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Susan Hong-Sammons has exhibited internationally as well as won national awards and grants.  Exhibitions have included the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; The Institute of Contemporary Art P.S. 1 Museum, Artist Space, New York City; The Best and Brightest Exhibition, Scottsdale, AZ; The 2007 Gold Medal Exhibition, Chicago, IL.  She is a recipient of the Minnesota State Arts Board Grant; received the Excellence in Arts and Education Award from the National Academy of Alternative Education, NYC; and was selected as Artist-in-Residence by the prestigious Studio in a School Association, NYC.  Ms. Hong-Sammons holds a Master of Fine Art from Pratt Institute, NYC.

Education: MFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Awards and Honors:
   

Minnesota State Cultural Arts Board Grant, MN

LaGrange Art Gallery

Artist in Residence, The American School of Accelerated Learning, Monterrey, MX

Recognition of Excellence, Associacion de la Plastica, Garza Garcia,Monterrey, MX

Excellence in Arts and Education Award, National Academy of Alternative Education, NYC

Artist in Residence, Studio in a School Association, Inc., NYC

Critics Choic, Spring Invitational, Rolland Dille Arts Center, Moorhead, MN

   

*Solo and Joint Exhibitions

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2008 American Artist Magazine, "Plein Air Paintings in an Urban Environment," February, 2008.

2008 "Celebrate the Arts," Scottsdale, AZ

2008 Indigo Gallery, Joliet, IL

2007 "Holiday Showcase," City Arts Gallery, Greenville, NC

2007 "Best & Brightest National Exhibition," Scottsdale, AZ

2007 "Painting Edgewater," Edgewater Historical Museum, Chicago, IL

2007 Coral Bay Art Exhibition, North Carolina

2007 Emerging Artists, City Arts Gallery, Greenville, NC

2007 The Gold Medal Show, The Palette and Chisel Fine Art Gallery, Chicago, IL

2007 Plein Air Painters Southwest, The Tavern Club, Chicago, IL

2006 Watercolor & Pastels, Palette and Chisel Fine Art Gallery, Chicago, IL

2006 The Elites, Cambridge Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2006 2006 Plein Air Painters of Chicago, Palette and Chisel Fine Art Gallery, curated by Scott Tallman

2006 La Petite, Alder Fine Art Gallery, Coburg, OR curated by Candy Moffett

2006 The Best and the Brightest Juried National Show, Scottsdale Artists’ School, Scottsdale, AZ

2006 Still Life to Snow Storms, LaGrange Art League, LaGrange, IL

*2005 Figure & Interiors, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN

2005 From the Heartland, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN

2005 Stevens Square Gallery, Binghamton, NY

2004 National Painting Show: 2004, New York Art Collection, director Hall Groat II

2004 Avenue Art Gallery, Endicott, NY

2004 Open Market, Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, AZ juror Harley Brown.

2004 Move, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN director B.J. Shigaki.

2004 Drawings & Prints, Minnetonka Center for the Arts, director Jack Becker.

2003 Trinidad National Fine Art Exhibition, A.R. Mitchell Museum, Trinidad Area Arts Council, Trinidad, CO., juror David A. Leffel

2003 Miniature Show, Abend Gallery, Denver, CO director Christine Serr.

2003 Beaux Art Gallery, Woodbury, CT., director Angie Schimpf

2003 Realism Revisited, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN

*2003 Torsos, Ohio State University-Pearl Conard Gallery, Mansfield, OH, curated by Rebecca Langley.

2002 Exhibition of Small Works, New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA curated by James Carroll.

*2002 Figure Works, Rosewood Arts Gallery, OH curated by Chris Germann

   

 

Bibliography (*Reviews)
 

Southwest Artists, "The Best and the Brightest Nation Exhibition, 12/06

"Portraits – Real Things" Rochester Art Center Visual, Rochester, MN 12/04-

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"Murals," Post Bulletin, Rochester, MN Feb. 26, 2004

Rebecca Donnelly, "Trinidad National Fine Arts Show," The Chronicle News, Trinidad, CO. Sept. 11, 2003

Diario, Mexio, Sept. 1999

Fernando Garza, "Pinturas," el Norte, Monterrey, MX Sept. 1999

El Norte, Jan. 1999

*Cindy Tiedemann, "Exhibition Begins," Kettering-Oakwood Times, October 7, 1998.

Kathy Whyde Jesse, "Light Adds Fire to Artist Works,"Dayton Daily News, Oct. 4, 1998

*"Art Ideas" 1997

*Marilyn J. fox, "A BIG Show For Small Art, " Eagle/Times, May, 1996

*Michelle Pekola, "Exhibit Opens at Art Center March 3," Rome Observer, Feb. 26, 1995

Janet Loudon, "Painters Dream," Glens Falls Times, March 10, 1995

*Kevin Lewis, "Art from Academia," The Ithacan, Oct. 1, 1992

Harriet Howard Heithaus, "Ancient Forms, New Ideas," The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, April 16, 1992

Alexis Jetter, "L.I.C./Art Exhibit Preserves China Massacre," New York Newsday, April 20, 1990

 

 

Teaching Experience and *Public Lectures
 

Ithaca College, Ithaca NY

Dowling College, Oakdale, NY

San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Rochester Community and Technical College

LaGrange Art League and Fine Art Gallery

Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN

The Gilded Start Gallery, Rochester, MN

American School of Accelerated Learning, Monterrey, MN

Studio In a School Association, Inc., NYC

Rourke Gallery, Moorhead, MN

*Mothers and More Inc.

*The Rochester Montessori School Staff Development Workshop

*Rome Art and Community Center, Rome, NY

*International Contact Club, Leuven, Belgium

 

 

Professional Affiliations and *Gallery Representation
 

Oil Painters of America

Plein Air Painters of Chicago

Allied Artists of America

*Cambridge Art Gallery

*City Art Gallery

Indigo Gallery, Joliet Illinois

   

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