Biography
Suzanne Kiggins is a self-taught artist who works primarily with acrylic and gouache on paper, wood panel, and canvas. She takes inspiration from everyday experiences and imagery, as well as dreams and the feelings and moods they evoke. Her work has been displayed extensively throughout New York, including a solo exhibit at Secret Project Robot in Brooklyn, and group shows at ArtPort Kingston, Flux House at Governor’s Island, The Other Art Fair in Brooklyn, The Wassaic Project, and SPRING/BREAK in Manhattan. Kiggins lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Artist Statement
I like to use painting as a way to share unseen feelings and experiences that while powerful and universal, are difficult to express. I draw inspiration from the natural world, and its reflection in the manmade. A common theme for me is tension between opposing powerful forces such as order and chaos, safety and exploration, life and death, connection and independence, and our internal and external worlds. I often use symbols and metaphor to create a narrative. Ultimately, I communicate my internal world in the hope of finding that these hard-to-define feelings, places and experiences are familiar to others, too
Recent Shows and/or Exhibitions
The Stairwell Space, Bridgeport, CT
Make. Believe. Material as spell (Group show)
June-July 2025
Upland Art Residency, VT June 2025
Corners Gallery, Ithaca, NY
The Circus Of Being (2-person show with Sylvia Taylor)
March 2025
One River Art School
Solo shows in their Montclair and Millburn, NJ locations
October, 2023, and March-May 2024
Among Friends 3 (Brooklyn, NY)
(Group Show)
April 2024
Visions West Contemporary, Denver, CO and Bozeman, MT
(Group Show)
May 2023-2025
Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan (Represented by Carrie Chen Gallery)
(Group Booth)
October 2023
Upstate Art Weekend, The Barn On Berme, Kerhonkson, NY
(Group Show)
July 2023
Carrie Chen Gallery (Great Barrington, MA)
HARMONICA
(Solo Show)
November 2022
ArtPort Kingston (Kingston, NY)
Wunder....A Summer Adventure
(Group Show)
July 2022
Among Friends 2 (Manhattan, NY)
(Group Show)
May 2022
Secret Project Robot (Brooklyn, NY)
There Are Two Birds Inside My Heart
(Solo Show)
July 2022
ArtPort Kingston (Kingston, NY)
Dumplings and Sugar Cookies... a Jam Session
(Group Show)
November 2022
Flux House (Governors Island, NYC)
AmphorasamorphA
(Group Show)
October 2021
SPRING/BREAK Art Show (Manhattan, NY, Curator Emily McElwreath)
Hearsay:Heresy
(Group Show)
September 2021
Secret Project Robot (Brooklyn, NY)
SO GATHERING SEEMS ESSENTIAL...
(Group Show)
August 2021
Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY)
If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now
(Group Show)
May 22, 2021