Susan Hauptman (1947-2015) was an American artist who worked exclusively on paper with charcoal, pastel and, later, other elements, such as gold leaf, wire mesh and thread. She is best known for her stark, enigmatic, often expressionless self-portraits in which she depicted herself with precise and candid detail in ways critics described as strikingly androgynous and that confronted cultural notions of beauty, reality, femininity and masculinity. She has had one-person shows in several museums including the Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, the Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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8 December 1947
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Died |
18 July 2015 (aged 67)
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Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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