About Susan Snipes

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.

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Exhibitions & Special Projects

Fracture Point, Vermont Granite Museum, Barre, Vermont

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

NewNow 2025, Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, Tri-C Gallery East, Highland Hills, Ohio 

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

STEAMY Science, Imagination Station, Toledo, Ohio

Your Attention, Please, UNDERSTORY, Cleveland, Ohio

Feeling Tone, The Listener’s Gallery, San Antonio, Texas

Entangled, Gallery D300, CalArts, Valencia, California 

Reverberations, UNDERSTORY, Cleveland, Ohio

Summer Studio Space, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado

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

May Show, The Gallery at Lakeland, Kirtland, Ohio

Winter Studio Space, Susquehanna College, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania

2023

Heal the Man, Heal the Land, Earthkeepers Handbook, curated by Kim Abeles and WhiteFeather Hunter

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

2022

CAN Triennial, “YOU ARE HERE”, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, Ohio

Member Exhibition, Artist Archives of the Western Reserve, Cleveland, Ohio

2021

Primal Disposition, Vestige Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Potential Energy (SOLO EXHIBITION), Suite 215 Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio

May Show, The Gallery at Lakeland, Kirtland, Ohio 

48th Hoyt Regional Juried Exhibition, Hoyt Art Center, New Castle, Pennsylvania - MERIT AWARD

Celestial Bodies, Adrian Center for the Arts, Adrian, Michigan - HONORABLE MENTION

BAYarts Annual Juried Exhibition 2021, Sullivan Gallery, Bay Village, Ohio 

Art in Isolation, Ashtabula Arts Center, Ashtabula, Ohio - HONORABLE MENTION

 

2020 

49th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Margaret “Peg” Bowen Gallery, Chagrin Falls, Ohio

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

Art from the Shutdown, YARDS Projects, Cleveland, Ohio