SUSAN ALTA MARTIN
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    • Open for Interpretation
    • Blur
    • Interrupted Landscapes
    • 2nd Floor Main Street
    • Trailers 1
    • Trailers 2
    • Comfort and Consumption
  • Sculpture
    • Consequences of Folly
    • News Stories
    • House Blanket
    • Foreclosure
    • Mainstreets
    • Babel
    • Cases
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EDUCATION
2010    MFA (photography), San Francisco Art Institute
1987    BA (anthropology), University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
                       
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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
2017   {Re}Happening, Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center,  Camp Rockmont, Black Mountain, NC
2017   Object as Poet, Center for Craft Creativity and Design, Asheville, NC
2017   Photo as Object, Push Gallery, Asheville, NC
2017   Crafting with Strangers, Center for Craft Creativity and Design, Asheville, 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
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
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
Western Carolina University, Instructor of Photography and History of Photography, Cullowhee, NC, 2006-present
Gallery 126, member artist, Galway, Ireland, 2015 - present


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  • Home
  • Statement
  • Photography
    • Power Lines
    • Model Men
    • Open for Interpretation
    • Blur
    • Interrupted Landscapes
    • 2nd Floor Main Street
    • Trailers 1
    • Trailers 2
    • Comfort and Consumption
  • Sculpture
    • Consequences of Folly
    • News Stories
    • House Blanket
    • Foreclosure
    • Mainstreets
    • Babel
    • Cases
  • CV
  • Contact