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Susan Robb

Education
    University of Washington, Seattle WA | MFA, Photography
  Syracuse University, Syracuse NY | BFA, Photography, BA, Art History
Grants and Awards
2011   Artist Trust Fellowship
  Joan Mitchell Foundation Award
  Store Front Project Seattle
2008   Global Creative Leadership Summit, Louise T. Blouin Foundation
  4Culture Site Specific Projects Grant
  Artist Trust Grant for Artist Projects
2007   King County Performance Network Grant
2005   Pollock-Krasner Fellowship
  4Culture Special Projects Grant
2004   City of Seattle CityArtist Project Grant
  King County Works on Paper Collection Award
2003   The Stranger Genius Award
2002   Artist Trust Fellowship
Residencies
2012   Vermont Studio Center Residency
2008   Hui Press/Hui No’eau Visual Arts Center Residency
2004   Vain’s Freethinkers’ Residency
  PONCHO Artist Residency
2003   Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency
2001   911 Media Arts Center, New Works Laboratory Residency
Public Commissions
2011   4Culture/King County’s Department of Natural Resources & Parks | The Long Walk
2010   4Culture/King County’s Department of Natural Resources & Parks | Trailsproject
2009   SDOT/Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs | Parking Squid
  SPU/ Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs | Water Lab
Solo Exhibitions
2011   Vignettes, Seattle WA | This Is The Crisis I Knew Had To Come (Brutally Taking Its Toll)
2010   Open Satellite for City Arts Festival, Seattle WA | Sleeper Cell Training Camp
2009   Lawrimore Project, Seattle WA, Masked Infants Milking The Earth
2008   34 Muhsamstrasse, Berlin Germany | Microstick
  Hui No‘eau Visual Arts Center, Maui HI | Cyanokites
  Lawrimore Project, Seattle WA | The Challenge Nature Provides
2007 - 2009 Volunteer Park, Seattle WA; Montclair Museum, Montclair NJ; Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas Texas, | Warmth, Giant Black Toobs
2005   Platform Gallery, Seattle WA | Recording Field Level Five
2003   Consolidated Works, Seattle WA | Airlifted to Safety
2002   Henry Art Gallery Seattle WA | Seedling
Selected Group Exhibition
2011   Chinatown Cake Club/ Vignettes Pop-up Exhibition, New York, NY | Show and Tell
2010   Western Washington University Gallery, Bellingham WA; Hallie Ford Museum of Art Willamette University, Salem OR;
Boise Art Museum, Boise ID
| Critical Messages: Contemporary Northwest Artists on the Environment
  Whatcom Museum, Bellingham WA | Show Of Hands: Northwest Women Artists
2009   Discover Greens, Houston TX, City Center, El Paso Texas | Light As Air
  Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA | Tacoma Biennial
2007   Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland WA | Help me I’m Hurt
  New American Art Union, Portland OR | Invisible Other
  School of Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington IN | Human Nature
2006   Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland WA | Wired Forest
  Seattle Center, Seattle WA | Pixel dolls, Meatspace, and Everything All at Once: New Work in Second Life
  Swing Space, New York NY | Sonic Channels Emerging Media Publics
  Blindside Gallery, Melbourne Australia | Ulterior Modish
2005   Parker’s Box, Brooklyn NY | IM5 International Art Market
  Mobileart 05, Roda Sten, Gothenburg Sweden | Today in Paradise- Genetics and Art
2003   Consolidate Works, Seattle WA | Dazzle Camouflage
  Henry Art Gallery, Seattle WA; Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley CA; Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis MN;
Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston IL
| Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics
  Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA | Wrapture
  Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA | Contemporary Northwest Women Photographers
Teaching
2003–2008 Adjunct Professor | University of Washington, Seattle WA
2007 Teaching Artist | Frye Art Museum, Seattle WA
Catalogs
“Critical Messages: Contemporary Northwest Artists on the Environment” | Hallie Ford Museum of Art and Western Gallery
“Human Nature” | SoFA Indiana University Bloomington
“Gene(sis)” CD-ROM | Henry Art Gallery
“Lava 2002” | Thread
“Fashion is Art” | Thread
Bibliography
July 2011 CityArts | “A Different Kind Of Walk” – Jonathan Zwickel
April 2010 Sculpture | “Light as Air” Houston” - Allison Hunter
Jan/Feb 2009 Sculpture | “Susan Robb Lawrimore Project” – Kazuko Natake
Fall/Winter 2008 ArtUS | “Susan Robb, Lawrimore Project” – Elizabeth Pence
May 7, 2008 The Stranger | “Global Warning” – Jen Graves
April 21, 2008 The Seattle Times | “Susan Robb Takes Recycling Art to a Very Personal Level” - Regina Hackett
Feb 20, 2008 Seattle Weekly | “Robb’s Big Idea” - Brian J. Barr
Fall 2007 Arcade | “The Surreal Environmentalist Environments of Susan Robb” – Matthew Richter
July 11, 2007 The Stranger | “One Tenth of a Toob” - Graves, Jen
July 2007 Rivet | “Artist Portfolio” (w/ limited addition Power Plants seed package) - Leah Balthus
Dec. 2006 Artweek | “This is Gallery at Lawrimore Project” – Elizabeth Pence
Nov. 2005 Artweek | “Susan Robb at Platform Gallery” – Elizabeth Pence
Sept. 9, 2005 Seattle Post Intelligencer | “Robb’s Alluring Images” - Judy Wagonfeld
2005 Art et Biotechnologies, Presses de l’Universite du Quebec, Louise Poissant et Ernestine Daubner
Oct. 8, 2003 The Stranger | “Genius, Visual Art, Susan Robb” – Emily Hall
Oct. 2003 HYLE, International Journal for the Philosophy of Chemistry | “Aesthetics and Visualization in Chemistry” - Tami Spector & Joachim Schummur & David Spalding
Vol. 36, 2003 Leonardo, Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology | “ The Golden Tower Project; The Art of Burning Man”
May 26, 2002 The New York Times | “The Wonders of Genetics Breed an New Art” - Steve Henry Madoff

 

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