Suzanne McClelland


Suzanne McClelland is a New York-based artist best known for abstract work based in language, speech, and sound.

Early life and education

McClelland studied with photographer Joanne Leonard and painter Gerome Kamrowski at the University of Michigan receiving a BFA in 1981. In 1989 she received a MFA from School of Visual Arts citing Judy Pfaff and Jackie Winsor as influential teachers.

Work

Suzanne McClelland, her work has been exhibited at The Whitney Museum, both 2014 and 1993 Biennials; The New Museum, The Museum at University at Albany SUNY, The Fralin Museum of Art at University of Virginia, among others. Her work can be found in public and private collections including MOMA, The Walker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum and Saatchi. A solo exhibition curated by Amy Smith Stewart at the Aldrich Museum will begin in November 2016 and Team Gallery will publish a monograph in 2016 with contributions from Thierry de Duve. She is currently on Faculty with School of Visual Arts Fine Arts, MFA Program. McClelland is represented by Team Gallery in New York and Shane Campbell Gallery in Chicago.

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