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

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2011
Fortune Seeking, Acadia University Art Gallery, Wolfville, NS (solo exhibition)
Pictures Within Pictures, Argyle Gallery, Halifax, NS (solo exhibition)
Transplanted, Toronto School of Art, ON (part of CONTACT: the Toronto Photography Festival)
Dr. Consonant Collects: Selected Objects from A Repository of Wonders, ARTsPLACE (Mym Gallery), Annapolis Royal, NS (two person collaboration with Elizabeth Kenneday)
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)
2010
The Deserted Toyshop, Argyle Fine Art, Halifax, NS (solo exhibition)
Eyelevel Reshelving Initiative 4, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, NS (collaborative book project: Echo Chamber with writer Wanda Waterman)
2009
Identity, ARTsPLACE Gallery, Annapolis Royal, NS
Between the Pages, Corridor Gallery, Halifax, NS
Women of the Forest, Argyle Fine Art, Halifax (two person collaboration with artist Elizabeth Kenneday)
For the Love of Letters, Argyle Fine Art, Halifax, NS
2008
Mixed Messages, Corridor Gallery, Halifax, NS (for Photopolis, Halifax Festival of photography)
Beyond Words, ARTsPLACE Gallery, Annapolis Royal, NS (solo exhibition, catalogue)
2007
Figuring in the Figure, St. FX Art Gallery, Antigonish, NS (catalogue)
InHereOutThere, Cape Breton University Art Gallery, Sydney, NS (catalogue)
2006
Folio, ARTsPLACE Gallery, Annapolis Royal, NS
2003
Suffolk Museum of Art Annual Exhibition, Suffolk, VA (award)
2001
Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD (catalogue)
2000
Art Count 2000, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
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
Sixth Annual National Exhibition, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA, curator: Ed Pashke
First Biennial Printmaking Exhibition, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA
1993
On Site at the Gate, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
1992
Her Artworks, South Bend Museum of Art, IN, curator: Lynda Benglis
From Real to Surreal, Brea Gallery, CA, curators: Will Hipps, Lynda Forsha, Peter Frank
Photograph As: Urban Scape/Rural Scape, Downey Museum of Art, CA
Some Day My Prince Will Come, University Fine Art Gallery, Irvine (solo exhibition)
1991
Scene for a Moment, University Fine Arts Gallery, Irvine (solo exhibition)
1990
Seven Western States, Long Beach Art Association Gallery, CA
Visual Exchange, Otis Parsons Art Institute Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Images and Origins: Reflections of Women Artists, Los Angeles City Hall Gallery, CA
Surface Appearances: The Painted Photograph, John M. Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
1989
West Coast Works On/Of Paper, Reese Bullen Gallery, Humboldt State University, CA
Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Nine, SITE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (three person invitational exhibition)
Objects of Interment, California State University Long Beach Art Gallery (two person installation with sculptor Marie Laibinis)
1988
West Coast Works On/Of Paper, Reese Bullen Gallery, Humboldt State University, CA (purchase award)

AWARDS
The 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

COLLECTIONS
Nova Scotia Art Bank
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
Ms. Carolyn G. Anderson, Los Angeles, California
Ms. Rebecca Boyd, Richmond, Virginia
Ms. Raina Elfner, Boston, Massachusetts
Dr. Gerald Fishkin, PhD, Long Beach, California
Ms. Jacquelyn Friedman, Los Angeles, California
Ms. Constance W. Glenn, Newport Coast, California
Mr. Steven Henley & Ms. Michelle Jewett, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Mr. Chris Hutchins & Ms. Suzette Delmage, Victoria, BC
Dr. Elizabeth Kenneday, June Lake, California
Ms. Michele Miller, San Marcos, Texas
Mr. & Mrs. Wesley Oishi, Los Angeles, California
Ms. Diana Pescar, Los Angeles, California
Mr. Darrel Pink, Esq., Halifax, Nova Scotia
Mr. Andrew Riddles, Ottawa, Ontario
Dr. John Fitz Rogers, PhD, Columbia, South Carolina
Mr. Walter Toth, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Ms. Janis Winogradsky, Atlanta, Georgia
Ms. Erin Wolter, Calgary, Alberta

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.