.” Hyperallergic, July 7, 2018.
Cullinan, Nicholas. “Vaporous fantasies, Document: Robert Rauschenberg's photograms.” Tate Etc, Issue 23: Autumn 2011.
Gotthardt, Alexxa. “8 Pioneering Women Artists of Black Mountain College.” Artsy, March 12, 2018. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-8-pioneering-women-artists-black- mountain-college. [ill.] [online]
Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich. “Das Bauhaus schrieb Geschichte – und widerstand ihr zugleich.”
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, September 15, 2019. https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/das-bauhaus- schrieb-geschichte-und-widerstand-ihr-zugleich-ld.1501761
Kirschenbaum, Sara. “Op-Ed: My Bauhaus childhood, when molding was a crime.” Los Angeles Times, August 25, 2019. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-08-22/bauhaus- design-architecture-artists-20th-century-design [online]
Kisselgoff, Anna. “DANCE REVIEW; A ‘Four Seasons’ to Raise Vivaldi’s Eyebrows.” The New
York Times, July 26, 2003. https://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/26/arts/dance-review-a- four-seasons-to-raise-vivaldi-s-eyebrows.html
Kramer, Hilton. “Weil’s Portrait of James Joyce Teems With Wit.” Observer, September 22, 2003. https://observer.com/2003/09/weils-portrait-of-james-joyce-teems-with-wit/
Lobel, Michael. “Lost and Found: Michael Lobel on Susan Weil and Robert Rauschenberg’s Blueprints.” Artforum, February 2016. [ill.]
Raynor, Vivien. “Art: Susan Weil Graphics.” The New York Times, December 31, 1981. Shea, Andrea. “Boston Museum Exhibit Celebrates Legacy Of Black Mountain College.”
Produced by National Public Radio. All Things Considered, December 1, 2015. http:// www.npr.org/2015/12/01/458058705/boston-museum-exhibit-celebrates-legacy-of- black-mountain-college.html.
Smee, Sebastian. “Genius abounds in landmark ICA exhibit.” Boston Globe, October 13, 2015. https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2015/10/13/genius-abounds-ica- landmark-black-mountain-exhibit/9qDQsx1ooq39HuIQOEb8xN/story.html.
Smith, Roberta. “What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week.” The New York Times, October 04, 2018.
____. “Rauschenberg, Before Fame Struck.” The New York Times, May 09, 2014. Stein, Donna. “Susan Weil: Full Circle.” Dossier, Issue 5: 1998.bg
Books & Catalogues
Bauhaus and America: Experiments in Light and Movement. Bielefeld: Kerber, 2018.
Batchen, Geoffrey. Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph. New York: Prestel, 2016.
30-32; 142-143.
Fox, James. Monochrome: Blue. London: Ordovas, 2020.
Gribaudo, Paola, ed. Susan Weil: Moving Pictures. Milan: Skira Editore S.p.A., 2010. Weil, Susan and José Betancourt. Blueprints: a collaboration. New York: n.p., 2009. Tornberg, Anders. Enkoppkaffe: Dikter/Teckningar [Poem/Drawings by Susan Weil].
Stockholm: Leandermalmsten Lund, 1997.
Susan Weil PRINTS 1973-1981. New York: Judith Christian Gallery, 1981.
Two Notebooks, Susan Weil - Sylvia Whitman. Captiva: Untitled Press, 1976.
Shut Your Eyes and See: A Joyce | Weil Collaboration 1984 – 2014. New York: n.p., 2014. Susan Weil: Trees. New York: Sundaram Tagore Gallery, 2008.
The Art of Susan Weil. New York: Sundaram Tagore Gallery, 2006.
Birdsongs/Heartbeats, Susan Weil. Sweden: Kalejdoskop, 1980.
Livres d'arttistes
Stein, Gertrude. Tender Buttons. Etchings by Susan Weil. Edition 50. New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Company, 1999.
Weil, Susan. Blind Man’s Buff. Etchings by Susan Weil. Edition 50. New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Company, 1997.
Weil, Susan. Meta Mor For The Moon. Etchings and handmade paper by Susan Weil. Edition 20. New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Company, 1994
Breuer, Lee. The Warrior Ant. Etchings and handmade paper by Susan Weil. Edition 40. New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Company, 1992.
Sophocles. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald and interpreted by Lee Breuer. Numberless, from “The Gospel At Colonnus.” Drawing and Watercolor by Susan Weil. Edition 10. New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Company, 1992.
Joyce, James. Brideship And Gulls, from “Finnegans Wake.” Etchings and watercolor by Susan Weil. Edition 50. New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Company, 1991.
Joyce, James. Giacomo Joyce. Etchings and collage by Susan Weil. Edition 50. New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Company, 1989.
Rumi, J. M. The Reed. Translated by Zahra Partovi. Etchings and watercolor by Susan Weil. Edition 50. New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Company, 1989.
Joyce, James. The Epiphanies. Etchings by Susan Weil and Marjorie van Dyke. Edition 50. New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Company, 1987.
Weil, Susan. Handbook. Etchings by Susan Weil. Edition 50. Stockholm: Anders Tornberg Gallery, 1985.
A Gathering for Walt Whitman. Etchings and photogravures by Susan Weil and Judith Turner. Edition 30. New York: Vincent FitzGerald & Company, 1984.
Videos and Film
Bolbrinker, Neils, dir. Bauhaus Spirit. Film and television series. Hamburg, Germany: Filmtank. 2018.
Sooke, Alastair. Robert Rauschenberg - Pop Art Pioneer. Television program. London: BBC Two, December 10, 2016.
Awards & Residencies
1977 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
1976 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Public Collections
Columbia University Rare Books & Manuscripts, New York Graphische Sammlung, Munich, Germany
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
The Humanities Research Center, TX
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Museum Of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Saaraland Museum, West Germany
Toledo Museum Of Art, Toledo, OH
University of Iowa Rare books Library, Iowa City The Victoria And Albert Museum, London, England
