Discipline: Visual Art

Susan Kaprov

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1971, 1973, 1990

Susan Kaprov is an award-winning artist known for her multi-disciplinary practice encompassing photography, painting, drawing, video animation, hand-colored pigment prints, and fired enamel on glass. She has completed major public art commissions in the United States and abroad, dividing her time between public projects and private studio artwork. She attended City University of New York, receiving a B.S. in biology and completed a post-graduate study in studio art at Dartmouth College and New York University. Her work is represented in the permanent collections of museums around the globe and articles and reviews of her art have appeared in the New York Times, Art News, Newsday, Art in America, and many other books and publications. When not in the studio, she writes and performs monologues at various cafes and clubs in and around New York City.

Studios

New Hampshire

Susan Kaprov worked in the New Hampshire studio.

New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…

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