Landscape has always been my subject. Distinct bodies of work have used representation, abstraction, examined private, public or shared spaces, and considered individual memory and geological record. Landscapes, even those comprised of entirely natural elements, are constructed spaces, and I am interested in creating images that provide a moment of reflection on these dynamics and how our sense of place is defined and created.
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Susan Belau is a San Francisco-based artist whose studio practice is rooted in the materials and processes of printmaking. She received her B.A. in Studio Art from University of California, Santa Cruz, and M.F.A. in Printmaking from University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has studied printmaking at Santa Reparata in Florence, Italy, and trained as a master printer at Paulson Fontaine Press in Berkeley, California. Ms. Belau has received the Phelan Award for Excellence in Printmaking and been awarded fellowships at UC Santa Cruz Printmedia Research Center, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California and Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, New York. Ms. Belau is a faculty member at San Francisco State University and in 2014 chaired the SGC International Printmaking Conference in San Francisco, California. Her work is in private and public collections throughout the United States, including University of the Arts, Philadelphia, the Ford Foundation, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
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SUSAN BELAU
www.susanbelau.com
EDUCATION
1999 Master of Fine Arts, Fine Art/Printmaking, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
1993 Bachelor of Art, Studio Art University of California, Santa Cruz
EXHIBITIONS
2027 to stand in this garden, Bird House Gallery, San Francisco, California - solo exhibition
2026 Coastal, Contemporary Print Media Research Center Gallery, UC Santa Cruz – solo exhibition
2025 INK:ED, Kondos Gallery, Sacramento City College, California
2024 HERE/HERE, SF State Faculty and Staff Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University
110th Annual California Society of Printmakers Exhibition, Robert F. Agrello Gallery
Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, California
I Am Not a Robot, SGCI Printmaking Conference, Providence, Rhode Island
2023 California Printmakers - Tradition and Innovation, Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia, California
Kala Artists’ Annual Exhibition, Kala Gallery, Berkeley, California
2022 Distilled: Contemporary Abstraction, North Seattle College Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Printmakers Risograph Portfolio, Chute Studios, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California
LAPS 22nd National Printmaking, Mixografia, Los Angeles, California
Split Practice, IMPACT 11 International Printmaking Conference, Bristol, United Kingdom
2021 The 12th Biennale internationale d’estampe contemporaine de Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada,
Processual Abstraction, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington
Stillness, Movement, Chaos: International Print Exhibition, City Art Space, Rochester, New York
Printmakers: In Good Company, Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, Texas
2020 State School, Faculty Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University
Artists Annual, Kala Gallery, Berkeley, California
2019 Processual Abstraction, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Hand Draughted, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas
Visual Elegy, SGCI Conference, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
Forms of Enclosure, New Prints 2019/Winter, International Print Center New York, New York
California Centered, Merced Arts Center, Merced California
Regional Collective, Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico, California
Bay Area Prints 2019, Compound Gallery, Oakland, California
2018 The Print Effect: Small Works/Big Impact, Manhattan Graphics Center, New York
Stellar Small Prints, Constellation Studios, Lincoln, Nebraska
2017 CSP Residency Exhibition, Mullowney Printing, San Francisco, California
2016 Visual Elegy, Murry State University, Kentucky
2015 SCALE, ARC Gallery, San Francisco, California, catalog
Pattern Recognition, Prescott Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
2014 88th International Competition: Semi-Finalist, Online Exhibition, The Print Center, Philadelphia
Collected Terrains, San Marco Gallery, Dominican University, San Rafael, CA, two-person exhibition
15th International Triennial of Small Graphic Forms, Villa Gallery, Lodz, Poland
7th International Printmaking Biennial of Douro – 2014, Alijo, Portugal, catalog
Natural Inclinations: Marks and Mutations, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, California
California Etchers Currents, Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, California
2013 New Prints 2013/Autumn, International Print Center New York, New York
Rocky Mountain Printmaking Alliance Juried Print Exhibition in conjunction with the 2nd RMPA
Symposium: Public Gestures, Gittins Gallery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Natural Inclinations: Marks and Mutations, China Brotsky Art Gallery, Thoreau Center, San Francisco
2012 Art Faculty Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, California
Ink, Kondos Gallery, Sacramento City College, Sacramento, California
Inked Surfaces, Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, California
New Works, California Society of Printmakers Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California
Lightscape/Darkscape: New Works by Kala Artists, Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, California
2011 Water’s Edge, Studio One, Oakland, California
2010 Grafted, Utah State University Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah – solo exhibition
Printing From Perception, Adobe Art Center, Castro Valley, California
It’s Our Nature, Work from California Society of Printmakers, Thoreau Center for Sustainability,
San Francisco, California
Dream Day Drawing, Southern Graphics Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
Cora Stafford Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, and Washington State University, Pullman
2009 On View: New Work from Kala, Kala Gallery, Berkeley, California
Image and Text, El Rio Performance Room, San Francisco, California
Women in Ink - Prints, Tercera Gallery, Palo Alto, California
2008 Fresh Work, Kala Artists’ Annual Exhibition, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California
Systems of Sharing: Below the Surface, Bay Model Visitor Center, Sausalito, California
SF State Art Department Faculty Exhibition, Fine Art Gallery, San Francisco State University
Women in Ink, Mina Dresden Gallery, San Francisco, California
2007 Topsoil, Propeller, San Francisco, California – solo exhibition
Recent Work, Julie Baker Fine Art, Nevada City, California
81st Annual International Competition: Printmaking, The Print Center, Philadelphia
California Centered: Printmaking, Merced Art Center Gallery, California
8 x 8: Bay Area Printmakers, Market Street Gallery, San Francisco, California
2006 7th Mondial de L’Estampe et de la Gravure Originals Triennale, Chamalieres – Auvergne, France
Winter Exhibition, Propeller, San Francisco, California
Insular Origins Mid-America Print Conference, Athens, Ohio
Impressions 2006, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, California
2005 International Invitational Print Exhibition, Chung-shan National Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Prints and Panels: Works by Susan Belau and Sara Tabbert, Tinhorn Public Works
San Francisco, California – two-person exhibition
Confluence: West Coast Printmakers, A Street Gallery, Santa Rosa, California
Roots and Crown: UNL Printmakers, Christlieb Gallery, Great Plains Art Collection, Lincoln, Nebraska
Pacific States Biennial Print Exhibition, University of Hawaii, Hilo
2003 National Small Works 2003, Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Women Printmakers, Galeria Tonantzin, San Juan Bautista, California
Invitational Exhibition of Small Works, New Arts Program, Kutztown, Pennsylvania
2002 Western States Small Works 2002, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, California
Pacific Northwest Exhibition, Rogue Gallery and Art Center, Medford, Oregon
The Sensory Experience, A Portfolio, Southern Graphics Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
2001 Fourteenth Parkside National Small Print Exhibition, University of Wisconsin-Parkside Catalog
2000 Markings/Imprints: Kala Art Institute Fellowship Awards Exhibition, Kala Gallery,Berkeley, California
Works On and Of Paper, University of West Florida Art Gallery, Pensacola Catalogue
Midwest Winter Exhibition, Center for the Visual Arts, Wausau, Wisconsin
1999 The James D. Phelan Awards in Printmaking, Kala Art Institute Gallery, Berkeley, California
Falling Floating: Pieces of Nature, Rotunda Gallery, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, solo exhibition
Susan Belau, Zandra Gillespie, Holly Jerger, Peru State College Art Gallery, Peru, Nebraska
Pressed and Pulled VIII, Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, Georgia
1999 National Works on Paper, St. John’s University, Jamaica, New York
Printmaking: 73rd Annual International Competition, The Print Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Another View: Selected Works from Contemporary American Printmakers,
Saddleback College Art Gallery, Mission Viejo, California
PROJECTS, LECTURES, AND RESIDENCIES
2024 Marcus Undergraduate Research Assistantship Award, College of Liberal and Creative Arts,
San Francisco State University, California
2023 Artist Residency, In Cahoots Residency, Petaluma, California
2022 Artist-in-Residence, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California
Mid-Career Research Leave Award, College of Liberal and Creative Arts, SFSU
2021 Gallery Talk and Visiting Artist, Processual Abstraction, Kittredge Gallery,
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma Washington
Guest Faculty Lecture, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Colorado
Invited Faculty, Investigational Monoprint, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, Colorado
Artist Residency, In Cahoots Residency, Petaluma, California
2020 Panelist, Artists Panel for the event series Graphic Knowledge: Perspectives on Prints and
Printmaking, Morrison Library, UC Bekeley,
2019 Invited Faculty, Experimental Color Etching, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, Colorado
Presenter, The Poster and Beyond: Printmaking and Social Justice in the Studio Classroom,
Inkubator session, SGCI conference, Dallas Texas
Parent Residency Award, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California
2018 Artist-in-Residence, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California
Visiting Artist, Printmaking Area, Chico State University, Chico, California
2017 California Society of Printmakers Summer Residency Award, Gruenwald Press, San Francisco
2014 Curator, Progressive Proof, an exhibition featuring innovative printmaking from the Pacific Rim,
The Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University
Artist Talk, Collected Terrains, San Marco Gallery, Dominican University, San Rafael, California
Invited Artist/Collaborator, Lithopixel Refractory Collective (LRC), A project in conjunction with the
2014 SGC International Printmaking Conference, 2014, San Francisco State University
2013 Artist Talk, Ink, Kondos Gallery, Sacramento City College, Sacramento, California
2010 Visiting Artist, Printmaking, Utah State University, Logan, Utah
Curator, Dream Day Drawing, A Portfolio of Prints, for exhibition at SGCI Conference, Philadelphia
2009 Artist-in-Residence, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California
2008 Artist-in-Residence, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California
2004 Residency, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, New York
Purchase Award, Parkside National Small Print Exhibition, University of Wisconsin-Parkside,
1999 Artist’s Fellowship Award, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California
James D. Phelan Art Award in Printmaking, San Francisco Foundation, California
COLLECTIONS
United States Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Morrison Library, University of California, Berkeley
Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville
Association Mouvement Art Contemporain, Chamalieres, France
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California
Ford Foundation, San Francisco, California
Sheldon Memorial Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Lincoln, Nebraska
Southern Graphics Council International Archive, Millsaps College, Mississippi
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
University of Delaware Library
University of Iowa Library
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
University of Wisconsin – Parkside, Kenosha
Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, New York
Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, Georgia
www.susanbelau.com
EDUCATION
1999 Master of Fine Arts, Fine Art/Printmaking, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
1993 Bachelor of Art, Studio Art University of California, Santa Cruz
EXHIBITIONS
2027 to stand in this garden, Bird House Gallery, San Francisco, California - solo exhibition
2026 Coastal, Contemporary Print Media Research Center Gallery, UC Santa Cruz – solo exhibition
2025 INK:ED, Kondos Gallery, Sacramento City College, California
2024 HERE/HERE, SF State Faculty and Staff Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University
110th Annual California Society of Printmakers Exhibition, Robert F. Agrello Gallery
Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, California
I Am Not a Robot, SGCI Printmaking Conference, Providence, Rhode Island
2023 California Printmakers - Tradition and Innovation, Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia, California
Kala Artists’ Annual Exhibition, Kala Gallery, Berkeley, California
2022 Distilled: Contemporary Abstraction, North Seattle College Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Printmakers Risograph Portfolio, Chute Studios, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California
LAPS 22nd National Printmaking, Mixografia, Los Angeles, California
Split Practice, IMPACT 11 International Printmaking Conference, Bristol, United Kingdom
2021 The 12th Biennale internationale d’estampe contemporaine de Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada,
Processual Abstraction, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington
Stillness, Movement, Chaos: International Print Exhibition, City Art Space, Rochester, New York
Printmakers: In Good Company, Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, Texas
2020 State School, Faculty Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University
Artists Annual, Kala Gallery, Berkeley, California
2019 Processual Abstraction, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Hand Draughted, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas
Visual Elegy, SGCI Conference, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
Forms of Enclosure, New Prints 2019/Winter, International Print Center New York, New York
California Centered, Merced Arts Center, Merced California
Regional Collective, Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico, California
Bay Area Prints 2019, Compound Gallery, Oakland, California
2018 The Print Effect: Small Works/Big Impact, Manhattan Graphics Center, New York
Stellar Small Prints, Constellation Studios, Lincoln, Nebraska
2017 CSP Residency Exhibition, Mullowney Printing, San Francisco, California
2016 Visual Elegy, Murry State University, Kentucky
2015 SCALE, ARC Gallery, San Francisco, California, catalog
Pattern Recognition, Prescott Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
2014 88th International Competition: Semi-Finalist, Online Exhibition, The Print Center, Philadelphia
Collected Terrains, San Marco Gallery, Dominican University, San Rafael, CA, two-person exhibition
15th International Triennial of Small Graphic Forms, Villa Gallery, Lodz, Poland
7th International Printmaking Biennial of Douro – 2014, Alijo, Portugal, catalog
Natural Inclinations: Marks and Mutations, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, California
California Etchers Currents, Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, California
2013 New Prints 2013/Autumn, International Print Center New York, New York
Rocky Mountain Printmaking Alliance Juried Print Exhibition in conjunction with the 2nd RMPA
Symposium: Public Gestures, Gittins Gallery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Natural Inclinations: Marks and Mutations, China Brotsky Art Gallery, Thoreau Center, San Francisco
2012 Art Faculty Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, California
Ink, Kondos Gallery, Sacramento City College, Sacramento, California
Inked Surfaces, Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, Pleasant Hill, California
New Works, California Society of Printmakers Exhibition, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California
Lightscape/Darkscape: New Works by Kala Artists, Artworks Downtown, San Rafael, California
2011 Water’s Edge, Studio One, Oakland, California
2010 Grafted, Utah State University Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah – solo exhibition
Printing From Perception, Adobe Art Center, Castro Valley, California
It’s Our Nature, Work from California Society of Printmakers, Thoreau Center for Sustainability,
San Francisco, California
Dream Day Drawing, Southern Graphics Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
Cora Stafford Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, and Washington State University, Pullman
2009 On View: New Work from Kala, Kala Gallery, Berkeley, California
Image and Text, El Rio Performance Room, San Francisco, California
Women in Ink - Prints, Tercera Gallery, Palo Alto, California
2008 Fresh Work, Kala Artists’ Annual Exhibition, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California
Systems of Sharing: Below the Surface, Bay Model Visitor Center, Sausalito, California
SF State Art Department Faculty Exhibition, Fine Art Gallery, San Francisco State University
Women in Ink, Mina Dresden Gallery, San Francisco, California
2007 Topsoil, Propeller, San Francisco, California – solo exhibition
Recent Work, Julie Baker Fine Art, Nevada City, California
81st Annual International Competition: Printmaking, The Print Center, Philadelphia
California Centered: Printmaking, Merced Art Center Gallery, California
8 x 8: Bay Area Printmakers, Market Street Gallery, San Francisco, California
2006 7th Mondial de L’Estampe et de la Gravure Originals Triennale, Chamalieres – Auvergne, France
Winter Exhibition, Propeller, San Francisco, California
Insular Origins Mid-America Print Conference, Athens, Ohio
Impressions 2006, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, California
2005 International Invitational Print Exhibition, Chung-shan National Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Prints and Panels: Works by Susan Belau and Sara Tabbert, Tinhorn Public Works
San Francisco, California – two-person exhibition
Confluence: West Coast Printmakers, A Street Gallery, Santa Rosa, California
Roots and Crown: UNL Printmakers, Christlieb Gallery, Great Plains Art Collection, Lincoln, Nebraska
Pacific States Biennial Print Exhibition, University of Hawaii, Hilo
2003 National Small Works 2003, Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Women Printmakers, Galeria Tonantzin, San Juan Bautista, California
Invitational Exhibition of Small Works, New Arts Program, Kutztown, Pennsylvania
2002 Western States Small Works 2002, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, California
Pacific Northwest Exhibition, Rogue Gallery and Art Center, Medford, Oregon
The Sensory Experience, A Portfolio, Southern Graphics Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
2001 Fourteenth Parkside National Small Print Exhibition, University of Wisconsin-Parkside Catalog
2000 Markings/Imprints: Kala Art Institute Fellowship Awards Exhibition, Kala Gallery,Berkeley, California
Works On and Of Paper, University of West Florida Art Gallery, Pensacola Catalogue
Midwest Winter Exhibition, Center for the Visual Arts, Wausau, Wisconsin
1999 The James D. Phelan Awards in Printmaking, Kala Art Institute Gallery, Berkeley, California
Falling Floating: Pieces of Nature, Rotunda Gallery, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, solo exhibition
Susan Belau, Zandra Gillespie, Holly Jerger, Peru State College Art Gallery, Peru, Nebraska
Pressed and Pulled VIII, Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, Georgia
1999 National Works on Paper, St. John’s University, Jamaica, New York
Printmaking: 73rd Annual International Competition, The Print Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Another View: Selected Works from Contemporary American Printmakers,
Saddleback College Art Gallery, Mission Viejo, California
PROJECTS, LECTURES, AND RESIDENCIES
2026 Artist Residency, Contemporary Print Media Research Center, UC Santa Cruz
Artist Residency, collaboration with Leslie Samson-Tabakin,In Cahoots Residency, Petaluma, CA2024 Marcus Undergraduate Research Assistantship Award, College of Liberal and Creative Arts,
San Francisco State University, California
2023 Artist Residency, In Cahoots Residency, Petaluma, California
2022 Artist-in-Residence, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California
Mid-Career Research Leave Award, College of Liberal and Creative Arts, SFSU
2021 Gallery Talk and Visiting Artist, Processual Abstraction, Kittredge Gallery,
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma Washington
Guest Faculty Lecture, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Colorado
Invited Faculty, Investigational Monoprint, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, Colorado
Artist Residency, In Cahoots Residency, Petaluma, California
2020 Panelist, Artists Panel for the event series Graphic Knowledge: Perspectives on Prints and
Printmaking, Morrison Library, UC Bekeley,
2019 Invited Faculty, Experimental Color Etching, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, Colorado
Presenter, The Poster and Beyond: Printmaking and Social Justice in the Studio Classroom,
Inkubator session, SGCI conference, Dallas Texas
Parent Residency Award, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California
2018 Artist-in-Residence, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California
Visiting Artist, Printmaking Area, Chico State University, Chico, California
2017 California Society of Printmakers Summer Residency Award, Gruenwald Press, San Francisco
2014 Curator, Progressive Proof, an exhibition featuring innovative printmaking from the Pacific Rim,
The Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University
Artist Talk, Collected Terrains, San Marco Gallery, Dominican University, San Rafael, California
Invited Artist/Collaborator, Lithopixel Refractory Collective (LRC), A project in conjunction with the
2014 SGC International Printmaking Conference, 2014, San Francisco State University
2013 Artist Talk, Ink, Kondos Gallery, Sacramento City College, Sacramento, California
2010 Visiting Artist, Printmaking, Utah State University, Logan, Utah
Curator, Dream Day Drawing, A Portfolio of Prints, for exhibition at SGCI Conference, Philadelphia
2009 Artist-in-Residence, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California
2008 Artist-in-Residence, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California
2004 Residency, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, New York
Purchase Award, Parkside National Small Print Exhibition, University of Wisconsin-Parkside,
1999 Artist’s Fellowship Award, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California
James D. Phelan Art Award in Printmaking, San Francisco Foundation, California
COLLECTIONS
United States Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Morrison Library, University of California, Berkeley
Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville
Association Mouvement Art Contemporain, Chamalieres, France
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California
Ford Foundation, San Francisco, California
Sheldon Memorial Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Lincoln, Nebraska
Southern Graphics Council International Archive, Millsaps College, Mississippi
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
University of Delaware Library
University of Iowa Library
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
University of Wisconsin – Parkside, Kenosha
Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, New York
Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, Georgia
