Susan Bee | |
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| Born | January 14, 1952 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Barnard College (BA) Hunter College (MA) |
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| Spouse | Charles Bernstein |
| Children | 2, including Felix Bernstein |
| Mother | Miriam Laufer |
Susan Bee (born January 14, 1952 [1] ) is an American painter, editor, and book artist known for her work in book form and as co-editor and co-founder of M/E/A/N/I/N/G. [2]
Bee has a B.A. from Barnard College and a M.A. in art from Hunter College.
Susan Bee is currently represented by A.I.R. Gallery, where she has been a member since 1996. In addition to those galleries and Accola Griefen, she has had solo shows at the New York Public Library, Kenyon College, Columbia University, William Paterson College, and Virginia Lust Gallery, and her work has been included in numerous group shows. [3]
In 2024, "Susan Bee, Eye of the Storm: Selected Works 1981-2023” is being presented at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM). The show is curated by Johanna Drucker. [4] A 68-page full-color catalog with essays by Drucker, John Yau, and Raphael Rubinstein was published by PAAM. The show was featured by Antonia Pocock ("Storms, Lighthouses, and Pinup Girls: Susan Bee in Provincetown") in Provincetown Arts, Vol. 39, 2024/2025. [5]
In 2015, "Photograms and Altered Photos from the 1970s" were exhibited at Southfirst Gallery in Brooklyn. [6] She had one solo show at Accola Griefen Gallery (2013) and ten solo shows at A.I.R. Gallery in New York. [7]
Her work has been described as a "distinctive stylistic blend of folk art and pastoral psychedelia." [8]
She has taught at the School of Visual Arts MFA in Art Criticism and Writing program [9] and at the University of Pennsylvania and at Pratt Institute.
Bee has published six artist's books with Granary Books. [10] These include several collaborations with poets: Bed Hangings, with Susan Howe, A Girl’s Life, with Johanna Drucker, The Burning Babe and Other Poems with Jerome Rothenberg, and Log Rhythms and Little Orphan Anagram with Charles Bernstein. In addition, she has published nine artist's books for other publishers, including ' 'Off-World Fairy Tales' ' with Drucker (2020), [11] Fabulas Feminae with Drucker (2015), [12] Entre (2009) with poems by Regis Bonvicino, from Global Books, Paris, and The Invention Tree (2012) with poems by Jerome McGann, Chax Press.
Her artwork is included in many public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Getty Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, Yale University, Clark Art Institute, New York Public Library, and Harvard University Library.
Her work has been reviewed in Art in America, The New York Times, [13] The New Yorker, Art Papers, The Forward, The Brooklyn Rail, [14] and ArtNews. She has had Fellowships at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 2002 and 1999, Yaddo Fellowships in 2001 and 1996, and at the MacDowell Colony in 2012. In addition, she has had publication grants from the Visual Arts Program, the National Endowment for the Arts, from 1992 to 1997 and Publication Grants, from the Visual Arts Program, New York State Council on the Arts, from 1989 to 1997.
In 2014, Susan Bee was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. [15]
Bee is the co-editor, with Mira Schor, of M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artist's Writings, Theory, and Criticism, with writings by over 100 artists, critics, and poets, published by Duke University Press in 2000. She was the co-editor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G: A Journal of Contemporary Art Issues from 1986 to 1996 and is currently the co-editor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online. [2]
Susan Bee is married to poet Charles Bernstein. [16] They have two children, Emma Bee Bernstein (May 16, 1985 - December 20, 2008) and Felix Bernstein (born May 20, 1992). [17] Her parents, Miriam Laufer and Sigmund Laufer, were also artists. [18] [19]
Charles Bernstein is an American poet, essayist, editor, and literary scholar. Bernstein is the Donald T. Regan Professor, Emeritus, Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is one of the most prominent members of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E or Language poets. In 2006, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. and in 2019 he was awarded the Bollingen Prize from Yale University, the premiere American prize for lifetime achievement, given on the occasion of the publication of Near/Miss.
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Kenneth Goldsmith is an American poet and critic. He was the founding editor of UbuWeb and an artist-in-residence at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing (CPCW) at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught. He was also a senior editor of PennSound at the University of Pennsylvania. He hosted a weekly radio show at WFMU from 1995 until June 2010. He published 32 books including ten books of poetry, notably Fidget (2000), Soliloquy (2001), Day (2003) and his American trilogy, The Weather (2005), Traffic (2007), and Sports (2008), 'Seven American Deaths and Disasters (2011), and 'Capital: New York Capital of the Twentieth Century (2015). He also was the author of three books of essays, Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age (2011), Wasting Time on The Internet (2016), and Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb (2020). In 2013, he was appointed the Museum of Modern Art's first poet laureate.
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Resia Schor was a Polish-born artist who lived and worked in New York City from 1941 until her death in 2006.
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