2023 Kruger Wins Keller Prize
Grand Prize Winner! On the last day of 2023, I saw an Instagram post in my feed that said that I had won the Grand Prize for the Keller Prize. I couldn’t believe my eyes! I even had to ask a friend to check her Instagram and look up @thekellerprize and tell me if I […]
2022 Avianto: Inaugurates new solo exhibition of Kruger at the Chapala Train Station
The dream becomes a reality… When I first moved to Lake Chapala from Massachusetts and discovered the Train Station Museum. I used to sit in the main entry area, usually when there was a concert, and day dream about having an exhibition there. Now, eleven years later, my dream is becoming reality. On May 14th, […]
2023 Deborah Kruger’s Artwork in MURA Museum Exhibition
Collection of Carlos Diaz Corona shown at Museo Raul Angiano in Guadalajara Friday night, I attended the opening of the Collection of Carlos Diaz Corona, Una Linea en el Agua at the Museo Raul Angiano (MURA) in the Chapultapec neighborhood of Guadalajara (MURA is the contemporary art museum of the city of Guadalajara). Carlos has […]
Museum of Arts and Design acquires work by Deborah Kruger
A New Home for Accidentals and Ropa Pintada In a year full of sales, shows and prizes, here’s the best news yet. My favorite contemporary art museum in New York City, the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), has acquired two of my environmental artworks. MAD thrilled to consider acuisition I’m sure you are asking […]
World Textile Association 25th Anniversary Exhibitions
During the first year I lived in Mexico, I work accepted into two exhibitions celebrating the World Textile Association (WTA) Biennial with the theme of Air. Butterfly Effect was accepted into the large format exhibition at the Diego Rivera Museum in Mexico City and Remnants 18 was included in the exhibition on Recyclability at the […]
Deborah Kruger Wins an Arte Laguna Prize
And I’m a winner! Like most artists, I spend weeks every year writing grant proposals for artists, applying for artist prizes and exhibitions, and scouting for residencies. I hate thinking about how much time this adds up to but it’s A LOT! Plus, many of these opportunities charge fees for entry. And the competition is […]
AVIANTO: Kruger’s new solo exhibition opens at the Train Station, Chapala
The dream becomes a reality… When I first moved to Lake Chapala from Massachusetts and discovered the Train Station Museum. I used to sit in the main entry area, usually when there was a concert, and day dream about having an exhibition there. Now, eleven years later, my dream is becoming reality. On May 14th, […]
PLUMAS: Solo exhibition at PRPG.mx in Mexico City
Curator Micheal Swank had his eye on an additional gallery space in his Colonia Juarez building for two years and when the space became available in October 2021, he jumped on it. After signing the lease, he announced his good news to our Virtual Residency Art Lab, one of several amazing artist programs of PRPG.mx. […]
Kruger represents Mexico in Australia’s Art Textile Biennale
Deborah Kruger will be representing Mexico in the inaugural Art Textile Biennale 2021 that is sponsored by Fibre Arts Australia. The exhibition seeks to exhibit the best of international contemporary art textiles and includes innovative work that is rooted primarily in textile as well as art that explores unexpected relationships between textile and other creative […]
Terra inFirma at the Bernard Heller Museum
I feel privileged to have my piece Harbinger included in the climate-themed show opening at the inaugural exhibition at the new Dr. Bernard Heller Museum located at Hebrew Union College Museum near NYU in New York City.