Suzie Silver
Suzie Silver is an American artist creating primarily queer video and performance art. Silver states her work "alludes to the capacity for desire to disrupt boundaries and imagine new futures".[1]
Life and career
Silver received her BA from the art program at University of California, San Diego in the 1980s and her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC).[1] She worked as an Assistant Editor on television shows including Homicide: Life on the Street.[2] Silver resides in Pittsburgh and is a faculty member in Electronic and Time-Based Art at Carnegie Mellon University.[3] She has worked closely with other artists including Hilary Harp and Eric Moe.[4]
Selected Exhibition and Screening Venues
- Miller Gallery[5]
- Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art[6]
- Pittsburgh Glass Center[7]
- The Whitney Museum of Art
- The New Museum[8]
- Documenta
- ICA Boston
- ICA London
- Pacific Film Archives
- Anthology Film Archives
- London Film Festival
- Seoul Film Festival
- Gay and Lesbian Film/Video Festivals all over the world including Melbourne, London, Tel Aviv, San Francisco, Chicago, NYC, São Paulo, Auckland and many more.
Selected Publications
Strange Attractors: Investigations in Non-Humanoid Extraterrestrial Sexualities was published by The Institute of Extraterrestrial Sexuality and Encyclopedia Destructica in 2012. The exhibition and resultant book "commemorates Kepler (keplar.nasa.gov) with art, writing and film that envision the sexualities of beings that may someday be encounter - if not in outer space then at least our dreams."[1] Silver was one of three curators for the exhibition and wrote the book's introduction.
External links
References
- 1 2 3 Kardambikis, Christopher; Silver, Suzie; Khaira, Jasdeep; Encyclopedia Destructica; Institute of Extraterrestrial Sexuality (2012-01-01). Strange attractors: investigations in non-humanoid extraterrestrial sexualities. Pittsburgh, PA: Encyclopedia Destructica : Institute of Extraterrestrial Sexuality. pp. vii. ISBN 9780984843404.
- ↑ "Susie Silver". IMDb. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
- ↑ University, Carnegie Mellon. "Suzie Silver-Center for the Arts in Society - Carnegie Mellon University". www.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
- ↑ "Suzie Silver | Video Data Bank". www.vdb.org. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
- ↑ "Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University". millergallery.cfa.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
- ↑ "Push Comes to Shove: Women and Power - Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art". Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
- ↑ "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
- ↑ "New Museum Digital Archive". Retrieved 2017-03-04.