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Suzanne Banning was born in 1973, in Hengelo (Overijssel), The Netherlands. She currently lives and works in Houston, Texas. 

Education

1994-1998

BFA, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Arnhem (Academy of Art), Arnhem, The Netherlands. 

Positions

1999-2000

Art teacher at high school “Het Loo”, Voorburg, The Netherlands.   

2003            

Docent at the Blaffer Gallery, the Museum of the University of Houston. 

Awards

Honorable Mention awarded in the "Texas Visual Arts Association National 2007", Irving Arts Center, Irving Texas. Juried by Andrea Karnes, Curator of the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. *Catalog (illustrated) 

First Prize awarded in the “19th Annual Open Juried Exhibition”, 2002, Visual Arts Alliance, Houston, Texas. Juror: Marysol Nieves, Senior Curator at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York. 

Gallery representation

New Gallery / Thom Andriola, Houston Texas. 

 

Solo-exhibitions

2007

2006

2005        

2004 

 

Selected Group exhibitions 

2008

  • “Suzanne Banning en Viviane Rose”, Oude Beuvink, Kunstroute Lonneker 2008, Lonneker, The Netherlands. 

  • “Subject to Change”, Fotofest Group Show (Suzanne Banning, Elinor Carucci and Allison Hunter), TCA (Texas Collaborative Arts) Nauhaus Gallery, Houston, Texas. 

  • "Six Viewpoints", Fotofest Group Show (Suzanne Banning, Cheryl Kelley, David Levinthal, Ruta Perzynska, Jay Rusovich and Susanne York), New Gallery / Thom Andriola, Houston, Texas. 

  • "Bands and Fans", Fotofest Group Show, The Meridian, Houston, Texas. 

2007

  • "Ulterior Motifs a.k.a. Camp Marfa", Crazywood Gallery, Huntsville, Texas. Curated by Wayne Gilbert and Jeffrey Wheeler. *Catalog (illustrated) 

  • "Camp Marfa", The Art Depot in Lubbock, Texas. Curated by Wayne Gilbert. *Catalog (illustrated)

  • “Amistad; Texas Art in Peru”, Museum of Modern Art (Museo de Arte Moderno) in Trujillo, Peru. Curated by Gus Kopriva. *Catalog (illustrated)

  • "Camp Marfa", Fort Russell Building, Marfa, Texas. Curated by Wayne Gilbert. *Catalog (illustrated)

  • “Amistad; Texas Art in Peru”, Museo de la Nación in Lima, Peru. Curated by Gus Kopriva. *Catalog (illustrated) 

  • "Texas Visual Arts Association National 2007", Irving Arts Center, Irving Texas. Juried by Andrea Karnes, Curator of the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. *Catalog (illustrated) Honorable Mention. 

  • “Houston City Hall Annex Art on Loan Show”, Houston, Texas. Curated by Karen Rezai and Gus Kopriva. 

  • "Let’s Dance: Chapalango", Art Galerie Siegen, Germany. Organized by Art Galerie & photographers:network, Thomas Kellner. *Catalog (illustrated)

2006

  • "The BIG Show", Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas. Juried by  Dominic Molon, Pamela Alper Associate Curator for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. 

  • “Houston Contemporary Art”, Shanghai Art Museum, China. Curated by Gus Kopriva and Christopher Zhu. *Catalog (illustrated)

2005 

  • "City Hall Project", Houston, Texas. Curated by Gus Kopriva. 

  • “The Back Room” – a companion gallery show for the City Hall Project curated by Gus Kopriva and Wayne Gilbert, DIG 101 Gallery, Houston, Texas.

  • “Face”, ArtCar Museum, Houston Texas.

  • “New American Talent: The Twentieth Exhibition”, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, Texas. Juror: Dan Cameron, Senior Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art New York. (June – August 2005, on tour to venues in Texas until summer 2007) *Catalog

  • "The Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2005 Show", Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas. Juror: Dominic Molon, Pamela Alper Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Illinois. 

  • “Happy nude year”, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston Texas. 

2004 

  • “Consul-Arte”, Arte Las Americas Gallery, Houston Texas.  An initiative sponsored by South American and European Consulates. 

  • “New Texas Talent XI” a state-wide juried exhibition, Craighead-Green Gallery, Dallas, Texas. 
    Juror: Gail Sachson. 

  • “I love red”, The Art House, Houston, Texas. 

  • “21st Juried Open Exhibition”, Visual Arts Alliance, William’s Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas. 
    Juror: Sally Sprout. 

  • “Cross currents”, Fotofest group show, Gallery 101, Houston, Texas. 
    Curators: Gus Kopriva and Wayne Gilbert. *Catalog (illustrated)

  • Fotofest 2004 four person group show (Suzanne Banning, Irene Clouthier, Christopher Olivier, Dylan Vitone), Art League Houston, Texas. *Review  (illustrated)

  • “Coastal Connections: Contemporary Art from Houston and Corpus Christi”, Weil Gallery, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Texas. Curated by Gus Kopriva. 

  • “Houston in Art”, The Art House, Houston, Texas.   

2003

  • "7th Annual Juried Photography Exhibition", The Arts Alliance Center At Clear Lake. Nassau Bay, Texas. Juror: Bill Frazier. 

  • "Open Show 2003”. Art League Houston, Houston, Texas.
    Jurors: Dr. Robert Card & Karol Kreymer   

  • “Twenty first Juried Membership Exhibition”, Visual Arts Alliance, Houston, Texas. 
    Juror: Polly Hammett.  

  • “Annual Print Exhibition“, Women in the Visual and Literary Arts (WIVLA), Museum of Printing History, Houston, Texas.  

  • “Humid: hot, wet and sticky”, group show, part of “Ulterior Motifs #5”. Organized by Wheeler Bro’s Studios, Lubbock, Texas. Curated by Gus Kopriva, owner of the Redbud Gallery, Houston, Texas.  

  • “The Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2003 Show”, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas. Juror: Connie Butler, Curator at Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles.

  • “Dishman Competition 2003”, Dishman Art Gallery, Beaumont, Texas. 
    Juror: W. Jackson Rushing III, Professor of Art History and Chair, Department of Art at the University of Houston.   

2002

  • “20th Annual Membership Exhibition”, Visual Arts Alliance, Houston, Texas.
    Juror: Clint Willour, Executive Director and Curator at the Galveston Arts Center.

  • “I-45 Combined”, group show, Lowell Collins Gallery, Houston, TX. 
    Curator: Michael Collins, artist and Professor at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. 

  • “8th Annual National Juried Photography Competition”, Texas Artists Museum, Port Arthur, Texas. 
    Juror: Lynne Lokensgard, Professor of Art History at the Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas and director of the Dishman Art Gallery.    

  • “Dia de Los Muertos”, retablo show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas. 

  • "The Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2002 Show", Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas. Juror: James Rondeau, curator at “The Art Institute of Chicago”. 

  • “19th Annual Open Juried Exhibition”, Visual Arts Alliance, Houston, Texas. 
    Juror: Marysol Nieves, Senior Curator at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. First Prize. 

  • “Viewpoint 2002”, Bosque Conservatory, Clifton, Texas. 
    Juror: D.Clarke Evans, President / CEO of the Texas Photographic Society.  

  • “Alchemy”, Fotofest Group Show, Redbud Gallery, Houston, Texas. 
    Curated by Gus Kopriva. *Catalog 

  • “Project Phoenix” fundraising for the Red Cross, Redbud Gallery, Houston, Texas.  

  • “Faces III International Juried Art Exhibition”, Period Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska. 
    Juror: David McLeod (Art Professor Metropolitan Community College, Omaha Nebraska.)  

2001

  •  “19th Juried Membership Show”, Visual Arts Alliance Houston, Houston, Texas. 
    Juror: Sharon Kopriva.    

  • “Juried Open Show”, Art League Houston, Houston, Texas. 
    Juror: Virgil Grotfeldt. 

1998

  •  “Examententoonstelling HKA 1998”, de Oude Kraan, Arnhem, The Netherlands. *Catalog 

Bibliography

2007 

  • Rhodes, Dusti, “My Sin, My Soul; Suzanne Banning explores the dynamics of Lolita“, Houston Press, November 8 – 14, 2007, page 26. (for link click here)

  • Zhu, Christopher, “Suzanne Banning: the real woman under the lens”, Art World magazine, May 2007 issue, pages 74-77. (illustrated) (click here to see the article front page, page 74, 75, 76, 77, translation) 

  • Capital Art catalog, 2007/04, pages 202-225. (illustrated)

  • “Tanzwütige Kunst; Art-Galerie zeigt Arbeiten internationaler Fotografen”, Siegener Zeitung, February 27th 2007, page 18.

  • “Bilder vom Tanzen von Fotografen aus der aller Welt”, Westfalenpost; Zeitung für Siegen, February 26th 2007, page 2. 

  • “Heiße Sohlen festgehalten auf Celluloid”, Westfalenpost; Zeitung für Siegen, February 23rd 2007, page 4. 

     

2006

  • Zhu, Christopher, "American Contemporary Art from Houston", Journal of Suzhou Art and Design Technology Institute, September 2006 issue, pages 47-52. (illustrated) 

  • Kopriva, Gus, “Houston Works—The Present and Future State of the Visual Arts”, The Houston Review of History and Culture Volume 4, number 1, Fall 2006, pages 27-29. (illustrated)

  • Otton, William G.  /  Locke, Michelle W., "The legacy continues 1997-2006", catalogue of the Permanent Collection of the Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX. 

  • "Houston Art in Shanghai", a documentary of "Houston Contemporary Art", directed by Christopher Zhu, co-produced by TV station of Minhang District, Shanghai and Jacob Video Studio, 08-18-2006. 

  • Liu Jingjing, “Houston in Two Seconds – in Retrospective of Houston Contemporary Art”, Art World, Panorama (September, 2006), pages 64-69.

  • Anspon, Catherine D., “China syndrome: Houston artists Shanghaied”, Paper City, October 2006, page 71. (illustrated)

  • Celestino, Magdalen, “Houston Contemporary Art in Shanghai”, Glasstire September 2006. Link: click here

  • Johnson, Patricia C., “Shanghai surprise; Lauded, short-lived exhibit brought in 20,000 visitors”, Houston Chronicle (Zest), August 18th 2006.

  • “Houston Contemporary Art” catalog, Shanghai Art Museum, China. (illustrated)

  • “Houston Contemporary Art”, small illustrated booklet, Friends of Shanghai Art Museum, China. (illustrated)

  • Fotofest 2006 Catalog (Participating spaces section 4 Commercial Art Galleries, pages 58-59 and 141) (illustrated)

  • Anspon, Catherine D., ArtNotes, Paper City, March 2006

2005 

  • Anspon, Catherine D., ArtNotes, Paper City, November 2005.

  • Anspon, Catherine D., ArtNotes, Paper City, August 2005. 

  • “New American Talent: The Twentieth Exhibition” catalog. (illustrated) Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX. 

  • Sanders, Gail, "New American Talent at Arthouse (Austin)", Voices of Art Magazine, Volume 13 issue 2 2005, page 19. (link)

  • Devadanam, Steven, “This week’s Day-by-Day Picks”. Houston Press, Night & Day  January 13, 2005. 

2004

  • Rushing III, W. Jackson, Art Papers, Reviews Southwest: Houston, Texas, July / August issue 2004. Pages 54, 55 (illustrated) (click here)

  • Roeske, Sharon, “Redbud Gallery: Suzanne Banning, La belle dame sans merci”, Arts Houston Magazine, July 2004 issue. Page 31 (illustrated) (click here)

  • Anspon, Catherine D., ArtNotes, Paper City, April 2004. 

  • Fotofest 2004 Catalog (Participating spaces section, pages 31, 60 (illustrated) and 113, 114.) 

  • Johnson, Patricia C., “Fotofest: a view through the lens”, Houston Chronicle, March 13 2004. (Arts & entertainment section, pages 9D, 10D.) 

2003

  • Anspon, Catherine D., ArtNotes, Paper City, February 2003. 

2002

  • Fotofest 2002 Catalog (pages 275, 329.)

1998

  • ”HKA eindexamencatalogus 97/98” Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Arnhem, The Netherlands, pages 11 and 25 in the “Tekenen” section. (illustrated.)  

 

Artist talks: 

2007:  

  • Radio appearance January 14th 2007, “The night train” hosted by NatalieJ at 1430 AM KCOH. 

2006:  

  • Slide Jam!, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX. 

  • Big Slide Show, in conjunction with “the Big Show”, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX. 

2005:  

  •  Looking at Art, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, TX (during “Happy nude year”.)

 

Museum Collections: 

 The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas. (direct link)

 

Private Collections

  • Susan Bialer-Sullivan

  • Jay Branson

  • Hara & Kanellos Charalampous, MD 

  • Robert, Jereann & Holland Chaney

  • Roy & Mary Cullen (see also The Cullen Foundation)

  • Laura & Ned Davenport

  • Luis & Gemma DeSantos (see also DeSantos gallery)

  • Brian Driskill 

  • Hette & Thea Geertsma

  • Beverley & Wayne Gilbert 

  • Paul & Nancy Johnson  

  • Juun & Monique van der Horst

  • Gus & Sharon Kopriva (see also Redbud gallery) 

  • Anneke & Gerlof Kramer

  • Lise Liddell

  • Dr. Penelope Gonzalez & Lester Marks

  • Larry & Rhea Metcalf

  • Dr. Rich Ostermeier

  • Jim & Amy Overbey

  • Lee & Beth Schlanger

  • Rick & Carol Silliman 

  • Neil B. Strauss

  • Mark K. Sullivan

  • Diana Randall

  • Heather Wagner

  • Andy Weaver & Lucinda Cobley

  • Bill Weinle 

  • Penn & Margarida Williamson

  • Mr. C. Wulke 

 

Contact information

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phone: (+001) 713-551-9456

 

This page was last updated on 12/10/07.

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