SUSAN DORY
 
BIO / RESUME
 
IMAGES
BIO
 
   
 
NATIONAL AWARDS
2001
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1998
Texas Fine Arts Association, New American Talent: The 14th Exhibition, Curators Award
LOCAL AWARDS
2004
Seattle Arts Commission, Public Art Purchase Award
2003
The Neddy Award, Behnke Foundation Artist Fellowship
Artist Trust/WA State Arts Commission Fellowship Grant
2002
King County Office of Cultural Affairs, Purchase Award
2001
Artist Trust GAP Grant
1999
Seattle Arts Commission, Artist Grant, Seattle Collects
1997
Bellevue Art Museum, Pacific Northwest Annual,
Juror's Award Centrum Foundation, Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, Port Townsend, WA
ArtSpace/CARBO Group Show, Best of Show Award
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2007 Tacoma Art Museum, 8th NW Biennial, Tacoma, WA
Winston Wachter Fine Art, New Paintings, New York, NY
2006 Winston Wachter Fine Art, Sequence Bias, Seattle, WA
2005
Tacoma Art Museum, Neddy Exhibition, Tacoma, WA
Winston Wachter Fine Art, North by Northwest, New York, NY
Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, Paintings
That Paint Themselves, or So it Seems, East Lansing, MI
Winston Wachter Fine Art, Lucky 7, Seattle, WA
2004
Nathan Laramendy Gallery, Hidden Treasures, Ojai, CA
Howard House, About the House, Seattle, WA
Davidson Gallery, Strata, Group Exhibition, Seattle, WA
Howard House, YSA Group Exhibition, Seattle, WA
2003
Catharine Clark Gallery, Works on Paper, SCOPE Miami, FL
Western Washington Gallery, Surface Tension, University of Western WA, Bellingham, WA
traveling exhibit from Mills College, Oakland, CA
Arthouse, New American 18, curated by Dominic Molon, Austin, TX (award & catalog)
San Diego Art Institute, 46th Annual International Exhibit,curated by Hugh M. Davies, San Diego, CA
2002
Howard House, Shift, Seattle, WA
Margaret Thatcher Projects, Breathing Room, New York, NY
Henry Art Gallery, Universtiy of Washington, Cheap Thrills,Seattle, WA
Margaret Thatcher Projects, Dreamy, New York, NY
Winston Wachter Fine Art, Abstraction, Seattle, WA
2002
Mills College, Surface Tension, Oakland, CA, curated by
Katie Crum traveling to Western Washington University,Bellingham, WA April
2003
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Contours: Extended Painting, Victoria, BC, Canada, curated by Matthew Kangas & Lisa Baldissera (catalogue)
2001
Catharine Clark Gallery, TimeMotion, San Francisco, CA
Catharine Clark Gallery, 10, San Francisco, CA
Howard House, Lineformcolor: from Abstraction to Architecture, Seattle, WA
2000
Margaret Thatcher Projects, Summer Indulgence, New York, NY
Gensler & Associates, Group Show, Los Angeles, CA
Bellevue Art Museum, Northwest Annual, curated by Brian Wallace, Bellevue, WA
Howard House, Paintings, Seattle, WA
Rudolph Poissant Gallery, Group Show, Houston, TX
Howard House, Air Hockey, Seattle, WA
1999
Catharine Clark Gallery, Pansy, San Francisco, CA
Bellevue Art Museum, Fresh Flowers, Curated by Brian Wallace, Bellevue, WA
Bellevue Art Museum, Northwest Annual, curated by Jon Tupper, Bellevue, WA
Austin Museum of Art, New American Talent: The Fourteenth
Exhibition, curated by Amada Cruz, Austin, TX (award & catalog)
1998
Howard House, Hallwalls, Seattle, WA
Bellevue Art Museum, Northwest Annual, curated by Brian Wallace, Bellevue, WA
PONCHO Invitational Art Exhibition, SeaFirst Gallery, Seattle, WA
Seattle Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery, Introductions, Seattle, WA
Linda Cannon Gallery, Seattle, WA
1997
Howard House, Inaugural Exhibition, Seattle, WA
Bellevue Art Museum, Northwest Annual, curated by Katharyn Kanjo, Bellevue, WA
Equinox Gallery, C.A.R.B.O., Seattle, WA
1996
Equinox Gallery, Wax Paintings, Seattle, WA
Equinox Gallery, 1st Annual Invitational, Seattle, WA
1995
Galeria Potatohead, Group Show, Seattle, WA
619Gallery, Small Works, Seattle, WA
Bellevue Art Museum, Northwest Annual, Bellevue, WA
 
PUBLICATIONS & REVIEWS

Kangas, Matthew, “Creating, and enjoying, art for the sake of art”, Seattle Times, February 17, 2006
Hackett, Regina, “Susan Dory's grids set their own rhythm”
Seattle Post Intelligencer, January 27, 2006
Kangas, Matthew, "Young Stars and Abstract Stripes Captivate in New Group Shows", Seattle Times, December 12, 2003
Hackett, Regina, "YSA", Seattle Post Intelligencer, December 12, 2003
Johnson, Ken, "Dreamy", New York Times, April 26, 2002
Thompson, Sandy, "Surface Tension at Mills College", Artweek, April 2002
DeVuono, Francis, "Abstraction at Winston Wachter Fine Art", Artweek, April 2002
Kangas, Matthew, "Abstraction", Seattle Times, January 2002
Golonu, Berin, "Jill Weinstock and Susan Dory", Artweek, June 2001
Kangas, Matthew, "Susan Dory at Howard House", Art in America, September, 2000
Kangas, Matthew, "Four young artists embraced the pleasures of the abstract world", Seattle Times, April 14, 2000
Hackett, Regina, "Stream of fluid abstraction connects engaging works by trio of local artists", Seattle Post Intelligencer, April 21, 2000
Fredrickson, Eric, Art Bio, The Stranger, April 6-12, 2000
Rose, Cynthia, "Air Hockey", Seattle Times, Dec. 2, 1999
Sims, Lowry New American Paintings, The Open Studio Press, Dec/Jan 1999-2000
Hackett, Regina, Seattle Post Intelligencer, July, 1999
Kangas, Matthew, "BAM NW Annual", Seattle Times, June, 1999
Kangas, Matthew, "Bold in Bellevue", Seattle Times, July, 1998
Hackett, Regina, "Northwest Annual at BAM is Nice Surprise", Seattle Post Intelligencer, July, 1999
Kangas, Matthew, "SAM'S RSG Offers Sales - and Shows Too", Seattle Times, July, 1998
Bell, Clare, New American Painting, The Open Studio Press, Oct/Nov 1997
Kangas, Matthew, "Pleasant Changes Enrich BAM", Seattle Times, July, 1997
Updike, Robin, "Bellevue Annual Sparks Vitality of Art Scene", Seattle Times, June, 1997
Bryant, Elizabeth, "Six of One, Half Dozen of the Other", Art Access, December 1996
Time Capsule, A Concise Encyclopedia by Women Artists, Creative Time/ SOS International, DAP, 1995

 
PUBLIC WORK & COMMISSIONS
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Everett Events Center, Public Art Commission, Everett, WA
Art in Embassy Program, Vientiane, Laos, US Embassy
King County Arts Commission, Public Art Award, Seattle, WA
Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, WA
Microsoft, Redmond, WA
Vulcan Enterprises, Bellevue, WA
W Hotel, Chicago
City of Seattle
Swedish Hospital, Seattle, WA
Nordstrom Headquarters, Seattle, WA
Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, NV
Spa Resort Casino, Palm Springs, CA
 
EDUCATION
Universaet Wien, Vienna, Austria, 1990-91
Iowa State University, Ames, IA, BA 1987
Independent study/travel in India, Southeast Asia, Middle East and Europe 1987-91