SUZY POLING
Detroit, MI
EDUCATION
B.A. Photography, Columbia College of Chicago
AWARDS/ DISTINCTIONS
2016 Mike Kelley Foundation Grant Recipient
2016 Artist in Residence, Coaxial Arts Foundation
2015 Rema Hort Foundation Nominee
2012 SECA Award Nominee at SFMOMA
2012 Liminal Space, Artist in Residence, Oakland, California
2008 Southern Exposure, Artist in Residence
2005 Bemis Center of Contemporary Art, Artist in Residence, Omaha, Nebraska
2004 CAAP Grant, Chicago, Illinois
2002 Illinois A 2002 Illinois Art Council Fellowship and the CAAP Grant, Chicago, Illinois
2000 and 2001 Albert Weisman Scholarship, Chicago, Illinois
REVIEWS/ FEATURES/ PUBLICATIONS/ BOOKS
Detroit Research, Wire Magazine, Art News, Hyperallergic, Impose Magazine, Fact Magazine,
Wired Magazine, Harperʼs Magazine, Dazed Digital, New York Arts Magazine, Los Angeles Times,
Lay-Out Press, Art Practical, Sorn, Vice, Metropolitan Museum of Art Catalogue, Gaîté Lyrique,
Chicago Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Flavorpill, The Week, New City, San Francisco Bay Guardian,
SF Weekly, Beautiful Decay Magazine, East Bay Express, The Oregonian, Interzone, Free Press
Houston, Juno Download, Fact Magazine.
SELECTED MUSIC RELEASES
2020 Transdimensional Systems, Full-length vinyl LP, Dais Records NYC/LA
2019 Eminent Domain, Compilation vinyl, LP, L.I.E.S. Records, New York
2018 “Light Mass Body, EP, Difficult Interactions, Los Angeles, California
2017, “Punk House Record”, Curated by Cary Loren, Third Man Pressing, Detroit, Michigan
ARTIST TALKS/LECTURES
2024 Henry Ford Museum-Artist talk+demonstration at the Lillian Schwartz Exhibition
2021 California College of Arts-Artist talk in the Animation Department, Santa Clarita2021 Indexical-Artist talk for “Landscape and Life” Exhibition, Santa Cruz, California
2020 Loczi Design-Artist Talk with Masa Komiki +Cult Exhibitions , San Francisco, California
2016 Coaxial Arts Foundation-Artist talk+workshop for Mike Kelley Foundation Recipients
2016 Cult Exhibitions-Artist talk with SF Moma Media Arts curator Tanya Zimbardo
2012 Headlands Center for the Arts-Artist talk+demonstration, San Francisco, California
2011 California College of Art, Oakland, California
2011 San Francisco Art Institute-Artist talk+demonstration for Interdisciplinary Department,
San Francisco, California
2011 Cal Polytechnic University-Artist talk about solo exhibition, San Luis Obispo, California
2009 De Young Museum- Artist Talk with Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California
2005 Bemis Center for the Contemporary Arts-Artist talk for Residency program, Omaha, Nebraska
2005 California College of Art, Oakland, California
2005 Columbia College of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
SOUND + PERFORMANCE ART AT FESTIVALS+ SPECIAL EVENTS
Live Audiovisual Sets for Pod Blotz, Performance +Installation Art Performances:
2023 Audiovisual performance, Grey Area Foundation Festival, San Francisco, California
2023 Audiovisual performance, Essential Tremors Festival, Brooklyn, New York
2023 Audiovisual performance, Substance Festival, Globe Theater, Los Angeles, California
2023 Live Audiovisual+ Performance art with Aaron Dilloway, Outer Limits, Detroit Michigan
2022 Audiovisual performance, The Lab, San Francisco, California
2022 Audiovisual performance, Club Toliet, Menjos, Detroit Movement After Party, Detroit, Michigan
2022 Audiovisual performance, Detroit Industrial, Detroit Movement After Party, Detroit, Michigan
2020 Audiovisual performance w/ Chelley Sherman, Recombinant Media Lab, San Francisco,
California
2020 Audiovisual performance w/ Chelley Sherman, opening for Drew Mcdowall, Elsewhere,
Brooklyn, New York
2020 Audiovisual performance, S1 Gallery, Sound Performance, Portland, Oregon
2019 Audiovisual performance, Desert Daze Festival, Lake Perris, California
2018 Audio+performance, Hospital Production Festival, Knockdown Center, Brooklyn, New York
2018 “Primary Optic Shift”, Video Art+ Sound Installation, Ableton Festival, Los Angeles, California
2017 Performance Art+ Audiovisual set+Installation, a part “Punk House”, Mike Kelly Homestead,
MOCAD, Detroit, Michigan
2016 “Human Glass Rotation”, Performance Art+ Audiovisual+Installation, Contemporary Jewish
Museum, San Francisco, California
2016 Audiovisual performance, Trip Metal Festival, Detroit, Michigan
2016 “Transmissions and Interferences”, Performance Art+ Audiovisual set+Pop Up Exhibition,
Land and Sea, Oakland California2016 Performance Art+ Audiovisual, Pacific Film Festival, Chicago, Illinois
2015 Audiovisual performance, Teragram Ballroom, Los Angeles, California
2015 “Refractive Dimensions: Transmissive Mirror Studies”, Performance Art+ Audiovisual set+
Installation, Civic TV Collective, Houston, Texas
2015 “Decomposed Orbit”, Performance Art+Installation for the MOCAD Fundraiser, Birmingham,
Michigan
2014 “Square-Cube-Grid Transformations”, Performance Art+ Audiovisual+Installation, UFO
Factory, Detroit, Michigan
2013 “Mirror Crystal System”, Performance Art+ Audiovisual set+Installation, Night Light, SOMA Arts,
San Francisco, California
2013 “Antennae, Prism, Mirror”, Performance Art+Audiovisual set w/ Kamau Patton, Yerba Buena
Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California
2012 Audiovisual performance, Mills College, Oakland, California
2012 Audiovisual performance, Activating the Medium 23five Festival, San Francisco Art Institute
2011 Audiovisual set, San Francisco Electronic Festival, Brava Theater, San Francisco
2011 “Land of Mirrors”, Performance Art+ Audiovisual set+Installation, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley,
California
2010 “Sonic Tube”, Audiovisual set+Installation, San Jose Museum of Art Festival, San Jose,
California
2010 “Channeling Tower”, Performance Art+ Audiovisual set+Installation, Southern Exposure,
San Francisco, California
2010 “Dreaming of a Glass Egg”, Performance Art+ Audiovisual set+Installation, Transmodern Festival,
Baltimore, Maryland
2007 Audiovisual performance, Colour out of Space Festival”, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
2007 International Noise Conference, Miami, Florida
2006 Audiovisual performance, No Fun Festival, Brooklyn, New York
2004 Audiovisual performance, Pictures and Sound Festival, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2004 Audiovisual performance, California College of Art, Oakland, California
2003 Audio performance art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusets
2003 Sights and Sounds, Audiovisual film score, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 “Ecological Assimilation”, two-person exhibition, Indexical Gallery, Santa Cruz, California
2016 “Total Internal Reflection”, solo exhibition, Cult Exhibitions, San Francisco, California
2013 “Elemental Forces”, solo exhibition, Krowswork Gallery, California
2012 “Elemental Forces”, solo exhibition, Disjecta Space, Portland, Oregon
2011 “Into the Center of the Earth”, solo exhibition, Cal Polytechnic University Gallery,
San Luis Obispo, California
2011 “Natural Phenomenon”, solo exhibition, ZG Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2010 “Zone Modules”, solo exhibition, Queen’s Nails Annex Gallery, San Francisco, California
2007 “Wonderland of Decay”, solo exhibition, ZG Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
GROUP EXHIBITIONS+VIDEO SCREENINGS
2024 “Cult Turns 10 Anniversary” Exhibition, Cult Exhibitions, San Francisco
2023 “Get Together”, Group Show, Reyes Finn Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
2019 “Primary Optic Shift”, Video Art Installation, Spring Break Art Show, Los Angeles, California
2019 Femmebit screening, Civic Center Studios, Los Angeles, California
2019 Screening and Video Art Installation, Ungrund Collective, Los Angeles, California
2018 “At Large: Part 1”, Group Art Exhibition, Reyes Finn Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
2015 “Smashism”, Coaxial, Group Video Screening, Los Angeles, California
2015 “Videosonics”, Cinefamily, Group Video Screening, Los Angeles, California
2015 “Audiodrome:” Cinefamily, Group Video Screening, Los Angeles, California
2015 “Pattern Chaos”, Group Show, Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2015 “Last Daze”, Group Show, Cinders Gallery, Portland, Maine
2015 “Semiospheres”, Group show, Ace Hotel, Los Angeles, California
2015 “Multiverse People and Topographical Paintings”, Solo Pop up Show, Fort Gallery,
San Francisco, California
2014 “Please Yourself”, Group show, Self Actualization, Houston, Texas
2014 “The Visible World is a Reflection of the Invisible World”, Group show, Ditch Projects,
Springfield, Oregon
2014 “Video Art by Suzy Poling”,Solo screening, Echo Park Film Center
2014 “There is No Beginning, there is No End”, Group Show, Mata Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2013 “The Vital Illusion”, Group Show, Veritgo Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2013 “Smashism” Performance, Sound and Video Group Show, Human Resources, Los Angeles
2013 “Smashism” Performance, Sound and Video Group Show, ATA, San Francisco, California