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"Ice Cave #5",
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Suzy Poling is a polymath and interdisciplinary artist
working with sound, video, film, photography installation, sculpture,
painting, collage, and performance art. She researches the
multi-dimensional interferences between optics, mirrors, sonic
resonance, electrical synthesis, video experiments, human/alien
identities, and inspections of geological anomalies. Pod Blotz is
Poling’s Modern Electronic / Sound Art/ Abstract Techno solo project
that explores posthumanist concepts, cathartic gestures, and
otherworldly sound sources signed to Dais Records. This musical
project began in 2002 has released over 25 cassette and vinyl releases
and has toured the US for years. Sonically, they have performed at the
Grey Area Foundation, Contemporary Jewish Museum, Colour out of Space
Festival, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Yerba Beuna Center
for the Arts, Berkeley Art Museum, Human Resources, The LAB, and Bemis
Center for the Contemporary Arts. Pod Blotz has made releases with
Chocolate Monk (UK), Nostilevo (LA), Conjunto Vacio(Spain), Clan
Destine Records (UK), and Dungeon Taxis (NZ/NYC), and more.
Visually, Poling’s artwork has been seen in The New York Times,
Harper’s Magazine, Dazed Digital, and a Metropolitan Museum of Art
Book. Poling is a recipient of the Mike Kelley Foundation Grant and
was a nominee for the SECA Award at the SFMOMA and has had 8 solo art
exhibitions in Chicago, Detroit, and San Francisco. Visually, her work
has been exhibited at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Disjecta,
Cal Polytechnic University, Chicago Cultural Center, Henry Ford
Museum, Australian Center for Photography, Aperture Foundation, Cult
Exhibitions/Aimee Friberg and Zg Gallery. Poling is from Michigan,
studied at Columbia College in Chicago, lived in the San Francisco Bay
Area and Los Angeles for two decades and now resides in Detroit. |
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RESUME |
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Education: |
B.A.,
Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL |
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Awards & Residencies: |
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2016 |
Mike Kelley Foundation
Grant Recipient,
Coaxial Arts Foundation, Artist in Residence, Los Angeles, CA |
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2015 |
Rema Hort Foundation
Nominee |
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2012 |
SECA Award Nominee at
SFMOMA
Liminal Space, Artist i n Residence, Oakland,CA |
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2008 |
Southern Exposure, Artist in Residence |
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2005 |
Bemis Center of Contemporary Art, Artist in Residence, Omaha, NE |
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2004 |
CAAP Grant, Chicago, IL |
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2002 |
Illinois Art Council Fellowship-
Finalist Award, Chicago, IL
CAAP Grant, Chicago, IL |
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2001 |
Albert Weisman Scholarship, Chicago, IL |
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2000 |
Albert Weisman Scholarship, Chicago, IL |
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Exhibitions: |
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2026 |
"Systems of
Impermanence,”solo exhibition Zg Gallery Chicago, IL
“Luminous Terrain and the Reimagining of Nature,” solo exhibition,
Public Art Installation with Standard Vision of 7 Large LED screens,
Los Angeles, CA |
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2025 |
“Local Artist Spotlight”,
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI
“Applied Arts”, Group Exhibtion Uni Gallery of Art, Northern Iowa
University, IA
“Vernal Equinoix”, Group show, Buffalo Prescott Art Foundation,
Detroit, MI |
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2024 |
“Cult Turns 10
Anniversary” Exhibition, Cult Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA |
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2023 |
“Get Together”, Group
Show, Reyes Finn Gallery, Detroit, MI |
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2021 |
“Ecological Assimilation”,
two-person exhibition, Indexical Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA |
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2019 |
“Primary Optic Shift”,
Video Art Installation, Spring Break Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
Femmebit screening, Civic Center Studios, Los Angeles, CA
Screening + Video Art Installation, Ungrund Collective, Los Angeles,
CA |
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2018 |
“At Large: Part 1”, Group
Art Exhibition, Reyes Finn Gallery, Detroit, MI |
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2016 |
"Total Internal
Reflection”, solo exhibition, Cult Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA |
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2015 |
“Smashism”,
Coaxial, Group Video Screening, Los Angeles, CA
“Last Daze”, Group Show, Cinders Gallery, Portland, ME
“Semiospheres”, Group show, Ace Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
“Multiverse People & Topographical Paintings”, Solo Pop up Show, Fort
Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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2014 |
"Please Yourself”, Group
show, Self Actualization, Houston, TX
"The Visible World is a Reflection of the Invisible World”, group
show, Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR |
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2013 |
"Elemental Forces”, solo
exhibition, Krowswork Gallery, Oakland, CA
“The Vital Illusion”, Group Show, Veritgo Gallery, Denver, CO
“Dirty Fingers”, Group Show, Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
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2012 |
“Elemental Forces”, solo
exhibition, Disjecta Space, Portland, OR |
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2011 |
"Into the Center of the
Earth”, solo exhibition, Cal Polytechnic University Gallery, San Luis
Obispo, CA |
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2011 |
"Natural Phenomenon", Solo Show, Zg Gallery, Chicago,
IL |
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2010 |
"Zone Modules," Queen's Nails Annex Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Icons of Attention," Video Performance, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
"Dreaming of a Glass Egg," Video and sound installation, Transmodern Festival, Baltimore, MD
"Alchemical Feedback," DNJ Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Channeling Tower," Video and sound installation, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
"Cylindrical Forces", video/audio performance, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, San Francisco, CA
"Sonic Tube", Light Art Installation, San Jose Museum of Art Festival, San Jose, CA
Video performance, Kamau’s Patton “Icons of Attention”, Yerba Buena Cntr for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
“Dreaming of a Glass Egg”, Video and Sound Installation, Transmodern Festival, Baltimore, MD
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2009 |
“Zone Modules and Monoliths”, Solo show
at Tartine, San Francisco, CA
“Clusterf#@k” group show, Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
“A Universe We Can Believe In”, California College of Arts, Oliver
Gallery, Oakland, CA
“Colour Out of Space”, Brighton, UK
“The Big Three”, at Michael Rosenthal Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Artists Files”, continue exhibition at Bemis Center for the
Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE |
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2008 |
“Object Agency”, video, sound and light
installation, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
“Glass House” with Kamau Patton for Machine Projects/GLOW festival,
Santa Monica, CA
“Experimental Art Festival”, The Smell, Los Angeles, CA
“Hijacked” Australian Center for Photography, Sydney, Australia
Foto Foreo Festival, Fremantle, Australia |
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2007 |
"Wonderland of Decay: New Photos by Suzy Poling," Zg
Gallery, Chicago, IL
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"Group," Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
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2006 |
"(Un)Natural History" Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Art Chicago in
the Park,"
Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Reclamation: A Group Show," Zg Gallery, Chicago, IL
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2005 |
"Transmutation Headquarters," Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago IL
"Chthonic Cartographers,"
Chesapeake Gallery of Harford College, Hartford, MD
"Allegorical
Landscape," Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
"Spontaneous Generation," Ars Subterraneana, New York, NY
"New Gallery Artists," Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Sound and Vision," Auto Gallery, Oakland, CA
"50 Artists," Lobot Gallery, Oakland, CA
"Spring Auction," Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
"Art Chicago in the Park,"
Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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2004 |
Fundraising Auction, Renaissance Society of The University of Chicago,
Chicago, IL
"Art Chicago,"
Bucket Rider
Gallery, Chicago,
IL
"17th Evanston + Vicinity Biennial Juried Exhibition,"
Evanston Art Center,
Evanston, IL |
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2003 |
"Cake and Polka Parade," Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Lurpious
Showboat Follies,"
Butcher Shop, Chicago, IL |
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2002 |
"Curious Terrors,"
Office
Space, Chicago, IL |
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2001 |
Hat Factory, Chicago, IL |
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2000 |
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Cliffdwellers Club, Chicago, IL
"Group show,"
Beret International Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Pairs,"
Butcher Shop, Chicago, IL
The Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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Reviews / Features / Books: |
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Hyperallergic, The Wire Magazine, Harper’ s Magazine, Impose Magazine,
Fact Magazine, Wired Magazine, Dazed Digital, New York Arts Magazine,
Los Angeles Times, Art Practical t Research, Metropolitan Museum of
Art Catalogue, Gaîté Lyrique, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times,
Flavorpill 2018, Vice, Detroit Tribune, The Week, New City, San
Francisco Bay Guardian, SF Weekly, BeautifulDecay Magazine, East Bay
Express, The Oregonian, Interzone,Free Press, Houston,Juno Download,
Lay-Out Press
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Publications: |
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2011 |
New City, Recommended review by Michael Weinstein, May 5, 2011, v.26,
no.1192, pgs.7-8
see review
The Reader, photograph, April 28, 2011, p. 42 |
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2010 |
Harpers Magazine, Artist Pick, Photograph |
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2008 |
“Signs of the Apocalypse and Rapture”, Forty Front Press |
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2007 |
“Hijacked: New American and Australian Photography” |
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2005 |
Metropolitan Museum of Art Catalogue, Cover shot (a portrait of a
Modern Art collector)
6x6 series Nature- Columbia College of Chicago |
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2004 |
530 Collection Dedicated to David Ruttenburg |
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Collections: |
530
Collection dedicated to David Ruttenburg
Columbia College Film Department, Chicago, IL
Columbia College’s Special Collections, Chicago, IL
Chicago in the Year 2000
Harris Bank, Chicago, IL |
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