Suzanne Bocanegra is an American artist living in
New York City.
Her works include
performance
A performance is an act of staging or presenting a play, concert, or other form of entertainment. It is also defined as the action or process of carrying out or accomplishing an action, task, or function.
Management science
In the work place ...
and
installation art as well as
visual and
sound art.
Her work is exhibited internationally.
Career
Bocanegra's work is held in the permanent collections of
the Museum of Modern Art,
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the 20th-largest art museum in the world, measured by public gallery area. It contains 8,161 paintings and more than 450,000 works ...
,
Tang Teaching Museum
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery is a part of Skidmore College and located in Saratoga Springs, New York.
Building
The Tang, opened in 2000, was designed by architect Antoine Predock. Predock's design includes two major ga ...
,
, and
Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
Bocanegra has received a
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
(2020),
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Robert Rauschenberg
Milton Ernest "Robert" Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his Combines (1954–1964), a group of artwor ...
award (2019), and an
American Academy of Arts and Letters award in art (2021).
In 1991, Bocanegra received a
Rome Prize for visual arts. She has received awards from the
Pollock-Krasner Foundation (1988, 1990, 2003) and the
New York Foundation for the Arts (1989, 1993, 2001, 2005).
[
She has received residency fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program.
Recent solo shows include those at the Gund Gallery at Kenyon College (2022), Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin (2021), Art Cake (2019), and The Fabric Workshop and Museum (2018).
]
Personal life
A native of Houston, Texas, Bocanegra is an alumna of the University of Texas and the San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) was a private college of contemporary art in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1871, SFAI was one of the oldest art schools in the United States and the oldest west of the Mississippi River. Approximately ...
, from which she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts
A Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) is a standard undergraduate degree for students for pursuing a professional education in the visual, fine or performing arts. It is also called Bachelor of Visual Arts (BVA) in some cases.
Background
The Bachelor ...
(1979) and a Master of Fine Arts
A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A.)
is a terminal degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts and in some cases, theatre management or arts admini ...
(1984), respectively.[ She is married to composer David Lang, with whom she has three children.]
Further reading
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External links
Official site
Video: Artist Interview
Suzanne Bocanegra on ''Color Chart'', Tang Museum
Video: Artist Interview
Suzanne Bocanegra on ''Little Dot'', Tang Museum
References
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1957 births
Living people
20th-century American women artists
21st-century American women artists
Artists from Houston
American conceptual artists
Women conceptual artists
American installation artists
National Endowment for the Arts Fellows
San Francisco Art Institute alumni
University of Texas at Austin College of Fine Arts alumni