Suzanne Moxhay

Suzanne Moxhay (b.1976, Essex) lives and works in London. After completing a BA Hons in Painting at Chelsea College of Art she went on to The Royal Academy Schools where she graduated with a Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art in 2007.

She was then selected for a year long residency at the Florence Trust Studios, London where she developed her series of photographic works ‘Borderlands’.

She has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally since 2002 and her work is held in many significant public and private collections including the Univeristy of the Arts Collection, The Cooper Union New York, the FSC and the Lodeveans Collection.

Recent exhibitions include ‘Saatchi’s New Sensations/ The Future Can Wait’ at Victoria House, London, ‘Afternoon Tea’ WW Gallery at the Venice Biennale and ‘GSK Contemporary: Earth Art of a Changing World’ at the Royal Academy of Arts. Her animation work has been shown as part of the programme ‘Do Billboards Dream of Electric Screens?’ on BBC public screens in cities across the UK.

She is currently a Print Fellow at the Royal Academy Schools and is represented by Bearspace Gallery.

‘Suzanne Moxhay produces unsettling photographic work that occupies a middle ground between the staged picture, the tableau vivant, and the dream like unreality of a film still.

She works by building miniature “flats” in her studio, similar to early film sets, which are then photographed and incorporated as layers through various processes of digital manipulation. The resulting photos blend illusory and real space, leaving the viewer uncertain about scale or depth, which she says “appear to hover between the miniature and the epic”. By using archaic source material from her vast archive of images collected from newspapers and adverts as well as vintage travel magazines and her own photographs the work has a familiar yet destabilising relationship to the present. Often from the 1950s to 1970s, their obsolete colour palette adds artificiality while the quality of the printing, without contemporary sharpness, gives a sense of temporal distance. Moxhay started out on her art career as a painter at Chelsea School of Art, and her current work developed whilst at the Royal Academy Schools and in residency at the Florence Trust, retains a strong painterly quality.’ Paul Bayley, Florence Trust

Education
2004- 2007 Post Graduate Diploma: Fine Art, Royal Academy Schools
2001- 2004 BA Fine Art: Painting, Chelsea College of Art

Solo exhibitions
2010 Feralis, BEARSPACE, London
2008 Borderlands, Jerwood Space, London
2008 Borderlands, Tricycle Gallery, London

Selected group exhibitions
2011 Saatchi’s New Sensations/ The Future Can Wait, Victoria House, London
2011 Anthology, CHARLIE SMITH, London
2011 Afternoon Tea, 54th Venice Biennale, Italy
2011 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts
2011 Royal Academy Editions (Print Commissioned), Royal Academy of Arts
2011 Constructed Landscapes, Royal Academy of Arts
2011 Virtually Real, Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds
2011 Feudal, Art Projects Space, London Art Fair
2010 World Within Worlds, BEARSPACE, London
2010 Intermission, Hoxton Town Hall, London
2010 PRINT NOW, BEARSPACE, London
2009 Earth: Art of Changing World , Royal Academy of Arts, London
2009 Artsway Open '09, Artsway, Hampshire
2009 In To Land, Arlington Arts Centre, Newbury
2009 The Wild as Will and Mediation, Wiebke Morgan, London
2009 Radiator- Exploits in the Wireless City, Touring- BBC Public Screens UK
2009 Salon 08, Vinespace, London
2008 The Florence Trust Exhibition 2008, Florence Trust Studios, London
2008 Schandenfreuding, The Crypt, St Giles Church, London
2008 Our Friends Are Electric, Federation Square, Melbourne, AUS
2008 Textures- Territories of Border, Primo Piano Gallery, Lecce, Italy
2007 Do Billboards Dream of Electric Screens?, Trampoline, Touring- UK
2007 Twelve 2 One , 1 Canada Square, Canary Wharf
2007 The Royal Academy Schools Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Awards and Residencies
2008-2012 Print Fellow, Royal Academy Schools
2008 Artists Residency, Florence Trust Studios, London
2008 Shortlsted for Bloomberg New Contemporaries
2007 The Dunoyer de Segonzac Award
2006 The Landseer Award
2006 FSA Ambitious Works Award
2006 AHRC Professional Practice Award

Bibliography
2011 Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition Catalogue
2010 The Culture Show, BBC2, June 2010- Artist Profile and Interview
2010 A-N Magazine, Feb- March 2010- ‘The Big Picture Feature’
2009 Digital Arts Magazine, ‘Showcase’
2008 The Guardian, ‘Art and Virtual Landscapes’
2007 Art World Magazine, Exhibition Reviews

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