Suzanne Bocanegra

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Suzanne Bocanegra
Born1957
Houston, Texas
NationalityAmerican
EducationSan Francisco Art Institute University 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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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

External links[edit]

References[edit]

  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. ^ "Suzanne Bocanegra | MoMA".
  6. ^ "All the Petals from Jan Brueghel the Elder's 'Flowers in a Ceramic Vase' (1620) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston".
  7. ^ "Suzanne Bocanegra". Tang Teaching Museum.
  8. ^ "Suzanne Bocanegra". emuseum.delart.org. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
  9. ^ "Suzanne Bocanegra Untitled No. 32". mfah.org.
  10. ^ "Suzanne Hitt Bocanegra".
  11. ^ "Suzanne Bocanegra | FCA Grant Recipient".
  12. ^ "2021 Art Award Winners – American Academy of Arts and Letters".
  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. Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
  15. ^ "Suzanne Bocanegra - Artist".
  16. ^ "Visual Artists | Yaddo". Archived from the original on 2019-03-28.
  17. ^ "Artists 1991-2013". Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program. 20 Jay Street, Suite 720, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Retrieved 17 April 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  18. ^ "Gund Gallery | Kenyon College".
  19. ^ "Suzanne Bocanegra Valley – Blanton Museum of Art".
  20. ^ "Suzanne Bocanegra — Art Cake". Archived from the original on 2021-08-02.
  21. ^ "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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