Suzanne Kiggins

I am a self-taught artist based in Brooklyn, NY and sometimes, Hudson, NY, currently working
primarily with acrylic and gouache on paper, wood panel, and canvas. Prior to making art I had a
20 year career in educational simulation design.

I like to use painting as a way to share unseen feelings and experiences that while powerful and
universal, are difficult to express. I draw inspiration from the natural world, and its reflection in the
manmade. A common theme for me is tension between opposing powerful forces such as order
and chaos, safety and exploration, life and death, connection and independence, and our internal
and external worlds. I often use symbols and metaphor to create a narrative. Ultimately, I
communicate my internal world in the hope of finding that these hard-to-define feelings, places and
experiences are familiar to others, too.

Suzanne Kiggins CV

CV

The Stairwell Space, Bridgeport, CT
Make. Believe. Material as spell (Group show)
June-July 2025

Upland Art Residency, VT June 2025

Corners Gallery, Ithaca, NY
The Circus Of Being (2-person show with Sylvia Taylor)
March 2025

One River Art School
Solo shows in their Montclair and Millburn, NJ locations
October, 2023, and March-May 2024

Among Friends 3 (Brooklyn, NY)
(Group Show)
April 2024

Visions West Contemporary, Denver, CO and Bozeman, MT
(Group Show)
May 2023-2025

Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan (Represented by Carrie Chen Gallery)
(Group Booth)
October 2023

Upstate Art Weekend, The Barn On Berme, Kerhonkson, NY
(Group Show)
July 2023

Carrie Chen Gallery (Great Barrington, MA)
HARMONICA
(Solo Show)
November 2022

ArtPort Kingston (Kingston, NY)
Wunder....A Summer Adventure
(Group Show)
July 2022

Among Friends 2 (Manhattan, NY)
(Group Show)
May 2022

Secret Project Robot (Brooklyn, NY)
There Are Two Birds Inside My Heart
(Solo Show)
July 2022

ArtPort Kingston (Kingston, NY)
Dumplings and Sugar Cookies... a Jam Session
(Group Show)
November 2022

Flux House (Governors Island, NYC)
AmphorasamorphA
(Group Show)
October 2021

SPRING/BREAK Art Show (Manhattan, NY, Curator Emily McElwreath)
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