Deborah Kruger

Text & Textiles: Two-person show at the Shelley Heffler Gallery

On view through December 25, 2023 I met Shelley Heffler in 2016 when she won a free artist residency at 360 Xochi Quetzal, an artist and writers residency in Mexico that I directed (now under the leadership of Bethany Ann Putnam). We felt an instant bond and had a lot of overlaps in our lives […]

2024 Text & Textiles-Solo Show at Rock Gallery in Raleigh, NC

Exhibition Title: TEXT & TEXTILES  About: TEXT & TEXTILES, a solo exhibition of Deborah Kruger’s environmental artwork will be on display at the Block Gallery in Raleigh, NC from October 30, 2024 – February 28, 2024 TEXT & TEXTILES focuses on Deborah Kruger’s current body of work, which is motivated by the extinction of bird […]

2023 Women Eco Artists Dialogue (WEAD) Online Exhibition

Deborah Kruger-Red Feather Basket 2 Danielle Kunkel Bye Bye Birdies, 2022 Exhibition Title: Kinship with Birds in Plight and Flight About: Women Eco Artists Dialogue (WEAD) presents Kinship with Birds in Plight and Flight, an online exhibition celebrating conservation successes and work that signals the need for urgent interventions. With birds globally facing challenges due […]

Invisible Matters: Kruger & Pribich Show in NYC

A project of ArteMorbida’s ‘Follow the Thread’ Invisible Matters is a duo exhibition with Deborah Kruger and Michael Pribich at Big Sky Studios in Chinatown/New York. The show is a part of the multi-location Follow the Thread celebration of contemporary textile art sponsored by ArteMobida, the Rome-based fiber magazine, and curated by Barbara Pavan. Kruger, […]

2023 Text & Textiles

About: Text & Textiles is a 2-person exhibition featuring work by Deborah Kruger and Shelley Heffler. Both artists were trained at Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York and bring their design backgrounds to their contemporary abstract artwork. Kruger and Heffler are both committed to using recycled materials in their artwork. The Gallery is […]

2023 Follow the Thread/Invisible Matters

About: “Invisible Matters” is a two-person show (with Michael Pribich) sponsored by the Follow the Thread Textile Festival promoted by ArteMorbida  based in Rome, Italy. The Festival is a multi-location event in Chelsea and Lower Manhattan and celebrates new expressions of fiber art by artists, galleries, institutions and businesses. Dates:  November 3 – November 12, […]

World of Threads Festival in Toronto, Canada

Deborah Kruger Represents Mexico The World of Threads Festival, curated by Dawne Rudman and Gareth Bate, opens October 12, 2023 and runs through December 17, 2023 at the Queen Elizabeth Park Community & Cultural Center in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, a suburb of Toronto. This well anticipated Festival features 426 artwork by 115 artists from 15 […]

Behind the Scenes (Temp)

Behind the Scenes My Travel arrangements can be a logistic nightmare! Needless to say, the logistics of moving my artwork to an around the US + Canada is a more than a part time job!  Fortunately, I have a talented new person on my team, Lucky, who hails from Oakland, CA, but was most recently […]

Deborah Kruger’s Fall Exhibition Schedule

This Fall, my environmental art will appear in exhibitions in Tennessee, Toronto, New York and California. If you live near any of these venues, please let me know if you can attend the openings or gallery talks. It would be great to see you! Cookeville, TN | AUG 17 – SEPT 14 AVIANTO: A solo […]

Arte Morbida Interviews Deborah Kruger

I am honored to have an in-depth interview about my artwork, inspirations and art practice that appears in Arte Morbida, the premier Italian magazine about contemporary fiber art. The magazine also has an extensive on-line presence including calls for exhibitions and other opportunities. It is rare to have so much coverage in one place and […]