Current News
Water Stories: the Podcast
Water Stories: the Podcast, produced by BioBAT Art Space and hosted by Eve Barro, offers an immersive exploration into the intricate relationship between humans and water. I was honored to be interviewed by Eve in the second episode of "Water Stories: the Podcast." I talked about my project Flow, which engages communities through shared stories of water, fostering kinship and reciprocity.
Past Exhibitions & Events (selected)
Installation view from "Language, Like Letters" at the Lunder Arts Center Gallery, Lesley University. 2024. Photo: Will Howcroft
Faculty Exhibition
September 3 - 26, 2024
Jannotta Gallery, Brown Fine Arts Center
Smith College
20 Elm Street
Northampton, MA
Exquisite River (Group show)
April 14 - June 2, 2024
Ely Center of Contemporary Art
51 Trumbull Street, New Haven CT 06510
Language, Like Letters (Three-persons show)
Gabriel Sosa, Naoe Suzuki, and Kenson Truong
February 1 - March 3, 2024
Lunder Arts Center Gallery, Lesley University
1801 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA
State of the Earth (group exhibition)
August 29 - September 27, 2023
Midway Gallery
15 Channel Center Street Boston MA 02210
View the online exhibit catalog.
Flow (group exhibition)
September 2 - October 15, 2023
Lore Degenstein Gallery at Susquehanna University
514 University Ave
Selinsgrove, PA 17870This exhibition addresses how water systems support life, while acknowledging that water is more than its use-value as a commodity. The exhibition catalog is available for purchase.
Layered Time: Naoe Suzuki - On Land (solo exhibition)
April 12 - May 29, 2021
Spoke Gallery
South Boston, MA
Read the curatorial essay by Kathleen Bitetti, and an interview.
Mapping
October 19 - December 9, 2020
Rivers School, Weston, MA.
Field Notes, II from solo show, "Mapping" at the Rivers School, 2020
News & Activities
Teaching
Naoe taught Five College Advanced Studio Seminar at Smith College in the fall of 2024. Northampton, MA.Naoe taught the Low-Residency MFA in Visual Arts Program at Lesley Art + Design. Cambridge, MA. 2024.
Residency at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology
March 13 - April 13, 2023Grant from World Wide Fund for Nature
Naoe received a funding to present Flow at Nature Positive Hub at NY Climate Week in New York City in September, 2023.Roundtable discussion about water
Naoe lead the roundtable discussion entitled "Expressing and Exploring the Power of Water in Artworks: Giving Voice, Body, and Vision to Water" at TransCultural Exchange’s International Conference on Opportunities in the Arts: Create the Future, November 4 - 6, 2022. Boston Colleges of the Fenway, Boston, MA.Broad Discovery Center
Naoe's work is incorporated in the design for the opening gallery at the Broad Discovery Center at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Opened to the public in September, 2022.Visiting Artist at the Rivers School, Weston, MA. Fall 2020.
Naoe Suzuki: Artist in Residence, Broad Institute on YouTube.
Interviews & Articles
Thinking with the "Flow" Exhibit The Quill, Susquehanna University, October 3, 2023
Featured Alumni Project: Naoe Suzuki's Extinction Series on BMC Blog. December, 2021.
Q&A with SPOKE artist Naoe Suzuki on SPOKE Gallery blog. May 21, 2021.
Think About Water on World Water Day on Artists & Climate Change. March 22, 2021, and Art spiel. June 21, 2021. Written by Susan Hoffman Fishman.
What Role Does Research Play in Your Art? on ArtSake, a blog for the Massachusetts Cultural Council. December 15, 2020.
Naoe Suzuki: Artist in Residence, Broad Institute on YouTube.
Presentations
Watch the presentation about Naoe's work on water.