Susan Hensel

BIOGRAPHY

Susan Hensel received her BFA from University of Michigan in 1972 with a double major in painting and sculpture and a concentration in ceramics.

With a history, to date, of well over 200 exhibitions, 32 of them solo, twenty garnering awards, Hensel's desire to communicate stories through art continues to be a powerful motivator.

Hensel's artwork is known and collected nationwide, represented in collecting libraries and museums as disparate as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and The Getty Research Institute with major holdings at Minnesota Center for Book Arts , University of Washington, Baylor University and University of Colorado at Boulder. Archives pertaining to her artists books will be available for study at the University of Washington Libraries in Seattle in 2017.

In recent years Hensel has been awarded multiple grants and residencies through the Jerome Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board, and Ragdale Foundation.

Hensel's curatorial work began in 2000 in East Lansing, Michigan with the Art Apartment and deepened with ownership of the Susan Hensel Gallery. Hensel has curated over seventy exhibitions of emerging and mid-career artists from all over the United States and Canada.

BFA University of Michigan, 1972, majoring in both painting and sculpture

Solo Exhibitions and Two Person Exhibitions

2023
Bending Toward Beauty, Springfield Art Assn, Springfield, IL
2022
Bending Toward Beauty, Envision Arts, online
At Play in the Field of Color perception, Hopkins Art Center, Hopkins MN
Bending Toward Beauty, Duluth Institute for Art, Duluth, MN
Solo Sculptural Exhibition, https://artistspacegallery.com/susan-hensel/
2021
Abstract Stitch, 621Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
In and Out of the Fold, Biafarin Online Gallery, on exhibizone.com
Let’s Play, Susan Hensel Gallery, on artsy.net
Twirl Project, online


2020 Eros and Thanatos, Seminole State College,
Sanford, FL
Abstract Stitch, 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL

2019 I Dwell in Impossibility, Phipps Gallery of Art,
Hudson WI


2018 Eros and Thanatos; ArtSpace, Richmond, VA
Platonic Dualities, 2-person show, Gallery 5004,
Robbinsdale, MN

2017 Eros and Thanatos, Wiseman Gallery, Rogue
Community College, Grants Pass, OR
The Art of Digital Embroidery, Susan Hensel
Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

2016 In Stitches, ArtSpace, Lake Nokomis
Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis, MN
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