ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019
I Look Under the Bed, Towle Hill Studio, Corinth VT
2016
Many Wars, University Galleries, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2015
Pharmacy, Towle Hill Studio, Corinth, VT
2014
Soldier, Sikkema Jenkins Co, New York City
2013
Suzanne Opton, Linfield College Gallery, McMinnville, OR
2012
Many Wars, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk. VA
2012
Soldier / Many Wars, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
2011
Soldier / Many Wars, Photostop Gallery, White River Junction, VT
Vermont, Robert Anderson Gallery, New York City
2008-10
Soldier Billboards Project, billboards in eight cities: sponsored by the Denver Contemporary Museum, Denver, CO; DiverseWorks, Houston, TX; The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA; Forecast Public Art, Minneapolis, MN; SkyLab, Columbus OH; Sanctuary for Independent Media, Albany, NY
Blog at www.SoldiersFace.net
2007
Soldier, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland (catalogue)
Soldier, Michener Museum, Doylestown, PA.Soldier, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
Soldier, Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art, New York City.
2002
Soldier, CEPA Gallery with 10 street banners, 20 bus shelter displays, Buffalo NY.
2001
Soldier, Light Work Gallery, Syracuse, NY with 5 billboards (catalogue)
Suzanne Opton, SK Josefsberg, Portland OR
1994
Loose Change, Il Diaframma Gallery, Milan, Italy.
Loose Change, Di Qua Dal Fiume e Tra Gli Autobus, Brescia, Italy
1990
Evening in Scapegoat, Montana, Motel Fine Arts, New York City
1989
Early Night Hedge, Motel Fine Arts, New York City
After the Fire, Lowinsky Gallery, New York City
Night Watch, Lowinsky Gallery, New York City
Restless Nights, Mira Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
Tours of Duty, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA
2019
Your Mirror: Portraits from the ICP Collection, International Center of Photography, NYC
Time Returns: A Continuous Now, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
2017
Conflict and Consequence: Photographing War and Its Aftermath, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
Aftermath: The Fallout of Ear – Americas and the Middle East, Harn Museum of Art, Gainsville, FL
2016
Not Alone: Exploring Bonds Between and With Members of the Armed Forces, curated by Meg Shiffler, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Real and Implied, Prichard Art Gallery, curated by Roger Rowley, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
Empty Gesture, video presentation at La Nuit des Images, Musée de l’Eysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
2015
Aftermath: The Fallout of War – America and the Middle East” Harn Museum of Art, University of FL, Gainesville, FL, traveling to Kenyon College, Gambier OH
Anonymous: Urban Life in Contemporary Photography, Still Standing series Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Emotions in Contemporary Art, Gemeentemuseum, Helmond, The Netherlands, and Cultuurcentrum, Mechelen, Belgium
6.FotoFestival Mannheim, Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg, Germany, curated by Urs Stahel
Conflict and Consequence: Photographing War and Its Aftermath, Wright Museum of Art, Beloit College, Beloit, WI
American Soldier, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO
Sitter, Canzani Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH
The Female Gaze, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
2014
Artprize, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
Blue Sky: The Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts at 40, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Aspects of the Self: Portraits of our Times, Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Affekte, Kunstpalais, Erlagen, Germany; Gemeentenmuseum, Helmond, Netherlands; Culturcentrum, Mechelen, Belgium, Netherlands (catalog)
Suzanne Opton and Claire Beckett, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI
2013
War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston;
(traveling to Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles; Corcoran Museum, Washington DC; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY)
Courage and Strength: Portraits of Those Who Have Served, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI
The Nature of Man: Crafting the Real, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie en Gaspesie, Gaspe Peninsula, Canada
home.front, curator Deborah Jack, Lemmerman Gallery, New Jersey University, Jersey City, NJ
2012
A Short History of Photography, ICP, New York, NY
Visual Traces of the Restless Present, Days of Photography, Fotofestival, Darmstadt, Germany
Young People: Set 9 from the Collection of the FotoMuseum Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland
2011
The Fallout of War, Museum of Photographic Arts group exhibition, San Diego, CA
2010
RollenSpiele / Rollenbilder, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria (book)
US Today, After, Le Bleu Ciel, Lyon, France
New Ways of Seeing, Brighton Photo Biennial, curator Martin Parr, Brighton, UK
Many Wars, Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, NY
2009
War at a Distance, Ryerson University, Gallery TPW, Toronto, Canada.
Darkside II: Photographic Power and Violence, Disease and Death, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland, (book)
Contemporary Art Collection, The Cleveland Museum of Art, USA
Stigmata, Red Cross Museum, Geneva, Switzerland. (book)
Here’s Looking at You, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
Great Expectations, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’Art Contemorain, Luxembourg
2008
Optical Illusion in Modern Photography, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT. (book)
American Identities, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Burning Down the House, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY. (podcast interview)
Festival Voies Off 2008 des Rencontres d’ Arles – 13th edition, Arles, France
Witness, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Photo Miami, Art Fair, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Miami, FL
Photo LA, Art Fair, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Modern Art, Modern Lives: Then and Now, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Identities: Faire Faces, Le Bleu du Ciel, Lyon, France
In my Solitude, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium
Grace, Peer Gallery, New York
2007
L’Autre, Rosenwald Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
By Invitation Only, Kinz/Tillou+Feigen, New York NY
It’s Our War, Fovea Gallery, Beacon, New York NY
2007
Face Forward, Gallery 52, New York NY
Suzanne Opton & James Sprouse, Atea Ring Gallery, Westport, New York NY
Faccia a Faccia, Forma Gallery, Milan, Italy
Facing the Figure, Karen Sanders Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
2006
Summer Skin, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2004
Duality/Multiplicity, Roger Smith Gallery, New York, NY
2003
Flowers, SK Josefsberg Studio, Portland OR
Photo ID, three artist show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO. (catalogue).
2002
new york après New York, musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
2001
Color, Janet Borden Gallery, NYC
1999
Summer Reading, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NY
1995
Inscrutable Objects, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco CA
1994
Building, Dwelling, Thinking, Lowinsky Gallery, NYC
1992
The Fire and the Aftermath, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco CA
Landscape Show, Lowinsky Gallery, NYC
Flora Photogrsphica, curated by William Ewing, Serpentine Gallery, London
1987
Il Nudo Machile Nella Fotografia, curated by Peter Weiermair, Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
GRANTS / AWARDS
2012 • Brown Foundation Fellowship: MFA, Houston: Dora Maar House, Menerbes, France.
2009 • John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.
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 • Fledgling Fund Grant for trip to Jordan to produce Soldier+Citizen photographs.
2006 • Honickman First Book Prize finalist.
2006 • John Gutmann Fellowship Award nominee.
2006 • Central New York Community Foundation Grant for Soldier Billboards.
2003 • Nominee, Santa Fe Prize for Photography, Santa Fe Photography Workshop.
1999 • New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Catalogue Grant.
1978 • Polaroid Corporation Equipment and Materials Grant.
1976 • Vermont Council on the Arts Grant.
1976 • National Endowment for the Arts Short Term Activities Grant.
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Addison Gallery
Austin Museum of Art
Biblioteque Nationale, Paris
Brooklyn Museum
Cleveland Museum
Chrysler Museum
Fotomuseum Winterthur
Harn Museum of Art
Hood Museum, Dartmouth College
Honolulu Museum
International Center of Photography
Library of Congress
Light Work
Michener Museum
Musée de L’Eysee, Lausanne
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Nelson-Atkins Museum
Polaroid Collection
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Yale University Art Gallery
RESIDENCIES
2013 • Artist-in-Residence, Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon.
2012 • Brown Foundation Fellowship at the Dora Maar House, Ménerbes, France.
2011 • Artist-in-Residence, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
2009 • Blue Mountain Center, The Cost of War, Blue Mountain Lake, NY.
2007 • MacDowell Colony Fellow, Peterborough, NH.
2005 • Artist-in-Residence, Light Work, Syracuse NY.
BOOKS
Into the Light Cellar, See Saw Press, Vermont / New York, 2021.
The Photobook: A History Volume III, Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, Pantheon, 2014.
War / Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and its Aftermath, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2012.
Soldier / Many Wars, Decode Books (monograph), 2011.
RollenSpiele / Rollenbilder, Hirmer Verlag. Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria, 2011.
The Unseen Eye, Collection of Bill Hunt, Thames and Hudson, anthology, 2011.
Afterward, ed. Nathalie Herschdorfer, Thames and Hudson, anthology, 2011.
Face: The New Photographic Portrait, William Ewing, Thames and Hudson, 2006.
Suzanne Opton, chapter, Light Matters, Vicki Goldberg, Aperture, 2005.
On Guard: Soldiers Off Guard, Contact Sheet, number 136, Vicki Goldberg, Light Work.
Loose Change (monograph) with essay by Vicki Goldberg, 2000.
Flora Photographica, William Ewing, Simon & Schuster 1991.
Il Nudo Maschile Nella Fotografia, Peter Weiermair, Ravena, Italy 1987.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Robin Cembalest, “The Military is Present” ARTnews, Artnet.com
”home.front,” New Jersey City University, catalogue, 2012.
“Epilogue,” The Australian Photojournalist,” Griffith University, Queensland College of Art, 2011 edition, “Soldier,” p.152-163.
“America’s Hidden Wars,” Forbes Blog, Abigail Esman, Pen and Sword, 9/26/11.
Publisher’s Weekly, “Soldier / Many Wars” 7/25/11.
Francis Hodgson, “The Brighton Photo Biennial Takes A Gamble,” Financial Times, 10/18/10.
FotoVisura, portfolio, 2009. visuramagazine.com
Lens Culture online interview, 2008. lensculture.com
Susan Saulny, “Battles Over Billboard Space Precede G.O.P Gathering,” New York Times, National News front page, 8/29/08.
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’Insensé, portfolio, Paris, Fall 2008.
European Photography, portfolio, Fall 2008.
One Hour Empire, portfolio, 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.
Photography Quarterly, “Imaging War,” 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 portfolio, Milan, Italy, Fall 2007.
La Matin, Lausanne, “Des Images Bouleversantes,”9/13/07.
Luc Debraine, “Tetes à plat, binettes et regards en coin” La Temps, Lausanne, 9/13-19/07.
”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.
Larry List, “Soldier Photographs,” Light Work Annual, 2006.
Erica France, “Photo ID: Examining the Figure Through Photography,” Interview with the artists, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO, 2003.
”Mémoire d’un ville blessée,” Musées Lausannois, June-September 2002, page 4.
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.
Rune Jonsson, “Serenity of Nature,” Aktuell Fotografi, December 1989.
”Ironic Detachment From Feminine Norms,” Dagens Nyheter, September 26, 1989.
ARTIST TALKS / INTERVIEWS
2021 • Artist Talk, Griffin Museum, Winchester MA.
2013 • NPR, Studio 360, on-air interview.
2013 • Lecture, Portraiture, Linfield College Auditorium, McMinnville, OR.
2012 • Lecture, Soldier / Many Wars, Henry Art Gallery, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA.
2011 • Lecture, SPE Regional Conference, Syracuse, NY.
2010 • Artist Talk, “New Ways of Seeing,” Brighton Photo Biennial, Brighton, UK.
2010 • Artist Talk, “US Today, After…” Photo Festival, Lyon, France.
2010 • Artist Talk, “Soldier Billboard Project,” Corcoran School of Art, Washington DC.
2008 • Artist Talk, Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, GA.
2008 • Panel Discussion, Katzen Center, American University, Washington, DC.
2007 • Artist Talk, Musée de l’Eysée, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2007 • NPR, Studio 360.
2007 • NPR, Day to Day, interview with Madeline Brand.
2007 • Artist Talk, Michener Museum, Doylestown, PA.
2007 • Artist Talk, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR.
2007 • Artist Talk,ICP Photographer Lecture Series, “The Portrait,” ICP, New York.
2006 • Vicki Goldberg lecture at opening of Light Work exhibition.
TEACHING
2013 • ICP Photography Workshop Instructor, Fotoenlace, Bogota, Colombia.
2005–2007 • Photography Professor, Cooper Union, New York.
1999–2017 • Photography Professor, International Center of Photography, NYC.