Susan Hale Kemenyffy

Susan Hale Kemenyffy (born 1941) is an American ceramist.

Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Kemenyffy received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Syracuse University in 1963; her teacher was Robert Marks. In 1966 she received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Iowa; study with Mauricio Lasansky earned her a Master of Fine Arts degree with honors the next year. She received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1973; among her awards are the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh award from Carnegie Mellon University Museum (1981, 1983, and 1987) and the Annual Ceramic and Small Sculpture Show award from the Butler Institute of American Art (1982). Kemenyffy has lectured widely. The Canton Museum of Art, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Erie Art Museum, and the Everson Museum are among the institutions holding examples of her work, as is the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. In 2012 she was named Pennsylvania's Artist of the Year. She is married to the ceramist Steven Kemenyffy, with whom she lives in McKean, Pennsylvania.