Suzanne McClelland
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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.
Suzanne McClelland
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
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
