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THE OLDEST LIVING THINGS IN THE WORLD
Rachel Sussman – Biography
 Rachel
Sussman, b. 1975, grew up in Baltimore, punctuated by stints in
Santa Fe and Nicoya, Costa Rica. She began a practice-based fine
arts PhD at Central Saint Martins College of Art in London in
2008 (currently on hold), attended the Bard MFA program in 2008
and received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual
Arts in 1998. In addition to her ongoing landscape work, Sussman
is currently developing the critically acclaimed project “The
Oldest Living Things in the World”.
Sussman was recently nominated for the Prix Pictet for the
second year in a row. She spoke at TED Global 2010 in Oxford,
the GEL Conference and Creative Mornings in New York, and at The
Long Now Foundation in November. In 2009 Sussman was invited to
present her work at a TED Prize Charter for Compassion event in
New York, as well as being selected as a finalist for the
British Council’s Darwin Now award. In 2008, Sussman was awarded
an honorarium for most outstanding work at the University of
Pennsylvania’s Graduate Forum on Origins. In 2007 she served as
a Thomas P. Johnson Distinguished Visiting Artist at Rollins
College. Sussman has been awarded artist's residencies at the
MacDowell Colony, the Cooper Union and the Vermont Studio
Center. She currently serves as an officer on the MacDowell
Colony Fellows Executive Committee in addition to being named
the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Fellow in 2005.
Over the past 10 years Sussman has exhibited in US and Europe,
as well as featured in publications such as The Wall Street
Journal, NPR’s Picture Show, The Guardian, and Humble Art
Foundation’s Collector’s Guide to Emerging Art Photography. Her
work recently was selected for the 31 Women in Art Photography
exhibition curated by Charlotte Cotton & Jon Feinstein.
Sussman’s celebrated solo exhibition “The Oldest Living Things
in the World” at Michael Steinberg Fine Arts in New York in
2008, which subsequently traveled to the Discovery Museum in CT,
was named one of the best photography shows of the year by Jerry
Saltz in New York Magazine
(http://nymag.com/arts/cultureawards/2008/52729/index1.html).
She has shown in other New York venues such as the Museum of
Natural History, New Century Artists, Pierogi Brooklyn, Jen
Bekman Gallery, Christie’s auction house, Winkleman Gallery, Cue
Art Foundation and Galapagos Art Space. Sussman’s work has been
seen in Europe at Siamsa Tire in Ireland, Stenersenmuseet in
Norway, D21 Kunstraum and Pierogi Leipzig, as well as Artnews
Projects, Galerie Engler und Piper and Art Forum Berlin. Her
work was also shown recently at Bennington College, the LA
Design Center, University of Pennsylvania and Vox Populi in
Philadelphia, as well as the prestigious Photography 2005 at the
Renaissance Society in Chicago. Sussman’s work has been acquired
for university, corporate and numerous private collections.
Sussman recently exhibited in Budapest in September, and has
solo exhibitions at Montalvo Arts Center in California opening
in October, and another in Dubai in 2011.
In addition to her artwork, Sussman has worked as an Interactive
Producer for over 10 years. She also performed trapeze as part
of the duo The Amazing Siblings in venues throughout New York,
though her acrobatic career was cut short when she was sidelined
by a rotator cuff injury.
Sussman lives in Brooklyn when she is not traveling.
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