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Rieger received her MFA from Rutgers University, her BA
from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and 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.
Rieger has exhibited widely at regional and national venues,
most recently at the National Museum for Women in the Arts
in Washington D.C. Other exhibitions of note are in New
York at A.I.R. Gallery, the Sherry French Gallery, and White
Columns; in Washington, D.C. at the Jones Troyer Fitzpatrick
Gallery, and the Martin Gallery; in Frankfurt, Germany,
at the Fotogalerie Bordenau; and in Hitachi, Japan. Her
work is in the collections of the International Polaroid
Corporation, the Birmingham Museum of Art, and other museum,
corporate and private collections.
Recipient of an Individual Artist Grant 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 is known for her large color photographs depicting
urban Southern landscapes eerily lit by orange/red neon
lights.
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