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Suzanne Bocanegra
Born1957
Houston, Texas
NationalityAmerican
EducationSan Francisco Art InstituteUniversity of Texas
Known forConceptual art
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship, Rome Prize
Websitehttp://www.suzannebocanegra.com/

Suzanne Bocanegra is an American artist living in New York City.[1] Her works include performance and installation art as well as visual and sound art.[2][3][4] Her work is exhibited internationally.

Career

Bocanegra's work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art,[5] Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,[6] Tang Teaching Museum,[7] Delaware Art Museum,[8] and Museum of Fine Arts Houston.[9] Bocanegra has received a Guggenheim Fellowship (2020),[10] Foundation for Contemporary Arts Robert Rauschenberg award (2019),[11] and an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in art (2021).[12] In 1991, Bocanegra received a Rome Prize for visual arts.[13][14] She has received awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (1988, 1990, 2003) and the New York Foundation for the Arts (1989, 1993, 2001, 2005).[2] She has received residency fellowships from MacDowell,[15] Yaddo,[16] and the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program.[17]

Recent solo shows include those at the Gund Gallery at Kenyon College (2022),[18] Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin (2021),[19] Art Cake (2019),[20] and The Fabric Workshop and Museum (2018).[21]

Personal life

A native of Houston, Texas, Bocanegra is an alumna of the University of Texas and the San Francisco Art Institute, from which she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (1979) and a Master of Fine Arts (1984), respectively.[2][4] She is married to composer David Lang, with whom she has three children.[22]

Further reading

  • Wolfe, Julia (2004). "Suzanne Bocanegra". BOMB. Spring 2004 (87).

References

  1. ^ "An Evening with Suzanne Bocanegra". Museum of Modern Art. 2010. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
  2. ^ a b c "Suzanne Bocanegra". Wave Hill. 2005. Archived from the original on 13 June 2010. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
  3. ^ "Info". Suzanne Bocanegra. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
  4. ^ a b "Opener 21 Suzanne Bocanegra: I Write the Songs". Tang Museum. Archived from the original on 18 July 2010. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
  5. ^ https://www.moma.org/artists/131346
  6. ^ https://collections.mfa.org/objects/492357/all-the-petals-from-jan-brueghel-the-elders-flowers-in-a-c;jsessionid=50BBF7EE04ADE97A3B584FAEC3952D97?ctx=ee92478e-90a6-461d-8ab1-28410301c78c&idx=0
  7. ^ "Suzanne Bocanegra". Tang Teaching Museum.
  8. ^ https://emuseum.delart.org/people/5584/suzanne-bocanegra
  9. ^ "Suzanne Bocanegra Untitled No. 32". mfah.org.
  10. ^ https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/suzanne-hitt-bocanegra/
  11. ^ https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/recipients/suzanne-bocanegra/
  12. ^ https://artsandletters.org/pressrelease/2021-art-award-winners/
  13. ^ "Directory by Year". Society of Fellows, American Academy in Rome. Archived from the original on 5 November 2010. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
  14. ^ Slosberg, Chelsea. "Mixed-Media at the Tang: Bocanegra's I Write the Songs Exhibit". The Free George. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
  15. ^ https://www.macdowell.org/artists/suzanne-bocanegra
  16. ^ https://www.yaddo.org/artists/artist-guests/visual-artists/
  17. ^ https://www.thestudioprogram.com/1991-2013
  18. ^ https://www.thegundgallery.org/2022/07/suzanne-bocanegra-valley/
  19. ^ https://blantonmuseum.org/exhibition/suzanne-bocanegra-valley/
  20. ^ https://artcake.org/events-main/suzanne-bocanegra
  21. ^ https://fabricworkshopandmuseum.org/exhibition/suzanne-bocanegra-poorly-watched-girls/
  22. ^ Woolfe, Zachary (19 October 2010). "The composer of modern life: David Lang, paycheck to paycheck". Capital. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
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