Contact Info
sporteous[at]gmail[dot]com
Biography
Susan Porteous received her MFA from California State University, Long Beach in 2008 and her BA (Hons) in Fine Art from the University of Leeds in 2003. Porteous’ work has been included in exhibitions throughout America and Europe and can be found in the collections of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of California, San Diego, Tate Britain, and King St Stephen Museum, Hungary. She currently lives and works in Denver, Colorado.
Resume
Education
2008
Master of Fine Arts in Art, California State University, Long Beach, CA
2003
Bachelor of Art with Honours in Fine Art (Class I), University of Leeds, Leeds, England
Exhibitions (*solo)
2009
Bookends, Target Gallery, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexadria, VA
Book as Sculpture, Brandstater Gallery, La Sierra University, Riverside, CA
2008
A Book for a Lifetime, The Artspace, Nicosia, Cyprus
Artists Books, OWL & LION Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Multiples, East End Applied Arts, Aurora, CO
Books to be Looked at and/or Objects to be Read *, Max L Gatov Gallery, California State University, Long Beach, CA
Beyond Reading: Books as Art, Suffolk Museum, Suffolk, VA
Graduate Student Exhibition, 301 Pine Avenue Gallery, Long Beach, CA
2007
C. S. U. L. B. Six-Pack, The Tahoe Gallery, Sierra Nevada College, Incline Village, NV
6th Anniversary Bright Hill Press North American Juried Book Arts Exhibition, Word & Image Gallery, Bright Hill Center, Treadwell, NY
Faculty and TA Exhibition, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
Insights 2007, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
MFA Advancement Exhibition, Max L Gatov Gallery East, California State University, Long Beach, CA
Pancakes: Stacked and Flat, Marilyn Werby Gallery, California State University, Long Beach, CA
Special Collections, University Gallery, University of Leeds, Leeds, England
2006
Heart and Hands 2: A National Juried Student Book Arts Exhibition, (Honorable Mention), University of Nebraska-Lincoln Love Library, Lincoln, NE traveling to The Michael Phipps Gallery, W Dale Clark Public Library, Omaha, NE and University of Nebraska-Omaha Criss Library, Omaha, NE
San Diego Book Arts First National Juried Exhibition, University of California, San Diego, CA
Fourth International Artists’ Book Exhibition 2006, King St Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvár, Hungary
Artists’ Books 2006, Cuesta College Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA
Insights 2006, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
EnGendered Species, Max L Gatov & Dr Maxine Merlino Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, CA traveling to Advocate & Gochis Galleries, Hollywood, CA
Powers of Ten, Gallery Five, California State University, Long Beach, CA
DRINK ME *, Dr Maxine Merlino Gallery, California State University, Long Beach, CA
2005
Allegories?, Paulina Miller Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
To Have and To Hold: Art You Can Touch, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Open Book, Minneapolis, MN
Book + Art = ?, Core New Art Space, Denver, CO
Bookish, Minnesota Center for Book Arts at Open Book, Minneapolis, MN
The Gun Show, Rezurrection Gallery, Tempe, AZ
projet MOBILIVRE-BOOKMOBILE project, Touring across the United States and Canada
Hibrida 2, Cartwright Hall, Bradford, England and Galerie, Brno, Czech Republic
A Reader’s Art 5: on the wall and out of the box, Susan Hensel Design, Minneapolis, MN
Art Detour Group Show, Paulina Miller Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Handmade Books, Chesterton Art Center, Chesterton, IN
Bound and Unbound, Tohono Chul Park, Tucson, AZ
2004
Winter Exhibition, houseroom, Granville House, Hayesfield Park, Bath, England
Michigan Book Arts Exhibit, Library of Michigan, Lansing, MI
Third Annual Bright Hill Press North American Juried Book Arts Exhibition, Bright Hill Center, Treadwell, NY
Imagine That, La Jolla FiberArts, La Jolla, CA
Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
West of 105°, Transition Gallery, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID traveling to Spori Gallery, BYU-Idaho, Rexburg, ID
Books 2004, Noosa Regional Gallery, Tewantin, QLD, Australia
Artists’ Books 2004, Cuesta College Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA
Timeline: The Reading Room, Sherborne House, Newland, Sherborne, Dorset, England
The 7th Contemporary Artists’ Book Fair, Dean Clough, Halifax, England
2003
The 9th Wexford Artists’ Book Exhibition (International), Wexford Arts Centre, Cornmarket, Wexford, Ireland
all things considered, Lifton Studios, University of Leeds, Leeds, England
The 6th Contemporary Artists’ Book Fair, Dean Clough, Halifax, England
Awards & Scholarships
2008
Fiber Award of Excellence, California State University, Long Beach, CA
Marilyn Werby Scholarship, California State University, Long Beach, CA
2007
Graduate Research Fellowship, California State University, Long Beach, CA
Fiber Summer Scholarship, California State University, Long Beach, CA
Mary B. Bishop & Francis S. Merritt Scholarship, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
Windgate Workstudy Scholarship, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
2006
Honorable Mention, Heart and Hands 2: A National Juried Student Book Arts Exhibition, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Love Library, Lincoln, NE
Fiber Summer Scholarship, California State University, Long Beach, CA
Merit Award, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
2003
The Alan Mohun Memorial Prize, University of Leeds, Leeds, England
Collections
Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, John M Flaxman Library, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
King St Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvár, Hungary
Library Collection, Tate Britain, London, England
Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego, CA
York College, York, England
Various private collections
Bibliography
2008
500 Handmade Books, Lark Books, July 2008.
Carol Es, Carol’s Bloggie, February 8, 2008, www.esart.com/blog.
2007
Book Arts 2007 Bright Hill Center (catalogue), Bertha Rogers, editor, Bright Hill Press, Treadwell, NY, 2007, p. 67-70.
‘Artists’ Books Listings’, Artists’ Book Yearbook 2008-2009, Sarah Bodman, editor, Impact Press, September 2007, p. 187.
CSULB MFA Open Studios Catalog, Fine Arts Roundtable, 2007, p. 36-37.
Special Collections (catalogue), Wild Pansy Press, February 2007.
2006
Marisol Rodarte, ‘EnGendered Species Exhibition’ (online catalogue), California State University, Long Beach, CA, April 2006, www.engenderedspeciesart.com/exhibitions.html.
2005
Alex Starace, ‘“Bookish” at MCBA: Neither Fish Nor Fowl Nor Good Red Buckram’, September 12, 2005, www.mnartists.org/article.do;jsessionid=D959902AD79DC95424C3821113AEA78C?rid=78598.
‘Artists’ Books Published 2004-2007’, Artists’ Book Yearbook 2006-2007, Sarah Bodman, editor, Impact Press, September 2005, p. 162.
Andrew Bender, ‘Phoenix: It’s not L.A.’s generic equivalent’, Los Angeles Times: Travel, Sunday, March 20, 2005, p. L4.
2004
Book Arts 2004 Bright Hill Center (catalogue), Bertha Rogers, editor, Bright Hill Press, Treadwell, NY, 2004, p. 63-66.
Imagine That (catalogue), What Press, October 2004.
TEXT/image, Chris Taylor and John McDowall, editors, Wild Pansy Press, University of Leeds, 2004, p. 13.
Timeline: The Reading Room (catalogue), April 2004.
2003
‘Listings of Artists’ Books Published between 2002 and 2005’, Artists’ Book Yearbook 2003-2005, Sarah Bodman, editor, Impact Press, Sept 2003, p. 202.
Alison Utley, ‘Pawn in drinking game?’, The Times Higher Education Supplement, Friday, June 13, 2003, p. 56.
‘Knight on the tiles…’, Yorkshire Post, Sunday, June 7, 2003, p. 8.
Ian Rosser, ‘Body of work’, Yorkshire Evening Post, Sunday, June 7, 2003, p. 5.
all things considered (catalogue), June 2003.
The 6th Contemporary Artists’ Book Fair (catalogue), March 2003.