Chronology
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1959
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Born, (twin) September 12 Boston, Massachusetts
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1960
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Family moved to Connecticut.
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1978
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Moved to California's Bay Area
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1984
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to 1989 employed at Deadalus, a paper conservation laboratory in Oakland, California.
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1990
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to 2004 became sole proprietor of 'Works on Paper', a conservation laboratory preserving works of art, as well as designing and producing artist’s books.
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2002
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to 2012 joined the Faculty at San Francisco Art Institute teaching courses, which focus on aesthetics in art practice, the embodied mind, constructions of space, topologies, artist’s books and visual autobiography.
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2012
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Moved from Berkeley, California to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Taught in Israel and Germany followed by a two month fellowship at Scoula Internazionale di Grafica, Venice Italy.
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2014
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Contributing Faculty at Santa Fe University of Art and Design.
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2016
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Completed Doctorate U.C. Berkeley.
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Awards
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2014
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Artist Residency Fellowship,
Venezia, Italy
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2013
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Regent's Fellowship,
University of California, Berkeley
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2001
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Eisner Prize for Photography,
University of California, Berkeley
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2001
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University Merit Fellowship,
University of California, Berkeley
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2000
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Landmark: Artist in Resident,
San Francisco, CA
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Solo Exhibitions
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2014
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Verniciatura,
Scuola Internazionale di Grafica,
Venezia, Italy
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2008
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Nature Word ~ Verbe Nature,
None Such Space,
Oakland, CA
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2004
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Topologies,
Scott Nicols Gallery,
San Francisco CA
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2002
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Everyday Constellations,
Townsend Center for the Humanities,
Berkeley, CA
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2002
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In/Visible Cosmos,
Scott Nichols Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
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2001
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Vessels of Light,
Scott Nichols Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
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Group Exhibitions
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2017
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Material Matters,
Seager Gray Gallery,
Mill Valley, CA
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2017
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Mostra,
Piazza Vagnotti Gallery,
Cortona, Italy
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2014
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Cameraless,
New Mexico Museum of Art,
Santa Fe, New Mexico
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2010
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Unbound,
Bedford Gallery,
Walnut Creek, CA
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2006
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The Photograph As Representation,
Maryland Art Place,
Baltimore, Maryland
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2004
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Photo-Experimentalists: The Chicago School and Beyond,
Scott Nichols,
San Francisco, CA
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2003
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Early to Modern,
Cecil H. Green Library, Stanford Univeristy,
Stanford, CA
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2003
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The Cameraless Image,
Photo-eye Gallery,
Santa Fe, NM
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2002
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Penumbra,
Artists Television Access,
San Francisco, CA
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2002
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Celebrating Teachers of Artist's Books,
San Francisco Center for the Book,
San Francisco, CA
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2002
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Revealing the Mysteries: Artist's Books in the Bay Area,
San Francisco Center for the Book,
San Francisco, CA
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2002
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Generative Art Conference,
Politechnico di Milano Unversity,
Milan, Italy
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2001
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Bay Area Emerging Artists,
Mills Building,
San Francisco, CA
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2000
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1:1,
Refusalon Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
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1998
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Nothing But Time,
Southern Exposure,
San Francisco, CA
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1997
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Coptic & Collage; Ancient Technique, Modern Application,
New York Center for Book Arts,
New York, NY
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Collections
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
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Spencer Collection, New York Public Library, New York, NY
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Cecil H. Green Library, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
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Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
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Heller Rare Book Room, Mills College, Oakland, CA
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Prentice and Paul Sack Trust, San Francisco, California
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University of California Berkeley Environmental Design Library
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Yale Haas Book Art Collection, New Haven, Connecticut
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Getty Research Institute, Special Collections, Santa Monica, California
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Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Connecticut
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Bibliography
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Arroyo Flora.
Susannah Hays. Venus Pencils, Santa Fe, 2105
(photo-eye Cat# ZG442)
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Mesa Verde.
Susannah Hays. Venus Pencils, Santa Fe, 2016
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Chaco.
Susannah Hays. Venus Pencils, Santa Fe, 2015
(photo-eye Cat# ZG443)
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Wild Gourds.
Susannah Hays. Venus Pencils, Santa Fe, 2015
(photo-eye Cat# ZG441)
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Star Fields.
Susannah Hays. Venus Pencils, Santa Fe, 2015
(photo-eye Cat# ZG440)
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Between Cedar & Vine.
Susannah Hays. Venus Pencils, Santa Fe, 2008
(photo-eye Cat# ZF879L)
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Education
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1978 - 1982
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Mills College, BA Philosophy
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Studied with Anne Sherrill (Americanist)
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1998 - 2000
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San Francisco Art Institute, MFA in Photography
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Studied with Doug Hall and Ann Chamberlain
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2000 - 2002
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University of California, Berkeley, MA College of Environmental Design
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Studied with Tony Dubovsky (painter), Lewis Watts (photographer), and Galen Cranz (embodied designer)
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2010 - 2016
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University of California, Berkeley, PhD Philosophy
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Studied with Alva Nöe (philosopher), Lyn Hejinian (poet), and Trinh T. Minh-ha (filmmaker)
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Favorite Photography Books
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Camera Lucida,
Roland Barthes
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Words of Light,
Eduardo Cadava
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The photography of Gustave Le Gray,
Eugenia Parry
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Towards A Philosphy of Photography,
Vilém Flusser
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