SUSAN ALTA MARTIN
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  • Statement
  • Photography
    • Yard Sales
    • Shopping Carts
    • Meditation on Destruction
    • Power Lines
    • Model Men
    • Open for Interpretation
    • Blur
    • Interrupted Landscapes
    • 2nd Floor Main Street
    • Trailers 1
    • Trailers 2
    • Comfort and Consumption
  • Sculpture
    • One in Three Houses
    • Narcissuses in the Hall of Mirrors
    • Consequences of Folly
    • News Stories
    • Foreclosure
    • Mainstreets
    • Babel
    • Cases
  • Installations
    • Through LIne
    • Seem
  • CV
  • Contact
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


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  • Home
  • Statement
  • Photography
    • Yard Sales
    • Shopping Carts
    • Meditation on Destruction
    • Power Lines
    • Model Men
    • Open for Interpretation
    • Blur
    • Interrupted Landscapes
    • 2nd Floor Main Street
    • Trailers 1
    • Trailers 2
    • Comfort and Consumption
  • Sculpture
    • One in Three Houses
    • Narcissuses in the Hall of Mirrors
    • Consequences of Folly
    • News Stories
    • Foreclosure
    • Mainstreets
    • Babel
    • Cases
  • Installations
    • Through LIne
    • Seem
  • CV
  • Contact