Suzette Marie Martin is a mixed media painter based in New England.
Her work bears witness to ecological trauma through combinations of scientific data, figurative, mythological, symbolic, and archival imagery.
Martin is a 2024-25 Artist Research Fellow at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC. Recent solo exhibitions include artist-in-residence at the Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, UMass, Amherst; the 6018North Center for Experimental Arts and Culture, Chicago; and the Edward Hopper House Museum, Nyack, NY. Martin was a keynote speaker at the “Never Not in Crisis: Forms of Calamity in Catastrophic Times Symposium”, Myers Foundation, Northwestern University. Her Naiads of the New World drawings have been featured in Orion Magazine.
Martin's early career includes exhibitions with artists of the New York Neo-Expressionist movement. She returned to studio practice following an extended hiatus as a single mother, supporting her family as an arts educator and digital media specialist.
Education
Professional Certificate, Multimedia Design, New York University
MA, Painting, William Paterson University
BA, cum laude, Drawing, University of New Hampshire
Additional studies at Art Students League, NY
Veteran of the USAF
Residencies, Grants and Fellowships
2024-25 Artist Research Fellowship, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC.
2023 Artist in Residence, Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, College of Humanities and Fine Arts, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
2022 Never Not in Crisis: Forms of Calamity in Catastrophic Times Symposium, Myers Foundation Grant. Speaking engagement and solo exhibition. Departments of Art History, Northwestern University, and the Institute for Humanities Research, Arizona State University.
2021 Artist Lab: Historical Societies, Art Meets History Initiative, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT.
2020 CoVid-19: Critical/Creative Studies in Music, Image, and Text, Ethics and Humanities Grant from the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
2019 Resident Artist, Edward Hopper House Museum, Nyack, NY.
2019 Ora Lerman Charitable Trust, Soaring Gardens Artists Retreat, Laceyville, PA.
2001 Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA.
1999 National Gallery of Art Teacher Institute Fellowship, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Solo Exhibitions
2024 The Expulsion from Eden: Conflagration, Drought and Deluge, Eclipse Mill Gallery, North Adams, MA.
2023 Apocalypse: Science & Myth, Artist in Residence exhibition for Renaissance of the Earth, Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Interview about this series.
2022 Viral Load, Bearing Witness to the Pandemic, 6018 North Center for Experimental Arts and Culture, Chicago. In conjunction with Never Not in Crisis: Forms of Calamity in Catastrophic Times Symposium, Myers Foundation Grant. Department of Art History, Northwestern University and the Institute for Humanities Research at Arizona State University.
2021 Viral Load, Bearing Witness to the Pandemic, Eclipse Mill Gallery, North Adams, MA.
2019 Early Sunday Morning, Saturday Night is Over, Resident Artist Exhibition, Edward Hopper House Museum, Nyack, NY.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Word and Image, Site: Brooklyn, online exhibition. (Juror: Caroline Goldstein, managing editor at ArtNet news).
2024 Lineages, Artists are Never Alone, exhibition, workshop leader and artist’s panel discussion, Wilson Museum, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT.
2023 The Futuring Lab: Elemental Futuring, The Carbon Carousel, exhibition and artist’s talk in conjunction with the Department of Architecture, College of Humanities and Fine Arts, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
2023 Stratigraphy, Celebrating Layering in the Arts, Arts, Letters & Numbers at Faith Mills Studios, Averill Park, NY.
2021-23 What's Next for Earth series of online exhibitions, Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere, Stanford University, and The Post Carbon Institute, Santa Rosa, CA.
2022 A Closer Look, Inspired by Master Works from the Clark Art Institute, Eclipse Mill Gallery, North Adams, MA. Work featured in the May/June Issue of Artscope Magazine, Volume 17, Number 2.
2021 Collaborative Works on Paper and Reconnections 2021, Eclipse Mill Gallery, North Adams, MA
2020 Art in Ecological Context, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY (Juror: Karl Kusserow, John Wilmerding Curator of American Art, Princeton University Art Museum)
2020 Prayers for the Pandemic, Prayers for Progress, Prayers for the Planet, Drawing Rooms Gallery, Jersey City, NJ.
2019 Body 2019, Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, DE (Juror: Brittany Webb, curator of the John Rhoden Collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts).
2019 Drawn from Life, Upstream Gallery, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY.
2019 Fear, Volition Gallery at Bell-Ans Creative Arts Center, Orangeburg, NY.
2018 The River Runs Both Ways, Newington-Cropsey Foundation, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY.
Collections
Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ.
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Private Collections, New York.
Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Private Collections, New York.
Public Art Installations
2020-21 Airborne Transmission, Prayer Flags for the Pandemic. River Street Park Installation, North Adams, MA in association with the city of North Adams Public Arts Commission.
Publications
2025 Medicinal Plants, Colonial Weed, and Biodiversity Loss The Collation, Folger Shakespeare Library blog.
2021 Blood and Thunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine. Journal of the Oklahoma University College of Medicine. Cover art and feature on Viral Load series.
2019 Orion Magazine, Volume 38, Number 3, Autumn Edition. Naiads of the New World drawings accompanying "Filling the Democracy Gap" by Thomas Linzey. Orion magazine interview Solastalgia: Naiads of the New World
Early Career Exhibitions: 1987-1991
The Cutting Edge in New York, Dramatis Personae Gallery, NY, NY.
South Bronx Fantasies, New Work, Fashion Moda Gallery, Bronx, NY.
New Work, Fashion Moda Gallery, Bronx, NY.
Hellhole, Essex-Phoenix Artist’s Association, Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ.
The COLAB and Essex-Phoenix Show, Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ.
All Women’s Exhibition, Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ.
5 Colt Gallery/Essex-Phoenix Artist’s Association: Ongoing group shows and pop-up events, Paterson, NJ.
Bergen Museum of Art and Science, 3rd and 5th Annual Juried Shows, Paramus, NJ.
