Susan Moldenhauer, Whatfest 2016
My work in photography spans 30 years. I have explored different ideas and ways of image-making that have embraced advancing technology, the landscape as a foundational element, the search for aesthetic and poetic experiences, and a continuing questioning of how to make sense of the world in the split-second magic of photography. I work in series, which currently include iPhone panoramas; images made from my Wyoming home combined with personal, national, and international news of the day (View from Home); musicians (Nocturne); pinhole; and a collaboration with an artist and a dancer (Sequencing Through Time and Place).
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions (selected)
2011 Composition from the Land: Egypt, Synergy Gallery, Laramie, WY
2009 Place | Mind | Spirit, photographs by Susan Moldenhauer, Brayham Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
2007 Place | Mind | Spirit, recent photographs by Susan Moldenhauer, Brayham Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
2006 Translucence / Transparency, New Work by Blinn Jacobs and Susan Moldenhauer, Kehler Liddell Gallery, New Haven, CT
2005 Place, Mind, Spirit—Susan Moldenhauer, photographs, New Image Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
2005 Place, Mind, Spirit—Susan Moldenhauer, photographs 1988 – 2004, Rosenthal Gallery of Art, Albertson College, Caldwell, ID
2004 Touchstone: New Work by Wendy Bredehoft and Susan Moldenhauer, Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site, Laramie, WY (two person)
2003 Landscapes of Mind and Place, Phototroph Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO
2001 Landscapes of Mind and Place, Vanier Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2000 Landscapes of Mind and Place, Western Wyoming College Gallery, Rock Springs, WY
1999 Landscapes of Mind and Place, Nicolaysen Art Museum and Discovery Center, Casper, WY (catalog)
1999 Desert Varnish and Other Works, Big Red Gallery, Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY
1997 Desert Varnish, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
1995 Desert Varnish, One West Contemporary Art Center, Fort Collins, CO
1994 Desert Varnish, Goodstein Gallery, Casper College, Casper, WY
1994 Desert Varnish, Wyoming Arts Council Gallery, Cheyenne, WY
1992 New Image Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
1991 The Michie Building Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
1990 Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University, Waco, TX
1989 Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA
1989 Piedmont VA Community College Art Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
1988 McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA
1987 Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY
1985 Blue Sky Gallery, Portland Center for Visual Arts, Portland, OR
1984 The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
1984 Greystone Gallery, Riverdale, NY
1984 Graphics Gallery, University of Maine, Orono, ME
1983 Photography Gallery, University of Denver, CO
1982 Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2019 Sequencing Through Time and Place: The Carissa Mine, New Work by Wendy Lemen Bredehoft, Susan Moldenhauer, and Margaret Wilson, Clay Paper Scissors Gallery, Cheyenne, WY
2018 Touchstone Laramie 2018, Fairfield Inn & Suites, Laramie, WY
2018 SWEET, Golden, Delicious: NIU Studio and Design Alumni Artists, NIU Art Museum, Dekalb, IL (invitational)
2018 Sequencing Through Time and Place: The Carissa Mine, New Work by Wendy Lemen Bredehoft, Susan Moldenhauer, and Margaret Wilson, Lander Art Center, Lander, WY (publication)
2018 Sequencing Through Time and Place: The Carissa Mine, New Work by Wendy Lemen Bredehoft, Susan Moldenhauer, and Margaret Wilson, Visual Arts Gallery, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY (publication)
2018 Rendezvous 2018, Mystery Print Gallery, Pinedale, WY and Clay Paper Scissors Gallery, Cheyenne, WY (juried)
2017 Art5 | Pipeline Artist Project, The Boarding House Gallery, Laramie WY
2017 Wyoming Arts Council Biennial Fellowship Exhibition, Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY; Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson, curator (publication)
2017 Art5 | Pipeline Artist Project, Mystery Print Gallery, Pinedale, WY
2017 Place | Setting, 12 Wyoming Women Artists, Cabarrus Arts Council, Concord, NC (invitational)
2016 Touchstone Laramie 2016, Fairfield Inn & Suites, Laramie, WY
2015 Ley Lines: Intersecting Conversations, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY; hlhix, curator (publication)
2014 Sequencing through Time and Place: Venice, New Work by Wendy Lemen Bredehoft, Susan Moldenhauer, and Margaret Wilson, Center for the Arts, Jackson Hole, WY (publication)
2014 Wyoming Art Party, Laramie, WY traveled to the Center for the Arts, Jackson Hole, WY and Lander Art Center, Lander, WY (invitational)
2014 Photography by Women: Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection, Museum of Art, Bates College, Lewiston, ME
2014 Touchstone Laramie 2014, Fairfield Inn & Suites, Laramie, WY
2012 Touchstone Laramie 2012, Ramada Inn, Laramie, WY
2011 Sequencing through Time and Place: Ucross | London | Fort Laramie, an experimental series of exhibitions by Wendy Lemen Bredehoft, Margaret Wilson, and Susan Moldenhauer, Gallery 211, Laramie, WY
2011 Within the Landscape/the Landscape Within, Myers School of Art, University of Akron, OH; Charles Beneke, curator (catalog)
2011 In the Presence of Trees, Ucross Foundation, Ucross, WY (publication)
2010 Touchstone Laramie 2010, Ramada Inn, Laramie, WY
2010 UW Coe Library Invitational, Laramie, WY (publication)
2010 Ucross Foundation: Twenty-Seven Years of Visual Artist Residencies, Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY (publication); traveled to the Ucross Foundation, Ucross, WY (invitational)
2009 CONTACT Photography Fair, Toronto, Canada (publication)
2008 Touchstone Laramie 2008, Ramada Inn, Laramie, WY
2006 Touchstone Laramie 2006, Ramada Inn, Laramie, WY
2005 Touchstone 2 + 3, Open Studio and Sale, Laramie, WY
2000 Photographic Imagination, Here Here Gallery: A Shelter for Ideas in Architecture, Art, and Design, Cleveland, OH
2000 Kodachrome, Ron Judish Fine Art, Denver, CO
1999 Desert Wind: Contemporary Artists Working in NM: The Ray Graham Collection, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND (catalog)
1998 Six Contemporary Landscape Photographers, Harmony Gallery, Fort Collins, CO
1995 Photographing the American West, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT (juried)
1994 You Call That Art?, One West Contemporary Art Center, Fort Collins, CO; Angela Brayham, curator
1993 Illuminance ’93, Lubbock Fine Arts Center, Lubbock TX; James Enyeart, juror
1993 Mountain West Biennial Photography Exhibition, Nora Eccles Museum of Art, Logan, UT; Peter Goin, juror
1988 National Aperture 3, Sawtooth Building Galleries, Winston-Salem, NC; Helen Gee, Emmet Gowin, jurors
1988 Photo Biennial III, Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; Thomas Southall, juror
1987 Photo 21: A National Juried Exhibition, Kern Gallery, University Park, PA; Ray Metzker, juror
1985 PA Photography IV, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA; Susan Kismaric, juror
1984 Light Sensitive IV, Thomas Center Galleries, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; Jerry Uelsmann, Olivia Parker, jurors
1982 Contemporary Photography as Phantasy, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; Fred Parker, juror
1982 Cal Arts National Juried Exhibition, Valencia, CA; Douglas Heubler, Ken Josephson, jurors
1981 Imagism, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC; Tina Freeman, juror
Collections
Albertson College of Idaho, Caldwell, ID
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME
Coe Libraries, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
College of Health Sciences, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
College of Law, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
Health Sciences Art Collection, University of Virginia, VA
Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Wyoming
Laramie County Community College, Laramie, WY
Pomona College, Claremont, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Searle Pharmaceutical Corporation, Chicago, IL
Trinity College, Hartford, CT
University of Virginia Museum of Art, Charlottesville, VA
Publications (selected)
2018 Sequencing Through Time and Place: The Carissa Mine, New Work by Wendy Lemen Bredehoft, Susan Moldenhauer and Margaret Wilson, published in conjunction with the exhibition, essay by Maggie Bourke, overview by Joe Ellis (December 2018)
2016 Photographs 1982 – 1985 – Susan Moldenhauer, Blue Sky Books; 44 pages
2014 Sequencing Through Time & Place: Venice, Wendy Lemen Bredehoft, Susan Moldenhauer, Margaret Wilson, published in conjunction with the exhibition; 80 pages
2014 H.L. Hix, Ley Lines; Wilifred Laurer University Press, Canada (1)
2013 Open Window Review, Issue 5, Spring 2013; Lori Howe, editor (cover, 4)
2012 High Desert Journal, Nov. 2012 (cover, 13)
2011 Sequencing Through Time & Place: Ucross, London, Fort Laramie, Wendy Lemen Bredehoft, Susan Moldenhauer, Margaret Wilson, published in conjunction with the exhibition; 120 pages.
2011 In the Presence of Trees, Ucross Foundation (1)
2010 Ucross Foundation: Twenty-Seven Years of Visual Arts Residencies, Nicolaysen Art Museum & Discovery Center; Lisa Hatchadoorian, curator (1)
2009 Contact 2009, 13th Annual Toronto Photography Festival: Still Revolution, Toronto, Canada (1)
2000 James Luciana, Black and White Photography: Manifest Visions / An International Collection, Gloucester, MA: Rockport Publishers, 2000 (1)
1995 Irma Gilgore, Lois Katz, and Martha Scott, The Searle Collection of Contemporary Art, 1995 (6)
1993 View Camera Magazine, “Readers Gallery,” July / Aug. 1993 (3)
Awards
2018, 2016, 2013, 2011, 2010, 2005, 1994, 1993 Individual Artist Grant, Wyoming Arts Council
2017 Wyoming Governor’s Arts Award
2016 Wyoming Arts Council Fellowship Award
2014 Finalist, 2015 Contemporary Northwest Art Awards, Portland Art Museum
2005 Bobby Hathaway Memorial Juror’s Award, Governor’s Capital Art Exhibition
Professional Experience
2013 – Laramie Public Art Coalition, Steering Team, Laramie, WY
2012 – UW President’s Public Art Committee, Laramie, WY
2011 – 2018 Laramie Mural Project, co-administrator with Laramie Main Street, connecting local artists with local business to advance economic development and beautify Laramie’s historic downtown, www.laramiemuralproject.org
2010 – Founding member, Pipeline Artists Project, ‘pumping art from the energy state of Wyoming, USA,’ www.pipelineartproject.com
2008 – Sequencing, collaborator with artist W. Lemen Bredehoft and dance Margaret Wilson who explore the creative process by working simultaneously on location
2006 – Co-founder, Laramie Artists Project, a consortium of professional artists in Laramie and Albany County, WY and the biennial exhibition, Touchstone Laramie, www.laramieartistsproject.com
2002 – 2017 Director and Chief Curator, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY; www.uwyo.edu/artmuseum
2000 Assistant Director & Senior Curator, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY; www.uwyo.edu/artmuseum
1991 Curator of Museum Programs, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY; www.uwyo.edu/artmuseum
1986 – 1991 Director, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
1984 – 1986 Gallery Manager, School of Visual Arts, Penn State University
Education
1982 MFA Photography, Penn State University
1974 BFA Printmaking/Drawing, Northern Illinois University