EDUCATION
2010 MFA (photography), San Francisco Art Institute
1987 BA (anthropology), University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Through lines, First Draft Series, Revolve Gallery, Asheville, NC
2014 Open for Interpretation, Jackson County Arts Council Rotunda Gallery, Sylva, NC
2012 Cycles, The Skinny Gallery, Sylva, NC
2011 Pieces: Recent Work by Susan Alta Martin, Durham Arts Guild, Room 100, Golden Belt, Durham, NC
2008 Comfort and Consumption, Still Lights Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Through Lines, Asheville Darkroom, Asheville, NC, Cancelled due to covid
2020 Escapes and Revelations, Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
2019 Cultivating Collections, Western Carolina University Fine and Performing Arts Center, Cullowhee, NC
2019 Seam, Upstairs Artspace, Tryon, NC
2018 Picturing Purity, Photo+Sphere, Revolve Gallery, Asheville, NC
2018 Forms of Testimony, Photo+Sphere, Masonic Temple, Asheville, NC
2018 Anti-Nostalgia, Click! Photography Festival, The Carrack, Durham, NC
2018 Vague Instructions/Limited Supplies, Revolve Gallery, Asheville, NC
2018 Signs Point To…, Herger Gallery, Fairfield, CA
2018 Currents, 126 Artist-Run Gallery, Galway, Ireland
2017 Crafting with Strangers, Center for Craft Creativity and Design, Asheville, NC
2017 Photo as Object, PUSH Gallery, Asheville, NC
2017 Object as Poet, Center for Craft Creativity and Design, Asheville, NC
2017 {Re}Happening, Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center, Camp Rockmont, Black Mountain, NC
2016 Flow, Western Carolina University Fine and Performing Arts Center, Cullowhee, NC
2015 Countdown to Ecstasy, Western Carolina University Fine and Performing Arts Center, Cullowhee, NC
2014 Soft Art, Sims Futon Gallery, Asheville, NC
2013 Sixth Juried Annuale, Light Factory: Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film, Charlotte, NC
2013 The Year in Review: Recent Artists at the Skinny, The Skinny Gallery, Sylva, NC
2011 Local Histories: The Ground We Walk On Everyday, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the town of Chapel Hill,
523 Franklin St. Chapel Hill, NC
2011 There’s No Place Like….., The Renaissance Center, Dickson, TN
2011 New Blood: National MFA Exhibition, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Systems and Structure, Western Carolina University Fine and Performing Arts Center, Cullowhee, NC
2009 Immediate Future: The Murphy and Cadogan Fellowships in the Fine Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
2009 A Condition of the Spirit: Artists and the Landscape, Dorothy Herger Gallery, Solano Community College and
Fairfield Center Gallery, Fairfield Center for Creative Arts, Fairfield, CA
2008 Romanticized Disappointment, Queen’s Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA
2008 Fragile Earth, Western Carolina University Fine and Performing Arts Center, Cullowhee, NC
2007 Facsimulacrae, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2007 Three Views of the South, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2006 Reflections on Human Habitation, Swell Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Western Carolina University Art Museum, Cullowhee, North Carolina
PUBLICATIONS
Sun Magazine, January 2012, Issue 433
PRESS
Asheville Made Magazine, April Issue, article by Kay West: https://ashevillemade.com/archaeologist-turned-artist-listens-to-chairs-and-understands-kudzu/
North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship Announcement:
https://www.ncarts.org/susan-alta-martin
https://daylightbooks.org/blogs/news/17202933-susan-alta-martin-pieces-recent-work-room-100-gallery-at-golden-belt-807-e-main-street-durham-nc-27701-march-25-may-22-2011
http://localhistories.wordpress.com/page/2/
AWARDS
2018 North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship
2013 Sixth Juried Annuale, Light Factory: Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film, Charlotte, NC
2010 Phoenix Award, Recent MFA’s, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Murphy and Cadogan Fine Arts Fellowship, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2020 Juror, Imperial Center for the Arts, Annual Juried Art Show, Rocky Mount, NC
2019 Artist Talk, Upstairs Artspace, Tryon, North Carolina
2018 Holler, contributor to online arts magazine, Asheville, NC
https://www.holleravl.org/susan-alta-martin/
2006- Western Carolina University, Instructor of Photography and History of Photography, Cullowhee, NC,
present
2015 - Gallery 126, member artist, Galway, Ireland,
present
2010 MFA (photography), San Francisco Art Institute
1987 BA (anthropology), University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Through lines, First Draft Series, Revolve Gallery, Asheville, NC
2014 Open for Interpretation, Jackson County Arts Council Rotunda Gallery, Sylva, NC
2012 Cycles, The Skinny Gallery, Sylva, NC
2011 Pieces: Recent Work by Susan Alta Martin, Durham Arts Guild, Room 100, Golden Belt, Durham, NC
2008 Comfort and Consumption, Still Lights Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Through Lines, Asheville Darkroom, Asheville, NC, Cancelled due to covid
2020 Escapes and Revelations, Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
2019 Cultivating Collections, Western Carolina University Fine and Performing Arts Center, Cullowhee, NC
2019 Seam, Upstairs Artspace, Tryon, NC
2018 Picturing Purity, Photo+Sphere, Revolve Gallery, Asheville, NC
2018 Forms of Testimony, Photo+Sphere, Masonic Temple, Asheville, NC
2018 Anti-Nostalgia, Click! Photography Festival, The Carrack, Durham, NC
2018 Vague Instructions/Limited Supplies, Revolve Gallery, Asheville, NC
2018 Signs Point To…, Herger Gallery, Fairfield, CA
2018 Currents, 126 Artist-Run Gallery, Galway, Ireland
2017 Crafting with Strangers, Center for Craft Creativity and Design, Asheville, NC
2017 Photo as Object, PUSH Gallery, Asheville, NC
2017 Object as Poet, Center for Craft Creativity and Design, Asheville, NC
2017 {Re}Happening, Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center, Camp Rockmont, Black Mountain, NC
2016 Flow, Western Carolina University Fine and Performing Arts Center, Cullowhee, NC
2015 Countdown to Ecstasy, Western Carolina University Fine and Performing Arts Center, Cullowhee, NC
2014 Soft Art, Sims Futon Gallery, Asheville, NC
2013 Sixth Juried Annuale, Light Factory: Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film, Charlotte, NC
2013 The Year in Review: Recent Artists at the Skinny, The Skinny Gallery, Sylva, NC
2011 Local Histories: The Ground We Walk On Everyday, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the town of Chapel Hill,
523 Franklin St. Chapel Hill, NC
2011 There’s No Place Like….., The Renaissance Center, Dickson, TN
2011 New Blood: National MFA Exhibition, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Systems and Structure, Western Carolina University Fine and Performing Arts Center, Cullowhee, NC
2009 Immediate Future: The Murphy and Cadogan Fellowships in the Fine Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
2009 A Condition of the Spirit: Artists and the Landscape, Dorothy Herger Gallery, Solano Community College and
Fairfield Center Gallery, Fairfield Center for Creative Arts, Fairfield, CA
2008 Romanticized Disappointment, Queen’s Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA
2008 Fragile Earth, Western Carolina University Fine and Performing Arts Center, Cullowhee, NC
2007 Facsimulacrae, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2007 Three Views of the South, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2006 Reflections on Human Habitation, Swell Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Western Carolina University Art Museum, Cullowhee, North Carolina
PUBLICATIONS
Sun Magazine, January 2012, Issue 433
PRESS
Asheville Made Magazine, April Issue, article by Kay West: https://ashevillemade.com/archaeologist-turned-artist-listens-to-chairs-and-understands-kudzu/
North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship Announcement:
https://www.ncarts.org/susan-alta-martin
https://daylightbooks.org/blogs/news/17202933-susan-alta-martin-pieces-recent-work-room-100-gallery-at-golden-belt-807-e-main-street-durham-nc-27701-march-25-may-22-2011
http://localhistories.wordpress.com/page/2/
AWARDS
2018 North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship
2013 Sixth Juried Annuale, Light Factory: Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film, Charlotte, NC
2010 Phoenix Award, Recent MFA’s, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Murphy and Cadogan Fine Arts Fellowship, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2020 Juror, Imperial Center for the Arts, Annual Juried Art Show, Rocky Mount, NC
2019 Artist Talk, Upstairs Artspace, Tryon, North Carolina
2018 Holler, contributor to online arts magazine, Asheville, NC
https://www.holleravl.org/susan-alta-martin/
2006- Western Carolina University, Instructor of Photography and History of Photography, Cullowhee, NC,
present
2015 - Gallery 126, member artist, Galway, Ireland,
present