Suzanne Wright www.suzannewrightstudio.com
Education
2011 University of California in San Diego, Masters in Fine Art
2004 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
1990 Cooper Union, NY; Bachelors in Fine Art
Solo Exhibitions
2027 TnT Art LAb, San Francisco, CA (upcoming)
2026 Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles CA (upcoming)
Artist research residency (in prep for solo), TnT Art Lab, San Francisco, CA
2024 The Alchemy of Equals, Tappeto Volante Projects, New York, NY(November)
2022 Gateways, Tappeto Volante Projects, New York, NY
2021 Selected works from Gateways to the Dance floor, 2019-2021, (Online) Lobo Del Mar Gallery
2020 Meditations on transformation, Legion Arts, Cedar Rapids, IA
2018 Feminist Alchemy, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Retrospective with studies, Chan Gallery,Pomona College, Pomona CA
2016 The Rainbow Warriors, Angels Gate Gallery, San Pedro CA
2014 The Rainbow Control Room, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles CA
2012 Exiting the Deathstar, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles CA
2011 Memories of the Future, University Art Gallery, San Diego CA
2010 Guest Artist Residency, Darin Klein, Los Angeles CA
2004 The Forest, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York NY
2002 Sculptures & Drawings, Church and Maple Gallery, Burlington VT
2001 Project Room, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York NY
2000 In Sugarland, DeChiara-Stewart Gallery, New York NY
1999 White Room, White Columns, New York NY
Two person Exhibitions
2011 G.L.O.W. (Gone Livin’ Out West), Suzanne Wright/A.L. Steiner, Commonwealth and Council Gallery , Los Angeles, CA
2011 Vessel, Suzanne Wright & Tony Payne, ACP (Artist Curated Projects)@Human Resources, Los Angeles CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 Every Woman Biennial, Brush Gallery, NY, NY
2025 TnT Art Lab’s fall auction. San Francisco, CA
5 UNDER 5, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angels CA
Feminine Energy, Goddess Art Magazine online juried exhibition
La Banda, Tappeto Volante Projects, New York, NY
2024 10th Autumnal 2024 – Juried ARTHOUSE NY, 138 Sullivan Street NY
10 years, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angels CA
Every Woman Biennial, La Mama Gallery, New York, NY
Art Solon, ArtPort Kingston, New York
2023 Sense and Sensibility, ArtPort Kingston, New York
Garden: Ladies Room, Los Angeles CA
2022 Photo Realness: The Queer Aesthetics of Photography. Schlomer Haus, San Fransisco CA
Our Mother the Mountain, La Mama Gallery, New York, NY
2021 Hold the Line, Levitt Gallery, University of Iowa, IA
Untitled, Sagtikos Fine Arts Center, Brentwood, NY
The Other Side of the Rainbow, ArtPort Kingston, New York
Every Woman Biennial, Super Chief Gallery NFT, New York, NY
2020 Congruence, I LIKE YOUR WORK online juried exhibition by gallerist, Bridgette Mayer
3 Grant Wood fellows, Levitt Gallery, University of Iowa, IA
2019 Every Woman Biennial, Los Angeles, CA
2018 The Exhibition of Flags, Zollamt Gallery, Australian/Slovanian boarder
Defining Form, The Untitled Space, New York, NY
Postscript:Catalog Exhibitions, Chan Gallery, Pomona, CA
In this Together, Castelli Space, Los Angeles CA
Room XX, Untitled Space, New York NY
2017 Secret Garden, Untitled Space, New York NY
Crying out loud, CCA Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe NM
Focus group, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Whitney Housten Biennial, SOHO, New York NY
2016 Cut Ups: Queer Collage Practices, Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York NY
Cock,paper,scissors, ONE Archives, Los Angeles CA
QUEER Biennial II, Yooth: Loss and Found
2015 XX, Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles CA
2014 Another Cat show, 356 Mission, Los Angeles CA
Rethink Environment, Human Resources, Los Angeles CA
Whitney Housten Biennial, Brooklyn NY
The Drawing show, AIR Gallery, Pittsburgh PA
2013 Wir Drei (us three), Guggenheim Gallery, Orange CA
Install WEHO, Los Angeles CA: LA portals:curated Glory Holes
2012 Récits des trois perverses: femmes seulement, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Tilt shift LA, Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles CA
Herstory Inventory: 100 Feminist Drawings by 100 Artists
2011 Somatic SENSOR, Highways, Los Angeles CA
Object-Orientation: Bodies and/as Things, Cerritos Gallery Norwalk CA
2009 San Diego NOW, Oceanside museum of Art, Oceanside CA
2008 I-podism, TULCA,visual arts in Galway Ireland
Sexy times, Morgan Lehman Gallery, NY NY
Empire of this, Claire Oliver Gallery, NY NY Curated by Janet Phelps
2007 New American Talent, Arthouse, Austin TX Curated by Anne Ellgood
Shared Women, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles CA
Innocence Now, Artspace Witzenhausen, Amsterdam
2006 The Last Time They Met, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London UK
All for One, One for All, Aeroplastics contemporary, Brussel Belgium
Circus of Books photo show, Circus of books Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Ridykeulous, Participant, NY, NY(Catalogue)
2005 Garden of Earthly Delights, Kustera Tilton Gallery, NY,NY
Armpit of the Mole, Your new favorite drawings compilation,Publication
The L-word, Showtime weekly series, main title theme (featured drawings)
2004 I’ve Met Someone Else, Monya Rowe, NY NY
Super Solon, Samson projects, Boston MA
2003 Inaugural Exhibition, Monya Rowe, Brooklyn NY
2002 The Lunatics Take Over the Asylum, Works on Paper, Los Angeles, CA
Human Body Show, DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
Body Works, Islip Museum, Long Island, NY. Curated by Leslie Miller
2001 Lets Talk About Sex, Kunst Hans Museum, Dresden Germany.
Curated by Susanne Altmann (catalogue)
Smirk, Firehouse Gallery, Long Island, NY (catalogue)
Les Volupues, Borusan Culture and Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey (catalogue)
Another Day on Planet Earth, DeChiara-Stewart, New York, NY
Wattage and Friendship, Muller-DeChiara, Berlin, Germany.
Curated by David Hunt (catalogue)
2000 City Lights, Colbert Windows Exhibition, New York, NY (catalogue)
The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Debs & Co., New York, NY
Anywhere but Here, Artist Space, New York, NY. Curated by Jenelle Porter
The End, Exit Art, New York, NY
1999 In My Room, White Columns, New York, NY
Group show, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Surveying the Landscape, Lombard-Fried, New York, NY
Sculpture Performance, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
1998 The Choice, Exit Art, New York, NY.
Curatorial / Collaborative Projects/Art Fairs
http://www.suzannewrightstudio.com/curatorialcollaborative
2025 Season Contemporary, Michigan Central Station, Detroit MI (Art Fair)
2024 “Fairies Solon” , performance and readings, Tappeto Volante Projects, Brooklyn, NY (curation)
2023 Spring Break NY, 625 Madison Ave, NY, NY (Art Fair Booth 1160) (Art Fair)
2022 “Fairies and Sunset”, performance and readings, Tappeto Volante Projects, Brooklyn, NY(curation)
2019 Director of the “EVERY WOMAN BIENNIAL” 2019 L.A. edition (curation)
2018 “Who’s Got the Power?”, Visual AIDS & QUEER, ILL + OKAY present Documents: Art, AIDS & Activism in Chicago, Pride Arts Center, Chicago, “Who’s Got the Power?,”Alternate Endings, Activist Risings : 29th iteration of Visual AIDS’ longstanding Day With(out) Art project, The Broad Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2016 LAND Los Angeles Nomadic Division presents Rob Pruitt’s Flea Market, Los Angeles, CA
The Octagon Project, Oracles of culture, Los Angels CA
2015 AmazoNIGHT @3 Days Awake SPACE, Los Angeles CA - A group exhibition that draws from the crystal power of Amazonite, consciousness raising, past, present & future feminism, and critiques of capitalism, simultaneously embracing the scared feminine and the spirit of the transgender warrior.
2012 Third Annual Queer Pile up exhibition, organized by Darin Klein & Suzanne Wright: ForYourArt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Echo Park Studio Project - Second Annual Queer Pile Up : Local queer artists were invited to bring work to the studio for a one-night exhibition. All mediums were welcomed, with wall space available on a first-come, first-served basis. 24 artists brought everything they needed for installing their drawings, paintings, photos, videos and sculptures.
W.T.F. - Women Together... Fantastic: With Math Bass + fierce pussy+ Dawn Kasper + Catherine Lord + Community gardens and other sustainable projects
2010 Future 86: Parksville, NY, originating in 200, A laboratory for artists to present work outside of the market place, surrounded by nature, and housed within a former 1930’s Jewish summer hotel in the Catskills, Future 86 is both exhibition and experiment. Inspired by participation in other artist communities such as Skowhegan & High Desert Test Sites the weekend long happening aims to incorporate a wide range of contemporary practice: drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, installation, interactive performance, film and video screenings, relational aesthetics, and spontaneous dialogue.
Publications / Lectures / Public Rituals/workshops
2026 Book cover, Against Enclosure for Suzanne Wright’s Gateways, published by Pamenar Press(upcoming)
Studio visit Magazine – Legacy Volume 53 (upcoming)
2025 Goddess Art Magazine: Feature and an interview (upcoming)
Featured as a Studio Visit Artist, I like your work artist platform
Visiting Artist in The Works online community, I like your work artist platform
2024 Art Spiel Magazine: Suzanne Wright: The Alchemy of Equals at Tappeto Volante
Review of Suzanne Wright Solo Show “The Alchemy of Equals”@Tappeto Volante Gallery, Mathew Ward
“The Only Way Out” the racial and sexual performance of escape - Book cover art, Unnameable Books,Katherine Brewer Ball
Movement Research Performance Journal May publication “Read my lips before they are sealed” GANG artist collective for LBGTQ and AIDS visibility
2022 New American Paintings Issue #149 Juried Exhibition Midwest Edition
2021 Artist publication: “Striking perspective” Suzanne Wright : New Paintings and Writings, Summer 2021
2020 The Goddess Eye View, Stanley Museum, Iowa City, IA
Contemporary Suffrage, Maquoketa Art Experience, Maquoketa, IA
Ritual, Sigils and Magical Activism, CSPS Hall, Cedar Rapids, IA
2018 Transformation, Magical Activism and the Unified Field, A Ritual for Intention at The Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles ,CA
Dystopias and Utopias, Feminist Review (Publication)
2017 A Ritual for Protection and Creativity, with guest artist and witch Sarah Faith , Chan Gallery, Pomona CA
Failure : ISSUES #3, LA Art Book Fair (Publication)
Cock, Paper Scissors, LA Art Book Fair (Publication)
2016 Reuses of the Erotic: A Symposium On and Beyond Queer Collage, Artist Lecture and Collage workshop, University of California, Irvine
New Moon Ritual, Marking 15 years of 9-11, with Guest Artist’s Autumn Beck and Sarah Faith, Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro CA
2014 DRAW 2014: A 3-Day Symposium Exploring the Expanding field of Drawing, and Collage workshop, Artist Lecture, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
The Shadow, Otherwild + Bullhorn Press (print addition)
2013 T.G.I.F. (Hybrid Art class selected art works), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA
Queer/Art/Film: FOXES, presented by Suzanne Wright, CiniFamily, Los Angeles
2012 Darin Klein: Box of Books, Vol. V, LA Art Book Fair(Publication)
Art and Queer Culture (Themes and Movements Series), Phaidon Press (Publication)
Strange Attractors, Institute of Extraterrestrial Sexuality/Encyclopedia Destruction (Publication)
21st Century Queer Artists Identify Themselves Zine Project 2 - 2010 Volume #1 /2011 Volumes 2 + 3 / 2012 Volumes 4 + 5 (Publication):LBGTQ artists from around Independent publication and promotion of queer-identified artists.. These books were hand bound and produced over three years with five volumes.
2011 Feminist Landscapes; Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory (Publication)
2010 Into the Abyss, Art and sex in the landscape edited by Adam Putnam (Publication)
Organizations and Art Affiliations
Member of A.C.T.U.P. (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) a diverse group of people committed to ending the AIDS crisis. Work done with graphics, video outreach safe sex education and civil disobedience.
D.I.V.A. TV (Dammed Interfering Video Activist) a collective of video makers who work in creating alternative stereotypes and forms of media information around the AIDS crisis, work on cable access, and outreach in the Gay and Lesbian Communities.
Fierce Pussy (co-found fierce pussy) a group of queer woman creating direct-action art and performance that prioritized lesbian visibility altering the city streets with posters, stickers, and stencils.
GANG a collective of artists dealing with current issues of censorship, AIDS, sexism, racism; work includes video, performance, gallery installation, and wheat pasting
Selected Institutional Service : from Fall 2023 - Spring 2026
University of Iowa School of Art and Art History:
Area Head of Painting and Drawing 25/26
Executive Committee in the Fall and Spring semester 23/24
Grant Wood Fellowship Committee 24/25
Review for colleague Ali Hval
Painting and Drawing MFA/MA committees 23-25
Painting and Drawing department search committee for a visiting artist and drawing professor (visiting)
Faculty Gallery coordinator (Fall 24)
search committee for the Assistant Professor in Art search, targeted Drawing and Science tenure-track faculty member.
Grant Wood Fellowship in Painting committee representative 2025/26
serving as the Painting and Drawing representative on the SAAHD Scholarship Committee, which also includes the undergraduate submission and ballot process.
Graduate admissions review committee 2023-25
Related Professional Experience
2022 - 2023 Artist Assistant and Fabricator for Nicole Eisenman, mold making, sculpture fabrications with extensive uses of plastics, foam, wood, bronze, welding, wax, plaster, Aqua Resin and painting.
2013 - 2017 Lab lead technician in for the painting and drawing department at Chapman University: Art studio maintenance and organization, budget management/purchasing of supplies and Interface with student workers, art faculty and Staff and assigning work to assistants.
2011 - 2012 Director of the Visual Arts Division A.C.E Academy of Creative Education at The Oakwood School: Coordinator of all aspects of the intensive summer arts program. Contacting, courting and confirming all teachers while working one on one developing their curriculum. Soliciting applications from potential students and parents and communicating with all who are enrolled in the program. ACE Art seeks to bring together a group of students who are committed to making art for a four-week session dedicated to exploring their creativity. Professional Los Angeles-based artists will mentor students, while they develop skills and ideas to deepen their relationship to art. Students will focus on two art media as well as experiment with other art forms to inform their process.
2008 – 2010 Visiting Artist Lecture Coordinator, UCSD
Responsibilities: Grad student liaison, soliciting suggestions for visiting artists, working with the committee to select a range of artists. Contacting, Courting and confirming visitors. Confirmation of travel and hotel. Scheduling studio visits and signups, publicity/emailing, hosting, all aspects of technical set up for guest artist.
1991 – 2007: Artist Assistant to Robert Gober: This includes but is not limited to: fabrication, research, mold making, human hair-implantation, extensive uses of plastics, wood, bronze, welding, lead casting, beeswax, plaster, Aqua Resin and painting. Selected Multinational Installation: Dia NYC, Aldritch Museum, MOCA, Los Angeles, Walker Arts Center, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, JeauDePaum, Paris, Schaulager, Switzerland.
1993 - 1995 : Associate producer and assistant editor for The Question of Equality, Part 2 - Culture Wars ‘the Question of Equality’, a four part PBS documentary on the history of the U.S. gay rights movement. Through an exploration of three key events, Culture Wars probes the violent anti-gay backlash in the midst of the AIDS crisis and the galvanized community’s response: The brutal murder of Julio Rivera in Queens, The release of Marlon Riggs’s ground-breaking film Tongues Untied,Oregon’s Ballot Measure 9, backed by the religious right.
Described skill sets:
Computer: Blackboard Learning Management System, online remote teaching, Zoom tutorials, Keynote and Powerpoint, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe creative cloud: Photoshop, Illustrator, and Bridge.
Printmaking : Etching, Lithography, Woodcut, Silkscreen, Drypoint, and Engraving.
Drawing: Knowledge of art all materials and their skillful use, design and commercial techniques, indexical, conceptual, emotive, analytic, memory and imagination, diagrammatic, geometric, abstraction, constructive, and life drawing, rules of perspective, golden proportions, and composition skills.
Painting: Knowledge of all oil, acrylic and water based paints and mediums and their skillful use, conceptual and commercial techniques, color theory, underpainting, blocking, texture, dry brushing, sgraffito, glazing, encaustic, adhering wallpaper, multiple surfaces, and their construction.
Sculpture: knowledge and use of multiple mediums and techniques that include fabrication in mold making, various liquid plastics, and urethanes, wood, welding, lead & bronze casting, beeswax, plasters, extensive knowledge of Aqua Resin, ceramics .
Digital and analog photography: Darkroom black and white/color, Bridge, digital and analog printing
Editor : Avid media composer, Final Cut pro, analog 16 mm film