Bio

Suzan Shutan is an artist, curator, educator and Co-Director/ Curator of SomethingProjects.net. She began her career at the California Institute of the Arts, where she studied painting and sculpture with influential artists including Judy Pfaff, Jonathan Borofsky, and Elizabeth Murray. After receiving her BFA, she moved to New York City to pursue her exhibition career.

Shutan was represented by Souyun Yi Gallery and exhibited at the Alternative Museum and Windows on White, where her interest in installation, color, and materials emerged. Following an invitation to exhibit in Freiburg, Germany, she lived abroad for two years before returning to the United States to attend graduate school. She studied with Leon Golub, Martha Rosler, and Laurie Ewing, and received her MFA from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts. Her work is recognized for its colorful patterns inspired by social and environmental behaviors.

She has received grants from Artslink, Art Matters, the Berkshire Taconic Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Art, and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, and has completed residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Yaddo, and Proyecto Ace in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her work has been published in books including Paper Art Installations and reviewed by The New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, Art New England, Smithsonian Magazine, White Hot Magazine, New Art Examiner, and Artscope, among others.

Shutan has presented 32 solo exhibitions at institutions including Zachęta National Gallery in Warsaw, Poland; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum; Housatonic Museum of Art; Islip Art Museum; The Arts & Cultural Center of Hollywood, Florida; Norfolk Arts Center; Garrison Art Center; The Painting Center; Five Points Arts Center; Kenise Barnes Fine Art; and Art Cake. She has also participated in over 250 group exhibitions across the United States, Canada, Australia, Argentina, South America, and Central and Eastern Europe, including Museum Wilhelm Morgner (Germany), Galerie Abstract Project (France), the Ukrainian Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Copelouzos Art Museum in Greece.

She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the University of Nebraska, Quinnipiac University, and has taught for 18 years at CT State Community College Housatonic. She also is a mentor in low-residency MFA programs including Vermont College of Fine Arts (CA), Lesley University (MA), Clark University (MA) and The Crit Lab (NY).

Her work is held in private and museum collections, with commissions from LogMeIn and Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital, and can be viewed on Artsy, 1stDibs, and social media platforms including Instagram (@sshutan), Facebook, Pinterest, and LinkedIn.