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I began photographing landscapes as an undergraduate at Princeton University. Later, at the School of Visual Arts MFA program in Photography and Related Media, I began to view landscape photography as a kind of geography, a visual rendering of the complicated nexus of geology, history, and ideology. Subsequent projects, the whole great world, Atlantis, and Falling at His Feet, investigated imposed notions of paradise, through simultaneous moments of failure and fleeting edenic success. My current work, Right Coast, explores the surfing community in New York City. In addition to landscapes that reveal the rigor and drama of East Coast winter surfing, I include portraits and still lives that point to the intimacy and intensity of the life carved out on New York City’s stretch of Atlantic Ocean. I live in Rockaway Beach, Queens, NY, with my husband, Robert Sherwood, 2 cats, and an embarassing number of surfboards. contact: susannah@susannahray.com 347.528.6101
2004 Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, NY, "We Are Talking Now of Summer Evenings..." 2002 Koussevitzky Gallery, Pittsfield, MA, "the whole great world" The Front Room, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, "The Banner Project" 1999 SUNY Purchase Photography Department Gallery, Purchase, NY , "America99" 1996 Women's Studies Gallery, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, "Passages" 1994 Lucas Gallery, Princeton University, "Domain"
2007 Rockland County Center for the Arts, "Upon Further Review," Nyack, NY Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, NY, "Change at Babylon"
The
Arsenal
Gallery, "The Players" NYC Parks Department Public Art
Program, Brooklyn Academy of Music, "BAMart Auctions," Brooklyn, NY 2006 The Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY, "The Queens International" Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, NY, "Safe" Ashley Tyler Gallery, New York, NY, "Offshore/On Board" 2005 Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, NY, "Citations" The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, "Threads and Vines" 2004 The Front Room, "WMD" The International Center for Photography, New York, NY, "Slidefest" 2003 Triple Candie, New York, NY, "The Benefit for Triple Candie" 2001 The Front Room, "Amanda Alic, Sean Hemmerle, Stuart Hawkins, Susannah Ray" The Front Room, "79.9MW" 2000 Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY, "Precedence: Emmet Gowin and His Students" 1998 Artist's Space, NY, NY, "Night of 1,000 Small Drawings" CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Members show 1997 White Columns, NY, NY, "Blue Lagoon" 1994 Blair Academy Gallery, Blairstown, NJ, Faculty exhibition 1992 Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano, Lima, Peru, "Princeton Photography"
The Bronx Museum of the Arts The Capital Group The State Department of California
2004-pres. re-title.com, London, UK 2003-pres. White Columns 2000-2002 LFL Gallery, NY, NY
2004 Community Arist's Program, The Bronx Museum of the Arts 1997 The
Paula Rhodes Memorial Award 2007 Martha Schwendener, "Last Chance: The Players," The New York Times, June 22, 2007 Martha Schwendener, "Art in Review: The Players," The New York Times, June 15, 2007 2006 "Bronx Portraits," Grand Concourse Magazine, The Bronx Museum of Art, Spring/Summer 2006 Stefan Marti, "Surfing the A Train," Transworld Surf Magazine, July 2006 2005
Rob
Cummings, "“On the Right
Coast: Surfing Rockaway,” in coastalsurvey.com,
"Bronx Portraits," Grand Concourse Magazine, The Bronx Museum, Winter 2005 2004 "Bronx Portraits," Grand Concourse Magazine, The Bronx Museum, Fall 2004 "One Gardener's Almanac," House and Garden Magazine, August 2004 1997 Shelley
Rice, Madeline Djerejian, Susannah Ray, and Ilana Rein, "On a
History of Women 1996 Sharon
Katz, "Photographic Expression: Susannah's Domain" in The
Creative Arts at Princeton:
2006-pres. Adjunct Professor, Hofstra University 2001-2004 Adjunct Professor, The International Center for Photography, NY, NY 2000-2001 Lecturer in Photography, Yale University, New Haven, CT 1999-2000 Adjunct Professor, School of Visual Arts, NY, NY 1999 Adjunct Professor, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY 1998-1999 Professor of Photography, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY 1998 Master Critic, MFA Program in Photography and Related Media, SVA 1997 Guest Professor in Digital Media, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 1994-1995 Art Teacher, The Blair Academy, Blairstown, NJ
1995-1997 School of Visual Arts, NY, NY. MFA in Photography and the Related Media 1990-1994 Princeton University, BA, Visual Arts/Art History major, Environmental Studies minor |