Susan Krueger-Barber
b. 1975
Education
2017 MFA Studio Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2001 BFA Painting, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Solo Exhibitions
2021 My World Is Small But My Heart Is Expansive, Parc Park Playground,https://parcplayground.hotglue.me/
Signs of the Times, Writ & Vision, Provo, UT
2020 Rouge. Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful, UT
2019 BIG HEARTED PEOPLE NEED SHARP TEETH, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful, UT
The Uses of Sorrow, Writ & Vision, Provo, UT
2018 Retrospective of Tactical Urbanism Work, Lenoir-Rhyne University, NC
2016 Cars vs. Piñatas, Corner, Chicago, IL
Empathic Overload, Writ and Vision, Provo, UT
2014 Urbanite, The 286, Provo, UT
2012 Jacaranda, SPACE, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Postpartum Provocation, SPACE, Los Angeles, CA
Select Group Exhibitions
2025 Terrain Biennial, Messages of Care, Mother Art Revisited (Collaboration), Chicago, IL
Terrain Biennial, Verses, Solo Installation, West Valley, Utah
2024 At the Table, Venizia Contemporanea, Venice, Italy
Materializing Mormonism: Trajectories in Contemporary Latter-day Saint Art, Mesa Arts Center
2023 In the Parameters of What it is to Be…(My World is Small but my Heart is Expansive), Fresno State
In the Parameters of What it is to Be…(Mother Art Revisited), Fresno State
2022 Thresholds in Parameter of What It Is to Be…, Mother Art Revisited, Clovis Community College
2021 WOW, Sears Art Museum, St. George, UT
2020 Humor Us, Riverside Arts Center, Chicago, IL
Rouge, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful, UT
Knots and Nodes, Mother to Mother, Chicago Art Department, Chicago, IL
Mother Art, Prince Edward Island, Canada
2019 Aqua Special Projects Selection, Aqua Art Miami, Miami, FL
Terrain Biennial 2019, Terrain Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
Sheroes–Revoluciones, Ugly Duck Gallery, London, England
Re: Birth – Members Show, Spilt Milk, Edinburgh, Scotland
You Do Not Have to Be Good, Tropical Contemporary, Eugene, OR
Mother Art Revisited, Hairpin Arts Center, Chicago, IL
2018 Emerging Artists, Collaborative Collisions; C.C.'s Art Garage & Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017 Utah '17: Painting/Sculpture/Installation, (Winner “Honorable Mention), Rio Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
Indignation Meeting, Writ & Vision, Provo, UT
Twisted Oyster Film Festival, Zhou B Gallery, Chicago, IL
Thesis Exhibition, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, IL
HUGE, Mestizo Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2016 LOW//IMPACT, Throop Studios, Chicago, IL
2015 Get It Together, Gallery Gallery, Provo, UT
Maternal Lines, Writ and Vision, Provo, UT
2014 Superfunfabulous, SPACE, Los Angeles, CA
Rough Cut Film Festival, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Nation of Immigrants, Utah Cultural Celebration Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Swapping Stories, Granary Art Center, Ephraim, UT
2013 Love Hours, Alice Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
Tin, Rio Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2009 Art into Life/Life into Art, Pen and Brush, New York, NY
2008 Selected Works, Leonardo Arts Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Residencies
2026 POOR FARM: Living In The Play: nido V, Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy
2021 Playground, Year-long residence in the Parc Park, https://parcplayground.hotglue.me/
2016 STRIPES AREN’T ENOUGH!, Corner, Chicago, IL
Teaching Experience/Lectures
2026 Guest Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Projects, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL
2025 Guest Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Projects, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL
2024 Guest Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Projects, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL
Guest Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Projects, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
2023 Guest Lecturer, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL
2023 UVU Instructor (to present), Orem, UT
2020 Guest Lecturer, Snow College, Ephraim, UT
2019 Keynote Speaker, North Suburban Art Festival, Chicago, IL
2018 Guest Lecturer, Art Forum, Brigham Young University
Guest Lecturer, Mothers in the Humanities, Utah Valley University
2017 Guest Lecturer, Professional Practices, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2016 Guest Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Projects, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Panelist, Provo Women’s Day, Provo, UT
2015 Instructor, Introduction to Drawing, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Art Presenter, Annual Utah Montessori Conference, Salt Lake City, UT
2014 Instructor, Introduction to Drawing, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Bibliography
2024 Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader, Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom
2023 EMERGENCY INDEX: AN ANNUAL DOCUMENT OF PERFORMANCE PRACTICE IN PANDEMIC TIMES, VOL. 10, Ugly Duckling Press, Brooklyn, New York
2022 Daily Sentences, Mother Art Revisited, Chicago, Illinois
2020 Utah Female Artists Explore the Sublime Through Art, Utah Office of Tourism, Utah
On Tyranny, Book of Postcards, Mother Art Revisited Collective, Chicago, IL 2019
Kinetic Projects, Aqua Art Miami, Kinetic Arts Miami-Chicago, Miami, FL
2018 Mother Art Revisited Volume 1, Chapbook, Mother Art Revisited Collective, Chicago, IL
Susan Krueger-Barber’s European Urban Planner’s Geek Fest, 15 Bytes, Artists of Utah
2017 BIG HEARTED PEOPLE NEED SHARP TEETH, Chapbook, self-published, Chicago, IL
2016 Artist Uses Skills to Boost Traffic Safety, KSL, Salt Lake City, UT
Artist Takes a Crack at Improving Crosswalk Safety With Piñata Bump-Outs, Chicago, IL
4 Ways Utah is dealing with overly-Wide Streets, Brainard, MN
2014 Provo’s Sasquatch Promotes Charity and Pedestrian Safety, Salt Lake Magazine
2013 Images for Field Notes, Mormon Artists Group, New York, NY
Utah Arts & Museums Opens “Love Hours” in Alice Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
My Heart-Shaped Uterus, CJANE blog
2010 Madonna and Child: Susan Krueger-Barber, Provo/Orem Word, Provo, UT
Film Festivals & Exhibitions
2026 States of America, PBS.org, American Public Television
2022 Ethnografilm Paris, Paris, France
2021 States of America, PBS.org, WORLD Channel
2020 Local USA: States of America “Relocation,” PBS.org, WORLD Channel
Local USA: States of America “Connection,” PBS.org, WORLD Channel
2011 Drum Beats, University Film and Video Association Conference Juried Competition, Boston, MA
Drum Beats, Heartland Film Festival, Indianapolis, IN
2011 Zero Currency, Indianapolis Museum of Art, “Indianapolis Black Expo Film Festival,” Indianapolis, IN
2010 Zero Currency, Phoenix Art Museum, “No Festival Required,” Phoenix, AZ
Zero Currency, San Francisco Documentary Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
Zero Currency, Heartland Film Festival, Indianapolis, IN
Zero Currency, Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival, Birmingham, AL
Zero Currency, University Film and Video Association Conference Juried Competition (Winner
“Honorable Mention for Best Documentary”), Burlington, VT
2006 Yard Sale, Slamdance Film Festival, Park City, UT
Yard Sale, Calgary International Film Festival, Calgary, Canada
Yard Sale, Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival, Birmingham, AL
Workshops
2019 Yale Writers Workshop, Yale, New Haven, CT
Kenyon Writer’s Workshop, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
