Sue Hettmansperger

Sue Hettmansperger is a professor at the University of Iowa and a painter. She received B.F.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of New Mexico and attended the Yale University Summer School in Art, 1971. She was the recipient of a 2008 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in Painting. In 2018 she had a one-person show at the List Gallery, Swarthmore, PA. She has had one-person shows in 2014, 2011, 2007, 2003, 1999, 1994, and 1990 at A.I.R. Gallery New York City, where she has been an affiliate member since 1989. Group venues have included the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago 2012; the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art 2012 and 2006; the Figge Museum of Art 2015, 2013, 2010; Bowling Green State University 2005; Northern Arizona University 2005; Grinnell College 2003; University of Texas, San Antonio 2002; Des Moines Art Center 1996; Hyde Park Art Center Chicago 1992; and the Evanston Art Center 1986. Her work appears in the book New American Paintings Midwest, 2010 and 2005. She received a 2009 Iowa Arts Council Major Grant, five UI Arts and Humanities Initiative Grants (2014, 2011, 2009, 2006, 2001), the Faculty Scholar Award from The University of Iowa (1997-99), a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship (1983); as well as residency fellowships at the Corporation of Yaddo (2012), Ucross Foundation (1992), Roswell Museum Artist in Residence Program (1990 and 1975), and MacDowell. Her public artworks are sited at the U of IA Biomedical Discovery Building, the Cedar Rapids Convention Center, and Kirkwood College, IA. Selected Collections include the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Des Moines Art Center, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.

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