RESUME
SUSAN JAMISON
EDUCATION
1991 Master of Fine Arts, Painting, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1988 Bachelor of Fine Arts, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 All My Love, VMFA Fellowship Exhibition Amuse, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
2021 The Frequency of Roses, Chroma Projects, Charlottesville, VA
2017 Offerings, Chroma Projects, Charlottesville, VA
2016 Enchantment, Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Super Natural, Longwood Center for Visual Arts, Longwood U, Farmville, VA
2015 Teardrop, Whitaker Gallery, Hood College, Frederick, MD
Farewell, William King Museum, Abington, VA
2014 Threesome (3 person), Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2012 On Pins and Needles, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
(In)Delicate, The George Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2011 Beauty, Birds and Beasts, Ferrum College, Ferrum, VA
2010 Into the Forest, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
Swallowtail, Irvine Contemporary, Washington, DC
2008 For the Curious, Spanierman Modern, New York, NY
2007 Tatting Tales, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
Trust In Me, Irvine Contemporary, Washington, DC
Full Bloom, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2006 Sugar Me Softly, Irvine Contemporary, Washington, DC
2005 Reconfigure (3 person), ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023. Knowing Who We Are: A 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, NOLA
2022 Reuniting: Selections by Former Art Faculty, Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins University
2021 Wonder Women, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
Amplify, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA
Preservative Force Recent Acquisitions, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Persephone Ascending, Chroma Projects, Charlottesville, VA
2020 Entwined, Ritual Wrapping and Binding, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
That Group Show, Ruby Projects, Fairfax, VA
2018 Looking Inward, Mindfulness and Meditation, VA Tech School of Medicine, Roanoke, VA
2017 Dress Matters, Clothing as Metaphor, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Bared, Ground Floor Gallery, Nashville, TN
Homeward Bound, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
2016 Off the Page, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa, AZ
2015 LOWF Grant Recipients, Provincetown Art Association Museum, Provincetown, MA
Mammals in Art, Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Lexington, MA
New Acquisitions, Eleanor D. Wilson Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
2014 Shared Ground, Santa Fe Art Institue, Santa Fe, NM
Rare Nature: Endangered Species Print Project, Notebaert Nature Museum, Chicago, IL
Facing Extinction, Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods, Deerfield, IL
Home Sweet Home, Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
2013 Nature Doesn’t Knock, The George Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Shade, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
Cycles, Exclamations Gallery, Curator Amanda Agricola, Roanoke, VA
Animatopoaea, A Most Peculiar Bestiary, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH
2012 Concerning Line, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
Permanent Collection, Curator Edward del Rosario, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY
Accomplished, The George Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2011 Spectrum, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
Psychogeography Maps of Roanoke, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
Endangered Species Print Project, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2010 Catalyst, American University Museum at Katzan Center, Washington, DC
Missive, Russell Projects, Richmond, VA
The Figure Five Ways, Schick Gallery of Art, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2009 Think Small 5, Artspace Gallery, Richmond, VA
Sweet Summertime, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
Fata Morgana, New Female Fantasists, Cur. Pam Grossman, Dabora Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Dreams and Nightmares, Young Curators of the Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
Miami in New York, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Aspect:Ratio, Irvine Contemporary, Washington, D
2008 Dangerous Women, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
Narrations, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Saturnalia, Irvine Contemporary, Washington, DC
Skin City: Art of the Tattoo, The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL
Botanica, Carroll Square Gallery, Washington, DC
2006 On Paper, Spanierman Modern, New York, NY
Over, Under, Sideways, Down...Works on Paper, Irvine Contemporary, Washington, DC
Animalia, Irvine Contemporary, Washington, DC
2005 Fast Forward, Bettcher Gallery, Miami, FL
SEVEN, WPA/Corcoran, Curator Lennox Campello, Warehouse Gallery, Washington, DC
Strictly Painting, Juror Jonathan Binstock, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
2004 Small Treasures, Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA
Artists of Roanoke, Perspective Gallery, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Faculty Exhibition, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
2003 Botanicals, Nina Liu Gallery, Charleston, SC
2002 Diversity in White, Perspective Gallery, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Mountain Lake Workshop Exhibition, The James Center, Richmond, VA
1997 From These Hills, Curator Terrie Sultan, William King Regional Arts Center, Abington, VA
1998 Exploring Virginia, Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA
1996 Illusional Fragments, SECCA, Winston-Salem, NC
AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS/RESIDENCY
2022 Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
2020 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Visual Arts Relief Fellowship
2018 Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
2017 Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
2014 The Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Foundation Grant
2014 Residency, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
2013 Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Karen Shea Silverman Fellowship
2012 Residency/Artist Symposium, Opole, Poland, Sponsored by the city of Opole Poland
2011 GAP Grant, Arts Council of the Blue Ridge
2010 Visiting Artist, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
2009 Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, Virginia
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellowship
1991 Teaching Fellowship, Brown University, Providence, RI
1990 Award of Excellence, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
COLLECTIONS
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Eleanor D. Wilson Museum of Art, Hollins University
Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Longwood University
Capital One, Richmond, VA
POM Wonderful LLC, Los Angeles, CA
Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Beth Rudin DeWoody, New York, NY
Christopher Lloyd, Santa Barbara, CA
Pamela K. and William A. Royall, Jr., Richmond, VA (Try-me.org)
Jay Barrows, Richmond, VA
Mary Moody Northern Endowment
Virginia Western Community College
BIBLIOGRAPHY
S. Elizabeth, The Art of Darkness, Francis Lincoln, 2022
Jessica Hundley, Pam Grossman, The Library of Esoterica: Witchcraft, Taschen, 2021
PL Henderson, Unravelling Women’s Art, Supernova Books, 2021
S. Elizabeth, Art of the Occult: Visual Sourcebook for the Modern Mystic, White Lion Publishing, 2020 Saranac Review, State University of NY, College at Plattsburgh, No. 15, 2020
Stuart Gunter, The Enchanted World of Susan Jamison, Huffington Post, Feb. 14, 2017
Laura Madeline Wiseman, Les Femmes Folles Books, Bared, Jan. 2017
Mike Allen, Roanoke Times, Women's Art Series at VA Tech, Sept. 1, 2016
Rosalind Jana, Mark My Words: Subversive History of Women Using Thread As Ink, Broadly, 3/4/2016
E. Ashley Rooney, The Contemporary Art of Nature, Schiffer Publishing, Feb. 2015
Elizabeth Derby, C-Ville Weekly, Threesome Holds Ideal Woman In New Light, Feb. 14, 2014
Mike Allen, Roanoke Times, Home Sweet Home: Hollins University, Jan. 3, 2014
Mike Allen, Roanoke Times Roanoke Artists in Charlottesville’s Second Street Show, Jan. 14, 2014
Joanne Mattera, Art Blog, Fair Well: Some Figuration, Jan. 2, 2014
Hannah Ostrow, Laguna Beach Magazine, Capture and Create, August 23, 2013
Amanda Hakanson-Stacy, The Art of the Matter, Local Quarterly, Volume 2, Spring 2013. 86-89
Sarah Gambito, CURA Magaizine, Issue 8, March 2013, Cover image. 64-65
Mike Allen, Performance art in “Cycles” explores femininity, Roanoke Times, March, 21 2013
Lezlie Truluck, North Roanoke Life, Susan Jamison on Roanoke, Feb. 2013, 14-17
Megan Zalecki, Richmond Arts Review, Crucial Color, Nov. 19, 2012
Gemma De Choisy, Natural Talent, Garden and Gun, Oct./Nov. 2012.
Kevin Krumnikl, Ten Words and One Shot, X, Volume 1, 2011
Featured artist, Visual Overture Magazine, Summer, 2011
“In This Dance Bear With Me”, Green Mountains Review, Vol, XXIII, No. 2, cover, insert booklet, 2011
Juror, Beth Venn, Studio Visit Magazine, Vol. 13, 2010. 78-79
F. Lennox Campello, Review, American Contemporary Art Magazine, April 2010
Design Milk, Susan Jamison, April, 2010
Artdaily.org, “On View at the Taubman Museum of Art”, March 7, 2010
Mike Allen, “Into the Forest, Larger than Life”, The Roanoke Times, March 2, 2010
Juror, George Kinghorn, New American Paintings, Volume, 81, 2009
Featured artist, “Susan Jamison’s Egg Tempera Paintings”, notcot.org, Oct, 30, 2009
Featured artist, beautifuldecay.com,, June, 18, 2009
Featured artist, artistaday.com, April, 2, 2009
“Welcome Spring with Fata Morgana: The New Female Fantasists”, juxtapoz.com, March 13, 2009
Jay Babcock, Fata Morgana:The New Female Fantasists”, Aruthurmag.com, March 14, 2009
Khristina Narizhnaya, Fata Morgana: Mirage and Fairy Culture, Greenpoint Gazette, March 19, 2009
Featued artist, beautifuldecay.com,, March 12, 2009
Matty Jankowski, Review, Skin and Ink, “Skin City, The Art of the Tattoo”, Oct. 2008
Review, American Art Collector, “Dangerous Women”, August, 2008
Mary Logan Barmeyer, papermag.com, This week in Art Openings, April 11, 2008
Tom Patterson, Review, Winston-Salem Journal, “Studies in Female Identity”, Dec. 2007
Sharon Kennedy Wynne, Review, St. Petersburg Times, “Skin, Ink, Self-expression”, Nov. 4, 2007
Pam Grossman, Phantasmaphile, Susan Jamison Show, Oct. 5, 2007
Exhibition Catalog, Skin City: The Art of the Tattoo, The Arts Center, 2007
“Susan Jamison: Trust in Me at Irvine Contemporary”, Artdaily.org, . Sept. 1, 2007
New American Paintings, Volume 69, 2007
Leah Stoddard, Essay, Second Glance, Publication of Second Street Gallery, Vol. 19, No. 7, 2006
Interview with Leah Stoddard, Inside New Art, Adelphia Cable TV, Charlottesville, VA, 2006
Laura Parsons, Review, “Artist Gone Girly”, The Hook, Charlottesville, VA, , Dec. 2006
Jeffry Cudlin, Review, City Paper, Washington, DC, “Animalia”, June, 2006
Jeffry Cudlin, Review, City Paper, Washington, DC, “Sugar Me Softly”, April 21, 2006
Armory Show Report: Day 3, ArtInfo, March 11, 2006
Exhibition Catalog, WPA/Corcoran 25th Annual Art Auction, 2006
John Blee, Review, “Campello’s Take on DC Art”, The Georgetowner, ,Volume 51, No. 20, 2005
Juror, Johnathan Binstock, New American Paintings,, Volume 57, 2005
Featured artist, Tulane Review, Tulane University, Spring Edition, 2005
Exhibition announcement with image, RISD Views, Spring, 2005
Paulette Roberts-Pullen, Review, “Mind over Matter”, Style Weekly, Richmond, VA, , April, 2005
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2018 Illustrations for Richmond Young Writers Picture Book Project
2016 Artist Coloring Book Project, Richmond, VA
2014 3 person drawing, Exquisite Corpse Exhibition, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
2013 Feminifesto, I Will Always Love You Open Studio Event
2012 (exclamations) Collective, Roanoke, VA
2010 Print for Endangered Species Print Project to benefit Red Wolves
LECTURES/WORKSHOPS
2020 The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, A Curated Conversation
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Fireplace Series 16
2017 Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Gallery Talk and Performance, Super Natural
Focus Gallery, Scottsville, VA, Lecture
2016 Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Masterclass Workshop in Egg Tempera
Moss Center for the Arts, VA Tech, Gallery Talk: Enchantment
2015 William King Museum of Art, Gallery Talk: Farewell
2014 Second Street Gallery, Gallery Talk: Threesome
2012 Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA, Gallery talk: On Pins and Needles
2011 Ferrum College, Ferrum, VA, Artist lecture: Beauty, Birds and Beasts
2010 East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, Visiting Artist
Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, Box Lunch Series lecture
Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, Art Club Roundtable lecture
Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, Gallery talk, Into the Forest
2007 SECCA, Winston-Salem, NC, Artist lecture, Tatting Tales
Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA, Gallery talk, Full Bloom
Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA, Outreach Workshop Instructor
2005 Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA, Drawing Workshop Instructor
Art Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA, Gallery talk