Artist Susan Kraft's resume'
OVERVIEW
Susan Kraft is an artist and writer where art plays a central role in her life. She started painting in oils very young in her father's art studio. She studied and practiced art in uni, as well as natural sciences and mathematics, all of which which influences her art today. This combination produces an interesting weave of favorite artist methods with mathematics, minerals, and landscapes.
She says, "It's no accident that waveforms and terrains keep surfacing in my abstracts."
in 2000, refocused on her art career with the founding of ART21 Gallery in the heart of Palo Alto, CA. A few years later, she produced and hosted “Talk Art,” an award-winning cable TV talk show about artists’ work and their backstories.
In 2022, she moved from California to live and work in New York's bucolic Hudson Valley.
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2012 "Splintered Humanity: Religious Extremism in Defiance of a Global Community", Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA (example)
2005 "Crossing Oceans", Chow Yang Cultural Museum, Beijing, China (example)
SELECTED INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2025, "Awakening the Goddess", The Unframed Gallery, New Paltz Village, NY
2025 "Boundaries: Hard and Soft", Gardiner Library, Gardiner, NY
2025 "Member's showcase", Roost Arts Hudson Valley, New Paltz, NY
2019 "Worth a Thousand Words", Bankhead Theater, Livermore, CA
2019 "Serenity" solo show, The Main Gallery Redwood City, CA
2018 "Chalk On The Square" downtown plaza, Redwood City, CA
2016 "Anne & Mark's Art Party" The Irrational and Occasional, San Jose Arts Fest
2016 "Nothing is Here; Dada Is It's Name" Branner Spangenberg Gallery Redwood City, CA
2016 Triton Museum of Art, Annual Art Gala, Santa Clara, CA
2015 "Sexism: A Touchy Subject" Silicon Valley WCA , Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 International Women's History Month Exhibition at the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Silver Spring, MD (example)
2014 Anne & Mark's Art Party, San Jose, CA
2014 Unseen or Not, BareBrush.com, Chelsea New York
2007 Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA
2005, 2003 ART21 Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
2002, 2000 Artistic Adventure Gallery, Menlo Park, CA
1998 Peggy Eriksen Gallery, Half Moon Bay, CA
SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2025 "Gardiner Open Studios Tour" studio #3, Gardiner, NY
2024 “Small Art”, Bannerman Island Gallery, Beacon, NY
2020 "SNAP!" at Arc-SF Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018 "Her Story" on-line www.artisttableonline.com
2015 "Voices: An Artist’s Perspective", International Juried Exhibition, presented with www.UniteWomen.org online
2015 SWAN Day, juried SVWCA exhibition at Boswell Art Center, Livermore, CA
2014 "Impulse", juried exhibition at Arc Gallery, San Francisco (example)
2014 "The XX-Factor", Jennifer and Phillip DiNapoli Gallery in the MLK Library, San Jose, CA (example)
2013 "Women’s Right’s: An Artist’s Perspective", national juried show, Pam Foss Fine Art Gallery (example)
2012 "Consequences", Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011 "Man as Object: Reverse the Gaze", SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
2010 "Better Luck Next Time", WORKS Invitational, San Jose, CA
2009 Pacific Art League , Palo Alto, CA
2008 South Bay Area Women's Caucus for Art members' show, San Jose, CA
2006 Los Gatos Art Association, Los Gatos Art Museum, CA
2006 Hudson Valley Art Association 75th Exhibition, NY, NY
2006 SOCO Gallery, Half Moon Bay, CA
2004, 2003 ART21 Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
2000 31st 2-D Competition, San Jose Art League, San Jose CA
1999 SWA Open Competition, Merced, CA
1999 CWA Blackhawk Gallery, CA
1998 SWA 48th Annual, San Francisco, CA
1998 Rakku Gallery, Jerome, AZ
1997 Virtual Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1994 Abstractions, San Jose Art Club, San Jose, CA
TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS
Gardiner, Artist's Technical Talk, "How in The Flow started and is done", Gardiner, NY, 2025
Northern California WCA , Artist's Talk, "Doubt To Discovery", Redwood City, CA, 2019
NCWCA Womxn's Art Crit Salon, Break Through talk (slide show and talk), San Francisco, CA , 2019
Open Studio Art Party & Demo (video), Redwood City, CA, 2016
Triton Museum of Art, Let Them Eat Cake series talk and QA, 2012
Talk Art television show, Let Them Eat Cake and other series, 2005-2008
Santa Clara Art Association, demo and abstract art talk, 2010
Sunnyvale Art Club, demo and abstract art talk, 2007
Gallery Vision - Society of Local Artists, 2006
Staging Your Studio – Silicon Valley Open Studio, 2004
Artists and Galleries – Santa Clara Watercolor Society, 2003
Art in the Digital Age – ART21 Gallery, 2002
BOARDS and COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS
Past:
Roost board member 2023
Gardiner Open Studio Tour (GOST) 2024
Silicon Valley (formerly South Bay Area) Women's Caucus for the Arts - President, 2009 - 2016
Honoring Women’s Rights, 2012: Executive Conference Director / Press Agent
Echoing Visual Voices Together, 2012: Striking Committee member
Women’s Caucus for Arts, National Board member, 2007-2014
Silicon Valley Local Artists, Executive Director, 2004-2007
Silicon Valley Open Studios; Board member, 2003 - 2006
ART21 Gallery, Founder and Director, 2002 - 2007 (intro press)
Palo Alto Art Walk, Co-Founder, 2003 - 2007
Palo Alto Arts and Culture Awareness, founder, 2005
Palo Alto Black and White Ball, Moonlit Cinema Paradiso, Decorate and Design committee - 2004
TELEVISION
Talk Art television show, guest, 2012
Talk Art television series, Producer and host, 2006 – 2010
*This series was broadcast through several cable stations in California and NYC with up to 1 million viewers.
Arts and U, 2005, 2004
ARTICLES
Honoring Women's Rights blog page, 2012
Honoring Women's Rights press, 2012
WCA Eco-Arts conference and exhibition Press, 2010
WCA Eco-Arts conference and exhibition Blogs, 2010
Society of Local Artists e-zine, Your Painting isn’t Done Until It Is Ready To Hang, 2005
Framing for Shows, 2004
JUROR
Pacific Art League - SVOS joint show, 2009
Pacific Art League, Color Spectrum, 2005
Palo Alto Summer Art Fair, 2005
Menlo Park Summer Art Fair, 2001
