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about Suzanne

​Suzanne lives and works in Whitehorse, Yukon. Her primary media are oil painting and sculpture using a variety of materials such as driftwood, clay, wire and paper mache.
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Her work is inspired by the human form and by the challenges of expressing the human condition. 

​She is strongly influenced by her own relationship with nature and the north. Her studies of forestry and work in nature education, and subsequent degree in cultural studies and philosophy have fueled her exploration of two converging topics: the realities of the physical and the philosophical worlds.
Living abroad in Zimbabwe and Egypt have also added to her perspectives on how societies see the world and has given her an appreciation of the fluid nature of ‘being’.
 
Suzanne is a life-long learner.  With the benefit of a Yukon Advanced Artist Award, she studied painting, drawing, anatomy and sculpture at the acclaimed New York Academy of Art in 2016. She likes to examine the complexities and contradictions of contemporary life, and challenge her viewers with the scale of her work.
 
Suzanne’s works are in public and private collections in Canada, Egypt, the United Kingdom and the United States.

exhibition  history

solo shows

2017:  Human Forest, Carcross/Tagish First Nation Learning Centre, Carcross, Yukon (currently on display)

2017:  Human/Nature Exhibition,  Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon,  Sept 7-Nov 25, 2017

2015:  Mask,  Yukon Artists at Work Co-op Gallery, Whitehorse, Yukon


2013:
  • Artists at Work, Yukon Artists at Work Co-op Gallery, Whitehorse, Yukon
  • Portraits of Fayoum,  Arts Underground , Whitehorse, Yukon

2012:  Portraits, Rah Rah Gallery, Whitehorse, Yukon

2008:  Portraits of Fayoum, Portrait Fine Art Gallery,  Cairo, Egypt


2006:  Of Pride  and Circumstance:  the people I met in Africa,  Temiskaming  Art Gallery, Haileybury, Ontario

2005:  
  • Of Pride  and Circumstance:  the people I met in Africa,  Parry Sound Station Gallery, Parry Sound,  Ontario
  • Works from the Model, Akin Gallery,  Peterborough, Ontario

selected  group  shows

2016: Opening Showcase by the Southern Lake Artist Collective in the new  Art House  Carcross,  Carcross, Yukon

2015/16:  Kingston Prize,  Canada-wide portrait competition and exhibition

2015:
  • Rock Paper  Scissors,  Southern Lakes Artist Collective, Arts Underground, Whitehorse, Yukon
  • Yukon Plein Air Festival, Whitehorse, Yukon

2014:
  • What About the Peel, Yukon Artists at Work Gallery, Whitehorse, Yukon
  • Yukon Plein Air Festival, Whitehorse, Yukon

2013:  The Kingston Prize,  Canada-wide portrait competition and exhibition

2012:
  • The Exquisite North,  Yukon Art Society collaborative mural, Arts Underground, Whitehorse, Yukon
  • Faces,  Yukon Artists at Work Gallery, Whitehorse, Yukon
  • Au -  the Gold Show,  Arts Underground, Whitehorse, Yukon

2008:  International Art Symposium , Old Cairo International Art Centre, Cairo, Egypt

2009, 2004, 2002, 2001:  Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour,  Art Gallery of  Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario


1996, 1997:  Women Visual Artists Exhibition,  National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe

​recent     awards  

Yukon Government Advanced  Artist Award 2015
Finalist in The Kingston Prize, 2015, 2013

Yukon Government Touring Artist  Fund 2013

collections

Yukon Permanent Art Collection
Yukon Arts Centre Permanent Art Collection
John Tizya Centre, Vuntut Gwichin  First Nation, Old Crow, Yukon
Yukon Employee's Union
City of Peterborough, Ontario

Portrait Fine Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
Private collections in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Egypt.
​suzannepaleczny@gmail.com
867.336.0885
Whitehorse,  Yukon, Canada
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