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Susan Hauptman – December 8, 1947 – July 18, 2016

Susan Hauptman is perhaps best known for her hyper-realistic charcoal and pastel self-portraits that challenge the viewer to confront her artistic, sensual and sexual identity. With elegant line and shading, she engages in provocative nakedly objective self-analysis that is often disquieting.

Her still lifes are narratives about her 35-year marriage to Leonard Post, who is also depicted in several of her self-portraits.

Among Hauptman’s collectors are the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK, Norton Gallery of Art, Palm Beach, FL, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, Yale University Art Gallery, Richard Brown Baker Collection, New Haven, CT, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, CA, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA, Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, Sunrise Museum, Charleston, WV, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI, Glenn Janss Collection, Sun Valley, ID, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kogod, Washington, D.C., the Estate of Alan Stone, New York, NY, Lee Grant, New York, NY, Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY, Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc., San Francisco, CA, Pacific Bell, San Ramon, CA.

Hauptman has been in one-person shows at the Norton Museum, Palm Beach, FL, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington WV, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA, Forum Gallery, New York, NY, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY, Jeremy Stone Gallery, San Francisco, CA Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery,San Francisco, CA, Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions. Hauptman held the Lamar Dodd Professorial Chair at the University of Georgia 1from 1997-2000, and has been a visit artist at Harvard University, the University of California at Davis and Santa Barbara, the Oregon College of Arts and Crafts and other intuitions. She was briefly on the faculty of Skidmore College and the University of Pittsburgh, Semester at Sea.

Hauptman received two grants from the National Endowment for of the Arts and two from Art Matters, Inc. She received single grants or awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the George Sugarman Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Grant, the California Arts Council, the Oakland Museum and Yaddo.

Hauptman was born in Oak Park, Michigan, but lived much of her life in New York City. She also lived in Oakland and Venice, California. She received her M.F.A. from Wayne State University, Detroit, MI in 1970, and her B.F.A. at the University of Michigan after first studying at the Carnegie Institute of technology.

Hauptman travelled extensively, crossing the Sahara alone when she was 21, and crisscrossing Africa and India overland alone, until she introduced her husband to travel in 1979.