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Selected Shows
2026 - Unconditional Humans - Gather Center, Brooklyn NY - group show
2025 - Re-Figured - G.Town George Arts & Cultural Center, Georgetown CT - group show
2025 - Peace Talks - Crown Gallery, Bridgeport, CT - group show
2024 - The Dark of Light - Bruce S. Kershner Gallery, Fairfield, CT - group show
2024 - Women Artists Show - Dacia Gallery, New York, NY - group show
2024 - Fluid Realities - Crown Gallery, Metro Art Studios, Bridgeport CT - group show
2022 - All Things Being - Crown Gallery, Metro Art Studios, Bridgeport CT - group show
2021 - Mercedes Matter Awards Show - Margalit Startup City, NYC - group show
2021 - Mostraí - Brazilian Embassy, NYC - group show
2021 - Girls, Birds and Women - NHLC, New Haven CT - solo show
2020 - Mercedes Matter Awards Show - Margalit Startup City, NYC - group show
2020 - About Women - the Lockswood-Mathews Mansion Museum, Norwalk, CT - group show
2019 - New Members Show - Silvermine Art Center, New Canaan, CT - group show
2018 - Faces and Figure - Stamford Art Association, Stamford, CT - group show
2018 - Até Aqui - Galeria de Arte Brasileira, São Paulo, Brazil - solo show
2012 - Grupo Parede - Museu Parque das Ruinas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - group show
2010 - Grupo Parede - Centro Cultural Correios, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - group show
“The imagery in my paintings come to me as if channeled from a land that actually exists, a place where I find a familiar sense of quietness and protection. Since I was a child, I have felt watched and held by a benign motherly presence every time I entered the forest, which was often, since I was born and raised in Brazil. My paintings are an attempt to reproduce and share the experience of this connection.”
Bio
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1971, Suzanna holds a Bachelor's degree in Communications and worked as a copywriter in advertising for ten years before moving to New York City to pursue her lifelong interest in painting. There, she was accepted as a full-time student at the New York Studio School, a program she complemented with numerous classes at different schools, curating her own education and thriving on the city’s intense creative energy. In 2016, she was accepted into a workshop with renowned painter Alex Kanevsky and crowdfunded her way to Madrid, where the classes took place. Over the years, Suzanna has consistently shown her paintings in various group and solo exhibitions in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Connecticut, and New York. She now lives in Connecticut, and her work hangs in multiple collections around the world.
Education
Long Pose Drawing and Painting with Evan Kitson - New York Academy of Art - New York, NY - 2023
Painting Workshop with Alex Kanevsky - ES Paint - Madrid, Spain - 2015
Painting Certificate Program - New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, NYC - 2001/2002
Printmaking (continuing education) - School of Visual Arts, NYC - 2002
Illustration (continuing education) - School of Visual Arts, NYC - 2002
Anatomy for Artists (continuing education) - New York Art Students League, NYC - 2001
Portraiture in Pastel (continuing education) - New York Art Students League, NYC - 2001
Figure Drawing from Life (continuing education) - New York Art Students League, NYC - 2001 / 2002
Design (continuing education) - Parsons The New School of Design, NYC - 2001 -
Communications - Bachelor’s degree - Universidade Helio Alonso, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 1992
Honor and Awards
2021 - Mercedes Matter Award - NYC
2020 - Mercedes Matter Award - NYC
2019 - Guild member at the Silvermine Art Center - New Canaan, CT.
2011 - Work published at Strokes of Genius 3 - The Best of Drawing / Fresh Perspectives - North Light Books
2002 - Multiple Scholarships at New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture
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