“Modernes vies sauvages"

SUZANNE HUSKY

suzannehusky@gmail.com

Born: Bordeaux, France, Lives and work in San Francisco

EDUCATION

2008- history of us 1877 to now, history of us media
2004 to 2005- Horticulture. Merritt college , Basic Landscape Design certificate,
2005 to 2008- Horticulture. Merritt college , Advance landscape design and construction specialist Certificate
2002- Cob Building, COB VILLAGE (OREGON).
1998 to 2000- MFA, BEAUX-ARTS DE BORDEAUX (FRANCE ).
Semester in CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF ARTS AND CRAFTS (USA)
1995 to 1998- BFA, BEAUX-ART DE BORDEAUX ( FRANCE)
1994 to 1995- Philosophy in UNIVERSITY MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE (FRANCE).

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012 Chateau de Seix, Arriege, France TBD
2011 Dump Residency, SF, CA “Sleeper Cell Raising”
2010 La Galerie Bien , Toulouse, France “Avec Les Animaux Autour”
2010 World Financial Center, Winter Garden, NYNY “Forest” with Ecoartspace
2010 DE YOUNG MUSEUM, Kimball Gallery, SF “Forest”
2009 [Pollen] Monflanquin. France “Moderne Vie Sauvage”
2008- May, June, Triple Base, SF
2005-"Earth wind and Fire"Back room, Adobe Books, SF
2005-"Pollination", Motel Gallery, Portland, Oregon2005-"Poketo Drawing show", Nucleus gallery, LA
2005-"Trees and Rocks", mural, 22nd @Bartlett
2004-"Mushrooms"Mural in the mission, 22nd @ Bartlett, SF
2004-'Root hormone", Southern Exposure, San Francisco
2003-'Voitures habillees', Le Garage Moderne, Bordeaux , France
2003-'Collective and individual dreams', Alliance Francaise, Shanghai, China
2002-'Adventures in La La Land', HEY Gallery Oakland
2000- "Mon marriage"La tour saint Michel, Bordeaux, France

RESIDENCIES

2011 Headlands Center for The Arts, Marin, CA
2011 Kala Arts, Berkeley, CA
2010 San Francisco Dump AIR, CA
2010 DE YOUNG MUSEUM Kimball Gallery San Francisco, CA
2009 POLA, Bordeaux, France
2009 Kaunass BIENNALE, Lituania
2009 CASA D’ORO. Mas D’azil, Ariege, France
2009 [Pollen] MONFLANQUIN. France
2008 Creative Capital Workshop, SF, CA
2005 A Suivre..., Bordeaux, France

GROUP EXIBITIONS

2011 Yerba Buena Center For The Arts “Bay Area Now 6”, SF triennial
2010 The Lab, SF “Illuminated Forest”, Green Sound Festival
2010 Kala Arts Berkeley “Groundswell” curated by Betti-Sue Hertz
2010 Intersection For the Arts REWILDING BY SINGING,curated by Kevin Chen
2010 Mas D’Azil, Arriege, France, “Art et Ecology au 21eme Siecle1”
2011 Santa Monica Art Center, Barcelona, Spain “Art et Ecology au 21eme Siecle2”
2010 World Financial Center, Winter Garden curated by Ecoartspace, New York
2010 San Francisco Art Commission “Chain Reaction 11”, nominated by Mike Arcega

2009 Kaunass BIENNALE, Žilinskas MUSEUM, Lituanie ”Dress you up with my love”
2009 Chinese cultural center BIENNALE, SF “Present Tense”

2008-”Poetic politics”, Skyline college gallery, San Bruno
2008-”Eco heroes”, Free Range grant, Southern exposure, SF
2008-Auction, Intersection for the arts, SF
2008-Gallery K, Bordeaux France
2008- Rare device, SF, CA
2008-Optic illution, So Ex, SF

2007-Greencity Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2007-”Biome” curated by Jay Nelson and Johanna St Clair at Lincart Gallery, SF
2007-”Albedo” Eleanor Harwood Gallery, SF
2007-”A affair with art and artist,” Michael Rosenthal contemporary arts, Redwood City

2006- “Utopia”, curated by Sacha Ecke at 111 Minna, SF
2006- Monster drawing rally, Southern exposure, SF
2006- "Close calls" Headland Center for the arts, Marin

2005- "Domaine arboricole"A suivre, Bordeaux, France
2005- Artist in residency, A Suivre, Bordeaux, France
2005-"Faux Pause", Balazo, SF
2005-"Glammore", curated by Dina Pugh at Play space, CCA, SF
2005-Auction, Southern Exposure, SF
2005-"Close call", Headland Center for the arts
2005-Installation for "Books Awesome", collab. with Jill bliss, Jovi Shnell, Pigman gallery, SF
2005-"Tree show". Drawings, Giant Robot SF

2004- Auction, Adobe, SF
2004-"The Box", Southern exposure 30th anniversary fundraiser project, SF
2004-"Epic" Southern Exposure annual juried exibition, curated by Magaly Arriola, SF
2004-'Boon slog muscle', with Jason Jagel, Liz Walsh, Sacha Eckes, Mimi Barr, SF
2004-"Element of Temporary", curated by Ev Funes and James Bewley, SFArts Commition,
2004-“Books, Awesome” Mimi Barr, SF
2004-'All you can eat', pink Mamouth gallery, SF
2004-'Folk ways', Giant Robot, SF
2004-'Monster drawing rally', Southern Exposure, SF
2004- 'Auction', Mimi Barr, , SF
2004-CBS market watch, SF
2004-'Auction', Southern exposure-, SF
2004-'Soft mural' Artbar café, San Francisco *

2003-"Mikes gift shop", collab with Michael Rosenthal, exibited various places.
2003-'Art Propaganda War', THE LAB, San Francisco,
2003-'Clothing project', IT CAN CHANGE, Basel Germany

2002-"Deep seaded project", Curated by Tia Factor, City Slicker Garden, Oakland
2002-IT CAN CHANGE, Apexart, New york, september
2002-Collaborative show with IT CAN CHANGE, Oakland, august
2002-“She’s crafty”, Lola Gallery, SF
2002-IT CAN CHANGE, Oakland
2002-URBANVIEW, THE BOX, YWCA, Oakland.
2002-IT CAN CHANGE, Fat slice, Berkeley
2002-THE BOX, Urbanview magazine, Oakland

2001-"Where is Ping', Mills College, Oakland
2000-'Performances', TNT, Bordeaux, France

PRICES AND GRANTS

2010 Green Trophy Award Wells Fargo curated by WEAD
2010 Cultural Equity Grant San Francisco Arts Commission
2008 Seeds of Change Southern Exposure, SF, CA

PUBLICATION

2010 THE THING quarterly 200 prints
2009 Catalog [Pollen] “Modernes Vies Sauvages”
2009 Chinese Cultural Center “Present Tense”
2008 Southern Exposure, “Eco Heroes, east bay backyard activism”

LECTURES

Leonardo art science evenings, Mountain View, CA
California College for the Arts, SF CA
Berkeley Community College
Musee des Beaux Arts D’agen
Art Y Natura, Spain2009 Museum of Agen, Pollen Gallery, Casa d’Oro, Art i Natura
2004 University of Berkeley art deptmt.
2003 University of Shanghai, art deptmt.

CURATED SHOWS

2005-ATA, SF, John Brumit, Marl Brest Van Kempen, Sarah Wagner, Zack Strenwalker, DNHTBK, Suzanne Husky

MURALS

2008 Eleanor Harwood Gallery
2003, 2005 Mission, SF "Mushrooms""Trees and Rocks"

STATEMENT

I'm a French American visual artist that has been living and practicing in the Bay Area since 2000. I obtained my MFA from the Beaux-Art school of Bordeaux, France, spending half of the program duration at CCAC. I grew up during the "Mitterrand years” in the late 70s "Back To The Land" movement. (Mitterrand was France’s socialist president for 14 years). The socialist ideologies and the rural environment molded my upbringing and became important cof my work. Our intimate relations with plants, animals, the earth, and how we interact together in poetic and political ways, are examined through sculpture, installation, drawing, documentary
photography, and film. Problems relating to the exploitation of natural resources, landscape use and globalization are the persistent backdrop of my multimedia practice, yet the work, I believe, remains humorous, generous and light.

In my installations, I utilize found textiles to create landscapes and social portraits. I inherited the use of textiles and sewing from my mother and grandmother. I developed my own method of
sculpting with those tools and a unique visual language. That familiar material, and my approximate mode of fabrication translate to incisive and soft caricatural depictions. My
sculptures are used as weapons to highlight and provide humorous commentary on contemporary cultural practices such as plastic surgery, stretch hummers, and apache helicopters. I have worked on large sculpture installations for solo shows with Southern Exposure “Root Hormone,” Adobe Books “Rock garden,” Triple Base Gallery “You Make Me Make You,” and the De Young Museum “Forest.” In those four different solo exhibitions, the entire space is turned into an hand-made immersive environment, loaded in narratives scenes meticulously using the fabric’s intrinsic qualities such as patterns, colors and textures.

With photography, I respectfully document solitary activists that work according to radical environmental philosophies in the urban and rural context. Their political choices are motivated by a desire to reduce economic growth and environmental footprint and live harmoniously with nature. Representing and glamorizing politically motivated frugal life choices seemed imperative
to me as soon as I came to the U.S., where the prevailing consumer culture grates against my more frugal upbringing.
During a recent artist residency, I worked with scientists who specialized in global warming in the Pyrenees Mountains. They explained that the impact of rising temperatures on the trees
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would cause the leaves to fall later than normal, thus creating an unintended contribution to global warming as the leaves would retain the heat in the forest longer than normal. I worked with a local choir to sing winter songs to the forest, to induce the trees into feeling that it was a colder temperature, allowing them to drop their leaves. In a series of new videos, I collaborate
with a number of musicians in performing original compositions in Bay Area forests and parks. The songs are written for the animals and insects, warning them of the impact of global warming and suggesting migration to mitigate the impact of rising temperatures.

How humans engage with nature in our complex environmental times is the reiterated question
throughout my work.