SUZANNE CAPORAEL: Fitting

SUZANNE CAPORAEL (b. 1949 in New York, NY) received both her Master of Fine Arts and her Bachelor of Arts from Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA. In 1986, a Painting Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 2020, Caporael was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

She has been the subject of notable solo exhibitions at the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; the Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA; Peters Projects, Santa Fe, NM; Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL; the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA.

Caporael has been included in group exhibitions at numerous institutions including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY; de Young Museum and Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; and New York Studio School, New York, NY.

Her work may be found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; Fogg Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; and Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT, among others.

Caporael lives and works in Islesboro, ME.