Draga Susanj

EDUCATION

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred, NY, MFA
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, BFA

SELECTED AWARDS

New York State Council of the Arts Decentralization Program Grant for a Community Art Project
Administered in Greene County Council for the Arts through the Community Arts Grant Fund
Bee Guard Inn, Permanent Public Sculpture, “Native Bee Hotel”, at the Mountain Top Arboretum, Tannersville, NY, 2015

New York State Council of the Arts Decentralization Program Grant for an Individual Artist Project
Administered in Greene County Council for the Arts through the Community Arts Grant Fund, Catskill Textures, 2015

Best in Show Award -The Columbia County Council on the Arts’ 18th Annual Juried Art Show, Hudson, NY, 2015
Curator: Jack Shear, Director the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation

Catslair Artist in Residence, Catwalk Institute, Catskill, NY, 2014

The Platte Clove Artists in Residence Program, Hunter, NY, 2014, 2015

Creative Glass Center of America Fellowship, Wheaton Arts Center, Millville, NJ, 2010

The Edwin Austin Abbey Mural Workshop Fellowship, National Academy, New York, NY, 2009

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY, 2005

The Pritzker Foundation Endowed Fellowship, Honorary Award for Distinguished
Residency at the Djerassi Artist Program, Woodside, CA, 2004

Emerging Artist in Residence, Pilchuck Glass School, WA, 2002

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Bee Guard Inn, Public Sculpture, “Native Beehotel”, the Mountain Top Arboretum, Tannersville, NY, 2015

Elsewhere, Muroff-Kotler Visual Arts Gallery, SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge, NY, January, 2015

Swarming, Site-Specific Installation, Prudential Building, Chicago, IL, 2011

Recent Work, Consulate General of the Republic of Serbia, New York, NY, 2010

Ames, Permanent Site-Specific Installation, Ames Building, Boston, MA, 2009

Imprints, Student Cultural Center, Beograd, March, 2007

Site-Specific Installation, Ox-Bow, MI, 2004

Sculpture-Walk, Permanent Site-Specific Installation, Djerassi Artist Program, Woodside, CA, 2003

Crossing, Site-Specific Installation, Phillips Exeter Academy, NH, 2003

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

American Masquerade - Prattsville Art Center, Cocurator with Nancy Barton and David Rimanelli, NY, 2015

The Columbia County Council on the Arts’ 18th Annual Juried Art Show, Hudson Opera House, NY, 2015
Curator: Jack Shear, Director -Ellsworth Kelly Foundation, “T”, Paper Water Drawing - Best in Show

Reflecting on Olana as Framed in Catwalk’s Views, Site Specific Installation
Self Guided Tour of Indoor and Outdoor Exhibits, Catwalk Institute, Catskill, NY, September 13. 2014

Weather Project, Piece for Community Play and Expo, NACL Theatre, Highland Lake, NY, 2014

Ad Infinitum, Greene County Council on the Arts, Catskill, NY, 2014

Retrospective - 60 Years of ULUPUDS, The Association of Applied Arts Artists and Designers of Serbia, 2013

Hive Culture; Captivated by the Honeybee, Wave Hill Glindor Gallery, New York, NY, 2011

Abbey Mural Fellows, National Academy, New York, NY, 2009

HereThereEverywhere, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, Jan-April 2008

SuperSalon, Samson Projects, Boston, MA, 2004

Aliens in America, Others in the US, Phillips Exeter Academy, NH, 2003

Pilchuck Hauberg Fellows and Emerging Artist in Residence,
Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA, 2003

Alter, Filament Gallery in Portland, ME, 2003

Transitions, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred, NY, 2002

Residuals, Three Arts Club, Chicago, IL, 1999

At the Crossroads, South Shore Cultural Club, Chicago, IL, 1995

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Almanac Weekly, Hudson Valley, Issue 5, January 29 - February 5, 2015
Check It Out, by Paul Smart, Page 2

ArtsAlive, July-August 2014, April 2015. September 2015,

Glass Quarterly, Winter 2011 Issue
Draga Šušanj at Hive Culture: Captivated by the Honeybee, by Ruth Reader

Hospitality Design, March 2010,
American Revolution, by Stacy Shoemaker Rauen, (page 100)

Chicago Tribune, January 24 2008
HereThereEverywhere map exhibit finds its place, By Alan G. Artner

Politika, Belgrade, March 06 2007
Section-Last night in Belgrade (Sinoc u Beogradu)
Art can help (Umetnost moze da pomogne), page 48, By B. D. P.

Art New England, February-March 2004
Spotlight Reviews, Show -Aliens in America: Others in the USA, Lamont Gallery,
Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH by Rick McKown (page19)

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture 2003 Annual Award Publication
”All Together”, View of Installation at the Skowhegan School, New York, NY, (page 1)




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