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Suzanne Bocanegra

Suzanne Bocanegra is an American artist living in New York City.[1] Her works include performance and installation art as well as visual and sound art.[2][3][4] Her work is exhibited internationally.

Suzanne Bocanegra
Born1957
Houston, Texas
NationalityAmerican
EducationSan Francisco Art Institute University of Texas
Known forConceptual art
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship, Rome Prize
Websitehttp://www.suzannebocanegra.com/

Career

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Bocanegra's work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art,[5] Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,[6] Tang Teaching Museum,[7] Delaware Art Museum,[8] and Museum of Fine Arts Houston.[9] Bocanegra has received a Guggenheim Fellowship (2020),[10] Foundation for Contemporary Arts Robert Rauschenberg award (2019),[11] and an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in art (2021).[12] In 1991, Bocanegra received a Rome Prize for visual arts.[13][14] She has received awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (1988, 1990, 2003) and the New York Foundation for the Arts (1989, 1993, 2001, 2005).[2] She has received residency fellowships from MacDowell,[15] Yaddo,[16] and the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program.[17]

Recent solo shows include those at the Gund Gallery at Kenyon College (2022),[18] Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin (2021),[19] Art Cake (2019),[20] and The Fabric Workshop and Museum (2018).[21]

Artist Lectures

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In 2010, Bocanegra was asked by the Museum of Modern Art to give a slide lecture about her work.  Bocanegra chose to tell the story of how she became an artist and she enlisted actor Paul Lazar to give the lecture, as her.  The result was the performance "When a Priest Marries a Witch, an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra Starring Paul Lazar."  To date she has made 3 more of these performance works:  "Bodycast, an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra Starring Frances McDormand," "Farmhouse / Whorehouse, an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra Starring Lili Taylor," and "Honor, an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra Starring Lili Taylor."

Helen Shaw in The New Yorker writes that these are "droll multimedia talks, presented onstage before an audience, ranging across her life and art history, sometimes peering into eccentric corners of Americana. In each, Bocanegra sits to one side of the stage, at a barely lit table, as an actor does the speaking for her. Bocanegra is actually murmuring the text into a microphone, and the actor instantly transmits it, repeating what she hears via an in-ear receiver. 'Hello, I’m Suzanne Bocanegra,' each piece begins, though the person we hear might be Lili Taylor or Frances McDormand."[22]

Bocanegra has performed these Artist Lectures at museums and theater festivals across the United States, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[23] the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles,[24] the Walker Art Center,[25] and the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Personal life

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A native of Houston, Texas, Bocanegra is an alumna of the University of Texas and the San Francisco Art Institute, from which she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (1979) and a Master of Fine Arts (1984), respectively.[2][4] She is married to composer David Lang, with whom she has three children.[26]

Further reading

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  • Wolfe, Julia (2004). "Suzanne Bocanegra". BOMB. Spring 2004 (87).
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References

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  1. ^ "An Evening with Suzanne Bocanegra". Museum of Modern Art. 2010. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
  2. ^ a b c "Suzanne Bocanegra". Wave Hill. 2005. Archived from the original on 13 June 2010. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
  3. ^ "Info". Suzanne Bocanegra. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
  4. ^ a b "Opener 21 Suzanne Bocanegra: I Write the Songs". Tang Museum. Archived from the original on 18 July 2010. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
  5. ^ "Suzanne Bocanegra | MoMA".
  6. ^ "All the Petals from Jan Brueghel the Elder's 'Flowers in a Ceramic Vase' (1620) – Works – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston".
  7. ^ "Suzanne Bocanegra". Tang Teaching Museum.
  8. ^ "Suzanne Bocanegra". emuseum.delart.org. Retrieved 2023-11-23.
  9. ^ "Suzanne Bocanegra Untitled No. 32". mfah.org.
  10. ^ "Suzanne Hitt Bocanegra".
  11. ^ "Suzanne Bocanegra | FCA Grant Recipient".
  12. ^ "2021 Art Award Winners – American Academy of Arts and Letters".
  13. ^ "Directory by Year". Society of Fellows, American Academy in Rome. Archived from the original on 5 November 2010. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
  14. ^ Slosberg, Chelsea. "Mixed-Media at the Tang: Bocanegra's I Write the Songs Exhibit". The Free George. Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
  15. ^ "Suzanne Bocanegra - Artist".
  16. ^ "Visual Artists | Yaddo". Archived from the original on 2019-03-28.
  17. ^ "Artists 1991-2013". Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program. 20 Jay Street, Suite 720, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Retrieved 17 April 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  18. ^ "Gund Gallery | Kenyon College".
  19. ^ "Suzanne Bocanegra Valley – Blanton Museum of Art".
  20. ^ "Suzanne Bocanegra — Art Cake". Archived from the original on 2021-08-02.
  21. ^ "Suzanne Bocanegra: Poorly Watched Girls".
  22. ^ Shaw, Helen (2024-01-27). "The One-Woman Show That Stars Two Women". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2024-06-19.
  23. ^ "Honor, an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra starring Lili Taylor | Perspectives". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2024-06-19.
  24. ^ "Honor, an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra Starring Lili Taylor". www.moca.org. Retrieved 2024-06-19.
  25. ^ "Honor, an Artist Lecture by Suzanne Bocanegra starring Lily Taylor". Walker Art Center. Retrieved June 19, 2024.
  26. ^ Woolfe, Zachary (19 October 2010). "The composer of modern life: David Lang, paycheck to paycheck". Capital. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
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