Suzette Bross is a lens-based artist living and working in Chicago, Illinois. Her practice explores notions of time, technology, liminality and community. Consistently addressed in her projects are the spaces in between time that occur in everyday life, created utilizing everyday technologies. Bross’ film background is evident when she investigates the nature of time and applies elements of motion to her conceptual work. Through her community based work, Bross hopes to engage viewers and demonstrate the significance of art in the everyday. Bross has collaborated with “StreetWise” magazine which helps Chicago homeless women and men achieve personal stability and strength through social services and aiding with employment. She is also the Founder and Executive Director of the non-profit arts organization, “CPS Lives”, which creates residencies for artists in Chicago Public Schools to create art, engage students and share stories about the importance of public school education. Bross’ art works are realized as individual objects, installations, in book form and as public art. Among the permanent collections that her work is featured in are the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University. Bross has exhibited her Walks series in a solo show at Geary Contemporary in New York City, NY and the group exhibition, titled ‘Alien Nation’, at Lehman, College Art Gallery in Bronx, New York. Her series, For the Glass, was featured in solo exhibitions at the Chicago Artists Coalition and Lehman Arts Center in North Andover, MA, Geary Contemporary booth at EXPO Chicago 2016, and as the first exhibition in the Chicago Google Artist Initiative.
Selected Exhibitions
2024
91st Annual Members Exhibition, Arts Club, Chicago, IL
Pause, Art league RI, Pawtucket, RI
2023
Favorite Photograph 2023, Lenscratch
2022
90th Annual Members Exhibition, Arts Club Chicago, Chicago, IL
2021
Everyday Life, Gallery Sabine, Chicago, IL
Rolling Rock Club, Laughlintown, PA
The Sitter, Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio, TX
She is Rising, Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
2020
Favorite Photograph 2020, Lenscratch
Metaculture VR PhotoWalk, PhotoNola, New Orleans, Louisiana
What Does Democracy Look Like, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Multiplicity – Psyche, Culture and Change in 2020, Loft Artists Association, Stamford, CT
What We’ve Found, Anti-Bad
6th Annual Group Show, Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY
#102 Staying Home Together, F-Stop Magazine
Auckland Festival of Photography, Auckland, New Zealand
Art in the time of Quarantine, The Art Center Highland Park, Highland Park, IL
I AM Women, DragonFLY Gallery, Chicago, IL
Pandemic Transformations, Sebastopol Center For The Arts, Sebastopol, CA
(Re)visions of Chicago Public Schools, 062 Gallery, Chicago, IL
Until We Meet Again, Treat Gallery, New York, NY
She is Rising, Carriage Barn Arts, New Canaan, CT
2020 Self-Quarantining, Lenscratch
Mass Isolation, Format
Portfolio ShowCase 13, Center For Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Images 2020, Marin Society of Artists, San Rafael, CA
Through Your Eyes, Cape Cod Art Center, Barnstable, MA
14th Pollux Awards Exhibition, Gallery FotoNostrum, Barcelona, Spain
89th Annual Members Exhibition, Arts Club Chicago, Chicago, IL
2019
Blue, Andrea Hamilton Studio, London, England
Urban 2019, ITIS, Trieste, Italy
Positive Slope, Firecat Projects, Chicago, IL
More Pink Noise: Works by the Stella Collective, Var West Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
MWSPE, Brooks Stevens Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Rolling Rock Club, Laughlintown, PA
Every Woman Biennial, Bendix Building, Los Angeles, CA
Principal Project, Saint Chrysostom’s Church, Chicago, IL
We, The People, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
A Look Within, The Art Center Highland Park, Highland Park, IL
Women Empowerment, Edgewater Artists In Motion, Chicago, IL
2018
The Art of Giving Back, The Art Center Highland Park, Highland Park, IL
EXPO CHICAGO 2018, Chicago, IL
Late August, Early September, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL
Borders, UIMA, Chicago, IL
DCASE Arts Educators Celebration, Chicago, IL
Antique Fair, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL
Save the Elephants, Chicago, IL
Multiple Perspectives, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Pink Noise, Stella Collective, UCT, Chicago, IL
88th Annual Members Exhibition, Arts Club Chicago, Chicago, IL
2017
3rd Annual Group Show, Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY
Vicinity, Perspective Gallery, Evanston, IL
IWPA, Honorable Mention, Chicago, IL
Google Gallery, Google Chicago, Chicago, IL
Alien Nation, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, NY
2016
The Ritz-Carlton, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Chicago, IL
EXPO CHICAGO 2016, Geary Contemporary Booth, Chicago, IL
For the Glass, Bolt Residency Solo Exhibition, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL
For the Glass, Public Installation, 103 Gallery, West Chicago, IL
Home, Arc Gallery, Chicago, IL
Visiting Artist Program, Lehman Art Center, North Andover, MA
Politico Pop Up 2, New Orleans Art Center, New Orleans, LA
The Art of Illinois, Gallery Seven, Joilet, IL
Deerfield Public Art Program, Deerfield Public Library, Deerfield, IL
Time Place, Ragdale 40th Anniversary Exhibition, The Art Center Highland Park, Highland Park, IL
Berlin Foto Biennale 2016, Berlin, Germany
Court Tennis Contemporary, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
87th Exhibition of Professional Members, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Workshop in Light and Color, Hemera Collective at University of New Mexico, Taos, NM
Starving Artist 2016 Event, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL
Human Body F-Stop Magazine
2015
2015 Photo Review International Photography Competition, The Photo Review
Preview 5, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
Spellbound: A World in Flux, 555 Gallery, Boston, MA
Abstract, Filter Space, Chicago, IL
A Lasting Vision: Photographs from the Institute of Design 1970-200, Crown Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
Art in Motion, Rehabilitation Center of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Women In Focus; I Am Woman, Chicago Photography Center, Chicago, IL
2014
INFOCUS, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ,
Walks, Jack Geary Contemporary, New York, NY
The Nature of the Collective, Stella Collective, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
Abstract (Photo) Expressionists, Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA
The Art Party, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
The Art of Travel Photography, PhotoPlace Gallery, The Online Gallery Annex
One Inspired Evening, One Inspiration Corporation, Chicago, IL
2013
86th Exhibition of Professional Members, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Habitus, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL
2012
Nation Exposure Revisited, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
DIY: Photographers & Books, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
85th Exhibition of Artist Members, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Small Works, Soho Photo, New York, NY
In Focus: Recent Acquisitions in Photography, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Collector’s Eye Exhibition, Fotofest, Houston, TX
2011
iScapes /Girls, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL (Solo Exhibition)
Stella Collective, Chicago Photography Center, Chicago, IL
SPRINGzHERE, Wilson Geary Contemporary, New York, NY
Contemporary Portraits by Women Photographers, Northern Trust Bank, Chicago, IL
Earth Now, The New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
2010
84th Exhibition of Artist Members, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2009
Place and Presence: Photography from the Collection, The Block Museum, Evanston, IL
The Night Hope Won, St. Francis University, Joliet, IL
83rd Exhibition of Artist Members, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Colors of Life: International Photography Exhibition, Capital One Corporate Gallery, Richmond, VA (Traveling Exhibition)
Colors of Life: International Photography Exhibition, Artspace, Richmond, VA (Traveling Exhibition)
Colors of Life: International Photography Exhibition, Kkien Atelier, Milan, Italy (Traveling Exhibition)
Photographers: Network Selection 2009, Siegen, Germany
Obama Show, Will Jacks Studio, Cleveland, MS
Issue#33, Open Theme, F-Stop Magazine
2008
Winter Art Competition Finalist, Daniel Fine Art
Women in Photography International 2008 Juried Competition, Women In Photography,
A Mind at Play, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Please Ring Bell, The Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
Are We There Yet?: 40 Years of Feminism, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Commercial Woman, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Me, Myself, and I, Freekark Gallery, Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL
2007
Commute: Trucks, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL
Contemporary Symbolism, Prairie State College Christopher Art Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL
Perspectives, Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL
1st Annual Juried Exhibit, Coalition of Photographic Arts, Juror Brian Ulrich, Photographer, Milwaukee, WI
Art Futura: Innovation, Juror James Rondeau, Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Through the Looking Glass, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA
Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
10th Annual National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Juror Thomas Lentz, Dir. Harvard University Art Museums, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA
The Venus of Willendorf: Redefining the Goddess, Duderstadt Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Me, Me, Me, The Orleans Street Gallery, St. Charles, IL
2006
Pregnant, Groton School, Groton, MA (Solo Exhibition)
Benefit Auction, The Block Museum, Evanston, IL
Family Pack, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO
2004
Strong Touch: Images of Complimentary Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL (Solo Exhibition)
Benefit Auction, Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL
Frozen in Light, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Visual Proof, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
Body Image, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL
Group Exhibition, Thomas Kellner Project, Siegen, Germany
Group Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO
Group Exhibition, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Loveladies, NJ
Chicago International Art Fair,Stephen Cohen Gallery,Chicago, IL
2003
Commute, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL (Solo Exhibition)
Building Projects & Concepts since 1996, Rem Koolhaasund & OMA-AMO, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Chicago International Art Fair, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Chicago, IL
Group Exhibition, Hinsdale Center for the Arts, Hinsdale, IL
Group Exhibition, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
Group Exhibition, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
2002
Commute, University Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL (Solo Exhibition)
Strong Touch: Images of Complementary Medicine, Northwestern University Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL (Solo Exhibition)
2001
Pregnant, Reuve Salon, Chicago, IL (Solo Show)
Pregnant, Orbit Digital, New York, NY (Solo Show)
Group Exhibition, Photo Soho, New York, NY
2000
First Works, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
City2000, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
1999
Group Exhibition, Soho Photo, New York, NY
PHOTOSYNTHESIS, The Three Arts Club, Chicago, IL
Thesis Show, Institute of Design, IIT, Chicago, IL
Fra Angelico Art Foundation, Nicole Gallery, Chicago, IL
Group Exhibition, ARC GALLERY, Chicago, IL
1996
Playas, Museo Barjola, Oviedo, Spain
Alumni Exhibition, Suzette Bross ’86, Webb Marshall Room, Groton School, Groton, MA
1995
CURRENTS: An Exhibition, NY Soho Biennial, New York, NY
1988
International Forum of Super-8 Film, New York, NY
COLLECTIONS
Julia Margaret Cameron Award Permanent Collection
dotART, Trieste, Italy
Ryerson & Burnham Library, Chicago, IL
Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
The Block Museum, Evanston, IL
6018|North Artist Books Collection, Chicago, IL
Midwest Photographers Collection at The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Comer Archive at the University of Illinois, “Chicago in the Year 2000”, Chicago, IL
McCormick Library, Groton School, Groton, MA
The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Chicago, IL
AWARDS
Loft Artists Association, (Second Runner-up), 2020
15th Julia Margaret Cameron Award (Honorable Mention), 2020
14th Pollux Awards (Honorable Mention), 2020
Urban 2019 Photo Awards (Finalist), 2019
Julia-Margaret Cameron Award (Finalist), 2016
BOLT Residency, Chicago Artists Coalition, 2015
The Facets Award, 2015
Ragdale Residency, 2015
TEACHING
Visiting Artist Program, Brooks School, North Andover, MA, 2016
Photography Teacher, Columbia College, Chicago, IL, 1999–2004
Photography Teacher, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI, 2002
Photography Teacher, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL, 2003
EDUCATION
1999 MFA, Institute of Design, IIT, Chicago, IL
1990 Bachelor of Science, Television and Film, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
TALKS
Getting Ready to Bloom, CPS LIves, 2021
If I Could Show the World, BMO Harris & CPS Lives, 2020
Identity and Youth, Expo Chicago and CPS Lives Panel, 2019
Principal Project, Saint Chrysostom’s Episcopal Church, 2019
An Evening with CPS Lives-Documenting Chicago Public Schools, Dodd Camera & ASMP Chicago/Midwest Chapter, 2019
PUBLICATION/PRESS
“Recording a Day in the life of CPS; Artists in Schools”, CGN, 2024
Through the Artists Lens, Casa Branca, 2023
“The Chicago Show Returns”, Sheridan Road Magazine, 2022
“Top Five: June 3, 2021”, Glasstire, 2021
“On Collaboration: CPS Lives”, Lenscratch, Barbara Ciurej & Lindsay Lochman, 2021
“This week in Photography: Projects from Photonola, Part 1”, aPhotoEditor, Jonathan Blaustein, 2021
“Staying Home Together”, dotArt, 2020
“Collectors Eye”, Schilt Publishing, by Fraizer King, 2020
River Styx #102, 2020
“Here Today, Africa Tomorrow: Rwanda”, Classic Chicago Magazine, 2020
“Artist Spotlight”, Seaberg Framing, 2019
“Urban Unveils the City and it’s Secrets”, dotArt, 2019
Diffusion X, One Twelve Publishing, 2019
“Spirit Regained”, Chicago Life Magazine, 2019
An Evening with CPS Lives-Documenting Chicago Public Schools, ASMP Chicago/Midwest & Dodd Camera, 2019
“Here Today, Africa Tomorrow”, Classic Chicago Magazine, 2017
Alien Nations, Exhibition Catalog, 2017
“The Multifaceted Charles Coleman”, Classic Chicago Magazine, 2017
Tent City Out in the Cold, Streetwise Magazine, 2017
Living in Tent City, Streetwise Magazine, 2016
“http://detroitccp.org/EXHIBITIONS-1/In-Review-2016” by Kyohei Abe, 2016
“The Solitary Body: The Self-Portrait in Contemporary Photography Vol. II” by Giorgio Bonomi, 2016
“Glass Variations” by Sigalit Zetouni, 2016
“West Chicago, creating public art inventory, artist registry” by Jessica Cilella, 2016
“Art in the Every Day” by Kelly Konrad, 2016
“Photographer Suzette Bross: On the Fly” by Ginny Van Alyea, 2016
“You are Being Watched: Cutting Edge Art Explores Our Surveillance Culture” by Paddy Johnson, 2014
“The Nature of a Collective” by Elin Spring, 2014
“Discovering Stella” by Elin Spring, 2014
“Abstract Photo Expressionists at Panopticon” by Elin Spring, 2014
“Interior Design Review” by Jennifer Nalewicki, 2014
“Interview with New Mexico Museum of Art Photography Curator Katherine Ware” by Jonathan Blaustein, 2012
“CoPA Review” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 2007
“New City Review” by Michael Weinstein 2007
“Probing Psychology of Abandoned Spaces” by Alan Artner, Chicago Tribune 2007
“World Class Views: Chicago’s Expanding art scene attracts growing international
attention” by Ann Wiens 2003
“Suzette Bross: Review” by Alan Artner Chicago Tribune, April 4, 2003
“Tip of the Week: Suzette Bross” by Michael Weinstein New City, March 20, 2003
Turn, Shake, Flip, “Pictures from a Revolution” by Stephen Wallis, Caitlin Fitzgerald
Alexandra Rowley eds., Eyestorm Press, 2002
“A.R.C Gallery Review” by Michael Weinstein New City, January 14, 1999
“Illinois Institute of Technology, Gold Peak Gallery, Institute of Design
“Photo Show Review” by Michael Weinstein New City, May 27, 1999
Selected Exhibitions
2024
91st Annual Members Exhibition, Arts Club, Chicago, IL
Pause, Art league RI, Pawtucket, RI
2023
Favorite Photograph 2023, Lenscratch
2022
90th Annual Members Exhibition, Arts Club Chicago, Chicago, IL
2021
Everyday Life, Gallery Sabine, Chicago, IL
Rolling Rock Club, Laughlintown, PA
The Sitter, Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio, TX
She is Rising, Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
2020
Favorite Photograph 2020, Lenscratch
Metaculture VR PhotoWalk, PhotoNola, New Orleans, Louisiana
What Does Democracy Look Like, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Multiplicity – Psyche, Culture and Change in 2020, Loft Artists Association, Stamford, CT
What We’ve Found, Anti-Bad
6th Annual Group Show, Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY
#102 Staying Home Together, F-Stop Magazine
Auckland Festival of Photography, Auckland, New Zealand
Art in the time of Quarantine, The Art Center Highland Park, Highland Park, IL
I AM Women, DragonFLY Gallery, Chicago, IL
Pandemic Transformations, Sebastopol Center For The Arts, Sebastopol, CA
(Re)visions of Chicago Public Schools, 062 Gallery, Chicago, IL
Until We Meet Again, Treat Gallery, New York, NY
She is Rising, Carriage Barn Arts, New Canaan, CT
2020 Self-Quarantining, Lenscratch
Mass Isolation, Format
Portfolio ShowCase 13, Center For Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Images 2020, Marin Society of Artists, San Rafael, CA
Through Your Eyes, Cape Cod Art Center, Barnstable, MA
14th Pollux Awards Exhibition, Gallery FotoNostrum, Barcelona, Spain
89th Annual Members Exhibition, Arts Club Chicago, Chicago, IL
2019
Blue, Andrea Hamilton Studio, London, England
Urban 2019, ITIS, Trieste, Italy
Positive Slope, Firecat Projects, Chicago, IL
More Pink Noise: Works by the Stella Collective, Var West Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
MWSPE, Brooks Stevens Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Rolling Rock Club, Laughlintown, PA
Every Woman Biennial, Bendix Building, Los Angeles, CA
Principal Project, Saint Chrysostom’s Church, Chicago, IL
We, The People, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
A Look Within, The Art Center Highland Park, Highland Park, IL
Women Empowerment, Edgewater Artists In Motion, Chicago, IL
2018
The Art of Giving Back, The Art Center Highland Park, Highland Park, IL
EXPO CHICAGO 2018, Chicago, IL
Late August, Early September, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL
Borders, UIMA, Chicago, IL
DCASE Arts Educators Celebration, Chicago, IL
Antique Fair, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL
Save the Elephants, Chicago, IL
Multiple Perspectives, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Pink Noise, Stella Collective, UCT, Chicago, IL
88th Annual Members Exhibition, Arts Club Chicago, Chicago, IL
2017
3rd Annual Group Show, Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY
Vicinity, Perspective Gallery, Evanston, IL
IWPA, Honorable Mention, Chicago, IL
Google Gallery, Google Chicago, Chicago, IL
Alien Nation, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, NY
2016
The Ritz-Carlton, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Chicago, IL
EXPO CHICAGO 2016, Geary Contemporary Booth, Chicago, IL
For the Glass, Bolt Residency Solo Exhibition, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL
For the Glass, Public Installation, 103 Gallery, West Chicago, IL
Home, Arc Gallery, Chicago, IL
Visiting Artist Program, Lehman Art Center, North Andover, MA
Politico Pop Up 2, New Orleans Art Center, New Orleans, LA
The Art of Illinois, Gallery Seven, Joilet, IL
Deerfield Public Art Program, Deerfield Public Library, Deerfield, IL
Time Place, Ragdale 40th Anniversary Exhibition, The Art Center Highland Park, Highland Park, IL
Berlin Foto Biennale 2016, Berlin, Germany
Court Tennis Contemporary, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
87th Exhibition of Professional Members, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Workshop in Light and Color, Hemera Collective at University of New Mexico, Taos, NM
Starving Artist 2016 Event, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL
Human Body F-Stop Magazine
2015
2015 Photo Review International Photography Competition, The Photo Review
Preview 5, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
Spellbound: A World in Flux, 555 Gallery, Boston, MA
Abstract, Filter Space, Chicago, IL
A Lasting Vision: Photographs from the Institute of Design 1970-200, Crown Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
Art in Motion, Rehabilitation Center of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Women In Focus; I Am Woman, Chicago Photography Center, Chicago, IL
2014
INFOCUS, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ,
Walks, Jack Geary Contemporary, New York, NY
The Nature of the Collective, Stella Collective, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, IL
Abstract (Photo) Expressionists, Panopticon Gallery, Boston, MA
The Art Party, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
The Art of Travel Photography, PhotoPlace Gallery, The Online Gallery Annex
One Inspired Evening, One Inspiration Corporation, Chicago, IL
2013
86th Exhibition of Professional Members, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Habitus, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL
2012
Nation Exposure Revisited, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
DIY: Photographers & Books, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
85th Exhibition of Artist Members, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Small Works, Soho Photo, New York, NY
In Focus: Recent Acquisitions in Photography, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Collector’s Eye Exhibition, Fotofest, Houston, TX
2011
iScapes /Girls, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL (Solo Exhibition)
Stella Collective, Chicago Photography Center, Chicago, IL
SPRINGzHERE, Wilson Geary Contemporary, New York, NY
Contemporary Portraits by Women Photographers, Northern Trust Bank, Chicago, IL
Earth Now, The New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
2010
84th Exhibition of Artist Members, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2009
Place and Presence: Photography from the Collection, The Block Museum, Evanston, IL
The Night Hope Won, St. Francis University, Joliet, IL
83rd Exhibition of Artist Members, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Colors of Life: International Photography Exhibition, Capital One Corporate Gallery, Richmond, VA (Traveling Exhibition)
Colors of Life: International Photography Exhibition, Artspace, Richmond, VA (Traveling Exhibition)
Colors of Life: International Photography Exhibition, Kkien Atelier, Milan, Italy (Traveling Exhibition)
Photographers: Network Selection 2009, Siegen, Germany
Obama Show, Will Jacks Studio, Cleveland, MS
Issue#33, Open Theme, F-Stop Magazine
2008
Winter Art Competition Finalist, Daniel Fine Art
Women in Photography International 2008 Juried Competition, Women In Photography,
A Mind at Play, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Please Ring Bell, The Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
Are We There Yet?: 40 Years of Feminism, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Commercial Woman, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Me, Myself, and I, Freekark Gallery, Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL
2007
Commute: Trucks, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL
Contemporary Symbolism, Prairie State College Christopher Art Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL
Perspectives, Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL
1st Annual Juried Exhibit, Coalition of Photographic Arts, Juror Brian Ulrich, Photographer, Milwaukee, WI
Art Futura: Innovation, Juror James Rondeau, Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Through the Looking Glass, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA
Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
10th Annual National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Juror Thomas Lentz, Dir. Harvard University Art Museums, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA
The Venus of Willendorf: Redefining the Goddess, Duderstadt Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Me, Me, Me, The Orleans Street Gallery, St. Charles, IL
2006
Pregnant, Groton School, Groton, MA (Solo Exhibition)
Benefit Auction, The Block Museum, Evanston, IL
Family Pack, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO
2004
Strong Touch: Images of Complimentary Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL (Solo Exhibition)
Benefit Auction, Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL
Frozen in Light, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Visual Proof, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
Body Image, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL
Group Exhibition, Thomas Kellner Project, Siegen, Germany
Group Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO
Group Exhibition, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Loveladies, NJ
Chicago International Art Fair,Stephen Cohen Gallery,Chicago, IL
2003
Commute, Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL (Solo Exhibition)
Building Projects & Concepts since 1996, Rem Koolhaasund & OMA-AMO, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Chicago International Art Fair, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Chicago, IL
Group Exhibition, Hinsdale Center for the Arts, Hinsdale, IL
Group Exhibition, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
Group Exhibition, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
2002
Commute, University Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL (Solo Exhibition)
Strong Touch: Images of Complementary Medicine, Northwestern University Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL (Solo Exhibition)
2001
Pregnant, Reuve Salon, Chicago, IL (Solo Show)
Pregnant, Orbit Digital, New York, NY (Solo Show)
Group Exhibition, Photo Soho, New York, NY
2000
First Works, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
City2000, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL
1999
Group Exhibition, Soho Photo, New York, NY
PHOTOSYNTHESIS, The Three Arts Club, Chicago, IL
Thesis Show, Institute of Design, IIT, Chicago, IL
Fra Angelico Art Foundation, Nicole Gallery, Chicago, IL
Group Exhibition, ARC GALLERY, Chicago, IL
1996
Playas, Museo Barjola, Oviedo, Spain
Alumni Exhibition, Suzette Bross ’86, Webb Marshall Room, Groton School, Groton, MA
1995
CURRENTS: An Exhibition, NY Soho Biennial, New York, NY
1988
International Forum of Super-8 Film, New York, NY
COLLECTIONS
Julia Margaret Cameron Award Permanent Collection
dotART, Trieste, Italy
Ryerson & Burnham Library, Chicago, IL
Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
The Block Museum, Evanston, IL
6018|North Artist Books Collection, Chicago, IL
Midwest Photographers Collection at The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Comer Archive at the University of Illinois, “Chicago in the Year 2000”, Chicago, IL
McCormick Library, Groton School, Groton, MA
The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Chicago, IL
AWARDS
Loft Artists Association, (Second Runner-up), 2020
15th Julia Margaret Cameron Award (Honorable Mention), 2020
14th Pollux Awards (Honorable Mention), 2020
Urban 2019 Photo Awards (Finalist), 2019
Julia-Margaret Cameron Award (Finalist), 2016
BOLT Residency, Chicago Artists Coalition, 2015
The Facets Award, 2015
Ragdale Residency, 2015
TEACHING
Visiting Artist Program, Brooks School, North Andover, MA, 2016
Photography Teacher, Columbia College, Chicago, IL, 1999–2004
Photography Teacher, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI, 2002
Photography Teacher, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL, 2003
EDUCATION
1999 MFA, Institute of Design, IIT, Chicago, IL
1990 Bachelor of Science, Television and Film, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
TALKS
Getting Ready to Bloom, CPS LIves, 2021
If I Could Show the World, BMO Harris & CPS Lives, 2020
Identity and Youth, Expo Chicago and CPS Lives Panel, 2019
Principal Project, Saint Chrysostom’s Episcopal Church, 2019
An Evening with CPS Lives-Documenting Chicago Public Schools, Dodd Camera & ASMP Chicago/Midwest Chapter, 2019
PUBLICATION/PRESS
“Recording a Day in the life of CPS; Artists in Schools”, CGN, 2024
Through the Artists Lens, Casa Branca, 2023
“The Chicago Show Returns”, Sheridan Road Magazine, 2022
“Top Five: June 3, 2021”, Glasstire, 2021
“On Collaboration: CPS Lives”, Lenscratch, Barbara Ciurej & Lindsay Lochman, 2021
“This week in Photography: Projects from Photonola, Part 1”, aPhotoEditor, Jonathan Blaustein, 2021
“Staying Home Together”, dotArt, 2020
“Collectors Eye”, Schilt Publishing, by Fraizer King, 2020
River Styx #102, 2020
“Here Today, Africa Tomorrow: Rwanda”, Classic Chicago Magazine, 2020
“Artist Spotlight”, Seaberg Framing, 2019
“Urban Unveils the City and it’s Secrets”, dotArt, 2019
Diffusion X, One Twelve Publishing, 2019
“Spirit Regained”, Chicago Life Magazine, 2019
An Evening with CPS Lives-Documenting Chicago Public Schools, ASMP Chicago/Midwest & Dodd Camera, 2019
“Here Today, Africa Tomorrow”, Classic Chicago Magazine, 2017
Alien Nations, Exhibition Catalog, 2017
“The Multifaceted Charles Coleman”, Classic Chicago Magazine, 2017
Tent City Out in the Cold, Streetwise Magazine, 2017
Living in Tent City, Streetwise Magazine, 2016
“http://detroitccp.org/EXHIBITIONS-1/In-Review-2016” by Kyohei Abe, 2016
“The Solitary Body: The Self-Portrait in Contemporary Photography Vol. II” by Giorgio Bonomi, 2016
“Glass Variations” by Sigalit Zetouni, 2016
“West Chicago, creating public art inventory, artist registry” by Jessica Cilella, 2016
“Art in the Every Day” by Kelly Konrad, 2016
“Photographer Suzette Bross: On the Fly” by Ginny Van Alyea, 2016
“You are Being Watched: Cutting Edge Art Explores Our Surveillance Culture” by Paddy Johnson, 2014
“The Nature of a Collective” by Elin Spring, 2014
“Discovering Stella” by Elin Spring, 2014
“Abstract Photo Expressionists at Panopticon” by Elin Spring, 2014
“Interior Design Review” by Jennifer Nalewicki, 2014
“Interview with New Mexico Museum of Art Photography Curator Katherine Ware” by Jonathan Blaustein, 2012
“CoPA Review” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 2007
“New City Review” by Michael Weinstein 2007
“Probing Psychology of Abandoned Spaces” by Alan Artner, Chicago Tribune 2007
“World Class Views: Chicago’s Expanding art scene attracts growing international
attention” by Ann Wiens 2003
“Suzette Bross: Review” by Alan Artner Chicago Tribune, April 4, 2003
“Tip of the Week: Suzette Bross” by Michael Weinstein New City, March 20, 2003
Turn, Shake, Flip, “Pictures from a Revolution” by Stephen Wallis, Caitlin Fitzgerald
Alexandra Rowley eds., Eyestorm Press, 2002
“A.R.C Gallery Review” by Michael Weinstein New City, January 14, 1999
“Illinois Institute of Technology, Gold Peak Gallery, Institute of Design
“Photo Show Review” by Michael Weinstein New City, May 27, 1999