SHOWS: PAINTINGS & TEXTILE WORK
AI: Artistic Inspiration in AI. Studio Art Quilters Assoc. Global Exhibition. LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA. Jurors: Michelle Schulte, Golden G. Richard III, Brendan Harmon, February 2026, traveling through 2029.
Journeys in Cloth: Textile work, curator: Wanda Sullivan Allred, Eichold Gallery @SpringHill College, Winter 2023
Fragile Places: new paintings, Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA, November 2021
New Paintings, Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA, March 2016
The New Landscape, curator Donan Klooz,, Mobile Museum of Art, Summer 2015
Songs for the Gulf Coast: Paintings by Susan Downing-White, Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA, March 2012
The Prominence of Place: Susan Downing-White & Dori DeCamillis, curator: Paul Richelson. Mobile Museum of Art, April 22-August 2011
Weather Changes & Recent Events: recent work, Gallery 54, Mobile, AL 2010
Shoot'n Southern: Women Photographers, Past and Present Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile AL 2010
Green 10: Ten artists explore environmental issues, curator: Wanda Sullivan Allred. Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL, September 2009
A Tribute to Cole Pratt: His Gallery’s First Fifteen Years, 1993-2008, New Orleans Museum of Art 2008
Summer Exhibition, Buchanan Gallery, Galveston TX, June - September 2008
Places East of Here: Recent Work by Susan Downing-White, Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA 2007
Southeastern Biennial Exhibition, curator: Paul Richelson PhD., Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile AL 2005
Where Water Meets Land: Recent Work, Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans 2006,
Southern Current: Art Exploring the Southern US, Space 301/Contemporary Art Center, Mobile AL 2002
Ode to a Dry Season: Paintings by Susan Downing-White, Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL 2001
Voices Rising: Alabama Women at the Millennium, National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington DC 2000
Landscape: A Group Exhibition, M. A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK
Unbroken Circle: Selections from juried exhibitions in Alabama, Alabama State Council on the Arts, Montgomery
Alabama Landscape Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL
The Artist Selects: Two contemporary landscape painters, Isabel Anderson Comer Museum, Sylacauga, AL
Landscape Invitational, Weber State University Gallery, Ogden, Utah
National Small Oil Painting Exhibition, Wichita Center for the Arts, KS
SELECTED COLLECTIONS & COMMISSIONS
McGlinchey Stafford PLLC, New Orleans LA
Whitney Bank, New Orleans, LA
Southern Progress Corporation, Birmingham, AL
State of Alabama, Gordon Persons Building, Montgomery, AL
Center for Commerce, Montgomery, AL
Balch & Bingham, Birmingham, AL
Retirement Systems of Alabama, Montgomery, AL
The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, NC
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL
Mobile Airport Authority, AL
University of South Alabama, University Center, Mobile, AL
Business Partnership of Alabama, Montgomery, AL
Isabel Anderson Comer Museum, Sylacauga, AL
Retirement Systems of Alabama, Montgomery, AL
Saenger Theatre, Mobile, AL., Art Patrons League Public Art Project 1992-1994
Mobile Infirmary Medical Center Center for Commerce, Montgomery, AL
EDUCATION
B.F.A. Painting/ Printmaking, University of South Alabama. 1987
Assistant to paintings conservator Richard D White, Conservation of Paintings,
New Orleans, LA. 2002 - 2006
Auburn University, 1977-78
PUBLICATIONS
Photo feature in The Raleigh Review, Spring 2016
Injecting Sophisticated Drama: Painting Skies & Coasts with Delicate Brushstrokes, American Artist, June 2009
Arts to the Rescue, Mobile Press-Register, September 18, 2010
An Elegant Serenity: New Gulf Coast landscapes at Gallery 54, Mobile Press Register, September 5, 2010
Representing Reality, Mobile Bay Monthly, April 2008
Art Framed Art, Southern Accents, August 2002
The Art of Space, Mobile Register, July 30, 2000
Alabama Voices: Womens Art on display in U.S. Capital, Mobile Register, June 2000
Susan Downing at Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans Times-Picayune, 2003
The Art of the Portrait, Mobile Register, June 1992
New American Paintings,1995 & 1997, Open Studios Press
Landscape of Ambivalence: Susan Downing's serene oil images, Mobile Bay Monthly, April 1995
Alabama Artists, Alabama Magazine, July 1994
Return to Splendor: Susan Downing murals at the Saenger Theatre, Mobile Register, May 1993
Rooms with a View, Montgomery Advertiser, March 1990