Susan Kiefer

Susan Kiefer moved from Kansas City, MO to New York City in July of 2021 to advance her painting career, both by opportunity and inspiration. Born and raised in Kansas City, she lived on the west coast for 30 years, earning her BFA and MFA in Printmaking from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. One of her woodcut artist books is in the permanent collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, and was shown in many East Coast venues. John Zurier was Kiefer’s painting mentor, encouraging her interest in abstract oils, which she started showing in the California Bay Area. Returning to Kansas City in 2014 to help care for her parents, she was very active in the KC art scene. She loves the stimulating environment in New York and continues her current geometric abstracts, which are in collections throughout the US.

M.F.A, Painting, Printmaking, 1999
California College of the Arts, San Francisco & Oakland, CA
B.F.A. with High Distinction, Printmaking, 1989
California College of the Arts, San Francisco & Oakland, CA

Solo Exhibits
2023 - Where Do We Go From Here, Pleiades Gallery, New York NY
2021- New Work, Avenue 82, Overland Park KS
2020 - Circular Logic, Cerbera Gallery, Kansas City MO
2019 - Into the Light, Bunker Center for the Arts, Kansas City MO
2005 - Musicians, Cité des Artes, Lafayette LA
1989 - Dreams, Myths and Nightmares, Elizabeth Norton Gallery, Palo Alto CA

Group Shows
2023 - LIC-A At Atlantic, Atlantic Gallery, New York NY
2022 - Winter Solstice, Pleiades Gallery, New York NY
- Summer In the City, Pleiades Gallery, New York NY
- Queens Fine Art Spring Affair, Culture Lab, Long Island City NY
2021 - Wholeness: the 17th Annual Small Works Show, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn NY (Juror: George Del Barrio)
2020 - State of the Arts 2020, R. G. Endres Gallery, Prairie Village KS (Juror: Ada Koch)
2019 - Geometry, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (Juror: Phyllis Tuchman)
-enGENDERing Change, Cloyd Snook Gallery, Alamosa CO
(Jurors: Dr. Ann Woods and Dr. Alan Woods_
2018 - State of the Arts 2018, R. G. Endres Gallery, Prairie Village KS (Juror: Marissa Starke)
2017 - Truth, Trust, Transcend: 35th River Market Regional Exhibit, Mallin & Charno Galleries, Kansas City MO (Juror Curlee Raven Holton) (catalogue)
1999 - Brees & Kiefer-Hug...