ABOUT
Susan Low-Beer received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree at Mount Allison University and her Masters of Fine Arts in the United States at the Cranbrook Academy of Art with a major in painting.
She has exhibited internationally in Europe, United States, Japan and Korea, as well as nationally in both juried and invitational exhibitions and has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards.
Susan Low-Beer is represented among others, in the collections of the Museum of Civilization in Ottawa, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the National Museum of Modern Art in Japan, and the Mint Museum of Craft and Design in North Carolina.
In 1999 she received the Saidye Bronfman Award for Excellence in the Crafts and in 2000 was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
In 2017-2018 Low-Beer had a retrospective called Embodiment-30 Years of Sculpture, which was shown at the Art Gallery of Algoma, Norfolk Art Centre and the Clay and Glass Gallery. A catalogue was produced.
Low-Beer’s most current work Specimen, was curated by Sheila McMath and debuted in a companion exhibition to the Retrospective, Waterloo, 2018. In 2022 it was exhibited at RiverBrink Museum, Ontario and in 2023 it was shown at Espace Pierre Debain in Gatineau,Quebec and in the summer it was exhibited at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredricton, N.B. In February of 2024 it will be at St Vincents University Art Gallery in Halifax.