Solo Exhibitions

2008-9 ‘Soldier Billboards‘ A collaboration with Susan Reynolds, curator, presented billboards in six cities. Website and blog, SoldiersFace.com
2007 ‘Soldier’, Musee de Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland
2007 ‘Soldier’, Michener Museum, Doylestown, PA
2007 ‘Soldier’, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
2007 ‘Soldier’, Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art, New York City
2006 ‘Soldier’, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2006 ‘Soldier’, Light Work Gallery, Syracuse, NY
2002 ‘Suzanne Opton’, SK Josefberg, Portland, OR
2001 ‘Loose Change’, Il Diaframma Gallery, Milan, Italy
1995 ‘Evening In Scapegoat, Montana’, Motel Fine Arts, New York City
1994 ‘Early Night Hedge’, Motel Fine Arts, New York City
1992 ‘After The Fire’, Lowinsky Gallery, New York City
1990 ‘NightWatch’, Lowinsky Gallery, New York City
1989 ‘Restless Nights‘, Mira Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009 ‘Great Expectations’, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
2009 ‘Stigmata’, Red Cross Museum, Geneva, Switzerland (more info)
2008 ‘Optical Illusion in Modern Photography’, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2008 ‘Burning Down the House’, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2008 ‘Witness’, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 ‘Modern Art, Modern Lives:Then and Now’, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
2008 ‘In My Solitude’, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels
2008 ‘Grace’, Peer Gallery, New York
2007 Photo LA, Art Fair, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 ‘L’Autre’, Rosenwald Wolf Gallery, Philidelphia, PA
2007 ‘By Invitation Only’, Kinz/Tillou+Feigen, New York
2007 ‘It’s Our War’, Fovea Gallery, Beacon, New York
2007 ‘Face Forward’, Gallery 52, New York
2007 ‘Suzanne Opton & James Sprouse’, Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, New York
2007 ‘Faccia a Faccia, Forma Gallery, MIlan, Italy
2007 ‘Facing the Figure’, Karen Sanders Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
2006 Photo Miami, Art Fair at Miami Basel, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Miami, FL
2006 ‘Summer Skin’, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 ‘Flowers’, SK Josefsberg Studio, Portland, OR
2003 ‘Photo ID’, three artists show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO
2002 ‘new york apres New York’, Musee de Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland
2001 ‘Color’, Janet Borden Gallery, New York City
1999 ‘Summer Reading’, Yancy Richardson Gallery, New York City
1995 ‘Inscrutable Objects’, curated by Andy Grundberg, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA
1994 ‘Building, Dwelling, Thinking’, Lowinsky Gallery, New York City
1992 ‘The Fire and the Aftermath’, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco
1992 ‘Landscape Show’, Lowinsky Gallery, New York City
1992 ‘Flora Photographica’, curated by William Ewing, Serpentine Gallery, London
1987 ‘Il Nudo Maschile Nella Fotografia’, curated by Peter Weirmair, Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
1984 ‘Summer Show’, Oggi Domani Gallery, New York City
1982 ‘Fleeting Gestures’International Center of Photography, New York City

Fellowships and Awards

2009 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient
2009 Cummings Foundation Grant for Soldier Billboard Project
2008 Fledgling Fund and Cross Currents Foundation grants for the Soldier Billboard Project
2008 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) fiscal sponsorship for Soldier Billboards
2008 Festival Voies Off 2008 des Rencontres d’ Arles – 13th edition, Arles, France
2007 MacDowell Colony Residency
2007 Fledgling Fund Grant for trip to Jordan to produce “Citizen” photographs.
2006 Honickman First Book Prize finalist
2006 John Gutmann Fellowship Award nominee
2006 Central New York Community Foundation Grant for “Soldier” billboards
2005 Light Work Artist in Residence,
2003 Santa Fe Prize for Photography nominee
1999 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Catalogue Grant.

Permanent Collections

Austin Museum of Art
Biblioteque Nationale, Paris
Brooklyn Museum
Cleveland Museum
Chrysler Museum
Library of Congress
Light Work
Michener Museum
Musée de l’Eysée, Lausanne
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Polaroid Collection
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine.
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Yale University Art Gallery

Artist Talks, Interviews

2009 Visura Online Magazine, portfolio, www.visuramagazine.com
2008 Artist Talk, Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, GA
2008 Artist Panel, Katzen Center, American University, Washington, DC
2008 Lens Culture online interview, www.lensculture.com/opton.html
2007 Artist Talk, Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland
2007 NPR, Studio 360
2007 NPR, interview with Madeline Brand, Day to Day
2007 Lecture, Michener Museum, Doylestown, PA
2007 Artist Talk, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
2007 ICP Photographer Lecture Series, ‘The Portrait’, ICP, New York
2006 Vicki Goldberg lecture at opening of Light Work exhibition

Selected Press

Susan Saulny, ‘Battles Over Billboard Space Precede G.O.P Gathering,’ New York Times,
National News front page, 8/29/08
European Photography, portfolio, Fall 2008
One Hour Empire, portfolio, Fall 2008
Tyler Coburn, ‘CBS Outdoor Pulls Suzanne Opton’s ‘Soldier’ Billboards During the Republican
National Convention,’ Rhizome at the New Museum, 8/29/08
Paul Schmelzer, “Amid RNC ‘Paranoia,’ CBS Outdoor Pulls ‘Soldier’ Billboards,” The Minnesota
Independent, 8/27/08
‘Billboard Co. Says No to Soldier Portraits in St. Paul,’ Photo District News, 9/2/08
Daniel Nasaw, ‘Billboards of US Soldiers Cancelled in Host City of Republican Convention’, The
Guardian, 8/28/08
L’Insense, portfolio, Paris, Fall 2008.
Review of International Studies (RIS), Cambridge University Press, portfolio and text in issue devoted to art and war, editors Alex Danchev and Debbie Lisle, Fall 2008
Portfolio, Photography Quarterly, “Imaging War,” 4 page portfolio, Center for Photography at Woodstock, issue #4, Woodstock, NY, Spring 2008
Paul Lester, Visual Communications Quarterly, Taylor & Francis, cover image and article, Fall 2007
Alessandro Trabucco, “Back Home,” Gente Di Fotografia, magazine cover+pg 6-11, Milan, Italy, Fall 2007
La Matin, Lausanne, “Des Images Bouleversantes,” 9/13/07
Luc Debraine, “Tetes a plat, binettes et regards en coin” La Temps, Lausanne, 9/13-19/07
Luc Debraine, “Regards Fixes,” Le Temps, Lausanne, 9/14/07
Shannon Collins, “Shooting Her Subjects Off-Guard,” Lifestyle, Bucks County, 10/07
‘Faces Da Guerra,’ BRAVO!, Magazine of Culture, Madrid, 4/07
Vince Aletti, ‘Wartime Portraits,” The New Yorker, Feb 12, 2007.
Andrea Fitzpatrick, “The Silent Dialogue”, Border Crossings, page 39-45, December 2006
‘Arta Razboiului’, Photo, Romanian Magazine, December 2006
William Ewing, Face: The New Photographic Portrait, Thames and Hudson, 2006.
Richard Huntington, “Faces of War”, September 1, 2006, page 14
Gerald Mead, “Face to Face”, Art Voice, August, 2006, page 18-19
Peter V. Brinkemper, “Dead Men, Dead Women, Still Alive,” www.Telepolis.de 2006
Larry List, “Soldier Photographs” Light Work Annual, 2006
Vicki Goldberg, “On Guard: Soldiers Off Guard,” Contact Sheet, number 136, Light Work
Vicki Goldberg, “Suzanne Opton,” chapter of Light Matters, Aperture 2005
Erica France, “Photo ID: Examining the Figure Through Photography,” interview with the artists, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO, 2003
Alyson Stanfield, “Exposed,” Fort Collins Weekly, issue 19, page 26, July 9. 2003
‘Memoire d’une ville blessee,’ Musees Lausannois, June-September 2002, page 4
Vicki Goldberg, “Women, Vases & The Years,” Loose Change, 2000
Andy Grundberg, “Inscrutable Objects,” See,” Friends of Photography, Issue 1:2, 1995
Charles Hagen, “Edouard Denis Baldus & Suzanne Opton,” New York Times, Art in Review, 2/7/92
William Ewing, Flora Photographica, Simon & Schuster 1991
Rune Jonsson, ‘Serenity of Nature,’ Aktuell Fotografi, December 1989
‘Ironic Detachment From Feminine Norms,’ Dagens Nyheter, September 26, 1989.
Peter Weiermair, ll Nudo Maschile Nella Fotografia, Ravena, Italy 1987