Suzanne Bocanegra | |
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Born | 1957 |
Nationality | American |
Education | San Francisco Art Institute University of Texas |
Known for | Conceptual art |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship, Rome Prize |
Website | http://www.suzannebocanegra.com/ |
Suzanne Bocanegra is an American artist living in New York City.[1] Her works include performance and installation art as well as visual and sound art.[2][3][4] Her work is exhibited internationally.
Bocanegra's work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art,[5] Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,[6] Tang Teaching Museum,[7] Delaware Art Museum,[8] and Museum of Fine Arts Houston.[9] Bocanegra has received a Guggenheim Fellowship (2020),[10] Foundation for Contemporary Arts Robert Rauschenberg award (2019),[11] and an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in art (2021).[12] In 1991, Bocanegra received a Rome Prize for visual arts.[13][14] She has received awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (1988, 1990, 2003) and the New York Foundation for the Arts (1989, 1993, 2001, 2005).[2] She has received residency fellowships from MacDowell,[15] Yaddo,[16] and the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program.[17]
Recent solo shows include those at the Gund Gallery at Kenyon College (2022),[18] Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin (2021),[19] Art Cake (2019),[20] and The Fabric Workshop and Museum (2018).[21]
A native of Houston, Texas, Bocanegra is an alumna of the University of Texas and the San Francisco Art Institute, from which she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (1979) and a Master of Fine Arts (1984), respectively.[2][4] She is married to composer David Lang, with whom she has three children.[22]