Deborah Kruger
Ajijic, Mexico | Textile artist | 360XQMX Founder
Surface design and patterning have influenced Deborah Kruger’s work since her textile design training at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. She has taught, lectured and exhibited throughout the US, Mexico, Canada, Europe and Australia since the 1980s.
Kruger’s art practice balances making objects of beauty that convey layered meaning about habitat fragmentation, bird migration, species extinction and loss of indigenous languages. Her artwork is made with recycled plastic screen printed with images of endangered birds and languages.
North Carolina career highlights: Coined in the South: 2024 Biennial at the Mint Museum in Charlotte (Dec 2024 - April 2025); Solo exhibition at the Block Gallery in Raleigh (Dec 2024 - April 2025); North Carolina Artist Support Grant (2022); North Carolina Artists Exhibition, Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh (2020).
Current career highlights include winning the Grand Prize of the Keller Prize; selection of artwork for the Art in Embassies program; exhibiting in Venice, Italy in the finalist exhibition for the Arte Laguna Prize and currently in the International Fiber Art Biennial at the Museum of Textiles in Valtopina, Italy. The Museum of Art and Design (MAD) in New York City recently acquired two large environmental pieces; and solo and group exhibitions in Mexico City, Bogota, Toronto, and New York.
Kruger has attended residencies at the Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY, (1991); La Porte Peinte Centre, Noyers-sur-Serein, France, (2016); Hypatia-in-the-Woods, Shelton, WA, (2022) and the Icelandic Textile Center in Blondus, Iceland, (2024).
