SUZANNE CAPORAEL
EDUCATION
1979 MFA, Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA
1977 BA, Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2021 “The Nature of Things,” Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
2018 “Belief in Giants,” Miles McEnery, New York, NY
2017 “What Follows Here,” Ameringer, McEnery, Yohe, NY, NY
2015 “The Landscape,” Ameringer, McEnery, Yohe, NY, NY
2014 “Suzanne Caporael: Recent Paintings,” Peters Project, Santa Fe, NM
2013 “Enough is Plenty,” Ameringer, McEnery, Yohe, NY, NY
2013 “From the Land,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
2012 “Suzanne Caporael: Seeing Things,” Ameringer/McEnery/Yohe, New York, NY
2010 “Suzanne Caporael: The Memory Store,” Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York, NY
2008 “Suzanne Caporael: GOING,” Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 “Roadwork,” Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
2006 “Time,” Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago IL
2005 “Works on Paper,” Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
“A Decade,” Lemberg Gallery, Detroit, MI
“Reading Time,” Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Reading Time,” Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
2004 “Suzanne Caporeal: Estuaries,” Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
“Tide Waters,” Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago IL
2003 “Littoral Drift,” Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York NY
“Suzanne Caporael: Recent Prints,” George Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington DC
2001 “Turnagin Arm and Other Cold Places,” Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago IL
2000 “Suzanne Caporael: Melt New Paintings,” Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles CA
“Suzanne Caporael: Works on Paper,” Karen McCready Gallery, New York NY
1999 “Studies for Melt,” McCready Fine Art, New York, NY
1998 “Suzanne Caporael: The Elements of Pigment,” The Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham MI; Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago IL;
Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1997 “Suzanne Caporael: Recent Paintings,” In Khan Gallery, New York NY
“Suzanne Caporael,” SOMA Gallery, La Jolla CA
1996 “The Five Kingdoms” and “The Periodic Table of Elements,” Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles and Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
1994 “Suzanne Caporael: Paintings,” from the series Inside Trees and Living on
Permafrost: Black Spruce, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco CA
1993 “Inside Trees,” Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago IL
1992 “Suzanne Caporael: Second Nature,” Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco CA
1991 “Suzanne Caporael: New Paintings,” Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago IL
“Suzanne Caporael: Paintings and Works on Paper,” Richard Green Gallery, Santa Monica CA
“Suzanne Caporael: New Work,” Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale AZ
1989 “Suzanne Caporael: Recent Paintings,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco CA
“Suzanne Caporael: New Paintings,” Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale AZ
1988 “Suzanne Caporael: New Work,” Richard Gray Gallery/Superior Street Gallery, Chicago IL
“Suzanne Caporael: Recent Work,” Harcus Gallery, Boston MA
1987 “Suzanne Caporael Recent Paintings,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco CA
1986 “Suzanne Caporael California Viewpoints,” Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara CA
1985 “Summer 1985: Nine Artists,” (nine one-person exhibitions), Irit Krygier Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 “Let the Color Begin,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2022 “Wonder Things,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“The Enduring Print,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2016 “The Print,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Beyond Likeness: Mapping the Self,: Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
“The Other: Nurturing a New Ecology in Printmaking,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL
2015 “Wintry Mix,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“Celebrating the Spectrum: Highlights from the Anderson Collection,” de Young Legion of Honor Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
2014 “Color Rhythms,” Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2013 “From the Land,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2012 “AAF – Los Angeles,” Atrium Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011 “Landscape,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2010 IFPDA Print Fair with Tandem Press, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
“Prints,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2008 “Holiday Group Show,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
“People and Places,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2007-08“Less is More,” 511 Gallery, New York, NY
2007 “Empty Nest: The Changing Face of Childhood in Art, 1880 to the Present,”
Nathan A. Bernstein & Co., New York, NY, curated by Lowell Pettit
2006 “Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art,” Los Angeles Municipal Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
2005 “New Art New York: Reflections on the Human Condition,” Trierenberg Holding, Inc., Traun, Austria
2004 “In the Cool of the Night,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2003 “Pressure Points,” The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX
“Components,” Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
2002 “Linger,” Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
“Plotting: A Survey Exhibition of Artists’ Studies,” Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 “On Language: Text and Beyond,” Center Galleries, Detroit, MI
2000 “Identities: Contemporary Portraiture,” Palmer Gallery, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, NJ
“Watch,” Bona Fide Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Ellsworth Kelly and Suzanne Caporeal,” Graystone Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 “Retrospective of the Collection of David Teplitzki,” Contemporary Art Museum, Boulder, CO
“The Great Drawing Show,” Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“A Quiet Storm: Paintings in Abstraction,” Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998 “Cleveland Collects: Contemporary Art,” curated by Tom Hinson, Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
“Hands on Color,” Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
1996 “Between Reality and Abstraction,” NICA Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
“Rediscovering the Landscape of Americas,” curated by Alan Gussow and Gayle Maxon-Edgerton, Gerald Peters Gallery, NY
1995 “New Abstraction,” Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993 “45th Annual Academy Purchase Exhibition,” American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY
“Sea Fever,” TransAmerica, San Francisco, CA
1992 “Inaugural Exhibition,” Riverside Art Museum, CA
1991 “Group Show,” Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Individual Realities in the California Art Scene,” Sezon Museum of Art, Japan
Peter Norton Collection at Rand Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
“Presswork: The Art of Women Printmakers,” The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
1989 Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago IL
1988 “Land,” ACA Gallery, New York
1987 Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco CA
Avant-Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
Alumni Invitational, Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles CA
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago IL
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2020 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
1986 National Endowment for the Arts Painting Grant
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
The Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh PA
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison WI
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
High Museum, Atlanta GA
Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI
Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA
The Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
Newport Harbor Museum of Art, Newport Beach CA
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Portland Museum of Art, Portland ME
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara CA
The JB Speed Art Museum, Louisville KY
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tuscon, AZ
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY
Worchester Art Museum, Worchester, MA
Yale University, New Haven, CT
SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
AT&T, Chicago Corporate Center
Arthur Anderson & Company
Edward Broida Trust, Los Angeles, CA
The Capital Group, Los Angeles, CA
Capital Records, Hollywood, CA
Comdisco, Inc., Rosemont, IL
The Microsoft Corporation
Nobel Laurate Collection at Rand Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
Pacific Bell, San Francisco, CA
Peter Norton Collection at Rand Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
Pitman-Moore, Inc., Lake Forest Michigan
Principle Financial Group, Des Moines, IA
Progressive Companies, Cleveland, OH
Prudential Life Insurance
Wellington Management, Boston, MA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2008 Artner Alan. “Works’ beauty is in their simplicity and deceptiveness: Suzanne Caporael,” Chicago Tribune, October 17.
2006 Hawkins, Margaret. “Suzanne Caporael: Richard Gray, Chicago,” Artnews, September.
Weinberg, Lauren. “Suzanne Caporael: ‘Time,’” TimeOut Chicago, May 11-18.
“Suzanne Caporael,” Chicago Tribune, May 12.
2005 “Charles Rose: Orleans House,” Global Architecture: Houses, vol. 89, p. 73, illus.
Bonetti, David, “Prints and paintings provide strong gallery shows,” St. Louis Dispatch, April 24.
Goodbody, Bridget, L., “Suzanne Caporael: Reading Time,” TimeOut New York, February 3 - 9.
Glueck, Grace, “Suzanne Caporael: Reading Time,” The New York Times, January 21.
Cohen, David, “Suzanne Caproael: Reading Time,” The New York Sun, January 13.
2004 “Suzanne Caporael: Tide Waters”, exhibition catalogue, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2003 “Suzanne Caporael,” The New Yorker, February 3.
“Suzanne Caporael: Littoral Drift,” Art in Review, The New York Times, January 31.
“Talent: Mellow Marshes,” The New York Magazine, January 20-27.
“Suzanne Caporael: Littoral Drift”, exhibition catalogue, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York.
2002 “Plotting: A Survey Exhibition of Artists' Studies”, exhibition catalogue,
Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2001 Artner, Alan, “Attached to ideas of ice,” Chicago Tribune, April 20.
Suzanne Caporael, “Working Proof,” Art on Paper, January-February.
2000 Johnson, Ken, “Suzanne Caporael,” New York Times, January 14.
1999 “New Work by Suzanne Caporael,” University of Wisconsin-Madison Tandem Press, Spring, 1999.
1998 Artner, Alan, Chicago Tribune, June 12.
Dixon, Glen, Washington Sidewalk, October 23.
Protzman, Ferdinand, Washington Post, October 15.
1997 Levin, Kim, “Suzanne Caporael,” Village Voice, May.
1996 Doll, Nancy, Suzanne Caporael, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; and Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL.
1995 Hodder, Monroe, “Inner Natures,” Visions, Summer, p.31.
1994 Baker, Kenneth, “Abstracts with a Hint of Nature,” San Francisco Chronicle, Saturday, April 16, p. E1.
1993 Artner, Alan G., “Paintings Start with Tree Rings,” Chicago Tribune, March 4, sec. 5, p. 11D.
“Suzanne Caporael,” New Art Examiner, May, pp. 37-38.
1992 Baker, Kenneth, “Suzanne Caporael at the Wirtz Gallery,” San Francisco Chronicle, May 26.
DeEtte, Christy, “Suzanne Caporael,” Art of California.
Caporael, Suzanne, “An Artist’s Forum of Ad Reinhardt,” Artspace Magazine, January - April.
1991 “West Coast Art at the End of This Century,” Bijutso Techno, July.
“L.A. in Review,” ArtsMagazine, Summer.
Artner, Alan G., “Suzanne Caporael,” Chicago Tribune, February 8, p.67.
McKenna, Kristine, “In Dreams,” Los Angeles Times Calendar, p. 74.
Hammond, Pamela, “Suzanne Caporael,” ARTnews, Summer, p. 159.
1988 Artner, Alan G., “The Art of Making Objects about Painting,” Chicago Tribune, May 5, sec. 5, p.17E.
“Galleries - Santa Monica,” Los Angeles Times, September 16, pt VI,p. 20.
Temin, Christine, “Mystery and a Sock in the Eye from Caporael,” The Boston Globe, December 1, p. 90.
1987 Baker, Kenneth, “Galleries,” San Francisco Chronicle, May 27.
Gerstler, Amy, “Suzanne Caporael,” Artforum, December 27, pp.129-130.
Fox, Howard N., Avant-Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.
Conrad, III, Barnaby, “Suzanne Caporael,” Horizon, January/ February.
1986 Bob, Paul, “Suzanne Caporael,” Esquire Magazine, July.
Wohlfert-Wihlborg, Lee, “At Home: L.A. Art,” Town and Country, May.
Fox, Howard N., “California Viewpoints - Suzanne Caporael,” Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
1985 Baker, Kenneth, “Nine Artists on the Loose in Los Angeles,” San Francisco Chronicle, July 18.
Barnes, Lucinda, “Visions of Psychic Energy,” Artweek, January 19.
Clothier, Peter, “Suzanne Caporael at Irit Krygier,” L.A. Weekly, November 14.
Knight, Christopher, “Something for Everyone Group Exhibit at MOCA,” Los Angeles Herald Examiner, June 26.
McKenna, Kristine, “The Art Galleries,” Los Angeles Times, November 15.
Muchnic, Suzanne, “Caporael Mysteries at Newport,” Los Angeles Times, January 16.
Muchnic, Suzanne, “Outside-In tour of L.A. in ‘Summer 1985: 9 Artists,” Los Angeles Times, June 22.
Hicks, Emily, “Suzanne Caporael,” The Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Summer, p. 3.
Brown, Julia and Jacqueline Crist, Summer 1985, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California.
1984 Muchnic, Suzanne, “First Slate of Summer 1985 at MOCA,” Los Angeles Times, July 2.
“Paintings by Suzanne Caporael at Newport Harbor Art Museum,” L.A. Weekly, January 18.
Plagens, Peter, L.A. Weekly, August 9.
Heller, Tom, “Suzanne Caporael,” Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California, pp. 3-21.