Artist’s Statement

Texts, voicemails, emails, and endless digital notifications blur the boundary between real life and virtual connection. While technology promises closeness, it often leaves me feeling overwhelmed and isolated. My work responds to this tension, underscoring the longing for intimacy that digital culture amplifies. I aim to create reflective, immersive experiences that invite viewers to slow down, notice their surroundings, and consider more intentional, embodied ways of connecting.

Artist Bio

Susan Snipes is an interdisciplinary artist based in Cleveland, Ohio, whose work responds to the anxieties and disconnection of the digital age. Working with video, sound, digital devices, and often incorporating user-contributed content and interactive elements, she creates installations that invite reflection and dialogue. Her work encourages audiences to explore their own roles within an interconnected reality where virtual and physical boundaries are increasingly blurred.

Susan holds an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a BA in Art History from Case Western Reserve University. Susan has exhibited nationally with highlights including The Listener’s Gallery in San Antonio, Texas, CalArts in Valencia, California, and CAN Triennial at The Sculpture Center in Cleveland, Ohio.

Her work has been featured in publications such as Collective Arts Network Journal and The Earthkeepers Handbook, curated by Kim Abeles and Whitefeather Hunter.

An active advocate for her community, Susan founded NEO Art Opportunities to connect Northeast Ohio artists with exhibitions and other resources. She also established UNDERSTORY, a contemporary art space in Cleveland dedicated to showcasing emerging conceptual and media artists, with the goal of making art more accessible to the public.

Solo & Duo Exhibitions

Somewhere Between Us, Massillon Museum, Massillon, OH (forthcoming)

Entangled, Gallery D300, CalArts, Valencia, CA (two-person)

2021 Potential Energy, Suite 215 Gallery, Cleveland, OH

Group Exhibitions

Fracture Point, Vermont Granite Museum, Barre, VT

In Process: A Real Time Art Experience, B.K. Smith Gallery, Lake Erie College, Painesville, OH

FEED Her Fire!, FEED Media Center, Erie, PA

NewNow, Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, Tri-C Gallery East, Highland Hills, OH

Terms of Engagement, UNDERSTORY, Cleveland, OH

Your Attention, Please, UNDERSTORY, Cleveland, OH

Feeling Tone, The Listener’s Gallery at Mercury Project, San Antonio, TX

Reverberations, UNDERSTORY, Cleveland, OH

Summer Studio Show, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO

Mirrored Perspectives: The Art of Reflection, UNDERSTORY, Cleveland, OH

79th Annual May Show, Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, OH

14th May Show, The Gallery at Lakeland, Kirtland, OH

Winter Studio Show, Susquehanna College, Selinsgrove, PA

2023

Winter Exhibition, The Ark, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT

2022

CAN Triennial: YOU ARE HERE, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH

Summer Exhibition, The Ark, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT

Member Exhibition, Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH

2021

Primal Disposition, Vestige Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

11th May Show, Gallery at Lakeland, Kirtland, OH

48th Hoyt Regional Juried Exhibition, Hoyt Art Center, New Castle, PA

Celestial Bodies, Adrian Center for the Arts, Adrian, MI

BAYarts Annual Juried Exhibition, Sullivan Gallery, Bay Village, OH

Art in Isolation, Ashtabula Arts Center, Ashtabula, OH

 

2020 

49th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, The Bowen Gallery, Valley Art Center, Chagrin Falls, OH

Great Northern Art Explosion, AuSable Artisan Village, Grayling, MI

Art from the Shutdown, YARDS Projects, Cleveland, OH

Creative Impact Fund, Assembly for the Arts

Collaborators Residency, In Situ Polyculture Commons, Town of Rockingham, VT

OPENFEED Summer Residency, FEED Media Center, Erie, PA