EDUCATION
MFA, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
BA, Elmira College, NY
SOLO and TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2016
Susanne Doremus, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2014
Cora Cohen and Susanne Doremus, Urban Virtue, Sarah Moody Gallery, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
2011
Susanne Doremus, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL
2010
Open/closed, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007
Forever, Greg Smith and Susanne Doremus, Devening Projects + Editions, Chicago, IL
2004
Allover, Susanne Doremus and Jim Lutes, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002
University Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2001
Mapping a Gesture, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995
Opera, Bill Maynes Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993
Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL
1991
CompassRose Gallery, Chicago, IL
1989
CompassRose Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1986
Ruth Siegel Ltd., New York, NY
1984
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Swen Parson Gallery, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
1983
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1981
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1980
Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
One Illinois Center, Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
Art Miami, Miami, FL
Art Expo Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
2016
Art Miami, Miami, FL
Art Expo Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
International Festival of Art Exhibition, Nanjing, China
2015
Art Miami, Miami, FL
Art Expo Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Inside Space, curated by Anne Harris, RAC, Riverside, IL
Surrealism and War, National Veterans’ Art Museum, Chicago, IL
Making Space, curated by Susanne Doremus, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2014
Art Miami, Miami, FL
Art Expo Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Making Space, curated by Susanne Doremus, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Sensitive Instruments, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL
2013
Art Miami, Miami, FL
Expo Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
100 Years of RAM, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
Ornament, with Sabina Ott, Michelle Grabner, Phyllis Bramson, Riverside Art Center, Riverside, IL
Define Drawing, MCAC, Bloomington, IL
2012
Mind’s I, curated by Anne Harris, Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL
Did You See Heaven: WYSIWYG, PEREGRINEPROGRAM, Chicago, IL
Group Exhibition, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Faculy Projects, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
2011
Chicago Imagists; In Context, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Reflections, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2010
Pink, Riverside Art Center, Riverside, IL
2009
Picturing the Studio, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
Speizer Collection, Rockford Museum, Rockford, IL
2008
Paper Love, Devening Projects + Editions, Chicago, IL
2007
Re:Visions, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
McCormick Place Installation and Exhibition, Chicago, IL
Devening Projects + Editions, Chicago, IL
2006
181st Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Museum of the National Academy of Design, New York, NY
Group Painting Exhibition, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL
Balls Out, Group Painting Exhibition, Milwaukee, WI
Devening + Editions, Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
Installation, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004
Swerve/Break, The Pond, Chicago, IL
A Sharp Eye, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
All the Right Moves, Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL
A Passionate Perspective: The Francis and June Speizer Collection of Art, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
2003
Post -War Abstraction, Installation, Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Movement, exhibition and auction, Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL
Multiformity: Multiples from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Rodney Carswell, Susanne Doremus and Fraser Taylor, Sybaris Gallery, Detroit, MI
Chicago School 2, Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL
2002
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000
Under The Influence, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Electraslip Knife, 2153 W. Division, Chicago, IL
Out of Line: Drawings by Illinois Artists, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
1999
School of the Art Institute Faculty Sabbatical Exhibition, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, IL
It Looks Easy, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
On the Verge of Abstraction, Center Galleries, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Home Grown Cool: Recent Painting from Chicago, Wake Forest University Art Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC
Paulina Coupana, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY
1997
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Drawing to Painting, McLean County Art Center, Bloomington, IL
1996
Art in Chicago: 1945-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Second Sight: Modern Printmaking in Chicago, Bloch Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
History Lessons: Four Zolla/Lieberman Artists from Art in Chicago at the
Museum of Contemporary Art, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Abstract: Chicago, Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL
Brian Calvin, Susanne Doremus, Edward Henderson and Deborah
Oropallo, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995
Post-War Sculpture and Works on Paper, Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Illinois Art Faculty: A Statewide Survey, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
Chicago Abstract Painters, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Seoul National University Invitational, Seoul University Art Museum, Korea
1994-95
Non-Objective American Art Post-1960, Steensland Art Museum, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
1994
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
A Passionate Perspective: Francis and June Spiezer Collection of Art, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
Posey: John Bevens, Susanne Doremus, David Simons, Bill Maynes Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Gallery Artists, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Contemporary Abstraction, Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL
Unique Paper Works: The Renaissance Society Benefit Auction and Exhibition,
Sotheby’s, Chicago, IL
1993
Women in the Arts, St. Paul Companies, St. Paul, MN
The Return of the Exquisite Corpse, Drawing Center, New York, NY
1992
From the Collection: Selected Works on Paper, NIU Art Museum, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
On Condition: Painting between Abstraction and Representation, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
1990
Nature/nature, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
Partners in Purchase: Selected Works, 1976-1987, Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL
Midwest Invitational Drawing Exhibition, McLean County Art Center, Bloomington, IL
1989
Partners in Purchase: Selected Works, 1976-1987, State of Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
Critic’s Choice, Countryside Art Center, Arlington Heights, IL
1988
Looking Out: The Rockford Art Museum Regional Exhibition, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
Chicago By the Square Foot, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1987
Surfaces: Two Decades of Painting in Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL
Figurative Painting in Chicago, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
1986
Painting and Sculpture Today, 1986, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Then and Now, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
New Works on Paper, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1985
14th Union League of Chicago Exhibition, Union League Club and Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
Harvest, Ruth Siegel Ltd., New York, NY
1984
Flatlands, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Ten Years of Collecting, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
36th Illinois Invitational, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL
Alternative Spaces, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1983-86
Chicago: Some Other Traditions, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI. The exhibition traveled under the auspices of the Art Museum Association of America to museums in the United States and Canada.
1983
Chicago Abstract Painting, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
Susanne Doremus/Maria Patsore Lang, Turman Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
Three Painters, Three Cities, Feigenson Gallery, Detroit, MI
1982
Selections from the Dennis Adrian Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1981
Contemporary Drawings, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
1980
Women in the Arts, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
Chicago/Chicago, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH
Chicago and Vicinity Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2014
Bronze Medal, Nanjing Festival of the Arts, Nanjing, China
2007
McCormick Place Commission, Chicago, IL
2006
Benjamin Altman prize for Painting, 131st annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, National Academy Museum of Design, NYC
1999
Faculty Enrichment Grant, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Roger Brown Residency
1983-84
National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant
1983
Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowship
CURATED PROJECTS
2014
Making Space, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2010
Irritable Abstraction, Julies Caesar, Chicago, IL
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016
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2014
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2012
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2010
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2009
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2005
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2004
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2003
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2001
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2000
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1998
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1997
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1996
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1995
Servetar, Stuart. Susanne Doremus: Opera, New York Press, Vol. 8, No. 40, October 4
Cotter, Holland, Susanne Doremus: Opera, New York Times, September 29, 1995
Diehl, Carol. Susanne Doremus: Opera, Bill Maynes Contemporary Art, New York
Glatt, Cara. Exhibit shows Chicago artists post-war outlook, Hyde Park Herald, April, 26
1994
Bonesteel, Michael. New abstract art rules, Pioneer Press, January 26
1993
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1991
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Hixson, Kathryn. Chicago in Review: Susanne Doremus, Arts Magazine October, p.101, illus.
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1989
Holg, Garrett. Susanne Doremus at Compass Rose, ARTnews, December, p.171, illus.
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1988
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1987
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1985
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1984
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Lyon, Christopher. Coming in from the Cold, Chicago Magazine, May, p.168
1983
Bonesteel, Michael. Review, Art in America, September, p.195
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1982
Upshaw, Regan. Painting in Chicago, Portfolio Magazine, May-June
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1981
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1980
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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Martin Margulies Foundation, Coconut Grove, FL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Weisman Museum of Art, University of Minnesota
NIU Art Museum, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
Prudential Insurance Co., Newark, NJ
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
Yale University Art Museum, CT
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
University Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL