Suzie Silver

Suzie Silver is an American artist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, whose artistic focus lies primarily in queer video and performance art. Silver received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute in of Chicago in 1988 and her undergraduate degree from the University of California in 1984 and is currently a professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the School of Art.

Silver’s work has been exhibited and screened both nationally and internationally at such venues as The New Museum, The Whitney Museum of Art, Documenta, ICA Boston, Pacific Film Archives, and in Gay and Lesbian Film/Video Festivals all over the world including London, Melbourne, Tel Aviv, San Francisco, Chicago, New York City, Sao Paulo, Auckland and many more. She has performed nationally at venues including Chicago Filmmakers and Club Lower Links, Chicago, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, NYSCC at Alfred University, and Transformer Gallery in Washington, DC.

Silver’s background in performance art stems from her participation in the Chicago art community in the late 1980s and early 1990s that centered around Randolph Street Gallery, Name Gallery, and Club Lower Links, hosting artists such as Karen Finley, Dominique Dibbel, Tim Miller, and many more who created performance art that mirrored daily life, pop culture, politics, globalization, and evolving post-AIDS concerns of gender, sex and the body. Provided by Wikipedia