EVE SUSSMAN
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
BIOGRAPHY
Eve Sussman works in video, installation, sculpture and photography. Born in 1961 in England, Sussman studied throughout Europe, but ultimately received her BFA in the United States from Bennington College. For the last decade, Sussman has sought to instill her various film and installation pieces with a sense of cinema verité, a technique in which the filmmaker shoots sound and picture separately, ultimately shaping visual material around sound. In her more recent works, Sussman has suggested an interest in the nature of group dynamics, particularly among the actors she works with, in order to explore the universality of human condition. In 2003, during the production of her acclaimed piece 89 Seconds at Alcazar, Sussman founded the Rufus Corporation, a group of artists, actors, musicians and dancers. She continues to collaborate with this group today, showing their works throughout Europe and the United States.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Cacoulidis, Cleo. “Sabine Modern: On Location with Eve Sussman & The Rufus Corporation.” Art Papers 30 (January-February 2006), 22-5.
Coulson, Amanda. “Spontaneous Combustion.” Modern Painters (Dec. 2005/Jan 2006), 86-91.
Gopnik, Blake. “ Whittling Down the Whitney.” The Washington Post, 14 March 2004.
Gregos, Katarina. “Eve Sussman, The Rape of the Sabine Women.” Flash Art (January/February 2006), 54-6.
Hoban, Phoebe. “Into the Mosh Pit With The Old Masters.” New York Times, 6 February 2005, pg. 2.1.
EXHIBITIONS & INSTALLATIONS
2007
La Mois de la Photo a Montreal, Montreal, Canada
An Archeaology, Project Space 176, London, England
The Rape of the Sabine Women, Athens Festival, Athens, Greece
The Rape of the Sabine Women, Era New Horizons Film Festival, Wroclaw, Russia
The Rape of the Sabine Women, Moscow International Film Festival, Moscow, Russia
The Rape of the Sabine Women screenings, IFC Center, New York, NY
The Rape of the Sabine Women with a live Musical Intervention, IFC Center, New York, NY
The Rape of the Sabine Women, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum Für Gegenwart,Berlin
2006
Velasquez, National Gallery, London, UK
The Rape of the Sabine Women & 89 seconds at Alcázar, The Centre for
Contemporary Art-Thessaloniki, Presented by the JF Costopoulos Foundation.
World Premier: The Rape of the Sabine Women. Presented by the
Thessaloniki Film Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece
89 seconds at Alcázar, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, NZ
89 seconds at Alcázar, Powerplant, Toronto, Canada
Dresscode, Historisches und Völkerkundemuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Preview: The Rape of the Sabine Women, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke
University, Durham, North Carolina
Acting the Part, National Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
89 seconds at Alcázar, The Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Infinite Painting, Villa Manin, Codroipo, Udine, Italy
89 seconds at Alcázar, Weatherspoon Art Museum, South Carolina
2005
Superstars, Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria
In the Company of Old Masters, Colnaghi Gallery. London, UK
Istanbul Pedestrian Exhibitions 2: Tünel - Karaköy
89 seconds at Alcázar St. Johannes Evangelist-Kirche. Berlin, Germany
89 seconds at Alcázar , Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Ireland
Solace On War, Smack Mellon. Brooklyn, NY
Velázquez a Capodimonte, Napoli Museo di Capodimonte, Italy
89 seconds at Alcázar Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
89 seconds at Alcázar, Union Gallery, London, UK
Eve Sussman: 89 seconds at Alcázar, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX 2004
89 seconds at Alcázar, Museu Picasso, Barcelona
Re-Installation of the Collection; New Acquisition; Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Media Scope Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Closed Universes – Williamsburg, New York. Zagreb, Croatia
89 seconds at Alcázar Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, UK
Whitney Biennial 2004, Whitney Museum, NYC
89 Seconds at Alcázar, Margaret Harvey Gallery, Hertfordshire UK
Sprawl, Hudson Clearing, NYC
2003
The Paper Sculpture Show, Sculpture Center, LIC, NY
2002
Eye-Stalk, Smack-Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Artist to Artist, Ace Gallery, NYC
Brooklyn in Paris, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris, France
2001
Dialogue of Things, Mysliborz Regional Museum, Mysliborz, Poland
1999
China/White - scenes from an exile, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, NYC
1998
Seven Year Itch, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami FL
InSitu, site-specific installation @ Linda Hall Library, Kansas City, MO
1997
5th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
New York Drawers, Peirogi 2000 @ the Gasworks, London U.K.
Ornithology, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, NYC
Just what do you think your doing Dave?, WAH Center, Brooklyn, NY
The Road Show, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, NYC
1996
Casa Tua è Casa Mia, American Academy in Rome, Italy
1995
River Blindness, Sculpture Center @ Roosevelt Island, NYC
Sculpture Space - 20 Years, (film/video screening) Utica, New York
1994
Who has enlarged this hole?, (sculpture/video installation) 53 West 9th St., NYC
Rough Cuts: The Extended Artists Notebook, Henry Street Settlement, NYC
1993
Emerging Sculptors ‘93, Sculpture Center, NYC
Monsoon Wait, Six Sculptors Exhibition, L.I.U. Campus, NYC
A Room with a View, indoor water/wind installation, Sharpe Foundation, NYC
Brooklyn-Queens, Space Program, NYC
1992
Extrinsic/Divergent: Made in Germany, Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany
The Americas? Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NYC
1991
Wasserwerke, installation in the river Panke, Berlin, Germany
FILM/VIDEO PROJECTS
2005
The Rape of the Sabine Women, single channel High Definition Video
Cliff House, multi channel installation
2003
89 seconds at Alcazar, single channel video based on Las Meninas
2002
Portman’s Looking Glass, a 4 projector installation,150ft. 16mm loop
Fly Right, a video triptych of Hasidic girls playing dodge ball
2001
Solace, a short film featuring soprano Kati Agocs
2000
China|White - Scenes from an exile, three screen panoramic video installation
1999
Ten Women and a Shark or 15 years in 5:30, a short film
1998
Town Topic, three channel panoramic video installation, shot at Town Topic in Kansas City
1997
How to tell the future from the past, 12 channel surveillance video installation in the
SerkeciTrainStation, Istanbul, Turkey
1997
The Whites were a Mystery, 3 channel video filmed in Lomé, Togo
1996
Imagining Beforehand, 3 channel video, NYC
1995
Die Platzsünde, collaboration w/Ricoh Gerbl & Ivana Mestrovic, Rome/NYC
1993
Real Time, single channel video
1989
New Koke: An Advertisement for Real Life, a short pixal-vision video w/Karen Hatch
COLLABORATIONS
2005
Coming Soon to a River Near You, Multi channel Video Installation with Ioannis Savvidis
2002
Agile Transfer, set & video design for choreographer Hope Clark
2000
“S” - video for dance by Sasha Waltz, Schaubühne am Lehninerplatz, Berlin
1995
The Master Builder, sculpture for theater, directed by Marianne Weems
1991
Der Geist der Mühle, performance & sculpture in the river Panke, Berlin, Germany
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2005 J F Costopoulos Foundation Grant New York State Council on the Arts - Media Production Grant
2004 Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin
2002 New York State Council on the Arts - Media Production grant
2000 Jerome Foundation Grant
1999 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
1996 Graham Foundation Grant
1995 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Grant
American Academy in Rome Fellowship
Art Matters Inc. Grant
1992/3 The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation - Space Program Athena Foundation Grant
1991 Luftbrückendank Foundation Grant, Berlin, Germany
Bildhauerwerkstätten, Berlin, Germany
1990 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Ludwig Vogelstien Foundation Grant
Yaddo
Artists Space Artists Grant
Sculpture Space, Utica, NY
VISITING ARTIST
2005 Middlebury College Visiting Faculty
Skowhegan Visiting Faculty
Clark/Getty Workshops, Art History and the Moving Image, Getty Institute, LA, CA
2004 Clark/Getty Workshops, Art History and the Moving Image, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh PA
2002 University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield UK;
1999 University of Hawai’i @ Manoa;
1997 Graduate Program @ Bard College;
1996 RISD - Rome Program, Tyler-Rome Program, Parsons
1994 Rhode Island School of Design, Tyler School of Art
1990 Wake-Forest University, Hamilton College, Colgate University
EDUCATION
1989 Skowhegan School
1984 Bennington College, B.A. Fine Arts
1983 University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
1979 Robert College, Istanbul, Turkey