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EDUCATION: |
| MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia |
| BA, Reed College, Portland, Oregon |
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS: |
| 2005 |
The Koffler Gallery, Toronto, Canada Helmbrechts walk, 1998-2003 |
| 2002 |
BBC Three Miles An Hour half-hour interview for series on the history of walking airing May 2002. Interviewed by Caroline Barbour. |
| 1999 |
ART RESOURCES TRANSFER a.k.a. Art Press, New York City Chatham College, Pittsburgh Global Focus Helmbrechts walk,1998-2003 (work in progress) |
| 1998 |
“SESTAVE” Ljubljana, Slovenia The Four Seasons
Villa Katarina, Ljubljana, Slovenia The Four Seasons |
| 1997 |
ART RESOURCES TRANSFER a.k.a. Art Press, New York City The Four Seasons |
| 1996 |
On site installation, Brooklyn Waterfront
Postmasters, New York City (The Hole) sad tree, Sachsenhausen (october 1995) |
| 1993 |
Jose Freire Fine Art, New York City |
| 1992 |
fiction/nonfiction, New York City |
| 1991 |
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
Galerie Antoine Candau, Paris |
| 1990 |
fiction/nonfiction, New York City (catalogue) |
AWARDS AND GRANTS: |
| 2000 |
Memorial Foundation For Jewish Culture |
| 1998 |
Memorial Foundation For Jewish Culture
Change, Inc.
The Lee and Lawrence J. Ramer Foundation
The Puffin Foundation, Ltd. |
| 1997 |
The André and Elizabeth Kertész Foundation |
| 1992 |
Art Matters, Inc. |
| 1988 |
Art Matters, Inc. |
TEACHING EXPERIENCE: |
| 1992-02 |
New York University, Adjunct Faculty, Sculpture Department |
| 1993 |
Cooper Union, Visiting Artist, Department of Fine Art |
PUBLICATIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS: |
| 2007 |
Found Bird, Podium (an online literary magazine of the Unterberg Poetry Center at New York's 92nd Street Y) |
| 2003 |
Helmbrechts walk 1998-2003, 48 plate unbound limited edition artist book |
| 2002 |
The September 11 Photo Project, Harper Collins (full page color reproduction - World Trade Center North Tower collapsing) |
| 2001 |
hereisnewyork.com (image number 1500 and 1501- fireman’s funeral Queens, New York) |
| 2001 |
A Love Letter to Oleg Kulik - A Prince Among Men, A Man Among Dogs, Oleg Kulik Art Animal Ikon Gallery exhibition catalogue |
| 2000 |
Remnants of Song; Trauma and the Experience of Modernity, Stanford University Press, Written by Ulrich Baer (3 b&w photographic illustrations of Buchenwald and Treblinka) |
| 1997 |
A Love Letter to Oleg Kulik - A Prince Among Men, A Man Among Dogs, ARTNET,
http://www.artnet.com |
| 1996 |
dennis adams at the queens museum, ARTNET, hhtp://www.artnet.com/adams/adams.html |
| 1995 |
TIME CAPSULE, A Concise Encyclopedia By Women Artists, Edited by Robin Kahn, Introductions by Kathy Acker and Avital Ronell |
| 1994 |
How Many “Bad” Feminists Does It Take to Change a Lightbulb?, text by Laura Cottingham, copyright Sixty Percent Solution |
| 1993 |
Promotional Copy, Editor, Robin Kahn |
| 1987 |
New Observations, The Construction and Maintenance of Our Enemies, Co-ed.
Stephen Prina and Christopher Williams |
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS: |
| 2008 |
Delicate Situations, http://delicatesituations.blogspot.com, curated by Joe Schneider
Honorable Mention Px3 Prix De La Photographie Human Condition |
| 2007 |
Gallery Alfred, Tel Aviv, Israel |
| 2003 |
New York Public Library, New York, New York The September 11 Photo Project (organized by Michael Feldschuh)
Gotthelf Gallery, Center for Jewish Culture, La Jolla, California Being and Belonging: Reflections on Jewish Space (curated by Stephanie Snyder and Karen Levitov) |
| 2001 |
Cooley Memorial Gallery, Portland, Oregon Performing Judaism, (curated by Stephanie Snyder)
catalogue
Here is New York - Images from the Frontline of History: A Democracy of Photographs 116 Greene Street, New York City |
| 2000 |
University Art Gallery, Staller Center at StonyBrook, Jewishness at the Crossroads, (curated by Nicholas Mirzoeff) -forthcoming with catalogue
Contemporary Museum, Baltimore Snapshot, curated by Gary Sangster |
| 1996 |
Soho Arts Festival, Silas Poster copyright 1996 The Four Seasons: Fall (in situ - Soho) Jose Freire Fine Art, New York City, Deschenes, Dominick, Silas |
| 1994-5 |
Washington Project For the Arts, Washington, D.C., Burnt Whole (curated by Karen Holtzman, catalogue and traveling to the Institute of Contemporary Art,
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, Bad Girls (catalogue)
Spaces, Cleveland, Ohio, Ladies Night |
| 1992-4 |
The Jewish Museum, Bridges and Boundaries (curated by Gretchen Sullivan Sorin/catalogue/and
traveling exhibition) |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: |
| 2007 |
Kaplan, Brett On "Helmbrechts walk" Camera Austria International vol. 98/2007 (feature article wtih 8 pages of illustrations), editor Christine Frisinghelli
Kaplan, Brett Ashley Unwanted Beauty; Aesthetic Pleasure in
Holocaust Representation. University of
Illinois Press (with illustrations) |
| 2005 |
Kaplan, Brett Ashely Helmbrechts walk 1998 - 2003, Exhibition brochure, The Koffler Gallery, Nov 2005 |
| 2002 |
Apel, Dora Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary
Witnessing, Rutgers University Press |
| 2000 |
Braff, Phyllis Intersecting Identities; Jewishness at the Crossroads, The New York Times,
10 December 2000
Block, Julie Intersecting Identities; Jewishness at the Crossroads, The Stony Brook Statesman,
11 December 2000 |
| 1998 |
Susan Silas Sestava na Metelkovi Nedeljski Kazipot, 3 March 1998 |
| 1996 |
Catalogue for the exhibition Scratch Thread Waxing Space 2 May 1996 |
| 1995 |
McWilliams, Martha, Order out of Chaos: Burnt Whole: Contemporary Artists Reflect on the Holocaust, The New Art Examiner, April, pp. 12-17.
Kuspit, Donald, Kuspit Responds to Silas, Forward, February 17, p.__.
Silas, Susan, On Art About Art About the Holocaust, Forward, February 3, pp.9
Cottingham, Laura, If It’s Just A Symbol Then The Hell With It: Feminist Politics and Art, Atlantica, No.9, Winter, pp.84-91, 171-176 (with illustration)
Kuspit, Donald, Reducing the Holocaust to Artistic One-Liners, Forward, February
3, pp.9-10 (with illustration) |
| 1994 |
Broude, Norma and Mary D. Garrard ed., The Power of Feminist Art, Harry N.
Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York City (with illustrations). |
| 1993 |
Levin, Kim, Voice Choices: Susan Silas at Jose Freire, The Village Voice, November 30, p.__.
Adelman, Robert, Review of ‘Playing House’, Art Press, September, p.__. |
| 1992 |
Curtis, Cathy, Women’s Work Rich, Shocking, The Los Angeles Times, October 16, p. Dubin, Zan, Painting Themselves Out of A Corner, The Los Angeles Times, October 10,p.__.
Bonetti, David, Taking their battles to the galleries, The San Francisco Examiner,
August 14, p.C-2.
Higuchi, Shoichiro, Two Sides of Susan Silas’ Imagination, Idea/Tokyo, May pp. 112-
113 (with illustrations).
Musoeah, Rahel, Blacks and Jews Together, Hadassah, May pp.46-50. |
| 1991 |
Bonetti, David, Review of Wirtz Exhibition, The San Francisco Examiner, November
22, p.__.
Anime, Patrick, Review of Candau Exhibition, Art Press, (Paris), No. 157, April, p.__.
Greddon, Humphrey, Feelin’Goofy, Spy, March, pp. 68-9.
Spring, Justin, Review, ARTFORUM International, January, p.124
(with illustration).
Hanson, Alan J., Review, Contemporanea, January, p. 98 (with illustration).
Blair, Dike, Review, ARTnews, January, pp.156-7 (with illustration).
Mahoney, Robert, Review, Arts Magazine, Janaury, P.105 (with illustration). |
| 1990 |
Chico, Beith, Projections in Public: A Storefront Window Exhibition, Dialogue,
November/December.
Schwartzman, Alan, Choices, The New Yorker, November 12, p.22.
Levin, Kim, Choices, The Village Voice, November 13, p.108.
Hess, Elizabeth, Balls to Picasso, The Village Voice, November 6, p.111
(with illustration) |
LOCATION SCOUTING/FILM AND TELEVISION WORK: |
| 2008 |
Woody Allen Summer Project (Perdido Productions, Inc.), Producer: Letty Aronson, Director: Woody Allen
Nurse Jackie (TV Pilot, Lionsgate Television), Executive Producer: Linda Wallem, Director: Allen Coulter |
2007 |
What Happens in Vegas (Twentieth Century Fox), Producer: Joe Caracciolo, Director: Tom Vaughan
Burn After Reading (Focus Features), Producer: Ethan Coen, Director: Joel Coen
New Amsterdam (Regency Television Productions, Inc.), Producer: Leslie Holleran, Director: Lasse Hallström
Margo at the Wedding (Paramount Classics), Producer: Scott Rudin, Director: Noah Baumbach |
| 2006 |
Michael Clayton (Clayton Productions, Inc.), Producer: Jennifer Fox and Kerry Orent, Director: Tony Gilroy
Rescue Me (Canterbury Productions, Inc.), Producer: Kerry Orent, Director: Jace Alexander
Guerilla, Director: Steven Soderbergh
School for Scoundrels (Miramax Films), Executive Producer: Bob Weinstein, Director: Todd Phillips
The Good Shepherd Morgan Creek Productions, Producers: James G. Robinson and Jane Rosenthal, Director: Robert DeNiro
The Devil Wears Prada (20th Century Fox), Producer: Wendy Finerman, Director: David Frankel
Just My Luck (New Regency Films), Producer: Arnold Rifkin,Director: Donald Petrie |
| 2005 |
Romance & Cigarettes (Humperdinck Productions, LLC), Executive Producers: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Jana Edelbaum, Director: John Turturro
Dark Water (Post No Bills Productions/Walt Disney Co.), Producers: Diana Pokorny, Amy Herman, Director: Walter Salles
Little Manhattan (FG Productions, Inc.), Executive Producer: Ezra Swerdlow
Hide and Seek (20th Century Fox), Producer: Barry Josephson, Director: John Polson |
| 2004 |
House of D (House of D LLC), Producers: Richard Lewis, Jane Rosenthal, Bob Yari, Director: David Duchovny
Imaginary Heroes (Signature Entertainment), Producer: Deborah Lee, Director: Dan Harris
A Home at the End of the World (Leaving Cleveland, Inc.), Produer: Tom Hulce, Director: Michael Mayer
Raising Helen (Walt Disney Co.), Executive Producer: Ellen Schwartz, Director: Garry Marshall
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Blue Ruin LLC), Executive Producer: David Bushell
Director: Michel Gondry |
| 2003 |
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (Paramount Pictures), Producer: Lynda Obst, Director: Donald Petrie
In God’s Hands (Independent Film Channel, Executive Producer: Steven Soderbergh, Director: Lodge Kerrigan |
| 2001 |
The Job (Dreamworks Studio), Executive Producers: Peter Tolan and Denis Leary, Director: Tucker Gates |
| 1999 |
Third Watch (Warner Brothers), Executive Producer: John Wells, Director: Christopher Chulack |
Susan Silas 129 Baltic Street #5B Brooklyn, New York 11201|| phone: 917 359-1770 || e mail: weteyes@verizon.net
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