Suzanne Sbarge
Combining painting, collage, and cyanotypes, Suzanne Sbarge’s series Anomalies explores human-animal hybridity to consider wider issues of time, gender, and identity within an ecological context. In a scientific context, an anomaly describes a deviation from what is considered normal — an error or an entirely new phenomenon. Sbarge’s anomalies are fluid in terms of species and gender, living in a dream-like realm where anything is possible.
Created during a residency at Ogden Contemporary Arts in Utah, the artist was inspired by the flora, fauna, and ecosystem of Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake, which has been impacted by climate change. Sbarge explores how the environmental crisis highlights the relationship between animals and the earth, with the hybrid bodies representing change through transformation.
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BIOGRAPHY: Suzanne Sbarge has been an active force in the New Mexico art work for several decades. Born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1965, she has lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico since 1989. She received a B.A. degree in Art History and Studio Arts from Barnard College in New York City (1987) and an M.A. degree in Art Education from the University of New Mexico (1991). She has also studied studio arts at L’Ecole des Beaux Arts in Toulouse, France; Syracuse University in Florence, Italy; The Art Students’ League in New York City; University of Connecticut; University of Massachusetts; as well as Anderson Ranch in Colorado, and Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina.
Suzanne was awarded the 2025 Artist-in-Residence fellowship at Ogden Contemporary Arts in Utah, supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, among others. She has done multiple residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Obracadobra Artist Residency in Oaxaca, Mexico. Her work has been exhibited in over 80 group exhibitions and 18 solo shows since the late 1980s. It is in the collections of over 150 local, national and international collectors, and has been represented at galleries across the United States.