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Education

1985 MFA, Sculpture, Photography and Painting, University of California, Santa Barbara

1982 BA, Ceramics and Metals, California State University, Los Angeles

Grants & Honors

2015 Pasadena Society of Artists

2014 LA Art Association

1984 Humanities Research Grant

Patent Fund Grant

Solo Exhibitions

2019 Sparc Gallery, South Pasadena, CA

2015 The Slow Down Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2008 SoPas Gallery, South Pasadena, CA

2004 On Gallery, South Pasadena, CA

1982 CSULA Annex Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Group Exhibitions

2023 Visual Artist Group Show, Pasadena, CA

Informationary, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

Confection, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

Non-Sequitur, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

Small Time, Gallery 825, Los Angeles. CA

Coy, Gallery 825, Lost Angeles, CA

Applied Science, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

2022 Undisclosed Location, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

Festoon, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

Small Time, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

Adorn, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

Gleaming Apollo , Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

Factory Fresh, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

Fact Finding, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

2021 Vagaries, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

Petite Works, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

Apocrypha, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

Fat City, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

Remodeling in Progress, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

2020 Open Show 2020: LAAA Signature Survey Exhibition, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

Festoon, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

Field of Vision, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

Indistinct Chatter, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

OUT THERE, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

Petite Works, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

Seclusion, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

2019 Open Show 2019, LAAA Signature Survey Exhibition, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

2018 Open Show 2018, LAAA Signature Survey Exhibition, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

OUT THERE, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

2017 Pasadena Society of Artists 92nd Exhibition, White Gallery, Montrose, CA

2016 Let Us Eat Cake, Space Gallery, South Pasadena, CA

OUT THERE, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

Pasadena Society of Artists 91st Exhibition, San Fernando Valley Arts and Cultural Center, Tarzana, CA

Pasadena Society of Artists, Towns Burr Gallery, Burbank, CA

Pasadena Showcase House of Design, La Canada, CA

2014 From Modern to Contemporary, Elements Gallery, San Marino, CA

2012 12 x 12 x 12, SoPas Gallery, South Pasadena, CA

2007 Four Painters, SoPas Gallery, South Pasadena, CA

2006 2nd Annual SPEF Show, On Gallery, South Pasadena, CA

2005 Deborah van der Zaag & Madelaine Hill, On Gallery, South Pasadena, CA

1988 Santa Barbara Arts Festival, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA

Jocelyn G. Kemp Memorial Exhibition, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica <CA

1986 Invitational of California State Universities, Barrett Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1985 MFA Thesis Exhibition, University Art Museum, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA

1984 Ink and Clay, Kellogg University Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA

1982 Competition, Exploratorium Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1981 16th Annual All Media Art Exhibition, Brea Civic Cultural Center Gallery, Brea, CA

1980 Orton Cone Box Show, Purdue University Galleries, West Lafayette, Indiana

Articles

2016 Suzanne Sproul, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Pasadena Showcase house of Design 2016 , April 19

Suzanne Sproul. Los Angeles Daily News, Pasadena Showcase House of Design, April 19

Bill Glazier, South Pasadena Review, Distinctive Artwork, April 28

Suzanne Sproul, Pasadena Star News, Modern Beauty , April 17

2014 San Marino Outlook, From Modern to Contemporary, September 21

2008 Bill Glazier, South Pasadena Review , Deborah van der Zaag at SoPas Gallery, October 1

Lectures

1983 The Chemistry of Ceramics, UC Santa Barbara, CA

1982 Poured Slab Handbuilding Technique, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA