Suzanne Opton

Bio

Suzanne Opton’s photographs offer an unusual perspective on the ordinary – whether objects or individuals. Her recent “Soldier” project focuses on the fragility and vulnerability of military men and women back from Iraq and Afghanistan. Her work is intimate and still, seemingly suspended in both time and space. New York-based Opton, has received grants from the Vermont Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2009).

Solo Exhibitions
The Soldier; Stephen Cohen Gallery, PeterHay Halpert Fine Art, NY, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, USA, Musée deL’Elisée, Lausanne, Switzerland 2007
Loose Change, Diaframma, Milan, Italy, Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, Colorado, 2006

Collective Exhibitions
Stigmata, International Museum of the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland 2009
Great Expectations: The Bitter Years, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg 2009

Publications
Face: the new photographic portrait; text by William Ewing, Thames and Hudson 2006
Contact Sheet 136; Light Work 2006
Light Matters, Writings on Photography; Aperture, 2005

Collections
Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris, France
Le Musee de’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA

www.suzanneopton.com