EDUCATION:
1991- MFA, Painting, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
1978- BFA, Illustration, Rhode Island School of Design
1976 to 77- European Honors Program, Rome, Italy
EXHIBITIONS solo:
2023- Garrison Art Center- “Peripheral Visions”
2023-Equity Gallery Online Exhibit, Knight Lawrence Web Projects, Peripheral Visions
2022- Kiesendahl and Calhoun Fine Art, Summer Show at the Lodge at Woodloch, PA
2021- George Billis Gallery, Westport, CT
2021- Pop Up Gallery on Wendt, Larchmont, NY
2021- Westchester County Parks Dept. Office, Ardsley, NY, installation
2020- Collier West Annex, Brooklyn, NY, selections from series
2018- "Close to Home" Towne Crier Cafe, Beacon, NY
2017- "Arbor Vitae: Tree of LIfe" Anderson Chase Gallery, Golden's Bridge, NY
2016- " The Quotidian Landscape" Gallery Congregation Emanu-El, Rye, NY, Sept-November
2012- “The Color of Light ” Gallery in the Park, Cross River, NY
2011-Country Estates and Manors, Katonah, NY
2005-“The Color of Light” Gallery in the Park, Cross River, NY
2004-Northern Westchester Center for the Arts, 10 Year Retrospective
2003-Harrison Public Library
2000- Greenburgh Town Court Gallery
2000- Lois Richards Gallery, Greenwich, CT
1994- Colleen Greco Gallery, Montebello Mansion, Suffern, NY
1992- Harriet Beecher Stowe House, East Hampton, NY
1985- Marymount Manhattan College- New York, NY
EXHIBITIONS group:
2023- Silvermine Holiday Salon - Peripheral Visions Installation, New Canaan, CT
2023- Conversations With Artists, Rethinking the Landscape, online juried
2023- Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT, Small Works, juried
2023- Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT, Summer Salon, juried
2023- Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT, Narration Exhibit, juried
2022- NY Artist’s Equity Gallery Member Invitational, NY, jurors Ambre Kelley, Michael Brennan, Robyn Gibson, Christopher Stout
2022- Exhibit B Gallery, Souderton PA, -Winter Show, Spring Show
2021- NY Artist’s Equity Gallery Member Invitational, NY, Jurors Savona Bailey- McClain, Noah Becker, Melissa Staiger
2022- Artists Invite Artists, Prince Street Gallery, NY
2021- Painting 2011-2021, Site Brooklyn, NY, juror Peter Frank
2021- 44th Annual Juried Exhibition, RGOA.org, Ridgefield CT, juror George Billis
2021- Saatchi’s The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY
2021- Silvermine Summer Salon, New Canaan, CT
2021- Prince Street Gallery Annual National Juried Exhibition, NY, NY, juror Sangram Majumdar
2021- MAG Annual Small Works Exhibition- Mamaroneck, NY
2020- NY Artist’s Equity Gallery Member Invitational, NY, NY, jurors Carter Radcliffe, Peter Drake, Shazzi Thomas, Melanie Vote, Ben F. Jones
2020- Equity Gallery Juried Show, Il Paradiso, NY, NY jurors Margaret Krug, Peter Gynd, Peter Trippi, Jimmy Wright
2020- Prince Street National Juried Exhibition, NY, NY juror Susan Lichtman
2020- First Street Gallery National Juried Exhibition, NY, NY, juror Andrew Arnot
2020- Hearst CT Media Group, “About Women II”, Norwalk, CT
2020-Lockwood -Mathews Mansion Museum, “About Women”, Norwalk CT
2020- Collier West Annex, Brooklyn, NY, selections from series: Local Color and Peripheral Visions
2020- Silvermine New Members Exhibit, New Canaan, CT
2019- NY Artists Equity Gallery, Annual Members Invitational, NY, NY jurors Paul D’Agostino, Priska Juschka, Luciana Solano
2019- 69th Annual AONE Exhibit, Silvermine Art Gallery, New Canaan, CT, juror William Carroll
2019- “Patterns of Influence”, The Painting Center, NY, NY juried show
2019-MAG ”Small Works”, juried show, juror Susan Eley
2018- MAG "Small Works", juried show, juror Julian Kreimer
2016- "Landscape, A Sense of Place", Site:Brooklyn, NY, juried show
2014- “Natural Instincts”, Gallery in the Park, KMAA juried show
2011- Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
2007- Working Artists, Parsons School of Design
2005- Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, juried
2003-Lois Richards Gallery, American Artists
2003-Westchester Arts Council Open Studios “Local Color” installation
2001- Westchester Arts Council Invitational, Landscapes Real and Imagined
2000- Lois Richards Gallery, Greenwich, CT, American Artists
2000- Westchester Arts Council, Open Studios
1998- Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
1997-98- RISD on the Road, Providence, Boston, San Francisco, Philadelphia
1997- New School for Social Research, Recent Faculty Publications
1996- Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
1996- Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
1995- Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
1994- Parsons Gallery, New York, NY, "The Woman's Room"
1992- Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
1991- Stamford Jewish Community Center
1991- Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY, MFA
1989- Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
1988- Benton County Historical Museum, Philomel, OR, juried show
1987- Marywood College- Scranton, PA
1984,83,81,80- Society of Illustrators, New York, NY, juried show
1981,80,79- Creativity, New York Coliseum, juried show
1983- Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY, Society of Publication Designers,
1983- Bill Communications, New York, NY, invitational
1980- Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI, Rhode Island School of Design Alumni Show
1978- Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, juried show
1977- Palazzo Cenci, Rome Italy
COLLECTIONS:
2022- Museum of the City of New York- Pete Hamill Project collection, Invisible City, A New York Sketchbook
HOME PORTRAITS by Susan Stillman: 1989- 2020
Commissioned to paint acrylic portraits on canvas of estates and properties both in the tri-state area and nationally.
www.susanstillman.com
PUBLICATIONS:
IN THE STUDIO- video by @art_talks_studio Christian Nguyen
VISIONARY ART COLLECTIVE- August 2021 interview
CHRISTIE’S LUXURY REAL ESTATE BLOG- September 2020, Bespoke Home Portraits
AMERICAN CHORDATA- A Literary Journal, Spring 2019, “The Red Door” pg. 137
WAG MAGAZINE, January 2017, "Another Opening, Another Show"
WAG MAGAZINE, November 2016, "ArtWalk"
ELLIMAN MAGAZINE, April 2016, "Susan Stillman, House Painter"
ART VOICES MAGAZINE, Spring 2015, “The Quotidian Landscape, a Conversation with Susan Stillman”, by Jill Thayer Ph.D.
WAG MAGAZINE, December 2014, “Susan Stillman’s Art Captures the Spirit of Home”
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, Friday, March 8, 2013. “Tell Your House, ‘Hold That Pose’ ”
THE RECORD REVIEW, MARCH 23, 2012 “Homegrown Images at Gallery in the Park”
THE JOURNAL NEWS, October 2006. “Home Again, White Plains Artist Helps Katrina Victims Reclaim a Piece of the Past”
THE JOURNAL NEWS, HOME &DESIGN MAGAZINE, Winter 2005, “Portraits Reflect a House as Home”
PATENT TRADER, September 15th, 2005. “Museum Preps for Exhibit”
CONNECTICUT COTTAGES AND GARDENS, December 2004
HOME BY DESIGN MAGAZINE, August 2003
THE WHITE PLAINS WATCH, December 2000,
“Painter Susan Stillman Captures Homeowners’ Pride”
THE NEW YORK TIMES, Sunday, September 29th 2002 “Picture This, Now Houses, Too, Sit for Portraits”
THE RYE RECORD, May 2000
“Home is Where the Art Is”
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, Friday, September 3, 1999
"Home Front"
THE NEW YORK TIMES, Sunday, November 24, 1991
"When Houses Pose for Portraits, Owners Feel the Elation"
GANNETT SUBURBAN NEWSPAPERS, Tuesday, March 1, 1994
"A New Kind of House Painter"
THE SCARSDALE INQUIRER & BEDFORD RECORD REVIEW, May 1999 Home Section
HOME MAGAZINE, September 1993
"Home Front"
VICTORIA MAGAZINE, January 1994
"Calling Cards"
COUNTRY HOME MAGAZINE, June 1994
"Noteworthy"
AMERICA'S TALKING CHANNEL, December 1996
"What's New!"
WESTCHESTER SPOTLIGHT MAGAZINE, October 1999
"Women Entrepreneurs"
GANNETT SUBURBAN NEWSPAPERS, Saturday, May 13, 1995
"Lifestyles"
WHERE TO FIND IT, by Terry Trucco, Fireside Books, 1996
ALL NEW YORK, The Source Guide, by David Amory Lown & Patricia Twohill Lown, Norton Books, 1997
ILLUSTRATION:
Partial list of clients 1978-1995:
The New York Times Scholastic Publications
The Daily News E.P. Dutton
New York Magazine Bantam Books
Fortune Magazine St. Martins Press
Life Magazine Random House
Forbes Magazine Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Psychology Today Book of the Month Club
Mademoiselle Magazine RCA Records
Self Magazine Beth Israel Medical Center
GQ Magazine Mt. Sinai Medical Center
Money Magazine DNP America
Ms. Magazine CIBA- Geigy
Rolf Werner Rosenthal Sudler and Hennessey
Pfizer International American Express
New York Life Insurance Parsons Catalog
Simon and Schuster Sheraton Meadowlands
Esquire Magazine William Morrow Books
1995- Pasta Verde, Macmillan, illustrated cookbook.
1988-95- Designed series of scarves, ArtScarf and Echo Design.
1993- Windsongs and Rainbows, Simon and Schuster, illustrated children's book.
1983- Coty Award, “Playbill Scarf” for Echo Design.
1982- The Invisible City: A New York Sketchbook, by Pete Hamill, Random House, illustrations to accompany short stories.
1979- Ulysses, by James Joyce, Book of the Month Club, illustrated centennial boxed edition.
TEACHING and LECTURING:
1983-Present-PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN, Associate Professor, part time
• Illustration Department. Classes taught include: Sophomore Drawing, Junior Drawing, Landscape-Cityscape, Methods and Materials, Concepts, Painting, Objects in Space.
• First Year Foundation. Classes taught include: 2D Design Integrated Studios, a core design class that meets both in digital lab and studio, Present: Drawing/Imaging First Year
2013-Present- MORGAN MUSEUM AND LIBRARY, Sketching in the Galleries
2013- CRAFTSY.com - filmed online course “Acrylic Painting Close to Home”
Fall 1996- RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN, Mixed Media Class.
MAY 1991 to 96- RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN, Visiting critic for senior thesis projects.
October 1995- HALLMARK CARDS, Kansas City, Mo, Visiting Educator Program.
March 1992-AMERICAN GREETINGS, Cleveland, Ohio, Guest juror for fine art exhibit.
Fall 1992,93- Coordinated AMERICAN GREETINGS special project with students from PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN.
1990- RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN, Alumni representative on visiting committee to review the Department of Illustration.
1989- SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS, New York, Guest Lecture Series.
1988,87- MARYWOOD COLLEGE, Scranton, PA, Instructor of Illustration, Masters Program.
1982 to 1986- PARSONS SUMMER SESSION, Pre-college and College level Illustration.
2002,1984- SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, Guest Lecturer, Masters Program in Illustration