ABOUT

Suzanne van der Lingen is an artist and writer currently based in London.

Contact: suzannevanderlingen [at] gmail [dot] com


Solo Exhibitions

2017

I can’t say everything all at once. Two Queens, Leicester

I’ll be your mirror. Stryx, Birmingham. Presented as part of Slice; curated by Emma Mckinney

2011

ARK. The Joinery, Dublin. Selected as part of the Joinery’s Graduate Program

 

Selected Group Exhibitions, Workshops and Screenings

2019

Not an Archive (group exhibition). Primary, Nottingham. Curated by Emily Gray for New Contemporaries. Supported by Arts Council England

Tone Poems (performance). Presented at ‘Modernist Art Writing / Writing Modernist Art’ conference, University of Nottingham

2018  

Correspondence, (workshop). Commissioned by Scottish Artists Union. Dundee

2017

NAWKI, (screening). Selected by ESP/Eastside Projects, produced by 12ø Collective. Various venues, UK

Would you like to come back to our hut?, (group exhibition). Backlit, Nottingham

This can only be thought of as a monologue within a dialogue, (lecture). Guest speaker and producer with Claire Walsh, selected by Maria Fusco as part of the School of Art Friday Talk lecture series. Edinburgh College of Art

2015  

Crabs and Butterflies, (workshop). Hosted by Jessica Gogan. Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop

How To Fake Your Own Death, (screening). Part of the Ripples on the Pond programme, selected by Alex Hetherington / Modern Edinburgh Film School. CCA, Glasgow

Edits-While-U-Wait and Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One, (workshop and screening). Presented as part of ECA/ESW Graduate Bursary Award residency. Edits-While-U-Wait produced by Claire Walsh. Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop

Reading in the Dark, (screening). Glasgow Film Festival, commissioned by MAP Magazine. CCA, Glasgow

2014  

The Artist Writing Room, (group exhibition and workshop). Edinburgh College of Art

Silver Screen Darling, (screening). Thurrock International Film Festival 

Remote Possibilities, (group exhibition). Timespan Museum and Arts Centre, Sutherland

2013   

Leave the Capitol: An Exploration of Contemporary Identity by the Masters Programme, Edinburgh College of Art, (group exhibition). The Fleming Collection, London

FAIR, (group exhibition). Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh

2010   

Points of Departure, (group exhibition). Filmbase for Darklight Festival 2010, Dublin

Portret Paviljoen/ Portrait Pavilion, (group exhibition). Kasteel Duivenvoorde, Voorschoten

 

Awards and Residencies

2016-2017

Studio residency. Backlit, Nottingham

2015

ECA/ESW Bursary Award: studio residency (March – May 2015). Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop

2014

New Sensations, (Longlist, nomination). Saatchi Art

Andrew Grant Bequest Scholarship. Edinburgh College of Art

Remote Possibilities (group residency). Timespan Museum and Arts Centre, Sutherland

2013

Andrew Grant Bequest Major Award. Edinburgh College of Art

2010

The Joinery Graduate Program. The Joinery, Dublin

 

Selected Publications

2019  

‘Tone Poems’, (text). MAP, www.mapmagazine.co.uk

2018   

Publication Happens, (text). Eastside Projects, Birmingham

‘Out of Office Auto-Reply: Chapter Five’, (text). MAP,  www.mapmagazine.co.uk 

2016  

Footnoting the Archive, (guest editorial project). MAP, www.mapmagazine.co.uk. Supported by Creative Scotland

2015  

‘How To Fake Your Own Death’, (text and video). MAP, www.mapmagazine.co.uk

2014

‘I, the Other, the Space Between: Reading in the Dark’, (text). MAP, www.mapmagazine.co.uk

‘Reading in the Dark: Voice – Text – Screen’, (curator). MAP, www.mapmagazine.co.uk

X: Embassy Gallery Members Publication, (artwork). Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh

‘How to Fake Your Own Death’, (text). Occupy Paper issue 9, www.occupypaper.com

2013  

‘Death of a Botanist’, (text). The Glasshouse Request, edited by Joseph Priestly 

‘Johan Grimonprez’, (text). SLCTDBY, slctdby.com

2011  

‘Bill Jacobson: Urban Haze’, (text). GUP Magazine issue 30, Amsterdam: x Publishers BV

Contributor. Paper Visual Art Dublin Edition, www.papervisualart.com

‘On Fame & Femininity: Susan Sontag and Annie Leibovitz’, (writer). GUP Magazine, issue 29. Amsterdam: x Publishers BV

2010  

The Tireless Epic: Fieret-Tichy-Heyboer. (research assistant). Uitgeverij d’jonge Hond, Fotomuseum Den Haag

Foto en Copyright: G.P. Fieret Vol. 2, (research assistant). Uitgeverij Voetnoot, Fotomuseum Den Haag

‘Critical Masses: Towards a New Medium for Art Criticism’, (text). Circa Art Magazine, Dublin

 

Arts Employment and Volunteer Work

Mar 2020 – present  

Assistant
Visual Arts & Museums London, Arts Council England

Dec 2017 – Dec 2019

Arts & Heritage Duty Manager
Nottingham Lakeside Arts, University of Nottingham

Jan 2017 – Dec 2017

Visual Arts Assistant
Nottingham Lakeside Arts, University of Nottingham

Jan 2017 – present     

Advisory board
MAP, www.mapmagazine.co.uk

Jan 2016 – Dec 2016 

Guest Editor
‘Footnoting the Archive’ (with Claire Walsh). MAP, www.mapmagazine.co.uk

Jan 2015 – Sep 2016   

Co-Director
Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh

Oct 2014 – Aug 2015 

Volunteer
Forest Centre Plus, Edinburgh

Oct 2011 – Apr 2012 

Volunteer
Dek22, Rotterdam

Apr 2011

Invigilator
TAG gallery, The Hague

Aug – Oct 2010           

Intern
The Hague Museum of Photography

Nov 2009 – May 2010 

Research Assistant
Gerard Byrne, Dublin

 

Education

2012 – 2014

MFA Contemporary Art Practice (Photography)
Edinburgh College of Art

Feb – Jun 2009          

BA Photography (Erasmus Exchange Program)
Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp

2006 – 2010              

BA (Hons) History of Art and Fine Art (Media)
National College of Art and Design, Dublin