Susan Wides is a photographic, video, and installation artist living and working in the Hudson Valley. For four decades she lived and worked in New York City which has played an equally important part in her work. Known for her ecological, urban, and museum photographs, “Susan Wides invites us to come alive to vision as a kind of inventiveness, an integrative faculty that, moment by moment, connects us to our surroundings and, ultimately, to one another.” (Carter Ratcliff, Seeing Seen).

Recent exhibitions include Rivers Flow | Artists Connect at the Hudson River Museum, where she participated in a panel: Call to Action: Conversation about the Hudson River Cleanup; Bill Arning Exhibitions; and the Athens Cultural Center.

Her over 25 solo exhibitions include a major survey of her work at the Hudson River Museum; Kim Foster Gallery, NYC; Galerie Urbi et Orbi, Paris; The Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz; and The Center for Creative Photography, AZ. Over 70 group exhibitions include the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; High Museum of Art; The Bronx Museum; Middlebury College Museum of Art; and the Municipal Art Society.

Wides’ work has been collected by distinguished museums, including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Brooklyn Museum; The Art Museum of Princeton University, NJ; The Haifa Museum, ISR; la Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, FR; The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, NY; The New York Public Library; and The International Center of Photography, NY.

The artist’s work is featured in several anthologies, and in publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Le Monde, The Guardian, Harper’s, Artforum, and Art in America. Large-scale commissions include a major permanent public art lightbox installation at Banana Republic’s flagship store in Rockefeller Center—a 360-degree surround of lightbox images over 200 feet in length; San Diego Stadium; and MTA Arts for Transit.

The artist studied at Kenyon College and received a BA in Fine Arts from Indiana University, where she was mentored by the artist Henry Holmes Smith, the colleague of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy at the New Bauhaus.

As part of her art practice, Wides is the Curator of ‘T’ Space, a non-profit woodland gallery dedicated to the cross-inspiration of art, poetry, architecture, and music in the Hudson Valley. She has curated over 30 exhibitions, including Ai Wei-wei, Ann Hamilton, Martin Puryear, and Agnieszka Kurant, and their accompanying poetry and music programs.


WORK IN DIALOGUE WITH FELLOW ARTISTS AT SELECT INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

Princeton University Art Museum, curated by Peter Bunnell, Artists: Tina Barney, Robert Heineken, Martin Parr, Lorna Simpson, Susan Wides, et al.

Galerie Urbi et Orbi, Paris, FR, Director Gilles Dusein. Represented Hiroshi Sugimoto, Thomas Struth, Nan Goldin, James Casebere, Gretchen Bender, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Susan Wides, et al.

High Museum of Art, Museum Studies Artists: Susan Wides, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Candida Hofer, Fred Wilson, et al.

Middlebury College Museum of Art, Paradise Lost, Artists: Joseph Beuys, Andy Goldworthy, Dan Graham, Peter Campus, Mike Glier, Jenny Holzer, Kerry James Marshall, Susan Wides

Museum of the City of New York, New York Now, Artists: Tim Davis, Mitch Epstein, Vera Lutter, Abelardo Morell, Susan Wides, et al.

Pierre Bernard Gallery, Nice, FR. Sphinx, Artists: Thomas Ruff, Susan Wides, Bill Henson

Squibb Gallery, Fictive Strategies, Artists: John Baldessari, Sarah Charlesworth, Louise Lawler, David Levinthal, Lucas Samaras, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, Susan Wides, et al.

Studio 10, Bklyn, NY Unlikely Representation Artists: Gary Stephan, Steel Stillman, Susan Wides

The Burden Gallery, Aperture Foundation, NY Museum, Spectacle, History. Curated by Sam Samore and Steve Dietz, Artists: Daniel Faust, Justin Ladda, Diane Neumaier, Richard Ross, Susan Wides