Born
New York City
Education
1974
Masters Degree in Painting, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
1970
Teaching Credential, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1968
B.F.A., Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture, New York City
1964
High School of Music and Art, New York City
Related Work Experience
1977–2013 Associate Professor, retired, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Art and Art History
One-Person Exhibitions
2017
Egress, Art Palace, Houston, TX
2015
Entrances 1969–1977, Art Palace, Houston, TX
Perpetuity All Over Again, Front Gallery, Houston, TX
2012
Dig In, AT&T Conference Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
2007
Ripe Commingling, Texas A&M University–Kingsville, Ben Bailey Art Gallery
2005
All Fall Down, dBerman Gallery, Austin, TX
2001
Fancy Plans, dBerman Gallery, Austin, TX
1999
Sitting, Standing, Sleeping, Sinking, Lyons Matrix Gallery, Austin, TX
Mondrian’s Pleasure Series, Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene, TX
1995
Under the Sun, Lyons Matrix Gallery, Austin, TX
1989
Locus Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Air Gallery, Austin, TX
1988
Susan Whyne: New Paintings, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
1987
Susan Whyne: Recent Paintings, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
(Perspectives catalogue)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015
Texas Contemporary Art Fair, Art Palace booth
Enticing Luminosity, Lesley Heller Gallery, New York, curated by Olive Ayhens
2013
Compound Interests, Shoal Creek Gallery, Austin, TX
2011
Wild Kingdom, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2005
At Waters Edge, Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Auatin, TX
Where Were They Then?, Art Palace Gallery, Austin, TX
2004
On View From The Permanent Collection of Texas Artists, Maine Picnic, 1986, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
2002
Artists to Artists: An Exhibition of Works from The Space Program of the Marie Walsh Sharp Foundation, Ace Gallery, New York City
2001
Drawing, dBerman Gallery, Austin, TX
Crossing State Lines, Texas Art from the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
1998
Oil Patch Dreams: Images of the Petroleum Industry in American Art, The Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX (traveled to four other Texas museums)
1997
Art Matters, Art Pace, San Antonio, TX
1996
For the Birds, Bucheron Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Open Studios, Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, New York City
1994
The Exquisite Corpse, D.A.R.E. at the McKinney Ave. Contemporary, Dallas, TX
1992
Experiences in a World Order, Centro Columbo Americano (USIA), Medellin, Columbia, SA (traveling)
Urban/Suburban, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX
15th Anniversary Benefit, (preview of work for auction), The New Museum, New York City
1991
A Sense of Place: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Texas Art, San Antonio Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Figurative Drawing, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Black & White Drawings, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Drawings at the Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Direct References: Drawings by Texas Artists, The Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX
1989
Texas Womens Exhibition, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. (slides)
Evidence, Contemporary Narrative Painters of the Southwest, San Antonio Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
1987
Group Show, James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (curated by Texas Gallery, Houston, TX)
Susan Whyne, Nic Nicisoa, Derek Boshier, Albert Totah Gallery, New York City
Texas, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, San Francisco, CA
3rd Coast Review: A Look at Art in Texas, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
Artists Group Show, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
1986
Texas Artists, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Landscape Painting, Eugene Binder Gallery, Dallas, TX
1984
Seven Narrative Painters, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
New York / Outside New York, New Museum, New York City
Whyne, Flato, Lee N. Smith, Hecker, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
1983
New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum (Guest Curated by Linda Cathcart, Director, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX)
Southern Fictions, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
Certain Realities, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Painting Invitational Exhibition, Brown University, Bell Gallery, Providence, RI
1980
Susan Whyne, Carol Rabel, Robert Houg, Mattingly Baker Gallery, Dallas, TX
1979
New Works: Carol Rable, Susan Whyne, Laguna Gloria Museum at First Federal, Austin, TX
Miniature Show, Lawndale Annex, University of Houston, Houston, TX
1978
Works on Paper: Southwest 1978, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX (traveling)
Cityscapes – San Francisco and Los Angeles, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
1975
Summer ’75 Show, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
1974
Bay Area Women Artist Show, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
Bay Area Studio Sampler, organized by Artweek, San Francisco, CA
1971
Paint on Paper Show, San Francisco Art Institute
Selected Publications
2015
Review, ENTRANCES 1969–1977, Art Palace, Glasstire (online site), “Our Unnatural Nature that Seems so Natural”, Joshua Fischer
2012
Essay, brochure, Dig In, The Courtyard Gallery, The AT&T Conference Center, The University of Texas at Austin, TJ Hunt, Editorial Assistant, Pastelegram, art magazine, Austin TX
1995
Review, The Austin American-Statesman, “Susan Whyne Paints a World of Dichotomies that Clash ‘Under the Sun’,” May 4, p. 43, Madeline Irvine
Review, The Austin Chronicle, “Wet Paint and Natural Disasters,” April 20, Rebecca Levy
1990
Review, The Houston Chronicle, “An Exhibition That Draws Attention,” October 18, Patricia Johnson
Review, The Houston Chronicle, “Current Affairs Inspire Drawings,” September 16, Patricia Johnson
1987
“The Houston Scene,” Art in America, April, Jamey Gambrel
1986
“50 Texas Artists,” Essay by Annette Carlozzi, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA
Catalogue, “New Work, New York, Outside N.Y.,” New Museum, Essays by Ned Rifkin and Lynn Gumbert
1983
Catalogue, 1933 New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana, Essay by Linda Cathcart
Catalogue, Southern Fictions, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, Essays by William Fagaly, Monroe Spears
Interview, Texas Homes Magazine, October, Susan Freudenheim
Catalogue, Certain Realities, University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, Essay by Emily Kass
Catalogue, “New Works by Austin Artists,” Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Essay by Annette Carlozzi
Catalogue, “Painting: Amenoff, Hodgkin, Miller, Porter, Thorne, Whyne,” Brown University, Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Essay by Susan Fillin Yeh
1976
MS Magazine, “The Golden Gate 6,” June, Susan Tibbon, p. 41
1975
Review, Artweek, “Six Bay Area Artists,” Joanne Dickson, 8/23, p. 3
Review, Artforum Magazine, October, “University Art Museum, Berkeley Summer Group Show,” Jeff Perrone
Awards
1994
Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant
Art Matters Grant
Marie Sharp Walsh Foundation Studio Project Grant
1989
National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artists Grant
National Endowment for the Arts Foreign Residency Grant at La Napoule Foundation, France
1980
National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artists Grant