Susan Bee

Bee has a B.A. from Barnard College and a M.A. in art from Hunter College.

Susan Bee is currently represented by A.I.R. Gallery, where she has been a member since 1996. In addition to those galleries and Accola Griefen, she has had solo shows at the New York Public Library, Kenyon College, Columbia University, William Paterson University, and Virginia Lust Gallery, and her work has been included in numerous group shows.

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In 2024, "Susan Bee, Eye of the Storm: Selected Works 1981-2023” is being presented at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM). The show is curated by Johanna Drucker.{{cite web | url=https://paam.org/susan-bee-eye-of-the-storm-selected-works-1981-2023/ | title=Susan Bee: Eye of the Storm, Selected Works, 1981-2023 | PAAM | date=13 June 2024 }} A 68-page full-color catalog with essays by Drucker, John Yau, and Raphael Rubinstein was published by PAAM. The show was featured by Antonia Pocock ("Storms, Lighthouses, and Pinup Girls: Susan Bee in Provincetown") in Provincetown Arts, Vol. 39, 2024/2025.{{cite web |url=https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/bee/reviews/Ptown-Arts_2024.pdf |title=Storms, Lighthouses, and Pinup Girls - Susan Bee in Provincetown |first=Antonia |last=Pocock |pages=62–66 |publisher=Province Town Arts |date=2024}}

In 2015, "Photograms and Altered Photos from the 1970s" were exhibited at Southfirst Gallery in Brooklyn.{{cite web |date= |title=Southfirst Gallery |url=http://www.southfirst.org/ |accessdate=2013-11-28}} She had one solo show at Accola Griefen Gallery (2013) and ten solo shows at A.I.R. Gallery in New York.{{cite web |date= |title=A.I.R Gallery |url=http://airgallery.org/artists/susan-bee-artist/#0_1 |accessdate=2013-11-28 |publisher=A.I.R Gallery |archive-date=2014-08-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140822013342/http://airgallery.org/artists/susan-bee-artist/#0_1 |url-status=dead }}

Her work has been described as a "distinctive stylistic blend of folk art and pastoral psychedelia."MAINE, STEPHEN. "Susan Bee." Artnews 114.4 (2015): 82. Academic Search Complete. Web. 26 Feb. 2016.

She has taught at the School of Visual Arts MFA in Art Criticism and Writing program{{cite web|url=http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/grad/index.jsp?sid0=2&sid1=164&page_id=391 |title=School of Visual Arts> Graduate |publisher=Schoolofvisualarts.edu |date= |accessdate=2013-11-28}} and at the University of Pennsylvania and at Pratt Institute.

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Bee has published six artist's books with Granary Books.{{cite web|url=http://www.granarybooks.com/catalog.html |title=Catalog of Granary Publications ||| |publisher=Granary Books |date= |accessdate=2015-08-09}} These include several collaborations with poets: Bed Hangings, with Susan Howe, A Girl’s Life, with Johanna Drucker, The Burning Babe and Other Poems with Jerome Rothenberg, and Log Rhythms and Little Orphan Anagram with Charles Bernstein. In addition, she has published nine artist's books for other publishers, including ' 'Off-World Fairy Tales' ' with Drucker (2020),{{cite web|url=https://litmuspress.org/product/off-world-fairy-tales/|title=Litmus Press}} Fabulas Feminae with Drucker (2015),{{cite web| url=http://www.litmuspress.org/fabulas-feminae/ |title=Litmus Press |date= |accessdate=2015-08-09}} Entre (2009) with poems by Regis Bonvicino, from Global Books, Paris, and The Invention Tree (2012) with poems by Jerome McGann, Chax Press.

Her artwork is included in many public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Getty Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, Yale University, Clark Art Institute, New York Public Library, and Harvard University Library.

Her work has been reviewed in Art in America, The New York Times,{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/arts/design/susan-bee-photograms-and-altered-photos-from-the-1970s.html?_r=0 |title=New York Times |date= 12 February 2015|accessdate=2015-08-09|last1=Cotter |first1=Holland }} The New Yorker, Art Papers, The Forward, The Brooklyn Rail,{{cite web|last=Morgan |first=Robert C. |url=http://www.brooklynrail.org/2006/03/artseen/susan-bee-and-miriam-laufer |title=Susan Bee and Miriam Laufer |publisher=The Brooklyn Rail |date= 5 March 2006|accessdate=2013-11-28}} and ArtNews. She has had Fellowships at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 2002 and 1999, Yaddo Fellowships in 2001 and 1996, and at the MacDowell Colony in 2012. In addition, she has had publication grants from the Visual Arts Program, the National Endowment for the Arts, from 1992 to 1997 and Publication Grants, from the Visual Arts Program, New York State Council on the Arts, from 1989 to 1997.

In 2014, Susan Bee was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship.{{Citation |title=List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2014 |date=2024-05-01 |work=Wikipedia |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Guggenheim_Fellowships_awarded_in_2014&oldid=1221784897 |access-date=2024-05-08 |language=en}}

Bee is the co-editor, with Mira Schor, of M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artist's Writings, Theory, and Criticism, with writings by over 100 artists, critics, and poets, published by Duke University Press in 2000. She was the co-editor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G: A Journal of Contemporary Art Issues from 1986 to 1996 and is currently the co-editor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online.{{cite web|url=http://writing.upenn.edu/pepc/meaning/ |title=M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online |publisher=Writing.upenn.edu |date= |accessdate=2013-11-28}}

Susan Bee is married to poet Charles Bernstein.{{cite web|url=http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/bernstein |title=EPC/Bernstein Author Home Page |publisher=Epc.upenn.edu |date= |accessdate=2018-01-26}} They have two children, Emma Bee Bernstein (May 16, 1985 - December 20, 2008) and Felix Bernstein (born May 20, 1992).{{cite web|url=http://writing.upenn.edu/pepc/meaning/Bernstein/ |title=Emma Bee Bernstein |publisher=Writing.upenn.edu |date= |accessdate=2013-11-28}} Her parents, Miriam Laufer and Sigmund Laufer, were also artists.{{cite web|url=https://miriamlaufer.com/ |title=Miriam Laufer – The life and art of Miriam Laufer |publisher=Miriamlaufer.com |date=1918-11-15 |accessdate=2022-10-22}}{{cite web|url=http://writing.upenn.edu/pepc/meaning/Laufer-S/ |title=Sigmund Laufer |publisher=Writing.upenn.edu |date= |accessdate=2013-11-28}}

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• [http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/bee Susan Bee web site at EPC]
• [https://www.airgallery.org/artists/susan-bee/ Susan Bee at A.I.R.]
• [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/gallery/susan_bee.php Personal Statement on the Brooklyn Museum's website]
• [https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-308-susan-bee Podcast with Susan Bee about her career (MACBA 2020)]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFmEeY-8NX8&ab_channel=TheBrooklynRail Brooklyn Rail NSE video interview with Ann McCoy (2023)]
• [https://hyperallergic.com/814999/susan-bee-tames-the-beast/ Isabella Segalovich on Bee in Hyperallergic (2023)]
• [https://brooklynrail.org/2020/04/art/SUSAN-BEE-with-Phong-H-Bui Interview] with Phong Bui in Brooklyn Rail (2020)
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D49MoRyJoxM&feature=youtu.be Video interview] with Siri Hustvedt (2020)
• [https://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Bee.php Susan Bee audio/video]

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