Judith Kruger, born 1955, is a multidisciplinary artist whose alchemic painting, prints and mixed media installations explore Human-Environment connectivity and their shared strengths and vulnerabilities. She is recognized internationally for her advocacy and employ of historic, natural pigments and ecological processes.
Kruger’s work has been exhibited in galleries, museums, universities, corporations and cultural centers throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. She has created public commissions for Phipps Conservatory’s Center for Sustainable Landscape’s BETA Project (Pittsburgh, PA) and University of St Joseph’s Embracing our Environment Program (West Hartford, CT). Her work is represented in several private and public collections including Jefferson Hospital (Philadelphia, PA), Hammond Museum (North Salem, NY), Mattatuck Museum (Waterbury, CT), Wofford College (Spartanburg, SC) and Savannah College of Art and Design (Savannah, GA).
She is a recipient of fellowships from Mass MoCA’s Assets for Artists and Connecticut Office of the Arts and grants from Chicago Dept of Cultural Affairs, The Artists Foundation (NYC), Seeds Arts and Education (CA) and Target Corporation (MN). Kruger has served as Artist-Scholar in Residence at Wofford College-Environmental Science Department (SC) and Anneliese School (CA).
Kruger initiated the course Nihonga: Then and Now at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was awarded a grant from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs to teach her course Getting the Dirt on Paint in the Chicago Public School System. Her environmental painting workshops and studio residencies have garnered an international following. She leads an annual Master Abstraction Workshop-in-Residence at the Studios of Mass MoCA, which is currently on its 11th session. She has presented her work at academic conferences including SECAC (SCAD) and the Association for Environmental Science (UC San Diego).
Kruger has served as a member of the Inaugural Dean’s Advisory Board of Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts, the Syracuse University Chicago Arts Council Board, and Chicago’s Ravenswood ArtWalk Board. Her fundraising efforts, which mobilized the creativity of hundreds of artists and designers in the Chicago area, resulted in the donation of significant funds to UCLA AIDS Institute and Michael Reese Hospital to further AIDs research.
She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University and a Master of Fine Arts Degree from Savannah College of Art and Design. Judith Kruger Studio is located in the former Erector toy factory in New Haven, CT, 75 miles Northeast of midtown Manhattan.