Sonja Rieger bio
B.A. University of Massachusetts, Amherst
M.F.A. Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University
Biography
Sonja Rieger received her MFA from Rutgers University, her BA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and became a Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1979. From 1991 to 1997 she served as the Chairperson of the Department of Art and Art History.
Rieger has exhibited widely at regional and national venues, most recently at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans and at the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington D.C. Other exhibitions of note are in New York at A.I.R. Gallery, the Sherry French Gallery, and White Columns; in Washington, D.C. at the Jones Troyer Fitzpatrick Gallery, and the Martin Gallery; in Frankfurt, Germany, at the Fotogalerie Bordenau; and in Hitachi, Japan.
Her work is in the collections of the Ogden Museum, the International Polaroid Corporation, the Birmingham Museum of Art, and other museum, corporate and private collections.
Recipient of two Individual Artist Grants from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, Rieger has also received grants for projects from the Polaroid Corporation, the Southern Arts Federation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.