Group Exhibition curated by Carol Stakenas
Contours: Selections from the Collection Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery, Providence College Galleries, Providence, RI Sept 4, 2024 - March 1, 2025
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2024 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship
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Art for fall 2023: Top 10 Exhibitions
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Solo Exhibition curated by Anne Harris
Riverside Arts Center’s Freeark Gallery Riverside, IL Upcoming April 2024 read announcement
Artist Residency
Roger Brown Residency New Buffalo, MI April 2023
Visiting Artist and Solo Exhibition
Gestural Traces and Material Memory Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL September 5 – October 27, 2023
Artist Residency, November 2022
Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA
Sculpture Commission
Illinois Art-in-Architecture sculpture commission awarded for collaborative sculpture with artist Jeff Carter at the new Foglia Center for Advanced Technology and Innovation at MCC, McHenry County, IL. Expected completion late 2023.
Visiting Teaching Fellowship
Built Environment, Arts, Design & Architecture University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Spring Semester 2023
Shortlist 2022
Creative Capital Gestural Traces and Embodied Memory Prior to the pandemic, composer Amy Wurtz and I had begun working senior citizens experiencing early stage memory loss and their caretakers to record stories about home. Gestural Traces and Embodied Memory is a multimedia event, featuring visual artwork and music, based on recorded stories and their accompanying hand gestures of seniors as they…
Guest Lecture
Synchronizing Hand and Thought: Gesture, Language, and Drawing with Sally Morfill Center for Gesture, Sign, and Language, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL May 9, 2022
Commission for Permanent Artwork
Knowledge (Madison) The Keller Center, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL opened January 2022
Interview with Susan Giles by J Rah Joshua
“Materializing the Invisible” ORB Interview, UPPL 2021 Read on ORB Permalink
Collaboration with composer Amy Wurtz
Homeroom: Ten x Ten 2020 The collaboration between composer Amy Wurtz and artist Susan Giles explores memory and gesture situated in recollections of the idea of "home". Using the same source material of a recorded story and gestures of a member of a choir for senior citizens with early-stage memory loss, the artists develop dual works that bring into focus the ways movement and sound are…
Public Event
2020 Susan Giles, Mie Kongo and Yvette Mayorga in Conversation DePaul Art Museum December 10
Exhibition
2020 Architectural Matters, DePaul Art Museum at The Collection, Fashion Outlets Chicago, Chicago, IL, curated by Julie Rodrigues Widholm
Commission
2020 Not Just Another Pretty Face COVID-19 Edition, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL