Suzanne McClelland

Suzanne McClelland is a New York-based artist best known for abstract work based in language, speech, and sound.

Early life and education McClelland studied with photographer Joanne Leonard and painter Gerome Kamrowski at the University of Michigan, receiving a BFA in 1981. In 1989, she received a MFA from School of Visual Arts, citing Judy Pfaff and Ursula von Rydingsvard and Jackie Winsor as influential teachers.

Work

McClelland's work has been exhibited at The Whitney Museum, both 2014 and 1993 Biennials; The New Museum, The Museum at University at Albany SUNY, and The Fralin Museum of Art at University of Virginia. Her work can be found in MOMA, The Walker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum and Saatchi. She is currently on faculty with School of Visual Arts Fine Arts, MFA Program.

Collections

Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Art Foundation Mallorca Collection, Mallorca, Spain Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan Fisher Landau Center For Art, Long Island City, New York Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, Virginia Grunwald Center Collection, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California Agnes Gund, New York, New York Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington The Margulies Collection, Miami, Florida Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, California Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase, New York New York Public Library Print Collection, New York, New York Nice Public Library, Nice, France Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island The Rubell Family Collection St Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri Saatchi Gallery, London, UK University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey