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About Susan Harbage Page

Seductively disturbing, Susan Harbage Page’s art works, feminist and anti-racist, both divulge and reveal layers of meaning in media ranging from photographs, altered textiles, and video installations.

Susan Harbage Page’s photography and photo-based installations are in numerous public collections, including the Baltimore Museum of Art; Birmingham Museum of Art; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina; Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Israel Museum. She is the recipient of many awards, including a Faculty Summer Research Grant from the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; a Project Grant from the Emrys Foundation, Greenville, South Carolina, in 2005; two North Carolina Arts Council Fellowships in 2004 and 2000; the Camargo Foundation Fellowship, Cassis, France, in 2002 and a Fulbright Travel grant in 1992.

Her work has been exhibited in Bulgaria, Italy, France, Germany, Israel, and China as well as throughout the United States. She has exhibited work in more than 100 exhibitions at venues such as the Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado; the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; the McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, North Carolina; XIT Gallery, Los Angeles, California and the Diego Rivera Gallery at the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California.

Education: M.F.A. (photography) San Francisco Art Institute, 2004, M.M. (saxophone performance) and B.M. Michigan State University, 1983, 1981. Certificate of Knowledge of the Italian Language, The Italian University for Foreigners, Perugia, Italy, 1984.

Contact Susan Harbage Page at susanharbagepage@gmail.com
For more information, visit her Web site at www.susanharbagepage.com.