Suzanne Bybee (1967, Anaheim, CA, US) is an artist who relocated to Salt Lake City, Utah after
residing in Washington, D.C. for many years. She received her Master of Fine Arts Painting from
Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA in 2000. She has shown primarily in Los Angeles, California and Seattle, Washington; more recently she has participated in group and pop-up exhibitions in the greater
Washington, D.C. metro area. Currently she is participating in collaborations and curatorial projects with other artists, writing and reviewing artists’ work, and creating art in the analog and digital realms.
residing in Washington, D.C. for many years. She received her Master of Fine Arts Painting from
Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA in 2000. She has shown primarily in Los Angeles, California and Seattle, Washington; more recently she has participated in group and pop-up exhibitions in the greater
Washington, D.C. metro area. Currently she is participating in collaborations and curatorial projects with other artists, writing and reviewing artists’ work, and creating art in the analog and digital realms.
Vacillating between different settings and surfaces, her work searches for new information through a visual dialogue between telematics and the physical/tangible realms of art making.
Even when I am painting, I am drawing. Drawing is a natural counterpart connected to painting, and as such, my considerations focus on drawing as painting. Ribbons of color, layering, and repetitions, all add to my investigations in drawing as painting.
These works connect to where I am: in my mind, responses, desires, understanding, missteps and calculations. It is all chronicled in one place, in the space, in the expansion of deliberate and sometimes over exuberant layers. There is nothing that is not referenced or touched upon in the images – the build-up and accumulation traces memory/thought via line and color, a re-visitation and distillation of situations constantly repeating, returning. There is an attraction to pattern and decoration, and an understanding of complexity depicted in structural relationships and inferred movement.
Utah Indigenous Fashion Week, Pop-Up Art Sale and Indigenous Fundraiser, Material Contemporary, Salt Lake City, UT, February 10, 2024
Surface Pushing Toward Immensity, Solo Show, Main Gallery, Bountiful Davis Art Center, Bountiful, UT September 22 - November 4, 2023
Upstate art weekend, Museum for Contemporary Artists, Wappingers Falls, New York, July 21-24, 2023
Baker's Dozen, Torrance Art Museum, Group Exhibition, Torrance, CA, May 27 - June 17, 2023
300 Plates 2023, Art Access Fundraiser, Group Exhibition, Salt Lake City, UT, May 25 - June 16, 2023
Pollen Path, Pop-Up Art Sale and Indigenous Fundraiser, Lost Eden Gallery, Gateway, Salt Lake City, UT, March 5, 2022
46th annual bountiful davis art center Statewide competition, Group Exhibition, Bountiful Davis Art center, juror Boris Ostrerov, Bountiful, UT 2021
Statewide annual exhibition UT ’20, Main Street Kiosks, Outdoor Exhibition, Utah Visual Arts Programs – Arts & Museums, partnered with the BLOCKS SLC, Main Street between 200 South and 400 South, Salt Lake City, UT 2021
Statewide annual exhibition UT ’20, painting & sculpture, Group Exhibition, Utah Visual Arts Programs – Arts & Museums, juried by Edra Soto and Pooja Pittie, Exhibition Catalog, Salt Lake City, UT, awarded Honorable Mention 2020
Zeitgeist Architectonia at the Event Horizon, Group Exhibition, OC McNish Gallery, curated by Mela M., Oxnard, CA 2019
Entitled, Group Exhibition, The Third Floor Gallery, curated by Molly Ruppert, Washington, DC 2018
Group Exhibition, ASF Art House, La Casita, pop up, Gaithersburg, MD 2018
Engram Experiments, Group Exhibition, pop up gallery/garden party, Salt Lake City, UT 2017
Selected Works, Solo Exhibition, Petworth Arts collaborative, Hank’s Cocktail Bar, Washington, DC 2017
Generations X: RAZZLE DAZZLE, Group Exhibition, A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2016
6” x 6” Show, Group Exhibition, DVAA, Narrowsburg, NY 2015
Wish You Were Here 14, Group Exhibition, A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2015
For Roland, 2010, Group Exhibition, Bunny Gunner Gallery, Claremont, CA 2010
16th Annual Scholarship Fund Benefit Auction, Group Exhibition, Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center (SEEC), National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 2009
Reception and Digital Exhibition of Claremont Graduate University Alumni and Student Art, Group Exhibition, Asian Fusion Gallery, Asian Cultural Center, New York, NY 2007
Speakeasy, curated by Chris Sicat, Group Exhibition, UPspace gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2005
TOP CHOICE: New Work by 15 Contemporary Artists, Group Exhibition, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA 2005
Group Exhibition, Echo Park Arts Festival, Los Angeles, CA 2002
Summer Smalls, curated by Jennifer Fremont, Casa Del Arte NY, Highland, NY 2002
Glamour Trip So Soon to Trip, curated by Suzanne Bybee, Exhibition Catalog, Group Exhibition, Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA 2002
Mixed Bag Show, curated by RAID PROJECTS, Group Exhibition, RAID Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2001
Rising Tide, curated by RAID PROJECTS, Group Exhibition, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA 2001
Southern California Open 2000, curated by Carole Ann Klonarides, Group Exhibition, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA 2000
Blank Card, curated by RAID PROJECTS, Exhibition Catalog, Group Exhibition, RAID Projects Gallery, Santa Ana, CA 2000
Currencies, Work by Recent Graduates, Exhibition Catalog, Group Exhibition, Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2000
Sixth Annual International Exhibition of Women’s Art, curated by Charlotta Kotik, Group Exhibition, Soho20 Gallery, New York, NY 2000
Venice Art Walk, Exhibition Catalog, Group Exhibition, Venice Free Clinic, Venice, CA 2000
Be Careful What You Wish For, Solo Show, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA 2000
Ink & Clay 26, curated by Richard Heller, Group Exhibition, W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA 2000
Go Between, Group Installation Show, Da Gallery, Pomona, CA 1999
Home/Work, curated by Suzanne Bybee, Group Exhibition, Factory Place Studios, Los Angeles, CA 1999
1999 Los Angeles Juried Exhibition: Moving Towards the Millennium, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Exhibition Catalog, Group Exhibition, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA 1999
Wallworks,14th Annual Juried Exhibition, Group Exhibition, LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA 1999
Layers: Looking Into, Under and Over, Group Exhibition, Rental/Sales Gallery, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA 1999
Both, First Year MFA, Group Exhibition, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA 1998
Secret Constructions, Solo Exhibition, Robbie Mildred Gallery, Seattle, WA 1998
Group Exhibition, curated by Barbara Shaiman and Lisa Harris, Rental/Sales Gallery, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 1997
Pacific Northwest Annual, Group Exhibition, Bellevue Art Museum, Seattle, WA 1995
Education
1998-2000 Master of fine arts - painting, claremont graduate university, claremont, ca
1985-1989 BACHELOR OF ARTS – STUDIO ART, WHITMAN COLLEGE, WALLA WALLA, WA
Related Experience and Information
2023 Creative Aging 'Printscape' Collagraph class, Saltgrass Printmakers, Salt Lake City, UT, March - May, 2023
Fern & Reed collaborative art and design
Pow Wow DC, May 5, 2018, Washington, DC collaborative New Maya Language mural project with Frida Larios
Fine Lines Paint Jam, Earth Day, April 22, 2017, Washington, DC collaborative mural project with Frida Larios
Contract Artist, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA 90404, art work shown by gallery, 2005-2008
Vermont Studio Center (formerly Vermont Studio School and Colony), Johnson, VT, 05656, Independent Residency/Fellowship Program, 1991