Susan Bleckner Heller

16 Douglass Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231 • 718-834-1217

Resume

• Education
  • 2000–Present
    • Studio artist
  • 1997–1999
    • Clayworks on Columbia, Brooklyn, NY
      Classes in ceramics
  • 1967
    • BFA The School for Visual Arts, NY, NY
      Fine Art, Graphic Art
• Group Exhibitions
  • 2017
    • Kips Bay Palm Beach Decorator Show House, Foley & Cox Interiors
    • GOS Open Studio, Brooklyn, NY
    • Fall Group Show, Cocobolo Gallery, NYC, NY
    • Spring Group Show, Cocobolo Gallery, NYC, NY
  • 2016
    • In Our Backyard
      Invitational Group Show
      Clay Art Center
      Port Chester, NY
  • 2015
    • Fall Group Show, Cocobolo Gallery
      NYC, NY
    • Spring Group Show, Cocobolo Gallery
      NYC, NY
    • Architectural Digest Home Design Show
      Cocobolo Gallery NYC, NY
  • 2014
    • Group Show, Cocobolo Gallery
      NYC, NY
    • Architectural Digest Home Design Show
      Cocobolo Gallery NYC, NY
  • 2013
    • Art in Clay
      Juried Ceramic Sculpture Show
      BWAC Gallery
      Brooklyn, NY
      Juror-David Revere McFadden, Chief Curator, Museum of Arts & Design
    • 64 ARTS 2013
      National Juried Exhibition
      Buchanan Center for the Arts
      Monmouth, IL
      Juror-April Gornick, Artist, Danese Gallery, Chelsea, NY
  • 2012
    • Clay
      Sweet Lorraine Gallery
      Brooklyn, NY
    • CraftForms 2012
      Davenport Gallery
      Wayne, Pennsylvania
      Juror-Cindy Strauss, Assistant Director, Programming and Curator for Modern & Contemporary Decorative Arts & Design at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
    • GO Brooklyn Art Tour participant
      sponsored by The Brooklyn Museum
      Brooklyn, NY
  • 2011
    • The 9th International Ceramics Competition
      HONORABLE MENTION AWARD
      Mino, Japan
  • 2010
    • Annual ART2Gift Exhibition
      Raandesk Gallery
      NYC, New York
    • Jersey Shore Clay National 2010
      Matt Burton Gallery, Surf City, New Jersey
      Juror-Mark Dean, The Dean Project Gallery,
      Long Island City, New York
    • Annual Tokyo-New York Friendship Competition,
      HONORABLE MENTION AWARD
      The Nippon Gallery, NYC, NY
      Juror's- David McFadden,Chief Curator,Museum of Arts & Design, Halsey and Alice North, Collectors, Professor Toshio Ohi, 10th Ohi Chozaemon Ware/Ohi Museum, Japan
    • Open Studio, Screwball Spaces, Brooklyn, NY
  • 2009
    • CraftForms 2009
      The Ethel Sergeant Clark Smith Gallery
      Wayne, Pennsylvania
      Juror-Bruce W. Pepich, Executive Director and Curator of Collections, The Racine Art Museum and The Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts in Racine, Wisconsin
    • The 6th Cheongju International Craft Competition
      Initial Selection
      Republic of South Korea
    • Feats of Clay
      XXII 22nd Annual Juried Competition, Lincoln, California
      Juror – Tony Marsh, Ceramic Artist, Chair of Ceramics,
      California State University
    • Brooklyn Waterfront Artist’s Coalition Studio Tour
      Clayworks on Columbia, Brooklyn, NY
  • 2008
    • Seventeenth San Angelo National Ceramic Competition
      San Angelo Museum Of Fine Arts
      San Angelo, Texas
      Juror – Anna Stanfield Harris Curator, Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, Mississippi
    • Feats of Clay XXI 21st Annual Juried Competition
      Lincoln, California,
      PURCHASE AWARD
      Juror – Judith S. Schwartz, P.H.D., Critic, Curator, Associate Professor of Art, Head of Sculpture, Craft Media Area, NYU, NY, NY
    • Brooklyn Waterfront Artist’s Coalition Studio Tour,
      Clayworks on Columbia, Brooklyn, NY
  • 2007
    • Ceramic Objects / Conceptual Material
      Anne Kittrell Gallery
      Juried Exhibition University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas
      Juror – John Perrault, Curator, Art Critic, Writer
    • National Juried Ceramics Exhibition and Symposium,
      Lawrence Arts Center Gallery
      Lawrence, Kansas
      Juror – Dan Anderson, Ceramic Artist, Head of Ceramics, Southern Illinois University
    • Group Show,
      Suite New York, NY, NY
    • Brooklyn Waterfront Artist’s Coalition Studio Tour,
      Clayworks on Columbia, Brooklyn, NY
  • 2006
    • New Hampshire Institute of Art Ceramics 2006 Biennial
      Manchester, New Hampshire
      Juror – Mary Barringer, Ceramic Artist, Editor, Studio Potter Magazine
• Publications
  • 2016
    • New York Magazine, Design Hunting, Special Issue, Winter
  • 2014
    • Interior Design Magazine, COVER, October Issue
  • ​​2005
    • Ceramics Monthly Magazine, Emerging Artists, May Issue
• Collections
  • 2014
    • ​​Zeckendorf Development, NYC, NY
    • Champion Platt Interiors, NYC, NY
  • 2011
    • The Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu Japan
  • 2010
    • Paul Neuman, President of Neuman's Catering, Collector
  • 2008
    • Patty French, Patron of the Arts, Collector
  • 2007
    • Kris Fuchs, Owner of Suite New York, Collector
• Presentations, Conferences, & Charity Events
  • 2018
    • ArtWorks: A Benefit for Arts Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
  • 2015
    • Greenwich House Arts, Benefit Auction, NYC, NY
  • 2014
    • Greenwich House Arts, Benefit Auction, NYC, NY
  • 2013
    • The Metropolitan Museum of Art,  Artists’ Study Day—Ceramics across the Globe, NYC, NY
      invited artist
  • 2012
    • The Muriel Guepin Gallery, “To Be Considered” Art Auction & Fund Raising Benefit, Brooklyn, NY
    • Greenwich House Arts, Benefit Auction, NYC, NY
  • 2011
    • Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, NYC Clay Forum ll
      Presenter
  • 2010
    • Greenwich House Arts, Benefit Auction, NYC, NY
  • 2009
    • Prospect Park Biennial Fundraiser Auction, Brooklyn, NY
  • 2007
    • Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, NYC Clay Forum
• Workshop
  • 2007
    • Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine,
      “Developing a Personal Aesthetic in Ceramic Sculpture”
      Richard Notkin, Instructor