Biography

Exhibiting internationally since the early 1990s, Suzanne McClelland’s practice includes both large-scale paintings and works on paper, often extracting fragments of speech or text from various political and cultural sources and exploring the symbolic and material possibilities that reside within language.

Biography

Exhibiting internationally since the early 1990s, Suzanne McClelland’s practice includes both large-scale paintings and works on paper, often extracting fragments of speech or text from various political and cultural sources and exploring the symbolic and material possibilities that reside within language. McClelland lives and works in Brooklyn, and is represented by Team Gallery, New York and Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago. Her work can be found in the collections of MOMA, NY, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Saatchi Gallery, London, Rubell Family Collection and The Margulies Collection in Miami.


1981 – BFA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

1989 – MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY


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Grants and Awards

2015

The Lab Grant Residency, Dieu Donne, New York, NY

2012

American Academy of Arts and Letters Art Purchase Award

2010

Anonymous Was a Woman Award

2006

Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Arts

2006

AXA Artist Award

2002

Visual Harlem Artist Exchange Jacob Lawrence Foundation

2001

Pollock Krasner Grant

1999

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Resident Faculty

1990

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Clocktower Studio Program, Artists Residency

Exhibitions

2016

Articulate Muscle with an exhibition brochure essay “Made to Measure” by Claire Barliant, Dieu Donne Lab Grant Exhibition, Dieu Donne, New York, NY

2015

Call With Information, Team Gallery, New York, NY

2014

Zero Plus Zero, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL

2013

Every Inch of My Love, Team Gallery, New York, NY
Furtive Gesture_CEDE part2, University Art Museum, University at Albany, Albany, NY
STrAY: Found Poems From A Lost Time, The Fralin Museum of Art, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (Catalogue essay: Jennifer Farrell)

2011

left, Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY

2010

Scratch, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
TOY, Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich, Switzerland (Catalogue)

2009

Put Me in the Zoo, Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY

2007

STrAY, David Krut Projects New York, NY (Catalogue)

2005

SLIP, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY (Catalogue)
Team Play Her, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL

2003

Suzanne McClelland: Drawings and Prints, KS Art, New York, NY

2001

Enough Enough, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL

2000

Out of Character, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
Plot, Galerie Lutz and Thalmann, Zurich, Switzerland (Catalogue essay: Sean Elwood)
Intersections and Interruptions, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (Catalogue essay: Carter Ratcliff)

1999

Correspondence, Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Elsewhere, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO

1998

Mothertongues, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY

1997

Tealeaves, LA Louver, Venice, CA
Suzanne McClelland, Galerie Lawrence Rubin, Zurich, Switzerland
Suzanne McClelland, Galerie Kyoko Chirathivat, Bangkok, Thailand

1996

Babel, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY

1995

Suzanne McClelland, Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Suzanne McClelland, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Suzanne McClelland, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA

1994

Suzanne McClelland, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
Suzanne McClelland, LA Louver, Venice, CA

1993

Suzanne McClelland, 303 Gallery, New York, NY
Suzanne McClelland, Jason Rubell Gallery, Miami, FL

1992

Suzanne McClelland-Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York, NY
Suzanne McClelland, Jason Rubell Gallery, Palm Beach, FL

1991

Suzanne McClelland, Stephanie Theodore Gallery, New York, NY

Videos

D’AMELIO TERRAS – Painting in Abstraction (featuring Suzanne McClelland)

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