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, botanical garden, and waxwork projects, “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, from “Seeing Seen”).

A major survey of her work was on view at the Hudson River Museum with over forty pieces,accompanied by a 100-page catalogue. Her over 25 solo exhibitions include the Dorsky Museum; the Center for Creative Photography, AZ; Art in General; Visual Studies Workshop, NY; Madelyn Jordon Fine Art, NY; Galerie Urbi et Orbi, Paris; and Kim Foster Gallery, NYC.

Over 70 group exhibitions include the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; High Museum of Art; Middlebury College Museum of Art; The Bronx Museum; Pierre Bernard Gallery, Nice, FR; Howard Greenberg Gallery; Julie Saul Gallery; Ronald Feldman Gallery; and the Municipal Art Society.

Wides’s 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 Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, FR; The Norton Museum of Art, FL; The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Museum, Vassar College, NY; The New York Public Library; The International Center of Photography, NY; and the Museum of The City of New York, among others.

Anthologies containing the artist’s work include ‘New York in Color’ (Abrams), ‘A Photographer’s City’ (Rizzoli), ‘Lives of the Hudson’ (Prestel), ‘One Man’s Eye’ (Abrams)’ and ‘Here is New York’ (Scalo). Wides’s work has been featured in publications including Artforum, Art in America, Art News, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Le Monde, The Guardian, Harper’s and New York.

Large-scale commissions include a major permanent public art installation at Banana Republic’s flagship store in Rockefeller Center. Nine immersive images illuminated from behind—each 24 feet long by 9 feet high—encircle the center atrium. Her commissions include a large-scale multi-panel work at the San Diego Baseball Stadium and MTA Arts for Transit in New York.

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, Susan 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, Carolee Schneemann, and Agnieszka Kurant along with the 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