Susan Kleinberg

In 2001, Kleinberg created Fear Not for the 2001 Venice Biennale at the American Academy in Rome, where she was a Visiting Artist in Residence.[17] Fear Not was a video installation based on audio interviews about courage, which she conducted with people from many walks of life. Interviewees include artist Chuck Close, President Bill Clinton, Gore Vidal, Albanian refugees, Spalding Gray, film director Sidney Lumet, domestic workers, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, and Evelyn Lauder. Interviews were also conducted in Italian with a similarly broad spectrum of people, from former President Silvio Berlusconi and Susanna Agnelli to fish sellers in the Venetian market. Following the interviews, Ms. Kleinberg photographed or chose photographs of each of the individuals. These were linked to the audio track and installed on monitors, almost as Renaissance portraits, throughout the Arsenale.[18]

There have been numerous exhibitions of Fear Not. It was shown in New York at P.S. 1/MOMA[19] (2001–2002). It was chosen as a Special Project for the Chicago International Art Fair[20] (2002) and was exhibited at the Neuhoff Gallery[21] in New York (May 2002). Ms. Kleinberg showed related paintings and drawings at the Venice Design Gallery, Venice, Italy (2001) and in a preview installation at the Stark Gallery in New York (2001). In 2002 the piece was shown along with related prints at the Tasende Gallery[22] in Los Angeles and the Tasende Gallery in La Jolla, CA, as well as at a benefit and lecture for the Skirball Museum in Los Angeles. Most recently it was part of an international exhibition on the subject of courage at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin.

Tierra Sin Males is a video piece based on a highway sign near the U.S.-Mexico border warning drivers not to hit immigrants as they flee across the road. It was first shown at the headquarters of Telecom Italia, the Cloister of San Salvador, during the opening of the 2009 Venice Biennale. Kleinberg's accompanying drawings on seaweed paper, paintings, and prints related to the piece, were shown along with the installation in Venice at the Chiostro del Bramante museum in October 2009.[23] Tierra Sin Males was later installed in TRA: EDGE OF BECOMING at the Palazzo Fortuny during the 2011 Venice Biennale.[24]

The 3D version of Tierra Sin Males premiered at Art Basel Miami in 2012, shown at the Regal Theatre in South Beach.[25] It was shown in 2013 at the LOOP Barcelona festival in Antonio Gaudi's Casa Batllo.[26]

Tierra Sin Males also has been shown at MAXXI in Rome,[27] the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art MAC in Spain, and the Municipal Museum in Nicosia, Cyprus[28] during 2012–2013. It was shown at the Fondazione Orestiade in Sicily, with a permanent installation at the museum Certosa di Padula. It was shown as part of Sasha Waltz and Guests' ZUHOREN exhibition and conference in Berlin, in July 2016,[29] and in the "We Need to Talk" exhibition at the Petzel Gallery in New York in 2017.[30] In 2019, Tierra Sin Males was shown at the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles during Frieze LA. [31]

Kleinberg began what would become a six-year collaboration with the scientific team at the Louvre in 2012. Her first video piece developed with them, KAIROS, features images filmed through the Louvre's high-resolution microscope, including elements and a Mesopotamian figure. It was Kleinberg's fifth high-definition projection piece, along with BLOOD ROLL, D-ROLL, P-SPIN, and Tierra Sin Males, with related prints, drawings, and paintings. It premiered as a work in progress at the Alliance Francaise in Venice for the opening of the 2013 Venice Biennale.[32] It was later shown in PROPORTIO at the Palazzo Fortuny for the 2015 Venice Biennale.[33] It was also shown in Cyfest at the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2017.[34]

Kleinberg's second collaboration with the scientific team of the Louvre, BALAFRE, premiered in INTUITION at the Palazzo Fortuny in Venice for the 2017 Venice Biennale.[35]

Her third collaboration, HELIX, premiered in April 2018, at the Antonio Pasqualino International Puppet Museum in Palermo, Italy, coinciding with Manifesta 18.[36] HELIX was later shown at the Venice Biennale 2019. During the summer of 2021, high-resolution images from HELIX were shown on monitors throughout the Milan metro system.[37]