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Susan Nichter


Associate Professor, Foundation and Fine Art

Phone
(617) 994-4286

Email
susan.nichter@mac.com
snichter@suffolk.edu

Website
http://www.susannichter.com/
http://www.mvworkshop.com/

Courses
Drawing II, Figure Painting, Color, 2D Design, Design Issues and Process, Archer Fellows Honors Seminar, Martha’s Vineyard Landscape Painting Workshop Education

Education
MFA, Boston University, 1984

BFA, Boston University, 1978

Other Teaching Experience
Instructor, Art Institute of Boston, 1988-89
Assistant Professor, Wellesley College, 1987-88
Instructor, RISD Summer Pre-College Program, 1987
Visiting Artist, RISD Honor’s Program, Rome, 1986
Artist in Residence / Instructor, Moorhead State University, 1985
Teaching Fellow, Boston University, 1982-84

Selected Exhibitions
Amersterdam, Whitney Gallery, 511 25th St. Chelsea, NY, 2008
Never Been Seen, NESAD Gallery, Suffolk University, Boston, MA, 2007
Time and Space:  MacDowell Colony Centennial: Time and Space, FPAC Gallery, Boston, MA, 2007
St. Botolph Associates Exhibition, St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA, 2007
The Boston Drawing Project, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA, 2006  
ARTcetera, Aids Action Committee, Boston Center For the Arts,1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006 
Fort Point Channel Group Exhibition, FPAC Gallery, 2006
Dimension 5+, Boulevard Gallery, Newport, RI, 2005
150X150, Green Street Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
Learning to Lasso, Dover Public Library, Dover, MA, 2004
Invitational Show, Craven Gallery, West Tisbury, MA, 2004
Twilight and Starlight, Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, MA, 2004   
Gallery @25, Thompson St., Boston, MA, 2004
Craven Gallery West Tisbury, MA, 2003
Eleven Boston Artists, Galerie Gora, Montreal, Canada, 2002     
Between Solace and Awe, Starr Gallery, Newton, MA, 2002      
The Coaster Project, Destination: The World, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, 2002
Digital City, New England School of Art and Design, Boston, MA, 2002
Interpreting Landscape, Fulton Street Gallery, Troy, NY, 2002
Botanical, Dragonfly Gallery, Oak Bluffs, MA, 2002
New Talent, Craven Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, 2001
Multi, The Painting Center, Greene St., New York, NY, 2000
Decordova Downtown, Federal Reserve Building, Boston, MA, 2000   
Craven Gallery, West Tisbury, MA, 2000
University of Bridgeport, Millennium Time Capsule, Bridgeport, CT, 2000
(Juror: Harry Philbrick, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art)

Honors and Awards
St. Botolph, Associate in the Arts, 2007
LCC Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant, 2001
Fulbright, Italy, 1985-86
MacDowell Colony Residency, 1984
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Scholarship, 1978

Selected Collections
The Harvard Company
Fidelity Investments
Suffolk University Law School
Graham Nash
J. Makowski Company Inc.
Andrew List, Composer
The German Press Office, The Vatican, Italy

Publications
American Art Collector, Juried Competition Northeast Sates, Volume 2, Book 3, 2006
American Art Collector, Juried Competition Northeast Sates, Volume 1, Book 3, 2005
 “Take trip ’Beyond the Landscape”, Joanne Silver, Boston Herald 7/19/02
 “DeCordova Downtown: Art That Means Business,” Boston, MA10/6/00 (catalogue)
 “Galleries”, Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe 2/25/99
“One Hundred Years of Art,” Moorhead State University, Moorhead, MN ‘97 (catalogue)
 “True to Form”, Christine Temin, Boston Globe 7/13/95
“Painters Progress: Fascinating”, J. Sexton, Martha’s Vineyard Times 7/13/89
“Halley-Op Schegge d’arte”, Ill Mattino, Napoli, Italia 3/8/86