Susan Homer
Born in Boston, MA
Lives and works in
Exhibitions
2023
The Other Art Fair, 3walls at ZeroSpace, Brooklyn, NY
3walls spring pop-up, The Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY
2022
Gowanus Open Studios 2022, Brooklyn, NY
2021
Gowanus Open Studios 2021, Brooklyn, NY
The Thought of the Heart and the Soul of the World: Lowell Boyers, Susan Homer, Esther Traugot and Charles Yuen, The Mueller Gallery at Caldwell University, Caldwell, NJ
Gowanus Open Studios 2019, Brooklyn, NY
2018
Gowanus Open Studios 2018, Brooklyn, NY
2017
Life, Observed: Brett Eberhardt, Susan Homer, and Francis Sills, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
Gowanus Open Studios 2017, Brooklyn, NY
2016
Between Past & Present, two-person exhibition, TEW Galleries, Atlanta, GA
Gowanus Open Studios 2016, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Pictorial Adventures, TEW Galleries, Atlanta, GA
2014
Gowanus Open Studios 2014, Brooklyn, NY
Pets, Beasts & Dinner: Relations Between Human and Animal Creatures, curated by Suzaan Boettger, Gallery Bergen, Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ
We Love Art, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
Floral Motifs, The Horticulture Society of New York @ 1stdibs Gallery, New York Design Center, New York, NY
2013
Gowanus Open Studios 2013, Brooklyn, NY
Fiction/Non-Fiction, Storefront Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Open Studios, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, 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, curated by Tatsuya McCoy, N.A.M.E. Gallery,
1991
Spirit of Nature, Gallery 2,
Collections
The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C.
Bibliography
Larkin, Daniel, "Gowanus Artists Paint a Mangled and Messy Picture of America," Hyperallergic, October 21, 2018, www. hyperallergic.com.
Artists to Artists Volume 2 (2002–2016): 25 Years of the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program and Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program (Brooklyn, NY: Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, 2016).
Hyland, Angus, The Book of the Bird: Birds in Art (London: Laurence King, 2016).
"Small Spaces: Form and Function," Domino magazine, holiday 2013, pp. 33–35.
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