Susan Crile’s paintings move between the poles of beauty and horror. Her work is in the collections of many museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; The Hirshhorn Musem & Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; The Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; and the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH. She has exhibited at numerous museums in the US and Europe. She has had more than 50 one person exhibitions.
Crile has received two National Endowment for the Arts awards, and Residency grants to The Bellagio Study and Conference Center at The Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, Italy and to The American Academy in Rome. She has lectured in the United States and Europe, and has taught at Princeton University, Sarah Lawrence College and Barnard College, among others. She is a professor at Hunter College, CUNY where she has been on the faculty since 1982.
Currently, Crile is working on a series of life sized paintings on paper of Guantanamo prisoners and a series of paintings on the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. She also has been designing and making hand printed silk scarves in Calcutta, India.
Crile lives and works in New York.
Portrait courtesy of Bernice B Perry/Milford NH Historical Society
