Preferred contact: lkruege@bgsu.edu

BIO 2023

Lou Krueger is an emeritus professor and former Director of the School of Art at Bowling Green State University, where he taught art and photography for two decades. Prior, he spent seventeen years at Syracuse University where he also served as the Head of Photography, Chair of Art Media Studies, and Assistant Dean of Visual and Performing Arts. Lou received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Northern Illinois University, with a BFA in Metals, 1970, and his MFA in Photography, 1976.

For forty years he identified as a photographer. Today, he considers himself to be a glass artist, and for the last eight years has devoted his entire studio practice and creative research to the development of glass-photography hybrids, unique combinations of methods and materials that move in two primary directions: The first, fused photographic images on float glass, cast glass, or ceramic tile. The second, optical devices that exploit the image-making properties inherent in glass. As a maker of glass images and objects it is his goal to innovate, invent, and pioneer new directions within the world of contemporary glass.

Lou’s fine art glass, photographs, drawings and paintings have been widely exhibited. He has won exhibition awards in glass and photography and is a recipient of Ohio Arts Council and New York State grants for individual artists. His most recent work was accepted for publication in the Corning Museum of Glass’, New Glass Review 43, (to be printed November 2023). Other current or recent glass exhibitions include:  “51 Glass International Invitational”, Habatat Gallery, Detroit;  Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington; “Emerging Glass”, Kent State University; “Embodiment”, Pittsburgh Glass Center; The Morgan Gallery of Contemporary Glass, Pittsburgh. “Pop N’ Lock”, Habatat Gallery, Detroit; Janice Charach Gallery, Metro Detroit. He has had solo exhibitions of his photography at the Soho Photo Gallery in New York City, and Los Angeles Center for Digital Art; other exhibition venues have included: Nikon House and ICP in NYC, Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago; Lightwork Gallery, Syracuse.

Professor Krueger’s teaching resume includes: all levels of Photography, Digital Hybrids, Experimental Camera, Senior Studio, Pedagogy, Graduate Critique, and Professional Practices; as a visiting artist he has also conducted camera-building workshops at Alfred University, Penland School of Crafts, University of Michigan, Indiana University, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts, Sawtooth School for the Visual Arts, and Bowling Green State University.