Suzanne McClelland
Suzanne McClelland is a New York-based artist best known for abstract work based in language, speech, and sound.[1]
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Born | Jacksonville, Florida |
Nationality | American |
Education | BFA, University of Michigan; MFA, School of Visual Arts |
Known for | Painting, Drawing, Printmaking |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship 2019, American Academy of Arts and Letters Art Purchase Award, Anonymous Was a Woman Award, Skowgehan Resident 1999, Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Art, AXA Artist Award, Pollock Krasner Grant, Clocktower Studio Program |
Website | www.suzannemcclelland.net |
Early life and education
McClelland studied with photographer Joanne Leonard and painter Gerome Kamrowski at the University of Michigan receiving a BFA in 1981. In 1989 she received a MFA from School of Visual Arts citing Judy Pfaff and Jackie Winsor as influential teachers.[2]
Work
Suzanne McClelland, her work has been exhibited at The Whitney Museum, both 2014 and 1993 Biennials; The New Museum, The Museum at University at Albany SUNY, The Fralin Museum of Art at University of Virginia, among others. Her work can be found in public and private collections including MOMA, The Walker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum and Saatchi. A solo exhibition curated by Amy Smith Stewart at the Aldrich Museum will begin in November 2016 and Team Gallery will publish a monograph in 2016 with contributions from Thierry de Duve. She is currently on Faculty with School of Visual Arts Fine Arts, MFA Program. McClelland is represented by Team Gallery in New York and Shane Campbell Gallery in Chicago.
Collections
- Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
- Art Foundation Mallorca Collection, Mallorca, Spain
- Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
- Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
- Fisher Landau Center For Art, Long Island City, NY
- Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, VA
- Grunwald Center Collection, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
- Agnes Gund, New York, NY
- Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
- The Margulies Collection, Miami, FL
- Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY[3]
- Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
- Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
- Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
- Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase, NY
- New York Public Library Print Collection, New York, NY
- Nice Public Library, Nice, France
- Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
- Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
- Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
- The Rubell Family Collection
- St Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
- Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
- University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
- Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
- Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
- Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT
- Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
References
- 2014 Whitney Biennial List Announced The New York Times
- Suzanne McClelland + Judy Pfaff. influentials.sva.edu
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art Acquires Work by Suzanne McClelland. blog.sva.edu. February 8, 2012