Session 3: Susan Bee on Collaboration and Feminism

In the third session, Bee will discuss her collaborations with various artists and poets including Johanna Drucker, Susan Howe, and others. She will present some recent paintings, which were shown at A.I.R. Gallery and which address feminist themes. Also emphasized will be the importance of A.I.R. Gallery as a space for maintaining and supporting the work of women and non-binary artists.

Susan Bee has been a member of A.I.R. Gallery since 1996. She has had solo shows at Southfirst Gallery, Lisa Cooley Gallery, Accola Griefen Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Odetta, Belmont University, Kenyon College, Columbia University, William Paterson College, the New York Public Library, Pratt Institute Library, Virginia Lust Gallery, and her work has been included in numerous group shows. Bee has published sixteen artist’s books. She has collaborated with poets Susan Howe, Charles Bernstein, Johanna Drucker, Rachel Levitsky, and Jerome Rothenberg. Bee is the coeditor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artist’s Writings, Theory, and Criticism, Duke, 2000, and the coeditor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online. Her artist’s book archive and the M/E/A/N/I/N/G archive are at the Beinecke Library, Yale University. Bee’s paintings are on over 50 book covers and her artworks, interviews, and writings have been included in many publications. Bee has been reviewed in Art in America, The New York Times, The New Yorker, ArtNews, The Brooklyn Rail, Artcritical, ArtSlant, The Forward, Huffington Post, Art Papers, and Hyperallergic. She has given presentations at the Whitney Museum, Reina Sofia, Brooklyn Museum, MoMA PS1, College Art Association, Queens Museum, NY Public Library, Parsons, Pratt, School of Visual Arts, M.I.T., University of Pennsylvania, and in Paris, London, Amsterdam, Belgrade, Berlin, Portugal, Spain, Scotland, Sweden, Israel, Cuba, New Zealand, Korea, and China. Bee’s artwork is in many public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery at Reed College, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Getty Museum, and the Victoria & Albert Museum. She has a BA from Barnard College and a MA in Art from Hunter College. She won a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts in 2014 and has had fellowships at the MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Yaddo. Bee has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Visual Arts, and Pratt Institute.