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EDUCATION:
1998 Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH (BFA)
FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS:
2021 Individual Excellence Award, Ohio Arts Council
2020 Artist in residence: Shenandoah National Park
2019 Art in Embassies Program, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
2018 Ohio Percent for Art Program Purchase Award
2015 Ohio Percent For Art Program Commission Award
2013 Fine Arts Work Center Residency, Provincetown, MA, Ohio Arts Council
2013 Individual Excellence Award, Ohio Arts Council
2000 Juror’s Mention Award, Butler Institute of American Art
1997 Ellen Battell Stoeckel Painting Fellowship, Yale University
1997 Joseph McCullough Painting Award, Cleveland Institute of Art
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2024 Dark Matter, Cuyahoga Valley National Park Gallery, Peninsula, OH
2024 Water, Lake Erie College, Painsville, OH
2024 Artists Who Teach, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
2023 The Nexus of Art and Health, Ohio Arts Council: Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH
2022 Susan Danko: Night Forest, Deep Dive Art Projects, Cleveland, OH
2021 Susan Danko: Environments Observed, Malone University, Canton, OH
2020 Susan danko: Natural Balance, Cleveland Botanical Garden, Cleveland, OH
2020 Cause For Change, Bonfoey Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2019 Installers, Museum of Contemporary Art-Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
2019 Susan Danko: Beautiful Intruders, Conservancy for the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Peninsula, OH
2018 Susan Danko: Shift, Collective Arts Network: CAN Triennial, Cleveland, OH
2018 Susan Danko: Rift, Morgan Paper Conservatory, Cleveland, OH
2017 Line, Attleboro Art Museum, Attleboro, MA
2017 Susan Danko, Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
2017 Spaces to Spaces, SPACES, Cleveland, OH
2016 Art From the Heartland, Indianapolis Arts Center, Indianapolis, IN
2016 Three Rivers Art Festival, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh, PA
2014 Susan Dankoi: Landscape Re-Imagined, Angela Meleca Gallery, Columbus, OH
2014 Sky High, Ohio Arts Council: Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH / Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, OH
2014 Susan Danko: New Terrain, Harris-Stanton Gallery, Akron, OH
2013 Residency Exhibition: Susan Danko: New Terrain, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
2013 Extreme Nature, Cuyahoga Community College, Parma, OH (Curatorial Debut)
2012 Rockford Midwestern, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
2011 The Big Show, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH
2009 Rosemary’s Babies 2, Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2009 Susan Danko: Scape, Cheryl Hazan Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Exurbs: A Collected Environment, Bonfoey Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2007 Come Closer, The Wooltex Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2006 M%, Scope Art Fair, New York, NY
2005 Susan Danko, Paintings, Cleveland Botanical Garden, Cleveland, OH
2005 Susan Danko: Becoming, Raw & Co. Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2004 Nature: The Underlying Order, The Ohio Art League, Columbus, OH
2004 New Work, The Cleveland Foundation, Cleveland, OH
2003 Parameters, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV
2003 Metro, M% Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2002 Three Women, Butler Institute of American Art, Salem, OH
2001 65th Midyear, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
2001 Susan Danko, Acme Art Company, Columbus, OH
2000 Surface Tension, Spaces, Cleveland, OH
1999 International Touring Exhibition, Arts Council, Lake Erie West, Toledo, OH
1999 Works on Paper, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2019 Schneider, Dott. “Art Below the Surface:
Susan Danko Tackles the Hidden Damage of Invasive Species in Beautiful Intruders”
Scene Magazine. vol. no. 50, Issue 6, August 7, pp. 24.
2018 Keffer, Mark. "Visual Art Showcase: Susan Danko"
Around Kent. Volume 17, July 1, pp. 20 - 21.
2018 Clark, Joseph. "Into the Third Dimension: Unknown Terrain at the Morgan Conservatory"
CAN Journal. Blog. July 6.
2018 Hudak, Brittany. "Installation Artists"
CAN Triennial Exhibition Guide. July 6, pp. 9.
2018 Johnston, Laura. "Water stars in CAN Triennial artwork"
Rock the Lake. Online. July 9.
2014 Tigges, Jesse. "Susan Danko returns to Columbus with Landscape Re-imagined"
Columbus Alive. November 20. pp. 30-31.
2014 Spotlight Riffe Gallery: "Sky High"
Prod. Souders, Vivien. video. Ohio Channel
2013 Minsky, Deborah. “A happy stranger in a strange land”
Provincetown Banner. August 22, pp. 32.
2012 Studio Visit, 2012. Volume 18, Susan Danko, pp. 42-43, back cover.
2012 Utter, Douglas Max. “Artists’ personal visions make natural partners in show”
Cleveland Plain Dealer. March 30. pp. T18.
2009 Shinn, Dorothy. “Thoughtful ‘Awakenings’.”
Akron Beacon Journal. May 24. pp. E8.
2006 Kappes, John.
“There is no disputing the signs: Danko was meant to be a painter”
Cleveland Plain Dealer, Friday Magazine. November 24. pp. 2, 22.
2006 Bracken Sparks, Amy. “Susan Danko, Portfolio.”
Angle, vo3 no24. January / February. Cover, pp. 3, 14, 15.
2005 Tranberg, Dan. “Beauty is entry point to visions, ideas.”
Cleveland Plain Dealer. September 7, pp. E1, E6.
COLLECTIONS:
Baker Hostetler, Los Angeles, CA
Bellwether Enterprises, Cleveland, OH
BF Goodrich Corporation, Charlotte, NC
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH
Cuyahoga County Administrative Headquarters, Cleveland, OH
Federal Reserve Bank, Cleveland, OH
First Energy Corporation, Akron, OH
Glidden House, Cleveland, OH
Hilton Hotel & Convention Center, Cleveland, OH
Intercontinental Hotel, Cleveland, OH
Kaiser Permanente, Stafford, VA
Lorain Community College, Elyria, OH
Marriott Hotels, Cleveland, OH
Metro General Hospital, Cleveland, OH
Nordson Corporation, Westlake, OH
Northcoast Behavioral Healthcare, Northfield, OH
Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, OH
PNC Bank, Cleveland, OH
Rockwell Automation, Cleveland, OH
Southwest General Health Center, Berea, OH
Springfield Regional Medical Center, Springfield, OH
Suburban Hospital -Johns Hopkins Medicine, Bethesda, MD
Summa Foundation, Akron, OH
United States Embassy, Tashkent, Uzbekistan