based in New York City and Vermont

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 (forthcoming) Suzy Spence, Maya Frodeman Gallery, Jackson Hole WY

2024 Suzy Spence at The Frame, curated by collector Oleg Guerrand-Hermes, Chinatown New York City

2023 Suzy Spence, FOR THE ROSES, Arusha Gallery, Bruton Somerset, England

2022 Suzy Spence, FADING LANDSCAPE Maya Frodeman Gallery, Jackson Hole WY

2022 Suzy Spence, LIKE RACING SMOKE Sears Peyton Gallery, New York City, with catalog essay by Elizabeth Buhe

2021 Suzy Spence Recent Work Curated by Varia Serova for Zephyr & Maize

2020 Suzy Spence, FULL CRY, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, WY

2019 Suzy Spence: ON THE HUNT, curated by Amy Rahn, The Current, Stowe Vermont

2019 Suzy Spence: DEATH RIDER Cathouse Proper, Brooklyn NY

2018 Suzy Spence: OF DANDIES AND DRAGS, curated by Ella Marder and Olivia Song, NeueHouse Madison Square, New York City

2018 Suzy Spence: A NIGHT AMONG THE HORSES, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York City with catalog essay by Amy Rahn

2014 NORTHEAST was acquired by M HKA Ensembles, The Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp for The Book Lovers, a curatorial project that traces the phenomenon of artist's novels, organized by David Maroto and Joanna Zielinska

2002 Suzy Spence: THE CRACKUP, Rare Gallery, New York City (New York Times Review Ken Johnson)

1999 Suzy Spence: VISIONS OF GRANDEUR, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria

1999 Suzy Spence at Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland

1998 Suzy Spence: VISIONS OF GRANDEUR, American Fine Arts, Co., New York City (New York Times Review Grace Glueck )

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025

Inherent Nature, curated by Kathryn Lynch with a catalog essay by Robert Becker, Maya Frodeman Gallery, Jackson Hole WY

2024

Figurative Impressions, Hurst Contemporary, London U.K.

Now You See Me, Suzy Spence, Nikko Sedwick and Carl D’Alvia , The Bundy Modern, Waitsfield Vermont

Vigorous Fun, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York

The Essential Figure, Burlington City Arts, Burlington Vermont

I Think I’m in Trouble, Sara’s, 2 East Broadway New York, NY

Dallas Art Fair, Sears Peyton Gallery

2023

Wave Pattern, presented by Dylan Brant & Max Werner, 575 Broadway New York, NY

The Coordinate Plane, Arusha Gallery, New York, NY

Dallas Art Fair, Sears Peyton Gallery

2022

Open Air, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY

Properties of Illusion in the Candy Store, Artport Kingston, curated by Laurie DeChiara, Kingston NY

Intersect Palm Springs, Sears Peyton Gallery

2021

The Dallas Art Fair, Sears Peyton Gallery

Fete, Red Fox Gallery, Pound Ridge NY

2020

The Enabling Act A Call To Arms, M. David & Co., Bushwick NY

2019

Selections from the permanent collection, University of Maine Museum of Art

Fete, Bedford Historical Hall, Redfox Gallery, Bedford NY

for Green Mountain Hounds, Northern Daughters Gallery, Vergennes Vermont

2018

CMCA BIENNIAL 2018 , Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Nov 3, 2018 - March 3, 2019

Grace au Dessin, curated by Jason McKechnie, Woodbury University Gallery, Burbank, CA

2017

Artcritical, Eric Firestone Loft, curated by David Cohen, New York

Light in the Dark, curated by Karin Schaefer, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York

At a Langorous Place, organized by Sears Peyton Gallery, New York

2016

The Hunt Intensifies, curated by David Dixon, Cathouse FUNeral at Coustav Waxman Annex, New York

Group Show Artist’s Week, Great Spruce Head Island, Maine

2015 Summer Group Show, Sears Peyton Gallery, New York

2014 Northeast (The Book Lovers) M HKA, curated by David Murato and Joanna Zeilinska, Rotterdam Netherlands

The Hunt, curated by David Dixon, Cathouse FUNeral, Brooklyn

Le Show Des Amis’, curated by Jeannie Weissglass, Showroom Gowanus, Brooklyn NY

The Appearance of Clarity: Works in Black and White, curated by Amy Rahn for The Helen Day Art Center, Stowe Vermont

2011 Signs on the Road, Ed Winkelman Gallery, New York, organized by Leslie Brack, Michael Ashkin and Joshua Geldzalher

2010 Verge Art Fair, Dylan Hotel, New York

2009 Momenta Art, Brooklyn, The Mood Back Home, an exhibition inspired by Womanhouse, organized by Leslie Brack and Suzy Spence

Here's Looking at You, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles

Sarah Meltzer Gallery, Momenta auction, New York

2008 New York Foundation for the Arts commission, boxed edition, ‘Rachel & John’,

Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn,Born Again, Again, curated by Eduard Steinhauer

Bridge Art Fair Miami, with curator Eduard Steinhauer

2002 Colgate University Art Gallery, Metaforms, curated by Carol Kinne

2001 Muller DeChiara Gallery, Berlin, Wattage and Friendship curated by David Hunt

Rare, New York, Vice Versa curated by Michael Lieberman

De Chiara Gallery, New York, Slice of Life, organized by Laurie DeChiara,

Scope Art Fair Miami, Rare

2000 Momenta Brooklyn, I Saw Stars, curated by Leslie Brack

1999 Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, Paper Magazine's 15th Anniversary Exhibition

Accelerator, exhibition curated by Josephine Lanyon, Godfrey Worsdale, and Catherine Gibson, exhibited at Arnolfini Bristol, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, and Oldham Art Gallery, Oldham, United Kingdom

Leslie Heller Work Space, New York, Chocolate Kingdom, curated by Leslie Brack

Turner and Runyon Gallery, Dallas, Encyclopedia 1999

Momenta fundraising exhibition, Green Naftali, New York

Angela, Glarner Kunstverein, Glarus, Switzerland

1998 Matthew Marks and Pat Hearn Galleries, New York, Painting Now and Forever, Part I

American Fine Arts, Co, New York, E Pluralis Nihil, organized by Colin DeLand

David Beitzel Gallery, New York, A Skowhegan Decade

School of Visual Arts Gallery, Dataphilia organized by Ken Feingold

TEACHING

Guest Lecturer, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn 2024

Visiting Critic, Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA, Years 2010, 2013, 2018, 2020

Guest Lecturer, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn 2002

EDUCATION

1998 MFA The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

1996 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

1992 Curatorial Assistant, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY

1992 BFA Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Seven Days Vermont, Magazine Review, Alice Dodge, June 26, 2024 Essential Figure at BCA Center, Reworks and Artistic Tradition

Artnet, Min Chen, February 28, 2024 Meet the Painter Who Masterminded the New Ana Mendieta Series

Elizabeth Buhe catalog essay: Like Art Always Was Suzy Spence’s Like Racing Smoke at Sears Peyton Gallery, February 2022

Interview with Varia Serova, Zephyr & Maize, St. Petersburg Russia June 2021

Artcritical, David Cohen, Suzy Spence: Death Rider at Cathouse Proper March 2019

Portland Press Herald Daniel Kany, Art Review: The 2018 CMCA, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Biennial is Good and Messy

Heritage Radio Network, Roberta’s Pizza, Bushwick Suzy Spence and Irina Milahache, Author and Professor of Museum Studies at the University of Toronto, join Coral Lee in an interdisciplinary discussion. 10/28/18 EPISODE 37

Artcritical, Wen Tao, Hunters and Hustlers, Feminism and Theatricality in Suzy Spence and Heather Morgan, February 2018

Artcritical, David Cohen, cover story Suzy Spence A Night Among the Horses, January 2018

Delicious Line, Suzy Spence A Night Among the Horses, reviewed by William Corwin, January 2018

Amy Rahn, catalog essay: Genre Mis-en-Scenes: Suzy Spence’s A Night Among the Horses, January 2018

Artcritical, Critic’s Pick, The Hunt Intensifies, January 8, 2017

Hyperallergic, IN BROOKLYN, 600 Women Unite for a Photograph, by Christen Clifford, October 2016

1stdibs, The Enduring Appeal of Equine Art, by Ted Loos, October 2016

The Met Museum online, The Appearance of Clarity: Works in Black and White curated by Amy Rahn, 2014

C-Monster, Miranda, Carolina, “Photo Diary: Stuff artists are looking at,” April 2011

ARTslant, Yaelle Amir, Verge Highs and Lows, March 14, 2010

The New York Post, Jennifer Ceaser and Brian Niemietz, "All Dolled Up", March 6, 2010

The Brooklyn Rail, Sharon Butler, "The Mood Back Home", 2009

Apollo Magazine, Vincent Katz, "The Women's Rooms," 2009

Artinfo, Rico Gatson in New York, "Picks" 2009

FemminstBloggers@BrooklynMuseum, Jessica Shaffer, "Picks" 2009

Art21Blog, Nathan Townes-Anderson, "Bite Me", 2009

Motheringmagazine.com, Laura Andre, “The Mood Back Home: an exhibition inspired by Womanhouse”, January 2009

Artinfo, Linda Lee, “A Tale of Two Bridges”, Dec. 5 2008

Blankscreenmedia, featured artist, “Eye Pop”, October 2007

bkyn.com, Paul Laster, featured artist, "streams" section

The New York Times, Ken Johnson, Suzy Spence, “The Crackup”, March 4, 2002

(t)here magazine, issue 5, Suzy Spence featured digital artist t-here.com

Tema Celeste, Daniele Perra, websites reviews, www.Yadigit.com, November-December 2001, July 17, 2001

Artbyte, Chris Kensler, “Brain Candy”, July-August, 2001 pgs. 115-116, review also featured atwww.artbyte.com

Artkrush.com, Christopher Elam, featured website yadigit.com, July 2001

Cut-and-paste.com, Teri McSherrie, featured website yadigit.com, March 2001

The New York Times, Holland Cotter, “I Saw Stars,” May 19, 2000, pg. E34.

Smock, Victoria Leacock, "Vox Populi", July 2000 pg. 28.

Frieze Magaine, Alex Farquharson, Accelerator, summer 1999 pg. 99-100

Paper Magazine, Peter Davis, “Beautiful People” 1999, April 1999, pg. 72

Franz Niegelhell, Neue Zeit, Bewusstsein Industrie und Seifenopern, March 7, 1999

Ressort: Kultur, Oesterreich Salzburg, "Disney, Jesus Christus und Warhol", SN vom 27.3.1999

Steirische Wochenpost, “Suzy Spence im Grazer Kunstverein”, March 4, 1999

Eva Stadler, “Visions of Grandeur” exhibition essay, Grazer Kunstverein, February 1999

Steirerkrone, Jagd-Bilder der besonderen Art, March 5, 1999

Walter Titz, Kleine Zeitung, Normen und Konventionen, February 26, 1999

The Independent, Phil Johnson, “Young Guns Go for It, Accelerator”, February 1999

Esquire Magazine, Tim Martienssen, “Be Here Now – Accelerator”, February 1999

Mark Harris, Art Monthly, “Accelerator”, January 1999, pp. 33-34

Accelerator, exhibition catalogue, Godfrey Worsdale, Jo Lanyon, Catherine Gibson, 1998.

The New Yorker, “Painting Now and Forever Part 1”, August 3, 1998, pg 14

The New York Times, Roberta Smith, “Painting Now and Forever”, August 7, 1998, pg. E33.

The New York Times, Grace Glueck, Suzy Spence, Visions of Grandeur, July 10, 1998, pg. E37.

The Village Voice, Kim Levin, Suzy Spence, July 7, 1998, pg. 89

Paper Magazine, “Guest Artist Room with a View” by Suzy Spence, June 1998

CNBC's Great Stuff, television interview with Suzy Spence, February 21, 1998

Artnet Magazine, Robert Goldman, “E Pluralis Nihil,” www.arnet.com, February 6, 1998

Paper Magazine, Peter Davis, “Hollywood Hip 101, the Chateau Marmont has an Art Attack" February 1998, pg. 24

FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES, AWARDS

2023 Arusha Gallery, Residency The Old Silk Barn, Bruton Somerset, U.K.

2018 H.A.R.P. residency Barnag, HUNGARY

2009-17 New York Foundation for the Arts, Fiscal Sponsorship, the online archive for Womanhouse (1972) womanhouse.net

2016 Great Sprucehead Island Artists Week

2011 Vermont Studio Center

2001 New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Grant

1996 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Fellow

WRITING & CONVERSATIONS

Jenny Saville ROUNDTABLE: Julie Heffernan, Brenda Zlamany, Dennis Kardon, Walter Robinson, Barry Schwabsky, and Suzy Spence

Rico Gatson’s Icons at the Studio Museum in Harlem by Suzy Spence

Feminism at Frieze: A Gendered Perspective on the Art Fair by Suzy Spence

Open Casket: “Enquête” regarding the Dana Schutz affair, the painting, the protests by THE EDITORS

M/E/A/N/I/N/G: The Final Issue on A Year of Positive Thinking, "Plotting" by Suzy Spence

December 11, 2016 | Mira Schor's ayearofpositivethinking.com

Interview with Curator Varia Serova, September 2021

Pat Steir, Drawings | Helen Day Art Center, Stowe VT, 2016

Suzy Spence presents the work of Pat Steir on the occasion of the exhibition Pat Steir, Drawings Curated by Rachel Moore

A Conversation with Stephen Maine | Melville House, November 2014

On the occasion of the exhibition Stephen Maine: Paintings. Artists discuss Book#14-0103 and the motifs that emerge in an oversized, 80-page bound work on paper.

A Conversation with Christopher K. Ho | the artist’s studio Brooklyn, December 2013. In collaboration with Gertrude salons, Suzy Spence in discussion with conceptual artist Christopher K. Ho.

A Conversation with Nicole Cherubini | 1GAP Gallery and Brooklyn Museum, May 2013 in conjunction with the Brooklyn Museum and The Gallery at 1GAP.