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Education
1983 MFA, Painting, Bard College, Annandale-on-the-Hudson, NY
1979 BA, Fine Arts, Ceramics and Sculpture Douglass College, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ
Solo Exhibits
Downtown Debut Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY 2022
Messages, Susan Eley Fine Art, Hudson, NY 2021
New Work,Tenth Muse Gallery Maplewood, NJ 2019
The Heart of It , Jen Tough Gallery, Benicia, CA 2018
Two Person Show, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY 2018
Passing Through, Causey Contemporary, New York, NY, 2015
Inside Outside, R&F Handmade Paints, Kingston, NY, 2015
Mapping a Place, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY, 2014
Inside Matters, Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2013
The Journey, Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2011
Center for Visual Art, Summit, NJ, 2010
Jack Meir Gallery, Houston, TX, 2009
Ocean County Artist’s Guild, Island Heights, NJ, 2008
Block Gallery, Montclair, NJ, 2007
Present and Past, Goat Café Gallery, South Orange, NJ, 2006
Introductions, Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, TX, 2005
From the past, Philips Lighting Gallery, Somerset, NJ, 2005
New Work, Classic Design Gallery, Maplewood, NJ, 2004
Time Will Tell, Pierro Gallery of South Orange, South Orange, NJ, 2003
Midwinter Show, Sharon Gill, Montclair, NJ, 2002
New Work, Simon Gallery, Morristown, NJ, 2001
Park Avenue Club, Florham Park, NJ, 1999
Recent Work, Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ, 1996
Images, Marks, Dreams and Words, MCA, Rutherford, NJ, 1995
Two Person Exhibitions
Virtual Conversations, Tubac School of Art, Tubac, AZ 2021
Two Painters Talking, Collaboration with Sara Mast, The Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT 2017
Passing Instances, Collaboration with Krista Svalbonas, Gallery x, The Visual Arts Center, Summit, NJ 2017
Shifting Time, Collaboration with Krista Svalbonas, ISE, New York, NY, 2014
Mapping Time: Collaboration, Firehouse Gallery, Orange, NJ, 201
Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, TX, 2008
Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, TX, 2007
Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, TX, 2005
Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, NJ, 2001
Simon Gallery, Morristown, NJ, 1998
Postcards, Chubb Group of Insurance, Warren, NJ, 1997
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
Messages, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2020
TerraChroma, Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
Paper Trail, Susie Eley Fine Art, New York, NY
Expressions in Wax curated by Tracy Leavitt, Arts Mid-Hudson Gallery Poughkeepsie, NY
2019
Inside the Rectangle, Cobalt Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Patterns of Influence, The Painting Center, New York, NY
The Unusuals,, The Painting Center, New York, NY
Group Show, Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
Sense of Place, Ice Gallery, Monmouth University, Monmouth ,NJ
2018
Introductions, OTA Contemporary, Sante Fe, NM
Some Like it Hot, Rye Arts Center, Rye, NY
Organic to Geometric, Part 2, Provincetown Art Association & Museum,Provincetown, MA
Untitled, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, New York
2017
Free Passage, Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
Re-Imagine Everything, J Cacciola Gallery, Bernardsville, NJ
Black Tie, Adam Peck Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Depth Perception, The Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
2016
Artists of the Year, The Curator Gallery, New York, NY
Femme Forte, The Curator Gallery, New York, NY
Paper, The Curator Gallery, New York, NY
2015
Contrasting Abstractions, Gallery 14, Morristown, NJ
Encaustic in Contemporary Art, The Curator Gallery, New York, NY
The Concise Line, Gallery X, Truro Center for the Arts, Truro, NY
One Plus One, A Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Arte Internazionale, Pallazo Dell’Annunziata, Matera, Italy, Curator: Pino Nicoletti (catalogue)
The Spaces Between, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
2014
A Tangled Web, Causey Contemporary, New York, NY
Emerge Art Fair, Causey Contemporary, Washington, DC
Inner Journeys, Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Swept Away: Translucence, Transparence, Transcendence in Contemporary Encaustic, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
2013
Infused, Butters Gallery, Portland Oregon
Shape Shifting, Susan Eley Gallery, New York, NY
Swept Away: Translucence, Transparence, Transcendence in Contemporary Encaustic, The Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA. Curated by Michael Giaquinto
Elephant in the Room Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA
Group Show, Western Carolina State University Museum, Cullowhee, NC
Wax is Hot, Amy Simon Gallery, West Port, CT
2012
From Where I Stand, Rye Arts Center, Rye, NY
Merge, Printmaking/Encaustic Castle Hill Gallery, Truro, MA
Wax: Medium Meets Message, Morean Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL
2011
Kindred Spirits, Schiltkamp Gallery, Clark University, Worcester, MA
Making their Mark, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY
The Affordable Art Fair, Anelle Gandelman Fine Art, New York, NY
2010
NJ Arts Annual, “Reality & Artifice,” New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Small Gems, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
Illusive Balance: Transcendental Pattern and Layered Surface, Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, New Brunswick, NJ
2009
Recent Encaustic Painting USC, Upstate Gallery, Spartanburg, SC
Gaelen Gallery, West Orange, NJ
Encaustic Wax, An Ancient Medium Rediscovered, Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ
Connections George Segal Gallery, Montclair, NJ
2008
Group Show, Bennet Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Small Works, Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Group Show, Rye Art Gallery, Rye, NY
New Talent, Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“Bee-ing,” Arts Guild of Rahway, Rahway, NJ
2007
Encaustic Show, Montclair Library, Montclair, NJ
2006
Winter Salon, CDF Gallery, Maplewood, NJ
Small Jewels, L Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN
Local Color, Art Space 129, Montclair, NJ
Navigation, Art Gotham, New York, NY
Beneath the Surface, Art Forms Gallery, Red Bank. NJ
About Drawing, Montclair Library, Montclair, NJ
2004
Group Show, Classic Design Gallery, Maplewood, NJ
Drawing Show, Beshert Gallery, Montclair, NJ
Synopsis @10, Pierro Gallery of South Orange, South Orange, NJ
2003
Color and Concept, Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, NJ
2002
21st Annual Metro Show, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ, Curators: Joyce Korotin, Patterson Sims, Lauren Wittels
Group Show, Confident Gallery, St Petersburg, FL
2001
When Two Becomes One, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ, Curator: Peter Tilgner
2000
Essex Exposed, Gallery of South Orange, NJ Jurors: Jim Murray, Yoalnd Skeete, Greg Smith
CWW 25th Anniversary Show, Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, NJ Curator: Stephen Sennot
1999
18th ANNUAL METRO SHOW, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ, Jurors: Alejandro Anreus, Victor Davson, Judy Wukitsch
CHROMATICALLY SPEAKING, Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, NJ, Curator: Stephen Sennot
1998
Works on Paper, Simon Gallery, Morristown, NJ
Heart Works, Gallery R, New York, NY, Curator: Sharon Gill
Dark, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ, Curator: Joan Vaccaro
1997
The World With Perforations, Watchung Art Center, Watchung, NJ Curator: Thom Lynch
1996
Colors and Conundrums, Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, NJ Curator: Stephen Sennot
1993
“JANUS, God of the Doorway,” Williams Carlos Williams Center for the Arts, Rutherford, NJ, Curator: Stephen Sennot
1992
Ellarslile Open XL, Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ
Women in Abstraction, Broadway Mall Gallery, New York, NY Curator: Michelle Bonelli
1991
Geometric Abstraction/Masked Media, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ Curator: Deborah Swack
Professional
Educator for Universities and Art Centers nationally and internationally2012-2017
Demonstration and Workshop Teacher, The International Encaustic Conference, Provincetown, MA 2010-present
Presenter and Curator of The Encaustic Studio: A digital look into artist’s studios from around the country. The International Encaustic Conference, Provincetown, MA 2010-13
Juror, Member Show, West Orange Arts Council, West Orange, NJ 2010
Encaustic Demonstration, R & F Handmade Paint, NJCVA, Summit, NJ 2009-10
Encaustic Demonstration, Jerry’s Art Supply, West Orange, NJ 2008
Juror Member Show Edison Arts Society, Edison, NJ 2008
Corporate Collections/Commissions
Harvest Group. Post 390 Restaurant
Evergreen Spot Trading Corporation, N
Hyatt Regency, Atlanta, GA
McKinsey Financial Corporation, NY
0mni Hotel and Resort, FL
Pierre’s Restaurant, NJ
Rumson International, NJ
Restaurant Serenade, NJ
Sun Chemical Corporation, NJ
Vatche Simonian, Inc., NJ
Zais Group, NJ
Visiting Artist Lectures
Source Material. University of Michigan Kalamazoo, MI, 2016
Wax: Medium Meets Message, Morean Arts Center, St Petersburg, FL, 2012 Artist Talk
Kindred Spirits, Schiltkamp Gallery, Clark University, Worcester, MA, 2010 Artist Talk
Illusive Balance: Transcendental Pattern and Layered Surface, Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 2010 Artist Talk
Who Does She Think She is? Panel Discussion about movie by Pamela Tanner Bell, St. Elizabeth’s College, Madison, NJ, 2009
Bibliography
Crowell, Rebecca, and Mcglaughlin, Jerry “Cold Wax Medium”
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Bishoff, Dan, “ Mapping Time”, Star Ledger, March 31 , 2013
Institute for Women and Art, 40 years of Women in Art at Douglass Library, May 2012
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Gottard, Luis “Wax: Medium Meets Message at the Morean Arts Center,” Art Taco, March 2012
Newhall, Edith “Meticulous and Abstract, they’re back on the Scene” Philadelphia Inquirer, January 2011
Brierly, Susan, “The Art of The Party” Park Place Magazine, March 2010
Seed, John, Studio Visits, Huffington Post, December 2010
Interview: R&F Artist of the Month, R&F Handmade Paints, November 2009
Tobin, Nancy, West of Chelsea: Lisa Pressman, The New York Times, August 2009
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LePoidevin, Michelle H. “The Franks Flourish” Westfield Leader, 2002
Bischoff, Dan “Art”, Star Ledger, Feb 1998
Birnbaum, Cata, “Out and About”, NJ Monthly, December 1996
Filler, Marion, “Get Close to Work of Four Artists” Daily Record, December 1996
“Spotlighting Four Women Artists” Daily Record, December 1996
Watkins, Eileen, “Art,” Star Ledger, July 1995
Devlin, John, “In the Towns” Star Ledger, July 1995
Hall, Meredith, “Women Assume Their Place”, ART SPEAK, December 1992
GRANTS
West Collection Emergency Fund
Anonymous Woman Grant Emergency Fund
Representation
Slate Gray Gallery, Telluride, CO
Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY
