About Susan Ressler Photography

Susan R. Ressler is a photographer, author and educator who has been making photographs since the mid-1960s.  She is professor emerita, Purdue University, where she taught photography practice, theory, and history from 1981 - 2004.  An alum of the University of New Mexico (MFA 1988), she studied with Beaumont Newhall, Van Deren Coke, Thomas Barrow and Betty Hahn among others.  She is the editor of Women Artists of the American West, a scholarly anthology published by McFarland in 2003.

2011 News

Museum Purchase

The Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico

Abrivado, Nimes, Provence.   Archival ink jet, 18x28 in., 2009

Exhibitions

New Mexorado:  Artists Living & Working in the Albuquerque-Denver Corridor

The Harwood Museum of Art, March 05 - June 19, 2011

Target, NYC,  Archival ink jet, 16x20, 2010

Society for Photographic Education (SPE), Marion Center for Photography, Santa Fe, New Mexico

November - December, 2011 

Choose Shoes, Los Angeles, CA, Archival ink jet, 22x24 in., 2011

Awards

2011 SPE Conference Award for Excellence in Historical, Critical and Theoretical Writing

Photography as Medium for Co-Evolutionary Animal-Human Conversations (with Stephanie S. Turner)

Cover image, Fall 2011 issue of exposure, vol. 44:2, by Diane Fox