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Susan Sollins Biography

Birth Name:Susan Sollins

Profession Director, Writer, Producer

Fast Facts

  • Received a Peabody Award for "Art in the Twenty-First Century" in 2007 and a Skowhegan Governors Award for Outstanding Service to Artists in 2008
  • Was the Curator of Education and Curator of the Discovery Gallery at the Smithsonian's American Art Museum
  • Quote: "Our artists not only reflect our society, but also tell us a great deal about our identity and the issues that are in the vanguard of our political, cultural, and social discourse․"
  • Best known as an art curator and as the executive producer of "Art in the Twenty-First Century․"
  • Co-founder and executive director emeriti of Independent Curators International
  • Founder and executive director of the non-profit contemporary art organization Art21
  • Produced and directed a PBS film on South African artist William Kentridge
  • Some of the exhibitions she has curated include: "Art in Landscape," "Eternal Metaphors: New Art from Italy," and "Points of View: Four Painters․"
  • Serves on the boards of Independent Curators International and the MacDowell Colony

Awards

  • 2002Emmy-Outstanding Cultural and Artistic Programming - Long Form: nominated
  • 2010IDA Award-Continuing Series: nominated