Suzanne Caines

Suzanne Caines is a Canadian Artist, Researcher & Arts Educator from Nova Scotia who holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Art from Goldsmiths, University of London. Working within the intersection of painting, drawing, writing and video art she raises questions about cultural heritage & cultural genocide, suppressed histories, collective forgetfulness, and identity in the form of muted/mutated witness and reconciliation. Her current research focuses on the various forms of constructing and imagining cultures and communities through video, drawing and painting practice where she explore the hybrid, and spatialized, nature of the Jewish & Aboriginal Canadian diasporic. These ghosts within her work have become abstracted, morphing and evoking Derrida’s concept of hauntology, which proposes that the present is always haunted by the future and the past. Caines has led and conducted courses at NSCAD University, Goldsmiths, University of London and currently teaches Adult Education at Cit Literary College, London UK. Having participated in several international residencies and exhibitions including, Extratextual: An international exhibition of contemporary art informed by modes of writing at Contemporary Calgary, Canada, V-Tape, Toronto, On...

Education
2010-2015 Doctorate of Philosophy Practiced-Based Art Goldsmiths, University of London, England (unfunded)
Graduate School Course Academic Practice for PhD Students recognized by the Associate Practitioner (unfunded)
2003-2004 MA (Fine Arts) Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, UK (Paid Leave of Absence: Halifax Regional School Board)
Short Listed for Red Mansion Art prize
Bachelor of Art (History) Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia (1993-1996)
1989-1993 Bachelor of Fine Arts
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia Interdisciplinary with a focus on painting & drawing

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016 On Demand, Banner Repeater Art Gallery, London, UK
2011 Romance in Saint John, Third Space Gallery, Saint John, New Brunswick
2011 Spaces of Places, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2010 Romantic Gestures, Gallery Connection, Fredericton, New Brunswick
2009 Split Pea Soup, Optica, centre d’art contemporain, 2003 Mishpucha: Represents The Jewish Community in Nova Scotia, Multi-Cultural Art Gallery at Pier 21
2006 You Are Here, The Other Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts, Calgary, Alberta
2005 Rock The Boat, Galerie CAMAC, Marney-Sur-Seine, France
2005 Chain Links, Harcourt House Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
2004 MA Graduation Exhibition, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, England2003 Where She Slept, Hart House Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
2003 Where She Slept: Research on Canadian’s Home Children, Hart House Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
2001 Where She Slept: Research on Canadian’s Home Children, Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa, Ontario
2000 Where She Slept: Research on Canadian’s Home Children, Pier 21, Nova Scotia Canada
2000 Through the Looking Glass, The Space, Saint John’s, New Brunswick
1999 Mishpucha, Ruben and Helene Dennis Museum, Toron...