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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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