Suzan Shutan

This dialogue with Suzan Shutan reflects a shared position that perception, light, and material shape how architecture is experienced—and how its value is understood. with @sshutan

Finally able to play, and experiment, and make some new work. It was a short two weeks, but proud of what I got done. Grateful to Vermont Studio Center for the invitation to be in residence..

Dis/Ease: Embodied States and the Architecture of the Body Curated by Sika Foyer Exhibition Dates: March 2, 2026 – June 6, 2026 Opening Reception: March 26, 2026 at 6:00 PM Location: Liquid Space: The Yard 33 West 60th Street, 2nd Fl. Suzan Shutan Multidisciplinary artist exploring the body through hybrid painting and sculpture Bio Suzan Shutan is an artist, educator, and curator, and co-founder/director of SomethingProjects. She received her BFA from the California Institute of the Arts and her MFA from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts. She has received grants from Artslink, Art Matters, the Berkshire Taconic Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Art, and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, and has participated in residencies at the Bemis Foundation, Yaddo, and Proyecto Ace in Argentina. Shutan has presented 32 solo exhibitions and participated in over 200 group exhibitions internationally. Her work has been widely published and reviewed, and is held in public, private, and institutional collections. Public commissions include LogMeIn Headquarters (Boston) and Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital (New York). Artist Statement My work operates between painting and sculpture, exploring the tension between abstraction and bodily reference. I construct tactile, dimensional surfaces that suggest the body without resolving into fixed forms. This work reflects ongoing physical transformation - aging, sexuality, and change - translating lived experience into layered, color-driven forms that hold both vulnerability and resilience. Through processes of layering, cutting, and building, I engage movement and materiality. Each piece functions as both an independent object and part of a larger visual language shaped by memory, influence, and present conditions.

Up now faculty exhibit at Housatonic Museum❤️ some of my favorite other works of colleagues…

DIS/EASE: EMBODIED STATES AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE BODY Curated by Sika Foyer at The Yard, 33 West 60th Street, New York, NY Exhibition Dates: March 2, 2026 - June 6, 2026 Opening Reception: March 26, 2026 at 6:00 PM Hours: M - F, 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM; weekends by appointment Dis/Ease: Embodied States and the Architecture of the Body is a multidisciplinary exhibition that examines how states of ease and disease are embodied, internalized, and lived over time. Bringing together the work of four contemporary artists, Mary Lesser, Kaitlyn Niznik, Suzan Shutan, and Christopher Varmus, the exhibition considers how biological systems, inherited conditions, environmental pressures, and the passage of time shape bodily memory, perception, and daily experience. Positioned at the intersection of art, science, and lived experience, Dis/Ease reframes disease not solely as pathology, but as a dynamic condition that reorganizes physical awareness, behavior, and relationships to the self and others. Rather than isolating disease as an individual condition, Dis/Ease emphasizes interconnectedness: between past and present, visible and invisible systems, and personal and collective histories. Familial inheritance, lived experience of chronic illness, environmental precarity, and the biological processes operating beneath conscious awareness converge to suggest that states of dis-ease are not fixed endpoints, but transformative processes that continually reconfigure bodily knowledge and perception. Across painting, collage, papercut, and dimensional surface, the body emerges not as a fixed form but as a porous and adaptive field: absorbing emotional residue, registering environmental instability, and holding the traces of personal and collective histories. Cellular events, anatomical systems, aging, hereditary conditions, and ecological vulnerability are interwoven to reveal how internal states manifest outwardly, quietly shaping movement, attention, and presence over time. Figures and abstracted forms hover between visibility and dissolution, reflecting the tension between resilience and fragility as the body continually adapts to shifting internal and external forces.

Over 4 foot drifts in some areas. I can’t even open my front door…. Grateful for those hard working friends that came to help me dig out.

Today .. ice fishing, forest, ice drips

Wonderful grand opening of new temp space at Ely Center of contemporary art ( ECOCA). An incredible turnout.

New work.. 36”x36”, more to come. Exhibit at ECOCA opening Feb 8. Stay warm stay safe everyone with the storm that’s brewing our way.

Drive-through Safari in southern FLA