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ARTIST + PHOTOGRAPHER
ABOUT
Suzanne Koett is a Johnson City, TN-based visual and photographic artist. She uses a blend of analog photography, digital photography, collage, drawing, drafting, and 19th-century alternative processes to produce artwork. Her work centers around the continual awakening process and infinite cycles of life, death, and rebirth.
Koett’s work has been exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally in museums, photography centers, photography expos, and galleries. She has taught art, photography, and workshops. Growing up in the SF Bay Area, Suzanne was introduced to art and photography at age 14 by her high school photography teacher, Diana Govnik. She went on to receive a BA in Art (concentration in photography) from San Francisco State University (2001), studying under Professors Lewis deSoto and Dale Kistemaker who taught her about process, vulnerability, and tapping into the unseen through art expression.
She is a seeker of truth, freedom, and peace.
STATEMENT
Just as our biological cellular life is an ongoing process of change through adaptive responses to environmental stimuli, our inner psychological and spiritual world mimics the same. Ever-changing, releasing, growing, healing, and evolving. My artwork lands at the truthful intersection of art, psychology, spirituality, and science; serving as a reminder that separation from nature and each other is an illusion.
SOLO EXHIBITION
Crooked Floor Gallery, Austin, TX, 2013
I'm Okay - You're Okay, Birdhouse Gallery, Austin, TX 2011
Sabbat, Bird's Barbershop, Austin, TX, 2011
TWO PERSON EXHIBITION
Infinite Cycles, Vaughn Art Agency + Gallery, Austin, TX, 2023
GROUP EXHIBITION
INNER OUTLOOK, Boom Factory, Milan, Italy, 2021
Soul Art Renewal, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, TX, 2021
The Connected World, Los Angeles Center of Photography, Los Angeles, CA, 2020
ICP Concerned, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, 2020
Creative Distancing, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX, 2020
Togethering, Houston Center For Photography, Houston, TX, 2020
Isolation - Living Oneself, Millepeani Gallery, Rome, Italy, 2020
The People's Gallery, City Hall, Austin, TX, 2020
Social Landscapes, OC3 Gallery, Dallas, TX, 2019-2020
Suzanne Koett & Emily Sharp, Brick Oven on 35th, Austin, TX, 2019
Warmly Persuasive: ICOSA in LA, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 2019
Due WEST, Highland Mall, Austin, TX, 2019
Women of West Went East, Cloud Tree Gallery, Austin, TX, 2019
Red Dot Art Spree, Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX, 2018
Due WEST, Austin Central Library Gallery, Austin, TX, 2018
Congitopia (collaboration), Grayduck Gallery, Austin, TX, 2017
5x7, Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX, 2014
The People's Gallery, City Hall, Austin, TX, 2013
Alchemy Pop Up/Art Night Austin curated by Amanda Gorence, Austin, TX, 2013
Manual Field Sample: Recovery & Archive Unit, Pump Project, 2012
Memento Mori, grayDuck Gallery, Austin, TX, 2012
ART From The Ashes, Starr Building, Austin, TX, 2012
5x7, Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX, 2012
Corridor, Dougherty Arts Center, Austin, TX, 2011
Photographs by Marin Vesely & Suzanne Koett, Thunderbird, Austin, TX, 2011
The Austin Series: Part 3, Gallery Black Lagoon, Austin, TX 2011
5x7, Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX, 2011
Transformation, Big Medium Gallery, Austin, TX, 2008
Radical Nautical, Gallery Lombardi, Austin, TX, 2007
Artist Talks
Austin Art Talk, Episode 89, April 2020
Art After Six, People's Gallery at City Hall, Austin, TX, 2013
Show & Tell: A Digital Slide Jam, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX, 2006
Selected Bibliography
Goldenrod Editions, Issue 2, June 2021
Oxidant Engine, The Boxset Series, Volume 4, front and back cover, 2021
Jason Stanford, “The Houston Center for Photography Captures Pandemic Times with a New Exhibit”, Texas Highways, November 2020 Issue
Miranda Ramirez, “An Interview of Suzanne Koett, Defunkt Magazine, Volume IV, Pages 105 - 116, March 2020
Defunkt Magazine, Volume III, March 2020
"The Study of Aloneness", "Sophie Soltis", & "Teaching Teenagers", Focal Plane, No.5: Women on Women, July 2018
Gavin Horner, "The Photography Teacher's Handbook: Practical Methods for Engaging Students", 1st Edition, March 2015
Alison Powell, "On the Desire to Levitate: Poems", front cover, 2014
Amanda Gorence, Aether Magazine: The Study of Aloneness, April 15, 2013
"Southern Scenes", Oxford American, New South Journalism Issue, #78, November - December 2012
"Misinform Photo Essay", Cantanker Magazine, Issue 10, 2010
Website Publications
Four Way Review, Issue 19, “Art - Four Works by Suzanne Koett”, November 2020
Texas Monthly, “A Houston Photo Exhibit Captures the Sense of Solidarity Fro the Pandemic’s Early Days”, August 11, 2020
F-Stop Magazine, Issue #102, Staying Home Together - a collaboration with dotART
Washington Post, “A photography contest shows the spread of a virus does not stop the spread of creativity”, May 22, 2020
Emily Henderson: How to Choose, Frame, & Hang an Art Collection
Austin Chronicle Arts Review: Memento Mori
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
IB Visual Art & Photography: Headwater School, Austin, TX, 2016-2017
IB Visual Art & Photography: Khabele School, Austin, TX, 2010-2016
National Scholastic Teacher Award, 2017
High School Teacher of the Year, 2015