Work  Biography  Publications
1941
Born in Mexico, Pennsylvania

1959-63
Penn State University

1962
Universität, Strasbourg

1963-66
Ecole Nationale Superior de Beaux Arts, Paris

Currently lives in New York


One Person Exhibitions

1984
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York

1986
Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland (Catalogue)

1988
Julian Pretto Gallery, New York

1989
Matrix/Berkeley, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

1990
Passages, ARG Art Prospective Geneve, Geneva, Switzerland (Catalogue)

1992
Lawrence Markey Gallery, New York
Galerie L'A, Liege, Belgium
Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin, Germany

1993
Friedrich Gallery, Bern, Switzerland
Lawrence Markey Gallery, New York
Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York

1994
Zeitgenost, Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland

1995
Galerie Karlheinz Meyer, Karlsruhe, Germany
Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin, Germany
University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (Catalogue)

1996
Lawrence Markey Gallery, New York
Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York

1998
Galerij S65, Aalst, Belgium
Hausler, Munich, Germany

1999
Lawrence Markey Gallery, New York
Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin, Germany
Galerie Philippe Casini, Paris

2001
Lawrence Markey Gallery, New York


Group Exhibitions

1973
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

1978
The Drawing Center, New York

1979
Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York

1980
Leo Castelli Gallery, Invitational Benefit Drawing Show, New York

1982
The Drawing Center, New York

1988
Julian Pretto Gallery, New York

1989
Lorence Monk Gallery, New York
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Prospect '89, Frankfurt, Germany (Catalogue)

1990
Friederich Gallery, Bern, Switzerland

1991
Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland

1992
Drawn In The 90's, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY (traveling exhib.)

1993
Selected Works on Paper from the Kunstmuseum, Bern Collection.
Traveling to Prague and Budapest.

1994
Reflex, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria (Catalogue)
Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY

1998
Diozesanmuseum, Geistes Genenwart (Presence of Spirit), Freisig, Germany (Catalogue)
Suzan Frecon, Rachel Harrison, Thomas Nozkowski, Curated by Charles Dee Mitchell, Turner & Runyon Gallery, Dallas, TX
Paper Thin, Stephan Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Undercurrents and Overtones, Contemporary Abstract Painting, curated by Larry Rinder, Oliver Art Center, CCAC, Oakland, CA

2000
Works on paper and drawings, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York


Public Collections

Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock

Diözesanmuseum, Freising, Germany

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland

Museum of Modern Art, New York

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich

University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York


Bibiliography

Hilton Kramer, The New York Times, December 14, 1979.

Dorothy Shinn, Akron Beacon Journal, December 17, 1981.

John Yau, Art In America, November 1984.

Marie Louise Zimmerman, Bern Zeitung, August 4, 1986.

Denys Zacharopoulos, Ulrich Loock, Suzan Frecon, Kunsthalle Bern, catalogue, 1987.

Joshua Decter, Arts Magazine, December 1988.

Lawrence Rinder, Suzan Frecon, Painting Without Boundaries, University Art Museum, Berkeley CA, 1989.

Lisa Silver, Contradiction in Color, The Daily Californian, January 27, 1989.
Prospect '89, catalogue, 1989.

Joseph Helfenstein, Kunstmuseum Bern, Suzan Frecon, Works on Paper, April 1990.

Passages, Suzan Frecon, Arts Prospective Genève, catalogue, 1990.
Le Courrier, Genève, May 17, 1990.

Robert Mahoney, Arts Magazine, June 1990.

Stephen Westfall, Art In America, Febrauary 1993.

New York Review of Art, February 1994.

Works Relating to Painting 1988 - 1994, Suzan Frecon. Vienna Secession, May 1994.

One-of-a-kind colors, Berkeley Voice, June 1, 1995

Claudette Degiere, Water Dance, The Daily Californian's Arts & Entertainment Guide, Volume 3 Number 75, June 16, 1995

Carol Fowler, Watercolorist makes the most of oldpaper, Time Out Berkeley/Oakland, June 23, 1995

Charles Dee Mitchell, Art in America, March 1997

Ken Johnson, The New York Times, March 5, 1999

Tricycle, The Buddhist Review, pages 27 & 31, Spring issue 1999.

Suzan Frecon, text by John Yau, Verlag Richter, Düsseldorf, and Christa Häusler, Munich, June 1999.



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