Susan Homer
Lives and works in
Solo and Selected Group Exhibitions
2013
Fiction/Non-Fiction, Storefront Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Still LIfe Show, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
Signs on the Road, organized by Workroom G (Michael Ashkin, Leslie Brack, and Josh Geldzahler), Curatorial Research Laboratory @ Winkleman Gallery, New York, NY
2009
Neo-Rococo Show, curated by Douglas Ferrari, Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, NJ
Slippery When Wet, Metaphor Contemporary Art,
2008
Back to the Garden, Metaphor Contemporary Art,
The Travelers Return, solo exhibition, Metaphor Contemporary Art,
2007
Radius, Metaphor Contemporary Art,
Pillow Talk: Small Comforts in Hard Times, curated by Mery Lynn McCorkle, Ruth Bachofner Gallery,
2006
Garden Paradise, curated by Lacy Davisson Doyle and Clare Weiss, The Arsenal Gallery in
Faculty Show,
2005
A Bird’s Tale, solo exhibition, Metaphor Contemporary Art,
Faculty Show,
2004
Family of Law,
Faculty Show,
2003
Paper 2003, Metaphor Contemporary Art,
Faculty Show,
2002
Love Shack, Metaphor Contemporary Art,
Baker’s Dozen, Julie Baker Fine Art,
Faculty Show,
2000
Outer Boroughs, White Columns,
1999
A Skowhegan Decade,
1997
Hold it now, hit it, curated by Derek Eller, Court Street Gallery,
1996
New Paintings, solo exhibition, Lyons-Wier & Ginsburg Gallery,
13th Biennial Evanston & Vicinity Exhibition,
Objets du Jardin,
1995
Arthur Baer Art Competition: 19th Annual Exhibition,
1994
Red Windows, Barney’s
Again, N.A.M.E. Gallery, curated by Tatsuya McCoy,
1991
Spirit of Nature, Gallery 2,
Collections
The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C.
Bibliography
Kalm, James, "Brooklyn Dispatches: Cool Island and Garden of Chill," The Brooklyn Rail, July-August, 2008, www.brooklynrail.org.
Pearse, Emma, “Susan Homer Makes Grandma Art Cool Again,” New York Magazine, April 16, 2008, www.nymag.com.
Naves, Mario, “Flora, Cupcakes and a Tawny Ambience,” The New York Observer, April 8, 2008, www.observer.com.
“The New Botanicals,” Domino magazine, January/February 2006, pp. 57–59.
Rudick, Nicole, “Critics’ Picks,” Art Forum, January 2005, www.artforum.com.
Naves, Mario, “Currently Hanging,” The
Camper, Fred, “Self-Expressionism,” The
Gray, Lori, “Gallery Scene,” The Chicago Tribune, October 28, 1994, section 7, p. 68.
Awards, Grants, and Residencies
The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Grant, 2011
Skowhegan Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of
Merit Scholarship Award, School of the Art Institute of
Education
School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, Liberal Arts Studies