Comforting shape
2007
acrylic paint on watercolor paper
8 x 10 inches

Susan Tiger

b. Philadelphia, PA 1965
lives and works in Ireland

Education

1986-1990 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1984-1986 Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1983-1984 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Awards

2004
Awarded Residency at Tyrone Guthrie Centre, at Annaghmakerrig, Co Monaghan – Awarded Mayo County Council Tyrone Guthrie Regional Bursary Scheme for residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre
2001
Projects Grant, The Arts Council, Dublin, Ireland in conjunction with The Coombe Women's Hospital; Artist-In-Residence
1996
Friends of Beaver College Art Gallery Prize, Award of Merit, Works on Paper, Philadelphia, PA
1995
Award of Merit, Works on Paper; Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ
1992
Winter Residency, La Napoule Art Foundation, La Napoule, France; funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts
1990
Lewis S. Ware Traveling Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Solo Exhibitions

2008
It is not a goodbye said to one's father, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
1993
Barber Shop Gallery, Taos, NM
1993
Paul Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Group Exhibitions

2007
Singing the Real: Contemporary Art from Ireland, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2006
The Square Root of Drawing, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin, Ireland
Series…, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
2005
some painting, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2003
Drawings by Men and Women, Gallery 817, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
FLIX @ Rubicon Gallery, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2002
Taking Form, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
2001
Propositions, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Selections Winter 2001, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2000
Works on Paper and drawings, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1999
Drawing and Thinking, The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
1998
Trace, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-the-Hudson, NY
1997
A Closer Look 2, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
1996
Works on Paper, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ
Works on Paper, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
Nason-Williams Gallery, Madrid, N M
1995
Works on Paper, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ
1994
Paul Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1993
Works on Paper, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
1992
Paul Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Fellowship Annual Juried Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA

Publications

2003
Having, Book for The Coombe Women's Hospital, funded by Projects Grant of The Arts Council, Dublin, Ireland
2001
ISPAMAS. An Album of Photographs by Paul Andriesse with Texts by John Hutchinson and Ulrich Loock, and Oneliners by Susan Tiger and Marlene Dumas
1999
The American Poetry Review, 25th Anniversary Issue
1997
The American Poetry Review, Philly Edition, Linh Dinh, ed.

Collections

Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC

Bibliography

2006
"Slight of Hand: Understated drawings for an overstated age." Art on Paper, May/June 2006.
2005
Newhall, Edith. "A glimpse into the enigmatic…Increments of change." The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 2005
2003
Dunne, Aidan, The Irish Times, May, 2003
1999
Dunne, Adian, The Irish Times, October, 1999
1997
Sozanski, Edward, The Philadelphia Inquirer, "Sparse Show Delivers with Unresolved Tension", January, 1997
Torchia, Richard, "A Closer Look: Drew Dominisk, Deborah Margo, Steve Reidell, Susan Tiger, Alan Weiner". Beaver College Art Gallery, 1997
1996
Sozanski, Edward, The Philadelphia Inquirer, "Stretching the Meaning of Works on Paper", April, 1996
1993
Sozanski, Edward, The Philadelphia Inquirer, " Paul Cava", June 1993
Viennot, Isabelle Maheu, "Artistes a la Napoule", La Napoule Art Foundation, 1993