Susanne Kerr is a New Zealand painter with an extensive solo and group exhibition record. She is represented in New Zealand by Milford Galleries in Dunedin & Queenstown, Orexart in Auckland, and Gallerysmith in North Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

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She has been the recipient of the Walker and Hall Michael Evans Figurative Award (2018), NZPPA Merit Award (2015), the Waiheke Island Artist Residency (2012), the Walker and Hall Zinni Douglas Merit Award (2011) and the Wallace Arts Trust People’s Choice Award (2011) and has  been a finalist in various art awards throughout NZ. Her work is held in public collections, including the Wallace Arts Trust, and private collections in NZ and abroad.  T.J McNamara of the New Zealand Herald has described her work as ‘imaginative, tense, and witty’ (2013).

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She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Canterbury University, NZ.  Her studio is in a leafy suburb in Wellington close to a Regional Park.