Susan Malmstrom

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EDUCATION
University of California, Irvine, M.F.A. in Studio Art
California State University, Long Beach, B.F.A., Specialization in Printmaking

EXHIBITIONS
SOLO
Fortune Seeking, Acadia University Art Gallery, Wolfville, NS, 2011
Pictures Within Pictures, Argyle Gallery, Halifax, NS, 2011
Dr. Consonant Collects: Selected Objects from A Repository of Wonders, ARTsPLACE Gallery, Annapolis Royal, NS, 2011
The Deserted Toyshop, Argyle Gallery, Halifax, NS, 2010
Women of the Forest, Argyle Gallery, Halifax, 2009
Beyond Words, ARTsPLACE Gallery, Annapolis Royal, NS (catalogue), 2008

GROUP
Eyelevel Reshelving Initiative 5, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, NS (collaborative book project: They Tell My Tale to Children Now to Help Them to Be Good, with writer Wanda Waterman), 2012
The Art of Exposure, Swoon Fine Art, Hammonds Plains, NS (also served as juror), 2011
Transplanted, Toronto School of Art, ON (part of CONTACT: Toronto Photography Festival), 2011
Artist’s Book of the Moment, York University Art Gallery, Toronto (collaborative book project: They Tell My Tale to Children Now to Help Them to Be Good, with writer Wanda Waterman), 2011
The Other Side, Swoon Fine Art, Hammonds Plains, NS, 2011
Eyelevel Reshelving Initiative 4, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, NS (collaborative book project: Echo Chamber, with writer Wanda Waterman), 2010
Identity, ARTsPLACE Gallery, Annapolis Royal, NS, 2009
For the Love of Letters, Argyle Gallery, Halifax, NS, 2009
Mixed Messages, Corridor Gallery, Halifax, NS (Photopolis, Halifax Festival of Photography), 2008
Figuring in the Figure, St. FX Art Gallery, Antigonish, NS (catalogue), 2007
InHereOutThere, Cape Breton University Art Gallery, Sydney, NS (catalogue), 2007
Folio, ARTsPLACE Gallery, Annapolis Royal, NS, 2006
Suffolk Museum of Art Annual Exhibition, Suffolk, VA (award), 2003
Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD (catalogue), 2001
Art Count 2000, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA, 2000
Ten Printmakers, Bedford Gallery, Longwood College of Arts, VA, 1997
Women Educators/Educated in the Arts, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA, 1996
Second Annual International Exhibition of Women’s Art, SoHo20 Gallery, New York, NY, 1996
Sixth Annual National Exhibition, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA, curator: Ed Pashke, 1996
First Biennial Printmaking Exhibition, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA, 1996
On Site at the Gate, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA, 1993
Her Artworks, South Bend Museum of Art, IN, curator: Lynda Benglis, 1992
From Real to Surreal, Brea Gallery, CA, curators: Will Hipps, Lynda Forsha, Peter Frank, 1992
Photograph As: Urban Scape/Rural Scape, Downey Museum of Art, CA, 1992
Seven Western States, Long Beach Art Association Gallery, CA, 1992
Visual Exchange, Otis Parsons Art Institute Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1992
Images and Origins: Reflections of Women Artists, Los Angeles City Hall Gallery, CA, 1992
Surface Appearances: The Painted Photograph, John M. Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
West Coast Works On/Of Paper, Reese Bullen Gallery, Humboldt State University, CA, 1991
Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Nine, SITE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (three-person invitational), 1991
West Coast Works On/Of Paper, Reese Bullen Gallery, Humboldt State University, 1990

AWARDS
Art Bank of Nova Scotia: Purchase Award, 2011 & 2009
Nova Scotia Culture Division, Grants to Individuals (Creation, 2008)
Jane Butler Memorial Award, Suffolk Museum of Art, Virginia, 2003
“Lindsay” Award (assistance to arts programming), Long Beach, California, 1995
Art Matters Fellowship, New York, 1994
Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies Materials Grant Award, 1993
Southern California Graduate Student Arts Award, Los Angeles Arts Council, 1991
Humanities Research Grant, University of California, Irvine, 1991
Purchase Award, Reese Bullen Gallery, Humboldt State University, California, 1988

RECENT BIBLIOGRAPHY
“Art From the New Age,” interview with Jenna Conter, Halifax Metronews, Oct. 5, 2011
“Repository of Wonders,” interview with Olga Milosevich, CBC Radio, Sept. 6, 2011
“Unsettling Toys,” review by Elissa Barnard, Chronicle-Herald, June 6, 2010
“Digital Dramas,” interview with Paul Pickrem, Chronicle-Herald, Apr. 4, 2008
“InHereOutThere,” catalog essay by curator Suzanne Crowdis, 2008
“Archaic Heritage,” catalog essay by Carolyn G. Anderson, 2007

COLLECTIONS
Art Bank of Nova Scotia
Special Collections, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, California
Special Collections, Printmaking Archive, California State University, Long Beach
The Bookshelf (collection of artists’ books), Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, NS
Toronto School of Art
Reese Bullen Gallery, Humboldt State University, California

Artist’s Statement

My work originally consisted of still-life photographs, originally using antique processes, such as Vandyke and salted paper printing, invented during the earliest days of photography, with emulsions mixed in my darkroom.

The images are now created digitally by combining photographs of objects, portraits, backdrops, simulated wallpaper, and more.

Although contemporary media present different challenges than those of the 19th century, my work remains faithful to transforming real objects existing in time and space into non-reality based, allegorical imagery, exploring personal vs. collective memory.