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Suellen Parker

Photography professor

Education

  • M.F.A., photography, School of Visual Arts
  • B.F.A., art/interior design, University of Georgia

Credentials

  • Professor, photography, 2007–present
    Program coordinator, photography, 2009–2012, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta
  • Adjunct professor, 2004, School of Visual Arts, New York

Awards, recognitions, and honors

Accolades

  • Atlanta's Top 50 Most Creative People, Common Creative, April 2011

Press and media

  • "Whitespace Is Far From a Traditional Art Space," by Felicia Feaster, Atlanta Magazine, August 2015
  • "Selfie Suggests Digital Technology Puts a New Spin on Tradition of Self-portraiture" by Dinah McClintock, Arts ATL, July 22, 2014
  • "Selfie Explores a New Take on an Old Genre" by Deidra Tyree Smith, Burnaway, July 11, 2014
  • "Selfie Finds Significance in Group Show in Atlanta" by Felicia Feaster, Atlanta Journal and Constitution, July 1, 2014
  • "Suellen Parker Digitally Remasters Clay Sculptures with Fragments of Photography" by Stacy Dacheux, Beautiful Decay, July 2013
  • "Review: At Whitespace Gallery, Suellen Parker's Gender-bending Explorations of Identity" by Jerry Cullum, Arts ATL, November 2012
  • "Suellen Parker's Claymation Figures Break the Mold" by Grace Thorton, Creative Loafing, October 2012
  • "Gritty Putty" by Felicia Feaster, The Atlantan Magazine, October 2008
  • "Beauty and Its Other" by Bharati Chaturved, Business Standard, New Dehli, April 19, 2008
  • "Atlanta Innovates" by Catherine Fox, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Nov. 25, 2007
  • American Photography 23, by Kathy Ryan, Amilus Inc., November 2007
  • "Plastic Aspirations: Suellen Parker's World of Incurable Desire" by Jolene Pozniak, Locus Suspectus, Issue 4, Fall 2007
  • "The Wasteland? Stalking the Soul of Suburbia" by Lorraine Gengo, New Haven Advocate, Sept. 20, 2007
  • "Provocative Photo Exhibit at the Westport Arts Center Examines Life in Suburbia" by Lee Scharf, Westport Minuteman, Oct. 4, 2007
  • "Talent Show, Atlanta" by Phil Oppenheim, ART PAPERS Magazine, September/October, 2007
  • "Diverse Biennial an Awkward Mix" by Catherine Fox, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, June 24, 2007
  • "Image Craft" produced by Helena Cavendish de Moura and The New York Times Magazine, filmed and edited by Jessica Ellis
  • "Clay Nation" by Rafael Risemberg, The New York Blade, Feb. 23, 2007
  • The Gay Art Tour, Here TV, New York, February 2007
  • Ocean Drive Magazine, February 2007
  • "Beautiful Delusions" by Amy Benfer, Metro New York, Jan. 10, 2007
  • "Trick Photography" by Felicia Feaster, Creative Loafing Magazine, Atlanta, October 2006
  • reGeneration, Part 3: Suellen Parker, Ikono.tv, Berlin, Fall 2006
  • "Young Photographer's Stark View of Reality," Hors Ligne, Switzerland, August 2005
  • "Schone neue Fotowelt" Der Bund, Berne, Switzerland, July 2, 2005
  • reGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, Thames & Hudson, 2005, London & Paris; Aperture, 2006, New York
  • Here Is New York, Scalo 2002, New York

Publications and presentations

Exhibitions

  • December Show, White Space Gallery, Atlanta, 2016
  • December Show, White Space Gallery, Atlanta, 2015
  • The Raconteurs, Gallery Walk at Terminus, Atlanta, 2015
  • Selfie: A Contemporary Look at the Self Portrait, Chastain Arts Center, Atlanta, 2014
  • Fantastical Minds, gallery walk at Terminus, Atlanta, 2014
  • Letting Go, solo exhibit, White Space Gallery, Atlanta, 2012
  • 30x30, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, 2012
  • Duets, gallery walk at Terminus, Atlanta, 2012
  • December Show, White Space Gallery, Atlanta, 2011
  • reGeneration, Hoffman Gallery, Portland, Ore; Preus Fotomuseum, Horten, Norway, 2009
  • Hello Liberty, Dalton Gallery, Atlanta, 2008
  • Next Art Fair with Stux Gallery, Chicago, 2008
  • Incurable Still, solo exhibit, Stux Gallery, New York, 2008
  • (Untitled) u = ____ [a photographic group show], Fette's Gallery, Los Angeles, 2008
  • reGeneration, DeVos Art Museum, Marquette, Mich.; Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, Colo.; Miami Dade College, Florida, 2008
  • Stalking Suburbia, Westport Arts Center, Westport, Conn., 2007
  • SHOTS, The Festival of the Photograph, curated by Kathy Ryan, Charlottesville, Va., 2007
  • Talent Show Atlanta Biennial, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, 2007
  • Incurable, solo exhibit, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, 2007
  • Photography faculty exhibit, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Ga., 2007
  • reGeneration, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Pasadena, Calif., 2007
  • Scope Miami with Daniel Cooney Fine Art, Miami, 2006
  • 212 Art Fair with Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, 2006
  • reGeneration, Aperture Gallery, New York; The Art Institute of Boston, Boston; Pingyao Festival, China, 2006
  • reGeneration, Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland; Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy, 2005
  • Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, 2005
  • Renegades & Patriots, Garage Projects, Atlanta, 2004
  • The Look of Things, M.F.A. thesis show, Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York, 2004

Presentations

  • Q&A: "Suellen Parker's Manic Optimism in Letting Go at Whitespace" by Claire Maxwell, Burnaway, September 2012
  • Lecture, Georgia State Photography Grad Program, Fall 2011
  • Lecture, "Spotlight on Local Talent," artist talk for Atlanta Celebrates Photography at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, October 2008
  • Lecture, The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, January 2008