Sonja Rieger

Sonja Rieger (b. 1953 in Ansbach, Germany) earned her MFA in 1979 at the Rutgers University Mason Gross School in Brunswick, NJ, and her MA in 1976 at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA.

Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the 21c Museum in Louisville, KY; the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, LA; the International Polaroid Collection in Cambridge, MA; the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, AL; and private collections in the U.S. and Belgium.

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. Rieger 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.

She has exhibited widely at regional and national venues, most recently at Maus Contemporary; the Birmingham Museum of Art; the Gadsden Museum of Art; Carmen Wiedenhoeft Gallery in Denver, CO during Denver’s month of Photography; the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans, LA; the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston Salem, NC; the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, LA; and the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. Other exhibitions of note are at the A.I.R. Gallery; White Columns; the Sherry French Gallery in New York; at the Jones Troyer Fitzpatrick Gallery; the Martin Gallery in Washington D.C., at the Fotogalerie Bordenau in Frankfurt, Germany; and in Hitachi, Ibaragiken Japan.