SELECTED COLLECTIONS & COMMISSIONS
McGlinchey Stafford PLLC, New Orleans LA
Whitney Bank, New Orleans, LA
Southern Progress Corporation, Birmingham, AL
Harrahs Hotels & Casinos
RSA/Battle House Hotel, Mobile, AL
Federal courthouse, Mobile, AL
State of Alabama, Gordon Persons Building, Montgomery, AL
Center for Commerce, Montgomery, AL
Balch & Bingham, Birmingham, AL
Retirement Systems of Alabama, Montgomery, AL
The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, NC
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL
Mobile Airport Authority, AL
Sheraton Hotels, Birmingham, AL
University of South Alabama, University Center, Mobile, AL
Business Partnership of Alabama, Montgomery, AL
Isabel Anderson Comer Museum, Sylacauga, AL
Retirement Systems of Alabama, Montgomery, AL
Saenger Theatre, Mobile, AL., Art Patrons League Public Art Project 1992-1994
Gold Coast Casino, Biloxi, MS,
Mobile Infirmary Medical Center Center for Commerce, Montgomery, AL
Portraiture in private collections 1990 - present

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Shooting Southern:  Women Photographers, Past and Present, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile AL 2010
Green 10, Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL, September 2009
A Tribute to Cole Pratt: His Gallery First Fifteen Years, 1993-2008, New Orleans Museum of Art
Group Exhibition, Buchanan Gallery, Galveston TX
Places East of Here: Recent Work by Susan Downing-White, Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Southeastern Biennial Exhibition Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile AL
Weather Changes & Related Events: paintings by Susan Downing-White, Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans
Southern Current, Space 301/Center for the Living Arts, Mobile AL
Ode to a Dry Season: Paintings by Susan Downing-White, Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL
Voices Rising: Alabama Women at the Millennium, National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington DC
Landscape: A Group Exhibition, M. A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK
Unbroken Circle: Selections from juried exhibitions in Alabama, Alabama State Council on the Arts, Montgomery
Alabama Landscape, Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL
The Artist Selects: Two contemporary landscape painters, Isabel Anderson Comer Museum, Sylacauga, AL
Landscape Invitational, Weber State University Gallery, Ogden, Utah
National Small Oil Painting Exhibition, Wichita Center for the Arts, KS

COMMUNITY SERVICE
Interfaith Hospitality Network, volunteer
Habitat for Humanity, volunteer
March of Dimes Silent Auction, donation of artwork
Animal Rescue Foundation in Mobile, Alabama, donation of artwork
Cystic Fibrosis Annual Fundraiser,, donation of artwork
Rock the Bog, Nature Conservancy fund raiser, donation of artwork
"Our Water, Our Future," use of paintings to illustrate Mobile Bay Nat'l. Estuary Program Publication
Postcards to the CAC, Contemporary Arts Center Fund Raiser, New Orleans, LA 2004 Gulf Coast Arts Council, board member 2001-2004
St Paul's School Fundraiser, donation
St Ignatius School Fundraiser, donation
McGill/Toolen School Fundraiser, donation
Festival of Flowers, Donation of art and publication use of artwork

EDUCATION & BIO
Born Chicago, IL 1959
Auburn University, 1977-78
B.F.A. degree in Painting/ Printmaking, University of South Alabama 1987
Assistant to paintings conservator Richard D White, Conservation of Paintings, New Orleans, LA. 2002 - 2006
Painting Instructor, Continuing Education, Univ. of South Alabama, 2009

PUBLICATIONS
Injecting Sophisticated Drama: Painting Skies & Coasts with Delicate Brushstrokes,
   by John R. Kemp, American Artist magazine,  June 2009
Representing Reality, by Adrian Hoff, Mobile Bay Monthly, April 2008
Art Framed Art by Gussie Fauntleroy, Southern Accents, August 2002
First Night Poster,Mobile Register, Dec. 24, 2000
The Art of Space, Thomas Harrison , Mobile Register, July 30, 2000
Alabama Voices: Womens Art on display in U.S. capital Mobile Register, June 2000
She is one skilled oil worker: Susan Downing at Cole Pratt Gallery, Douglas MacCash, New Orleans Times-Picayune, 2003
The Art of the Portrait, Mobile Register, June 1992
New American Paintings,1995 & 1997, The Open Studios Juried Southeastern Competition, Open Studios Press
Landscape of Ambivalence: Susan Downing's serene oil images, by Dave Barnett, Mobile Bay Monthly, April 1995
Alabama Artists, Alabama Magazine, July 1994
Return to Splendor, Susan Downing murals at the Saenger Theatre, Mobile Register, May 1993
Rooms with a View, Montgomery Advertiser, March 1990 .