Skip to main content

Susan Weil

Susan Weil's mixed media works address the plastic quality of time and space through processes of cutting, crumpling and refiguring her compositions. In allowing the viewer’s eye to contemplate a series of moments and perspectives at once, Weil generously gives an almost omniscient power to the viewer, as well as a sense not of fractured time, but of a more truthful depiction of genuine experience.

Her work is in many major international museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California; the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon; and the Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, North Carolina.

Born 1930
Hometown New York, NY
Education
Académie Julian, Paris, France
Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, France
Black Mountain College, Asheville, NC
Art Students League, New York, NY
Permanent Collection

Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC

Bowdoin College, Special Collections, Brunswick, ME

Brooklyn Museum Library, Brooklyn, NY

Bucknell University, Bertrand Library, Lewisburg, PA

University at Buffalo, The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries, Buffalo, NY

Columbia University, Rare Books & Manuscripts, New York, NY

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

Dartmouth College, Rauner Special Collections Library, Hanover, NH

University of Delaware Library, Newark, DE

Dieu Donné, Brooklyn, NY

Harvard University, Houghton Library Special Collections, Cambridge, MA

University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, IA

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA

The Johnson Collection, Spartanburg, SC

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.

Library of Congress, Rare Books and Special Collections Division, Washington, D.C.

Lyrik Kabinett, Munich, Germany

Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden

The Menil Collection, Houston, TX

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN

University of Minnesota, TC Anderson Library Rare Books, Minneapolis, MN

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Montana Museum of Art and Culture, University of Montana, Missoula, MT

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

National Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

National Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand

New York Public Library, The Spencer Collection, New York, NY

Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

Rochester Institute of Technology, Wallace Library, Rochester, NY

San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA

Scripps College, Claremont, CA

Smith College, Mortimer Rare Book Collection, Northampton, MA

Stanford University Libraries, Special Collections, Stanford, CA

Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA

Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH