Bio & Resumé
Selected Publications
2009 Orion Magazine, print & online magazine: “Digital Gardens”, montages by Susan Felter
2009 Clowns and Divas, book published by George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco
2007 Stretcher.org, on-line fine art magazine. “Conversation with Susan Felter” by Fred Setterberg.
1994 On Line Design, printed magazine, San Francisco, March
1991 Computer Graphics World, printed magazine, February
1986 American Photographer Magazine, January
1984 California Magazine, June
1983 Cowboy: The Enduring Myth of the Wild West, book pub. by Stewart, Tabori & Chang, N.Y.
1982 ZOOM, Magazine de l'Image, Paris, Summer
1980 Popular Photography Annual, New York
1980 Photo Show Magazine, Los Angeles
1978 Latent Image Photographic Quarterly, San Francisco
1975 Nueva Lente Photography Magazine, Madrid
Major Awards
1986 First Prize, Art From The Computer, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1981 Ferguson Grant, Friends of Photography, Carmel and San Francisco, CA
1980 Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography
1975 Featured Photographer/Filmmaker on the French National Television series Hieroglyphs
Selected Solo Shows
2010 Gallery IV, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA. Working With Dreams: Susan Felter 1978 - 2010
2009 George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco Clowns & Divas
2007 De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA Group of solo shows by Santa Clara University Art Faculty
2006 871 Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco Paint & Pixels (two person show)
2006 Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica Center for the Arts, Pacifica, CA Two person show
1997 De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA Group of solo shows by Santa Clara University Art Faculty
1990 Galerie Viviane Esders, Paris American Rodeo
1989 Monterey Conference Center, Monterey, CA
1987 Vision Gallery, San Francisco
1985 San Francisco International Airport, Arts Exhibition Program
1985 Gallery IV, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA Circus Work
1981 Robert Samuel Gallery, New York City American Rodeo
1980 San Francisco Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco American Rodeo
1975-7 U.S. Information Agencies & Cultural Centers at Embassies in Paris, Madrid, Bonn
1974 Festival D'Arles, Arles, France (international photography festival)
Selected Group Shows
2011 Religare Arts Initiative, New Delhi, India American Psyche
2009 De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara Univ., Santa Clara, CA. Natural Blunders
2009 Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, CA Assemblage+Collage+Construction
2007 Syracuse University, Florence Campus, Italy. Santa Clara University Photo Exchange Exhibit
2004 The Byrnes Institute, German-American Center, Stuttgart, Germany. Santa Clara University Artists
2003 Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose: Bytes & Pieces: The Art of Contemporary Collage
2003 Continental Gallery, Sapporo; Otaru Museum of Art, Otaru, Japan. Pacific Rim Art Now
2001 Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA. Winter Work
2000 Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL. Fresh Work 3
1994-5 Holmes Fine Art Gallery, San Jose, CA. Action Experimental Art, Part I, and Part II
1992 Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco. The Fire and the Aftermath
1989 Sesnon Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA. Alternate Applications: Computer Technology in Art
1986 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Cross Currents II: Recent Additions to the Collection
1981 Institute of Contemporary Art, London. New American Colour Photography
1976 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, in conjunction with the show Women Artists: 1550-1950
Selected Collections
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Bibliotheque Nacionale de France, Paris
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Academic
1991-2010 Assoc. Professor of Art, Santa Clara University
1983-1991 Assist. Professor of Art, Santa Clara University
1971 M.F.A. in Motion Pictures, U.C.L.A.
1966 B.A. in Psychology, minors in Art and English, U.C. Berkeley
Susan Felter grew up in the Bay Area, receiving a BA in Psychology and Art from UC Berkeley, and an MFA in Motion Pictures from UCLA. Her film "Pescados Vivos" won awards in short-film festivals in the 1970s. In 1980 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her photo project “Rodeo Work.” After her next series, “Circus Work”, she became interested in digital techniques. Her current project is the digital montage series "Hunting and Gathering." Susan’s photographic art has been exhibited and published in the U.S. and abroad. She taught Photography at Santa Clara University from 1983 to 2010.
San Jose Museum of Art
Houston Museum of Art
De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
