Suzanne McClelland (b. 1959)
Biography
Education
1981 – BFA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1989 – MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
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.
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
Education
1981 – BFA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1989 – MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
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.
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