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Michael Krueger

Grounded firmly in the tradition of drawing, American artist Michael Krueger employs a variety of media including painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, and animation. His work reflects an interest in American history, contemporary American culture, and art history, and often carries a psychedelic whimsy and weightlessness. His images, some of which are illustrative while others entirely abstract, often reference the natural world; bees, trees, and picturesque landscapes permeate his work, though their representation is often more vivid and colorful than their real-world manifestations.


Krueger has held solo exhibitions at Steven Zevitas Gallery in Boston, New York’s Sunday L.E.S. and Blackburn 20/20, and the Dolphin Gallery in Kansas City, Missouri. Selected groups exhibitions include The Drawing Center in New York, KRETS Gallery in Sweden, The Denver Museum of Art, Ambusher Contemporary in Munich, Glasgow Print Studio, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum in Philadelphia, and the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley. Krueger is currently a Full Professor of Art at the University of Kansas.

Born 1967
Hometown Kenosha, WI
Lives and Works Lawrence, KS
Education
MFA, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 1993
BFA, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, 1990
Permanent Collection

Akademia Sztuk Pieknych, Krakow, Poland

Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, KS

Belger Art Center, Kansas City, MO

Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX

Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Centre for Fine Print Research, University of West England, Bristol, UK

Centro De Arte' Visuales, Asunción, Paraguay

Cincinnati Art Academy, Cincinnati, OH

City of Seattle, Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, WA

Cranbrook Academy of Art, Print Collection

Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO

Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO

Dutch Museum of Lithography, Stenndruk Museum, Valkenswaard, Netherlands Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Frans Masereel Centre, Kasterlee, Beligium

The Fralin Museum of Art, Universirty of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Fulbright Foundation, Warsaw, Poland

Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN

Kumu, (KUnstiMUuseum), Estonian National Museum of Art, Tallinn, Estonia Library of Congress, Washington, DC

London College of Communication, London, England

Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, MN

Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS

Monticello, Thomas Jefferson Estate, Charlottesville, VA

Museo Del Barro, Asunción, Paraguay

Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS

New South Wales Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia

New York Public Library, New York, NY

Parc Tucker Gallery, Queensboro, Australia

Polish Fulbright Foundation, Warsaw, Poland

Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, New York, NY

Santa Reparata Graphic Art Centre Print Collection, Florence, Italy

Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS