Born in Hengelo (Overijssel), The Netherlands. She currently lives and works in Houston, Texas.
Representation: New Gallery - Thom Andriola, Houston, Texas.
Education: 1994-1998: BFA, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Arnhem (Academy of Art), Arnhem, The Netherlands. Areas of Specialization: Photography & Printmaking.
Teaching degree.
Professional Experience:
1999-2000: Art teacher at high school “Het Loo”, Voorburg, The Netherlands.
2003: Docent at the Blaffer Gallery, the Museum of the University of Houston.
Awards:
Honorable Mention awarded in the "Texas Visual Arts Association National 2007", Irving Arts Center, Irving, Texas. Juried by Andrea Karnes, Curator at the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. *Catalog (illustrated)
First Prize awarded in the “19th Annual Open Juried Exhibition”, 2002, Visual Arts Alliance, Houston, Texas. Juror: Marysol Nieves, Senior Curator, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York.
Exhibitions:
Solo-exhibitions:
2007: “Beyond Lolita”, New Gallery - Thom Andriola, Houston, Texas.
2006: Fotofest exhibition “Pele, Goddess of the Volcano”, New Gallery - Thom Andriola, Houston, Texas.
2005: “de Aanschouw” Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
2004: “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”, Redbud Gallery, Houston, Texas. *Review
Group exhibitions:
2008:
▫ “Suzanne Banning en Viviane Rose”, Oude Beuvink, Kunstroute Lonneker 2008, Lonneker, The Netherlands.
▫ “Subject to Change”, FOTOFEST Group Show (Suzanne Banning, Elinor Carucci and Allison Hunter), TCA (Texas Collaborative Arts) Naü-haus Gallery, Houston, Texas. Curated by Suzanne Banning.
▫ "Viewpoints", FOTOFEST Group Show (Yun Bai, Suzanne Banning, Cheryl Kelley, David Levinthal, Ruta Perzynska, Jay Rusovich and Susanne York), New Gallery - Thom Andriola, Houston, Texas.
▫ “Transformations”, Kingwood College Juried FOTOFEST Exhibition, Kingwood College Fine Arts Gallery, Kingwood, Texas. Juried by Clint Willour, Curator, Galveston Arts Center.
▫ “Bands and Fans”, FOTOFEST Group Show (Brian Anderson, Barry Ayres, Suzanne Banning, Lauren Cohen, Jim Olive, Ariel Pena, Caryn Rock, Chris “Satyr” White), The Meridian, Houston, Texas.
2007:
▫ "Ulterior Motifs a.k.a. Camp Marfa", Crazywood Gallery, Huntsville, Texas. Curated by Wayne Gilbert and Jeffrey Wheeler. *Catalog (illustrated)
▫ "Camp Marfa", The Art Depot in Lubbock, Texas. Curated by Wayne Gilbert. *Catalog (illustrated)
▫ “Amistad; Texas Art in Peru”, Museum of Modern Art (Museo de Arte Moderno) in Trujillo, Peru. Curated by Gus Kopriva. *Catalog (illustrated)
▫ "Camp Marfa", Old Fort Russell Building 98, Marfa, Texas. Curated by Wayne Gilbert. *Catalog (illustrated)
▫ “Amistad; Texas Art in Peru”, National Museum (Museo de la Nación), Lima, Peru. Curated by Gus Kopriva. *Catalog (illustrated)
▫ "Texas Visual Arts Association National 2007", Irving Arts Center, Irving, Texas. Juried by Andrea Karnes, Curator at the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. *Catalog (illustrated) Honorable Mention.
▫ “Houston City Hall Annex Art on Loan Show”, Houston, TX. Curated by Karen Rezai and Gus Kopriva.
▫ "Let’s Dance: Chapalango", Art Galerie Siegen, Germany. Curated by Art Galerie & Photographers:Network, Thomas Kellner. *Catalog (illustrated)
2006:
▫ "The BIG Show", Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas. Juror: Dominic Molon, Pamela Alper Associate Curator for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Illinois.
▫ “Houston Contemporary Art”, Shanghai Art Museum, China. Curators: Gus Kopriva and Christopher Zhu. *Catalog (illustrated)
2005:
▫ “City Hall Project”, Houston, Texas. Curator: Gus Kopriva.
▫ “The Back Room” – a companion gallery show for the City Hall Project. Curators: Wayne Gilbert and Gus Kopriva, DIG 101 Gallery, Houston, Texas.
▫ “Face”, ArtCar Museum, Houston, Texas.
▫ “New American Talent: The Twentieth Exhibition”, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, Texas. Juror: Dan Cameron, Senior Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art New York. (on tour to venues in Texas until summer 2007) *Catalog
▫ "The Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2005 ", Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas. Juror: Dominic Molon, Associate Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois.
▫ “Happy nude year”, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, Texas.
2004:
▫ “Great Things in Small Packages”, Gray Matters Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
▫ “Consul-Arte”, Arte Las Americas Gallery, Houston, Texas. Sponsored by South American and European Consulates.
▫ "New Texas Talent XI"” a state-wide juried exhibition, Craighead-Green Gallery, Dallas, Texas. Juror: Gail Sachson.
▫ “I love red”, The Art House, Houston, Texas.
▫ “Sizzle”, Diverseworks, Houston, Texas.
▫ “21st Juried Open Exhibition”, Visual Arts Alliance, William’s Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas. Juror: Sally Sprout.
▫ Fotofest group show “Cross currents”, Gallery 101, Houston, Texas. Curators: Wayne Gilbert and Gus Kopriva. *Catalog
▫ Fotofest four-person group show (Suzanne Banning, Irene Clouthier, Christopher Olivier, Dylan Vitone), Art League Houston, Texas. *Review
▫ “Coastal Connections: Contemporary Art from Houston and Corpus Christi”, Weil Gallery, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Texas. Curator: Gus Kopriva.
▫ “Houston in Art”, The Art House, Houston, TX.
2003:
▫ "7th Annual Juried Photography Exhibition", The Arts Alliance Center At Clear Lake. Nassau Bay, Texas. Juror: Bill Frazier.
▫ “Open Show 2003”. Art League Houston, Houston, Texas. Jurors: Dr. Robert Card & Karol Kreymer.
▫ “Twenty first Juried Membership Exhibition”, Visual Arts Alliance, Houston, Texas. Juror: Polly Hammett.
▫ “Annual Print Exhibition “, Women in the Visual and Literary Arts (WIVLA), Museum of Printing History, Houston, Texas.
▫ “Humid: hot, wet and sticky”, group show, part of “Ulterior Motifs #5”. Organized by Wheeler Bro’s Studios, Lubbock, Texas. Curator: Gus Kopriva.
▫ “The Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2003”, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas. Juror: Connie Butler, Curator Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, California.
▫ “Dishman Competition 2003”, Dishman Art Gallery, Beaumont, Texas. Juror: W. Jackson Rushing III, Professor of Art History and Chair, Department of Art, University of Houston.
2002:
▫ “20th Annual Membership Exhibition”, Visual Arts Alliance, Houston, Texas. Juror: Clint Willour, Executive Director and Curator, Galveston Arts Center.
▫ “I-45 Combined” group show, Lowell Collins Gallery, Houston, Texas. Curator: Michael R. Collins, artist, Professor Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas.
▫ “8th Annual National Juried Photography Competition”, Texas Artists Museum, Port Arthur, Texas. Juror: Lynne Lokensgard, Professor of Art History, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas, director of the Dishman Art Gallery.
▫ “Dia de Los Muertos” retablo show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas.
▫ "The Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2002 ", Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas. Juror: James Rondeau, curator, “The Art Institute of Chicago”.
▫ “19th Annual Open Juried Exhibition”, Visual Arts Alliance, Houston, Texas. Juror: Marysol Nieves, Senior Curator, Bronx Museum of the Arts. First Prize.
▫ “Viewpoint 2002”, Bosque Conservatory, Clifton, Texas. Juror: D.Clarke Evans, President / CEO, Texas Photographic Society.
▫ Fotofest Group Show, “Alchemy”, Redbud Gallery, Houston, Texas. Curator: Gus Kopriva. *Catalog
▫ “Project Phoenix”, Redbud Gallery, Houston, Texas.
▫ “Faces III International Juried Art Exhibition”, Period Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska. Juror: David McLeod, Art Professor Metropolitan Community College, Omaha, Nebraska.
2001:
▫ “19th Juried Membership Show”, Visual Arts Alliance Houston, Houston, Texas. Juror: Sharon Kopriva.
▫ “Juried Open Show”, Art League Houston, Houston, Texas. Juror: Virgil Grotfeldt.
1998: ▫ “Examententoonstelling HKA 1998”, de Oude Kraan, Arnhem, The Netherlands. *Catalog
Bibliography:
2008:
▫ “Venues plan exhibits in conjunction with Fotofest”, Greater Houston Weekly, February 27 2008, page 3AA. (illustrated)
▫ Anspon, Catherine D., “Art Girls; Suzanne Banning, Melissa Borrell, Tara Conley, Libby Masterson, Kaneem Smith and Weihong”, Paper City, March 2008, page 52. (illustrated)
2007:
▫ Rhodes, Dusti, “My Sin, My Soul; Suzanne Banning explores the dynamics of Lolita“, Houston Press, November 8 – 14, 2007, page 26.
▫ Zhu, Christopher, “Suzanne Banning: the real woman under the lens”, Art World magazine, May 2007 issue, pages 74-77. (illustrated)
▫ Capital Art catalog, 2007/04, pages 202-225. (illustrated)
▫ “Tanzwütige Kunst; Art-Galerie zeigt Arbeiten internationaler Fotografen”, Siegener Zeitung, February 27th 2007, page 18.
▫ “Bilder vom Tanzen von Fotografen aus der aller Welt”, Westfalenpost; Zeitung für Siegen, February 26th 2007, page 2.
▫ “Heiße Sohlen festgehalten auf Celluloid”, Westfalenpost; Zeitung für Siegen, February 23rd 2007, page 4.
2006:
▫ Zhu, Christopher, "American Contemporary Art from Houston", Journal of Suzhou Art and Design Technology Institute, September 2006 issue, pages 47–52. (illustrated)
▫ Kopriva, Gus, “Houston Works—The Present and Future State of the Visual Arts”, The Houston Review of History and Culture Volume 4, number 1, Fall 2006, pages 27-29. (illustrated)
▫ Otton, William G. / Locke, Michelle W., "The legacy continues 1997-2006", catalogue of the Permanent Collection of the Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX.
▫ "Houston Art in Shanghai", a documentary of "Houston Contemporary Art", directed by Christopher Zhu, co-produced by TV station of Minhang District, Shanghai and Jacob Video Studio, 08-18-2006.
▫ Liu Jingjing, “Houston in Two Seconds – in Retrospective of Houston Contemporary Art”, Art World, Panorama (September, 2006), pages 64-69.
▫ Anspon, Catherine D., “China syndrome: Houston artists Shanghaied”, Paper City, October 2006, page 71. (illustrated)
▫ Celestino, Magdalen, “Houston Contemporary Art in Shanghai”, Glasstire September 2006.
▫ Johnson, Patricia C., “Shanghai surprise; Lauded, short-lived exhibit brought in 20,000 visitors”, Houston Chronicle (Zest), August 18th 2006.
▫ Zhu, Christopher, “Houston Contemporary Art” catalog, Shanghai Art Museum, China. With essays by Gus Kopriva, Alison de Lima Greene and Patricia Johnson. (illustrated)
▫ “Houston Contemporary Art”, small illustrated booklet, Friends of Shanghai Art Museum, China. (illustrated)
▫ Fotofest 2006 Catalog (Participating spaces section 4 Commercial Art Galleries, pages 58-59 and 141) (illustrated)
▫ Anspon, Catherine D., ArtNotes, Paper City, March 2006.
2005:
▫ Anspon, Catherine D., ArtNotes, Paper City, November 2005.
▫ Anspon, Catherine D., ArtNotes, Paper City, August 2005.
▫ “New American Talent: ”The Twentieth Exhibition” catalog. Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX. (illustrated)
▫ Sanders, Gail, "New American Talent at Arthouse (Austin)", Voices of Art Magazine, Volume 13 issue 2 2005, page 19.
▫ Devadanam, Steven, Houston Press, Night & Day “This week’s Day-by-Day Picks”. January 13, 2005.
2004:
▫ Rushing III, W. Jackson, Art Papers, Reviews Southwest: Houston, Texas, July / August issue 2004. Pages 54-55 (illustrated)
▫ Roeske, Sharon, “Redbud Gallery: Suzanne Banning, La belle dame sans merci”, Arts Houston Magazine, July 2004 issue. Page 31. (illustrated)
▫ Anspon, Catherine D., ArtNotes, Paper City, April 2004.
▫ Fotofest 2004 Catalog (Participating spaces section, pages 31, 60 and 113-114.) (illustrated)
▫ Johnson, Patricia C., “Fotofest: a view through the lens”, Houston Chronicle, March 13 2004. (Arts & Entertainment section, pages 9D/10D.)
2003:
▫ Anspon, Catherine D., ArtNotes, Paper City, February 2003.
2002:
▫ Fotofest 2002 Catalog (pages 275, 329.)
1998:
▫ “HKA eindexamencatalogus 97/98” Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Arnhem, The Netherlands, pages 11, 25 in the “Tekenen” section. (illustrated.)
Artist talks/interviews:
2007:
▫ Radio appearance January 14th 2007, “The night train” with NatalieJ at 1430 AM KCOH.
2006:
▫ Slide Jam!, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX.
▫ Big Slide Show, in conjunction with “the Big Show”, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX.
2005:
▫ Looking at Art, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, TX.
Museum Collections:
The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas.
Private Collections:
Susan Bialer-Sullivan, Jay Branson, Hara & Kanellos Charalampous, (MD)Robert, Jereann & Holland Chaney, Roy & Mary Cullen, Laura & Ned Davenport, Luis & Gemma DeSantos, Brian Driskill, Hette & Thea Geertsma, Beverley & Wayne Gilbert, Paul & Nancy Johnson, Monique & Juun van der Horst, Gus & Sharon Kopriva, Anneke & Gerlof Kramer, Lise Liddell, Dr. Penelope Gonzalez & Lester Marks, Larry & Rhea Metcalf, Dr. Rich Ostermeier, Jim & Amy Overbey, Diana Randall, Lee & Beth Schlanger, Rick & Carol Silliman, Neil B. Strauss, Mark K. Sullivan, Andy Weaver & Lucinda Cobley, Heather Wagner, Bill Weinle, Penn & Margarida Williamson, Mr. C. Wulke.
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