Susan E. King
842 Anglin Falls Road
Mount Vernon, KY 40456
606 256 9349
www.susanking.info
Education
B.A. University of Kentucky, Sculpture, 1971
Apprenticeship, Byron Temple Pottery, 1971-72
M.A. New Mexico State University, Ceramics, 1973
Feminist Studio Workshop, the Woman’s Building, Los Angeles, 1973-75
Typography, Printing and Artist Books Workshops with Sheila de Bretteville, Kathleen
Walkup, Frances Butler, and Hedi Kyle, 1976–1983
Photography & Media Workshops with Jim Stone, Howard Bond, Michael K. Smith and
Paula Chamlee, Pradip Malde, 1999 – 2007
Selected Awards
National Endowment for the Arts, Small Press Grants published women writers
Vesta Award, the Woman’s Building, for public service
Artist in Residence & Book Production Grant, Women’s Studio Workshop,
Rosendale, NY (1983), to produce book in multiple
Artist in Residence and Book Production Grant, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester,
NY (1984 & 1993), to produce books in multiple, the second on breast cancer
Artist in Residence and Book Production Grant, Nexus Press, Atlanta, Georgia (1986)
Art in Public Places, Biddy Mason Project, The Power of Place, Los Angeles, to honor
first black woman to own property in Los Angeles
Montage International Festival of the Image, Rochester, Book Grant (1993)
Book Production Grant, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY (1993)
Artist in Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts (1991)
National Museum of Women in the Arts Library Fellows Book Grant,
Washington, D.C. (2000) to produce artist’s book on experience as female art student in
Kentucky in the 1960s
Kentucky Arts and Craft Foundation Early Times Scholarship for photo workshop
Kentucky Foundation for Women Encouragement Grant
Other
Founder, Paradise Press
Co-coordinator, The Woman’s Building, a public center for women’s culture in L.A.
Site Evaluator, The National Endowment for the Arts, evaluated non-profit art
organizations in New York and Chicago for grant consideration
Women’s Graphic Center, Assistant Artistic Director, Publication Project, invited 100
women artist to make postcards/posters at the center
Panelist, The National Endowment for the Arts, Artist’s Forums, Publications panel;
Prints and Drawings panel
Panelist, Arts Midwest
Women’s Graphic Center Studio Director, ran open graphic arts studio, curated
exhibits, coordinated classes and lecture series.
Supervisor, SPEDY Program with City Wide Mural Project, painted ad panels for LA
city buses with Black and Chicano teenage boys
Consultant, Nexus Press, Atlanta
Teaching
Pratt, Brooklyn, New York
Greenwich House Pottery, New York City
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
The Women’s Graphic Center, (studio director,) Los Angeles
Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles
Scripps College Press, Claremont, California
The Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, Colorado
Oregon School of Arts and Crafts, Portland
The University of Iowa Center for the Book: The Paper and Book Intensive:
Washington, Maryland, Alabama, New Mexico, North Carolina
Pyramid Atlantic, Riverdale, Maryland
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis
Mills College Graduate Book Arts 0Program, Oakland
The California Experience, International Calligraphy Conference on the Book, L.A.
Columbia College, Book Arts Program, Chicago
Haystack Mountain School, Maine
Penland School, Penland, North Carolina
Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, New York
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York
Guild of Bookworkers, Denver, Colorado
Notre Dame College, Cleveland, Ohio
Shakerag, St. Andrews–Sewanee, Sewanee, Tennessee
Visiting Artist:
University of Nebraska, Omaha
California Institute for the Arts
University of California, Santa Cruz
San Francisco State University
San Francisco Art Institute
University of Kentucky, art professions
University of Iowa, Ames, Iowa,
Salt Lake City Utah
The Calligraphy Guild, Denver, Colorado,
Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee,
Kent University, Kent, Ohio
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
Woodland Pattern Art Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
University of the Arts, Philadelphia
Mills College, Oakland
Selected Collections
The Albright-Knox Library, Buffalo
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Germany
The Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France
Brown University
The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles
The Cleveland Art Institute
The Joan Flasch Collection, The Chicago Art Institute
The Corcoran Gallery of Art
The Getty Center for Arts and Humanities, Bel Air, California
The Houghton Library, Harvard University
The University of Kentucky, Margaret I. King Library Special Collections
The Library of Congress
The Los Angeles Public Library Special Collections
Mills College, Oakland
The Marvin and Ruth Sackener Collection of Concrete Poetry, Miami Beach
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Musée National de l’Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgium
The New York Public Library
Rhode Island School of Design
San Francisco Public Library
Stanford University
Swathmore College
UCLA Special Collections, University Research Library, and Dickson Art Library
University of Southern California, Doheny Library
Allen Library, Special Collections, University of Washington, Seattle
The National Museum of Women in the Arts Library
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Yale University Library
Recent Selected Exhibitions
2009 Book as Art, Artist’s Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts,
McMullen Museum, Boston College
2009 Out of the Incubator, Collaborations from the Women’s Studio Workshop,
Islip Art Museum
2009 Transitions, Rezny Photo Studio, Lexington, Kentucky
2009 Auction Preview Exhibit, Berea Arts Council, Berea, Kentucky
2008
2008 Beyond the Box, Berea Arts Council, Berea, Kentucky
2008 The Artful Table, Berea Arts Council, Berea, Kentucky
2008 Address and Redress: A Group Exhibition of Kentucky Women Artists,
The Living Arts & Science Center, Lexington, Kentucky
2008 What We See: A Group Exhibition of Kentucky Women Photographers,
ArtSpace Gallery, Berea Arts Council, Berea, Kentucky
2007
2007 My Other Southland, St. Andrews Sewanee, Sewanee, Tennessee
2007 Finding A Place, Berea Arts Council, Berea, Kentucky
2007 Facing Pages, Biggin Gallery, Auburn University, Alabama
2007 Visions from Voices, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, Kentucky
2007 On It’s Feet, An Exhibition of Contemporary Letterpress Book Art,
Northern Kentucky University, Fine Arts Center, Highland Heights, Kentucky
2007 Production, Not Reproduction: Offset Printed Artist’s Books, Center For Book
Arts, New York City
2007 The Infinite Fineness of the Feminine, About Art Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky
2006
2006 The Book As Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
2006 Photobooks Now, San Francisco Center for the Book
2006 Boundunbound, Hyde Gallery, Grossmont College, El Cajon, California
2005
2005 The Artist Turns to the Book, Getty Research Institute, The Getty Museum
2005 Bill Anthony, The Lineage of a Master, Iowa Artisans Gallery, Iowa City
2005 30 Years of Innovation: A Survey of Exhibition History at The Center for Book
Arts, 1974-2004, Center for Book Arts, New York City
2005 The Artist Turns to the Book, Getty Research Institute, The Getty Museum
2005 Bill Anthony, The Lineage of a Master, Iowa Artisans Gallery, Iowa City
2005 30 Years of Innovation: A Survey of Exhibition History at The Center for Book
Arts, 1974-2004, Center for Book Arts, New York City
2004
2004 Homecoming, New Mexico State University
2004 Printed Matter(s) Woodland Pattern Art Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2004 New Works by Central KY Photographers, ArtSpace, Berea, Kentucky
2003
2003 Girl Printers: Talented Women Strut Their Stuff, Union College
2003 Unbound and Undercovers: Experiment in Visual Writing,
Berkeley Art Center
2003 Open Signatures, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Idaho
2003 Early Times Exhibit, Kentucky Arts and Crafts Foundation, Louisville
2003 Imparting Grace, Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Marcos, California
2002
2002 Changed Landscapes, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, YWCA, NYC
2002 Young Art 2002:The Art of the Book, San Diego Museum of Art
2002 Unseen Hands: Women printers, Binders and Book Designers, Princeton
University Library
2002 By Chance: Serendipity and Randomness in Contemporary Artist’s Books, Yale
University Library
2002 Artists’ Books: Highlights from the Kohler Art Library, University of Wisconsin,
Madison
2002 SOCALled Books, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UCLA Los Angeles
2002 Art.Rage.Us., Newcomb Art Gallery, New Orleans
2001
2001 the world from here, treasures of the great libraries of los angeles, UCLA Hammer
Museum, Los Angeles
2001 Dynamics of Form: Narrative in the Artists’ Book, Owens Art Gallery, Mount
AllisonUniversity,Sackville, NB, Canada
2001 Print Symposium: A Print Odyssey, 2001 Cortona, Italy
2000
2000 Learning Curve/s 20 Years of Book Arts At Mills College, San Francisco Center
for the Book
2000 A Journal of Influences: Friends and Mentors, Eastern Shore Art Center,
Fairhope, Alabama
2000 Faculty Exhibit, Penland School of Art, Penland, North Carolina
2000 Livres de Poètes (Femmes), Berkeley Art Center
2000 Book as Art XII, The National Museum of Women in the Arts Library,
Washington, D.C.
2000 The Automobile and the Photograph, California Museum of Photography, UC
Riverside,California
2000 Are we t(here) yet?, Berea College, Berea, Kentucky
1999
1999 The Poem on the Page, Columbia College Book and Paper Center, Chicago
1999 Suite for Nell, Hiromi Paper International, Marina del Rey, CA
1999 So Cal(led) Books, San Francisco Center for the Book
1999 Faculty Exhibit, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass, Colorado
1998
1998 Susan E. King, Book Arts, 5501 Columbia Art Center, Dallas
1998 Boundless: Liberating the Book Form, San Francisco Center for the Book
1998 Bi-Local Color, Artist’s Books & Photographs from California & Kentucky,
The Upstairs Gallery, Berea, Ky.
1998 Art. Rage.Us., San Francisco Public Library, traveling exhibit
1998 A Game of Chance, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, California
1998 The Next Word, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
1998 Connections Contradictions, Modern and Contemporary Art from Atlanta
Collections, Emory 1998 Art. Rage.Us., San Francisco Public Library
1998 Turning Up the Page, Montpelier Vermont
1997
1997 Supplication, El Camino College, Torrance, California
1997 Beyond the Shadow, Oakland Art Museum
1997 Game of Chance, Printsworks Gallery, Chicago
1997 University of Wyoming Bookarts Invitational, Laramie
1997 Books: Form and Function, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Selected Bibliography
Johanna Drucker, The Century of Artist's Books, Granary Books, 1995
Eloise Klein Healy, "Travel Diaries of a Prodigal Daughter,", Zyzzyva,
Vol. V, no. 1
Judy Hoffberg, "Susan E. King," ArtScene, Los Angeles, June 1994
Judd D. & Renée Riese Hubert, "The Book, the Museum, and Public Art, "
Substance, # 82, Vol. XXVI, no. 1, 1997
Renée Riese Hubert, in collaboration with Judd D. Hubert, "Susan King's Marriage of
True Minds and Clarissa Sligh's Open House Biography," (auto)biographical Writing
and the Artist's Book, AbraCadaBrA, (Journal of Alliance for Contemporary Book
Arts),Number ten, Spring 1996, P.O. Box 24415, Los Angeles, 90024
Susan King, Editor, (auto)biographical Writing and the Artist's Book, AbraCadaBrA,
(Journal of Alliance for Contemporary Book Arts),Number ten, Spring 1996, P.O. Box
24415, Los Angeles, 90024
Michele Kort, "Georgia on my Mind," Distaff column, L.A. Weekly, November 8 - 14,
1985, p 14
Pamela Petro, "Books as Works of Art," Atlantic, October 1990
" Healing Correspondences," Women's Review of Books, Vol. XIV, no. 12, September
1997
Nina Tovish, "Envisioning the Word: Books as Works of Art," The Bookpress, Ithaca,
NY, Vol 3, no 4, May 1993
Writing by Susan King
"Notes from the Distaff Side," AbraCadaBrA, (Journal of Alliance for Contemporary
Book Arts), Number six, Spring, 1992
"The Body of the Book in the Late 20th Century,", Idaho State University, Vol. 29, no 2,
Spring 1994
Treading the Maze, an artist’s journey through Breast Cancer, (trade edition based on
Artist’s book),Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1997
“Content and Intent,” The Penland Book of Handmade Books, Lark Books, 2004
“The Artist in Her Studio,” I to I: Life Writing by Kentucky Feminists, Women’s
Studies Program, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, 2004
Articles for Central Kentucky Camera Club Newsletter:
“Photos to Send, Dorothea Lange’s Ireland” November 2002, Vol. 5, no 11
Shutterbabe, Adventures in Love and War, Book Review, Volume 5, no 1&2,
January/February 2002
Hidden in Plain Sight: the Work of Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Vol. 5, no3, March 2002
Movie Review, War Photographer, James Nachtwey, Vol 5, no 8&9, August/September
2002
Book Review: Coffee, Tea, or Photography? Limelight, A Greenwich Village
Photography Gallery and Coffeehouse in the Fifties, a Memoir by Helen Gee,
September, 2003
Three Photographers Use Old Processes to Produce Compelling Landscapes , the
work of Linda Connor, Michael and Paula Chamlee. November, 2003
Ask Photo Flo: June 2004, Central Kentucky Camera Club Newsletter.