May 12, 2020
Multimedia and performance artist Suzanne Bocanegra joins The Brooklyn Rail for New Social Environment #39, with host and Artseen editor Amanda Gluibizzi. They discuss the theatrics of religion, honor groups (and when theater is honorable), fashion, performing Beckett in quarantine, and much more. The New Social Environments provide a place to have vibrant conversations in a time of great physical distancing.
Read MoreOn April 8, 2020, the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation approved the awarding of Guggenheim Fellowships to a diverse group of 175 scholars, artists, and writers. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants in the Foundation’s ninety-sixth competition.
Read MoreThis award was established in 2013 with an endowment gift from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation to honor Mr. Rauschenberg, who was one of FCA's founding artists, and his legacy of innovation, risk-taking, and experimentation. A $40,000 award is made annually through Grants to Artists to an individual visual or performing artist in recognition of outstanding achievement that reflects the spirit of its namesake.
Read MoreUCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance’s Artist Residency Program provides local and national artists creative time and necessary space for the development of new work. Each year CAP UCLA welcomes a new cohort and offers resources, time, connections and more to their process of bringing an idea to the stage. Suzanne Bocanegra, one of this season’s Artists In Residence, will workshop and develop her piece, Honor: An Artist Lecture the week of November 18. The week will conclude with an invited work-in-progress showing on Friday, November 22. The completed work will appear in an upcoming CAP UCLA season.
Read MoreNovember 24, 2019
5PM
Suzanne Bocanegra and Annie-B Parson host a book signing of their respective books:
SUZANNE BOCANEGRA: POORLY WATCHED GIRLS
and
DRAWING THE SURFACE OF DANCE: A BIOGRAPHY IN CHARTS
BY ANNIE-B PARSON
November 10, 2019
2PM
Susan Talbott and Suzanne Bocanegra do a joint walkthrough and tour of Suzanne Bocanegra: Wardrobe Test at Art Cake.
Read MoreNovember 19, 2019
5PM
Poets Mónica de la Torre and Kim Rosenfield read selections from their work in conjunction with Suzanne Bocanegra: Wardrobe Test at Art Cake.
Read MoreNovember 3, 2019
5PM
Pultizer prize-winning composer and musician Caroline Shaw sings David Lang’s ‘when i am alone’ live at Suzanne Bocanegra: Wardrobe Test at Art Cake. ‘when i am alone’ is used as the soundtrack to Bocanegra’s Dialogue of the Carmelites, on view.
Read MoreOctober 11, 2019
7:30 PM
This performance is presented in conjunction with Suzanne Bocanegra: Wardrobe Test on view at Art Cake through November 17.
Read MoreSeptember 7 - November 17, 2019
Art Cake is pleased to present its inaugural exhibition Suzanne Bocanegra: Wardrobe Test, opening September 7, 2019. Located at 214 40th Street in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, Art Cake is a new organization dedicated to providing space for production and opportunities to explore creative practices.
Read MoreMarch 16 - September 1, 2019
SITE Santa Fe presents Bel Canto: Contemporary Artists Explore Opera, an exhibition that examines themes of race, gender and class within the stories, traditions, architecture, and music of opera. The exhibition features the work of Vasco Araújo, Suzanne Bocanegra, Candida Höfer, William Kentridge, Guillermo Kuitca, Yinka Shonibare CBE, Matthias Schaller, and Bill Viola.
Sat, Feb 2, 2019
7pm
Inspired by the two teenage years Suzanne Bocanegra spent in a body cast due to scoliosis, Bodycast is an inventive theatricalization of the ubiquitous “artist talk” starring actress Lili Taylor. Part performance and part essay, Bocanegra uses the format to explore how and why she became an artist.
Read MoreFebruary 15, 2019–from 6:00 to 10:00 pm
The Fabric Workshop and Museum and Lightbox Film Center are pleased to host Night with Nuns. Providing a glimpse into the life of devotion, the films in this program were selected as a companion to themes addressed in Suzanne Bocanegra: Poorly Watched Girls.
Read MoreFebruary 8, 2019–from 7:00 to 8:15 pm
The Philadelphia premiere of Suzanne Bocanegra’s Farmhouse/Whorehouse. Presented by The Fabric Workshop and Museum, the performance will take place at the newly built John and Richanda Rhoden Arts Center at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine.
Read MoreDecember 13, 2018–from 6:00 to 7:00 pm
The Fabric Workshop and Museum’s Executive Director Susan L. Talbott will lead a walk-through of the exhibition Suzanne Bocanegra: Poorly Watched Girls highlighting the collaborative spirit of FWM’s Artist-in-Residence Program. The tour will explore Bocanegra’s newly debuted installations, offering insight into the artist’s methods and practice
Read MoreNovember 28, 2018–from 6:00 to 7:00 PM
Suzanne Bocanegra and noted art critic and historian Hal Foster will discuss the themes and processes that carry through Bocanegra’s work, focusing on her new exhibition at The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Poorly Watched Girls.
Read MoreVisual, installation, and performance artist Suzanne Bocanegra turns the concept of the "panel discussion" upside down in this disorienting and subversive theatrical work. In this world premiere she delves into the colossal Honor, The Met's largest tapestry, woven in the 16th century. 2019. Information HERE.
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