Exhibition in 2025:

Wyoming | Susan, 2004 is from an earlier series called Place | Mind | Spirit. It was First Place in Abandon/Abandonment at the New York Center for Photographic Arts in 2025.

Jennifer with Monarchs 2025, was accepted into Blue Sky Gallery’s Home and Garden Show, an online exhibition that is part of a year-long celebration of its 50th Anniversary. The original House and Garden Show was in 1986. Blue Sky Gallery gave me my first solo exhibition in 1985.

Window Dressing, 2023, was accepted into two exhibitions in 2025:

Eleven: Upon Reflection at Viewpoint Photographic Center in Sacramento, CA, where it won Third Place

The Return: School of Visual Arts Alumni Exhibition at Penn State University, where I graduated in 1984 with my Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography.

Wedding Window, 2025, was selected for the Members Show 2025 at the Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville, SC.

Photo Pensato presented an exhibition at D’Art Gallery in conjunction with the 2025 Month of Photography celebrations in Denver.

 

 

 

I have been remiss in posting my accomplishments on this website, largely due to a battle with dry eye that has kept me from being on the computer for any length of time.  Notable achievements from 2023 – 2024:

FStop Magazine, Black and White Photography, online group exhibition, issue #117, 2023; Hey! What’s That Sound, from the series Since Then.

My image, Self, was selected for the International Juried Photography Exhibition at Praxis Gallery in Minneapolis, MN, 2024. This image began a new body of work that I continue to develop, titled Reflections (working title).

Abby, 2024, was selected for an online exhibition called she at ASmith Gallery, in 2024. Abby is from a broad cross-section of work I continue to add to called Home Place.

 

Implosion, June 23, 20 won an Honorable Mention in the 30th Annual Members Juried Exhibition at the Griffen Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, in 2024. Implosion is from the series Since Then.

It was also included in the 2023 exhibition by Photo Pensato at the Sangre de Cristo Art Center in Pueblo.

Jennifer, 2024 won an Honorable Mention in the exhibition HOME at Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis. This image is from the series Home Place.

 

 

 

A special installation of Susan Moldenhauer’s series, Place | Mind | Spirit can be seen by appointment only at SΘK Gallery in Laramie, WY.

Place | Mind | Spirit Re-View is a body of work created between 2002 and 2008. She writes: Place | Mind | Spirit was a celebration for me, being in Wyoming, having been appointed the director of the Univerity of Wyoming Art Museum, and feeling grounded. I hadn’t made any pictures for almost two years and decided it was critical that I get photography back in my life. It was the beginning of my second decade here, and from the beginning, I had been fascinated by the ever-changing sky, the ever-present wind, the light on the landscape.”

The landscape between Laramie and Cheyenne became a focal point for her work as she was attracted to the open meadows and the scale changes that space and distance offer. The quality of air at 8000 ft was unusual for her, having been born in Chicago and raised in its suburbs where grayness was pervasive.

Using her own presence on the land, she danced with fabric before her camera in an effort to make wind a partner. The format is panoramic in the work on view; there is a companion series that is square. Advancements in desktop printing made it possible for her to print her own images in black and white after years of working with a lab to make her prints.

The opportunity for Moldenhauer to re-visit this work after so many years has led to re-titling the previous generic references to these images.

SΘK Gallery is an event space for the arts and is available for house concerts, pop up exhibitions, and readings. Contact her at moldenhauerphotostudio@gmail.com for more information or to schedule a time for viewing the exhibition.  SΘK Gallery is located at 1004 S 2nd St in Laramie. More information may be found at SΘK Gallery on FaceBook.

Susan Moldenhauer is one of seven Wyoming artists whose work is on view in the biennial Wyoming Arts Council Fellowship Exhibition. Curated by Tasha Kubesh, independent curator of Fargo, North Dakota, the other artists are Talissa Abeyta, Marcus Dewey, Colleen Friday, DaleRae Green, Al Hubbard, and Eileen Nistler. The exhibition is called Nestled Among Wyoming: The Wyoming Arts Council Biennial Fellowship Exhibition. A catalog accompanies the exhibition.

Kubesh selected 4 works each from two bodies of work by Moldenhauer:  Place | Mine | Spirit (2002 – 2008) and Every thing is not all right (2017 – 2021). She says of her work: My photographic works are intrinsically interwoven with my life, the emotional potential of the black and white print, and ideas about time,, place, movement, and moment. In the early 2000s, it was an exploration of light and place, with the wind as my partner as I captured personal performances in the Wyoming landscape. Twenty years later, darkness overwhelms as I use the emotive power of clouds to reflect on my time of life, American history in the making, and the great issues of climate change, war, the pandemic, and the state of the United States.

The Univerity of Wyoming Art Museum is located at 2111 Willett Drive on the university campus in Laramie, Wyoming. The exhibition continues through December 23, 2023.

 

 

Since then, an exhibition of current work by Susan Moldenhauer opened at Mystery Print Gallery in Pinedale, WY on September 7, 2023. The exhibition continues through October 21, 2023.

Since then is a selection of 14 works from a body of work that Moldenhauer began on the eve of the 2017 Presidential Inauguration. Her ongoing exploration involves making cloud images in new world contexts using found text from the news, personal experience, and celestial events as titles. Its underpinnings have been from a time and place perspective on this time in her life (having retired from 33 years as an arts administration in 2017), American history in the making, and global concerns such as climate change, war, and the pandemic. The juxtaposition of image and title, both captured within a 24-hour timeframe using the immediacy of the iPhone, is one of finding resonance between them through the emotive power of clouds.

Mystery Print Gallery is located at 221 S Sublette Ave in Pinedale, WY.