Susan Beiner

Born: 1962

Susan Beiner is known for elegantly glazed pieces that are typically covered with hand built and cast pieces. Beiner?s work with domestic scale vessels gradually grew to include sculpture, large conceptual ceramics ...
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    Susan Beiner is known for elegantly glazed pieces that are typically covered with hand built and cast pieces. Beiner?s work with domestic scale vessels gradually grew to include sculpture, large conceptual ceramics and mixed-media installations.

    Beiner's work has grown from her interest in 18th century European porcelains. She began to render their elegantly painted surfaces in three dimensional layers of encrusted form and color. The result is opulent pieces with surfaces covered with shells or nuts and bolts and other natural and man-made objects that Beiner uses to explore the relationship between these increasingly disparate realms. The pieces she attaches are porcelain cast from molds she makes using the actual objects as well as non-ceramic elements created to her specifications.

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    Apprenticeships & Residencies
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    1997

    John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Arts/Industry program, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

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    1999

    Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, New Castle, Maine

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    2002

    Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, Montana

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    2003

    International Ceramic Center, Guldagergard, Skaelskor, Denmark

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    2004

    Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, Montana

    2005
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    2006

    The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Primary Work Experience
    1994
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    2000

    Adjunct Faculty, College for Creative Studies, College of Art and Design, Detroit, Michigan

    2000
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    2005

    Associate Professor, Ceramic Department, California State University, San Bernardino, California

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    2006

    Associate Professor, Ceramic Department, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

    Other

    Public Collections

    American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California

    Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, Montana

    Arizona State University Art Museum, Ceramics Research Center, Tempe, Arizona

    Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Massachusetts

    The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire

    Danmarks Keramikmuseum, Guldagergard, Denmark

    Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan

    Detroit Zoo, Nautilus Gallery, Detroit, Michigan

    Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California

    Jingdezhen Ceramics Museum, Jingdezhen, China

    John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

    Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California

    Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

    Princessehof Kerameiki Museum, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands

    Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin

    Renault, Corporate Design Techno Centre, Paris, France

    Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico

    Southern Illinois University Museum, Carbondale, Illinois

    San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas

    Scripps College, Claremont, California

    XL Screw Corporation, Wheeling, Illinois

    Yixing Ceramics Museum, Yixing, China

    Bibliography

    Adamson, Glen and Davira Taragin.  Tea Anyone? The Donna Moog Collection. Racine, Wisconsin: Racine Art Museum, 2006.

    Brown, Glen, curator. 500 Sculptures. Asheville, North Carolina: Lark Books, 2008.

    Burkett, Richard, Curator. Masters of Porcelain. Asheville, North Carolina: Lark Books, 2008.

    Clark, Garth.  The Artful Teapot. New York, New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2006.

    Cooper, Emmanuel. Contemporary Ceramics. London, England: Thames and Hudson Ltd., 2009.

    Ferrin, Leslie. Teapots Transformed.  Madison, Wisconsin: Guild Publishing, 2006.

    Lauria, Jo. Color and Fire: Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics 1950-2000. Los Angeles, California: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Rizzoli International, 2006.

    Mackey, Maureen. Experience Clay.  Worcester, Massachusetts: Davis Publications, 2006.

    Mathieu, Paul.  Sexpots. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2006.

    Meilach, Dona. Teapots: Makers and Collectors. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Books, 2005.

    Ostermann, Matthias.  The Ceramic Surface.  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.

    Peltier, Yves. Biennale Internationale Creation Contemporaine et Ceramique.  France:  Somogy Editions d'Art, 2010.

    Piepenburg, Robert. The Spirit of Clay Revised Edition. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Pebble Press, 2006.

    Sikes, Toni Fountain. The Best of New Ceramic Art. Madison, Wisconsin: Guild Publishing, 2006.

    Sweet, Marvin.  The Yixing Effect: Echoes of a Chinese Scholar.  BeijingChina: Foreign Languages Press, 2006.

    Taylor, Louisa. Ceramics Bible: The Complete Guide to Materials and Techniques.  San Francisco: California: Chronicle Books, 2011.

    Tourtillott, Suzanne. 500 Bowls. Asheville, North Carolina: Lark Books, 2006.

    _________________. 500 Cups. Asheville, North Carolina: Lark Books, 2006.

    Triplett, Kathy.  500 Teapots.  Asheville, North Carolina: Lark Books, 2006.

    Trumpie, Ank. Deliciously Decadent - Dinner Services of the 20th and 21st Centuries. Princessehof Leewarden, Netherlands: 010 Publishers, 2006.

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    Archie Bray Foundation

    John Michael Kohler Arts Center

    Arts/Industry

    Scripps College Ceramic Annual

    Detroit, Michigan

    San Bernardino, California

    Tempe, Arizona

    Citation: Susan Beiner, "The Marks Project."
    Last modified April 29, 2026. https://www.themarksproject.org/artists/susan-b-beiner

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