Susan Crile was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1942. Earning her Bachelor of Arts Degree at Bennington College, Vermont, Crile also studied at New York University and Hunter College, NYC. Crile currently lives and works in New York City. Crile is also a Professor at Hunter College of The City University of New York.

Depicting the aftermath of the 1990-91 Persian Gulf War, Crile's powerful paintings and drawings of The Fires of War debuted in exhibitions at The Saint Louis Art Museum and the Blaffer Gallery of The University of Houston, followed by venues including the National Council for Culture, Art and letters, Kuwait City, State of Kuwait. Among New York museums that include Crile's work in their permanent collections are The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; The Brooklyn Museum; and The Albert-Knox Art Gallery. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Center, Library of Congress, and The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; and The Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO are among other museums including Crile's work in their collections.

With over forty one-person exhibitions to her credit since 1971, Crile most recently soloed at James Graham & Sons, NYC. Numerous group exhibitions, national and international, have included her work. Public collections representing Crile's work include Chase Manhattan Bank, West Germany and NYC; Chemical Bank, CitiBank, and Exxon Corporation, NYC; and General Electric Company, CT.

Honors earned by Crile include the Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant (1972), two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships (1982 & 1989), and in 1990, a residency in painting at the American Academy in Rome. Crile has also been a resident visual artist at the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH and Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY.

Crile is an exemplary artist striving to bring the vocabulary of early modernist abstraction into the contemporary context. Often reviewed in periodicals and catalogues by art critics, curators and art historians, Crile is noted for her disturbing and evocative abstracts. Vaguely geometric, planetary and aeronautical shapes and patterns are rendered in thin veils of saturated color often used in eccentric combinations. Imagery shifts from geometric to biomorphic fields. Crile's concern for spatial complexity is magnified by stretching and compressing planar forms into dynamic compositions that challenge the viewer's perception of space and time.

 EDUCATION

1971 72 Hunter College, New York, NY
1965 Bennington College, Bennington, VT, B.A.

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2007 Bellogio Study and Conference Center, Rockefeller Foundation Residency Grant, Bellagio, Italy
1990 Residence in Painting, American Academy in Rome
1989 90 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Drawing
1982 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1975,1978 Yaddo, Sarasota Springs, NY
1972 Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1970, 1971 Yaddo, Sarasota Springs, NY

TEACHING POSITIONS

1983 present Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY - Professor since 1996
1983 86 Barnard College, New York, NY
1980 Graduate Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1976 82 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1976 79 Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
1973 76 Princeton University,, Princeton , NJ
1972 76 Fordham University at Lincoln Center, New York,NY