Sue Havens (born 1972 in Rochester, New York) is an artist based in New York and Tampa. Havens received her BFA in Art from The Cooper Union for The Advancement of Science and Art in 1995, and her MFA in painting from The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College in 2003. Havens is a 2008 Fellowship recipient in Painting from The New York Foundation for the Arts and a recipient of the 2017 McKnight Junior Faculty Development Fellowship. She is currently an assistant Professor of Art at The University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida.
Havens has exhibited internationally and nationally in venues such as The Knockdown Center in New York, Galerie Nord in Berlin, The Museum of Drawings in Laholm, Sweden, Regina Rex, Jeff Bailey, PS 122, Postmasters, Frederich Petzel, Art in General, Momenta Art, Sara Meltzer, OK Harris, Pierogi, The Tampa Museum of Art, The Sarasota Art Museum, and Mindy Solomon in Miami among many others. Havens authored, designed and illustrated the book Make Your Own Toys (2010). Her work was featured in Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine, New American Painting Magazine, the Korean International Ceramic Biennale. She recently discussed her work at the National Ceramics Education Council and has a solo exhibition at The Marjorie Barrick Museum at UNLV.
Exhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 • Finding Form: Through Line, FGCU, Fort Meyers, FL
2025 • SPEED BUMP, The Painting Center, New York
2023 • Motherboard, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2022 • CULL+, Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts, Pensacola State College, FL
2021 • Sue Havens: CULL, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV (curated by Jason Lazarus) (catalog)
2018 • Brick and Mortar: MASSIVE, FiftyTwo Ft. Series, Knockdown Center, NY (commission)
2018 • Brick and Mortar, Park Place Gallery, New York, NY
2017 • A C T U A L F O R M S, Coco Hunday, Tampa, FL
2013 • Sue Havens, Drawing and Constructions, Greenwich Academy, Luchsinger Gallery, CT (catalog)
2012 • SPACEKNIT, 443 PAS, New York, NY
2012 • NADA Miami Art Fair, Regina Rex, Miami, FL
2011 • Hot Dots, Clutch Gallery, Chicago, IL
2010 • re:make, Center for Continuing and Professional Studies Gallery, Pratt Institute, New York, NY
1992 • Aeronautica, Carpe Diem, Rochester, New York, NY
TWO- & THREE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2026 • ANNE HAVENS/SUE HAVENS, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, NY
2024 • FIERY FURNACES, ADA Gallery, NCECA 2024 “Coalescence”
2018 • SPECTRUM III with Elisabeth Condon, Kristin Shiele, Sarasota Arts Center, Sarasota, FL (curated by Nathan Skiles)
2013 • Recent Works on Paper with Vitor Mujeto, Schema Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2005 • Blue with Louise Belcourt and Stephen Hendee, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 • Pierogi Flat files Exhibition, Monira Foundation, Mana Contemporary, NJ
2025 • 6x6, Rochester Contemporary Arts Center, Rochester, NY
2025 • INK MIAMI, Kress Contemporary, Miami Art Fair, FL
2025 • The Painting Center Benefit, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2025 • Look At Us Now, Carolyn M. Wilson Gallery, USF, FL.
2024 • Skyway 2024, Sarasota Art Museum, Sarasota, FL.
2024 • USF Faculty Show, Gallery 114, HCC Ybor City Campus, Tampa, FL
2024 • TPC Benefit, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2023 • Philosophicalinvestigations, Platform Project Space, New York, NY
2023 • 6x6, Rochester Contemporary Arts Center, Rochester, NY
2023 • Drawings By Sculptors, Helena Anrather Gallery, curated by Carl D’Alvia, New York, NY
2022 • Invisible Attraction, Church of the Heavenly Rest, New York, NY
2022 • Break of Day, Edge of Night, The Painting Center, New York, NY (catalog)
2022 • 6x6, Rochester Contemporary Arts Center, Rochester, NY
2022 • Modular Mosaic, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY
2021 • Clash of the Titans, Carolyn Wilson Gallery, Tampa, FL
2021 • A Drawing a Day, Marjorie Barrick Museum, Las Vegas, NV (curated by Emmanuel Munoz)
2021 • Pizza Monument Inc, Coco Hunday, Tampa, FL
2021 • On the Porch, Arthouse3, Tampa, FL
2020 • Mother Altar, Mother Gallery, Beacon, NY (curated by Chie Fueki)
2020 • proust, time, 10 works on paper, Platform Projects Space, New York, NY (curated by Franklin Evans)
2020 • Ransom 2, Wayfarers, Brooklyn, NY
2020 • not canceled, International Art Fair (Southeast US), Coco Hunday, Tampa, FL
2020 • A Drawing a Day, Marjorie Barrick Museum, on-line exhibition, Las Vegas, NV
2020 • planepaperspace, Platform, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Franklin Evans) (postponed/canceled COVID19)
2020 • Bard MFA 40 Postcard Project, Bard College, Hudson, NY
2019 • Coco Hunday Presents, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
2019 • Underdonk Benefit Auction 2019, Underdonk Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 • Dirt in The Wrong Hands, Quaid Gallery, Tampa, FL
2019 • 10th Korean International Ceramic Biennale, Gyeonggi, South Korea (catalog)
2019 • Current Seen: Inside Out, Rochester Biennial, organized by RoCo, Visual Studies Workshop and RIT, Rochester, NY (catalog)
2019 • Imprints, Sarasota Arts Center, Sarasota, FL (curated by Nathan Skiles)
2019 • FUR CUP, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY
2019 • RULERS, Coco Hunday, Tampa, FL
2019 • Großkreisentfernung Mail-Art Exhibition, Berlin, Germany (curated by Marcus Brownlow of Picture Berlin) (catalog)
2019 • MFAO Auction, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
2019 • 6x6, Rochester Contemporary Arts Center, Rochester, NY
2019 • Chaos, Small Collective, Cornwall, England
2019 • Tool Box, LMAK Gallery, New York, NY (catalog)
2019 • ANONYMOUS DRAWINGS ARCHIVE, Kunsthaus Kannen Museum, Munster, Germany
2018 • Casheesh 18, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2018 • TOOL BOX, Field Projects, New York, NY
2018 • MFAO Auction 2018, Tempus projects, Tampa, FL
2018 • Weekend, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL (curated by Ezra Johnson)
2017 • Fire Sale, Present Company, Brooklyn, NY
2017 • Still Life Show, Park Place Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 • Skyway 2017, Tampa Art Museum, FL (catalog)
2017 • Nasty Women, Instar Lodge, Germantown, NY
2017 • Summer Salon, Portspace, Tampa, FL (received Best in Show award)
2017 • Prove It All Night, Carolyn M. Wilson Gallery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
2016 • A Round About, Present Company, Brooklyn, NY
2016 • Six, Regina Rex, New York, NY
2016 • PDF-OBJECTS, Mana Contemporary Chicago, Chicago, IL (catalog)
2016 • 6x6, Fundraiser, Rochester Contemporary Arts Center, Rochester, NY
2016 • Collector’s Eye, Colleen Buzzard Studio, Rochester, NY
2016 • Anonymous Drawings, Kunstverein Russelsheim, Germany
2016 • Casheesh Eight, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2016 • Anonymous Drawings, Galerie Geyso20, Brunswick, Germany
2015 • Casheesh Eight, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2015 • Anonymous Drawings, Kunstverein Tiergarten | Galerie Nord, Berlin, Germany
2015 • Anonymous Drawings, ArtQ13, Rome, Italy
2015 • Prime Matter, Teckningsmuseet (The Museum of Drawings), Laholm, Sweden (catalog)
2015 • Show #15, The Parlour Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
2015 • Casheesh Seven, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2014 • Prime Matter, Senaspace, New York, NY
2014 • The Last Brucenniel, 837 Washington, New York, NY
2014 • 6x6, Fundraiser, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
2013 • Seeing with Fingers, Barbara Walters Gallery, Bronxville, NY (catalog)
2013 • Folk Appeal, Mingo Gallery, Beverly, MA (curated by Sean Green)
2012 • Casheesh Six, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2012 • Download Complete, Word, Brooklyn, NY
2012 • Speakers, Front Street Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Zoe-Pettijohn Schade, Christopher Schade, and Michael Lee)
2012 • Faculty Exhibition, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ
2012 • 6x6, Fundraiser, Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, NY
2011 • The Nitty Gritty, private studio, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Anni Rossi)
2011 • Taking Shape, Standpipe Gallery, New York, NY
2011 • Chain Letter Exhibition, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
2011 • Shapeshifters, 443 PAS, New York, NY
2011 • Day Job, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Ben Coonley)
2011 • Yard Sale in the Sky, Devotion Gallery, NY (curated by Kristin Lucas)
2011 • Flip File, Regina Rex, Brooklyn, NY
2011 • The Dependent Art Fair, Soloway Gallery, New York, NY
2010 • Half-Invisible, BETA spaces, Brooklyn, NY
2010 • Hand's Tide, Regina Rex, Brooklyn, NY
2010 • re:make, Center for Continuing and Professional Studies Gallery at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2010 • Time Bandits III, Mike Olin studio, Brooklyn, NY
2010 • World's Greatest, Daily Operation, Brooklyn, NY
2010 • Momenta Art Benefit, Momenta, White Columns Gallery, New York, NY
2010 • Verge Art Fair, ANTIDOTE Gallery, New York, NY
2010 • Rites of Passage, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2009 • CentroNia Art Auction, The Katzen Arts Center at American University, Washington, DC
2009 • The map is not the territory, NYFA Fellows and artists from the Artists Immigrant Outreach Program, DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2009 • I Wanna Be Somewhere, New York, NY (curated by John Lutz)
2009 • Sick Shape, Daily Operation, New York, NY (curated by John Lutz)
2009 • International Art Affairs, Knew Gallery, Washington, DC
2009 • MomentaArt Benefit, Momenta, Sara Meltzer Gallery, NY
2009 • Morsel Remains, Super Elastic Studios, New York, NY
2009 • Artseen, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
2008 • PS122 Benefit, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
2008 • Dean Street Formal For Obama, Sabrina Gschwandtner studio, Brooklyn, NY
2008 • Bestiary, Pomme, Brooklyn, NY
2008 • 6x6 fundraiser, Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, NY
2008 • Before and After, And/Or Gallery, Dallas, TX
2008 • It's Gouache and Gouache Only, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Geoffrey Young)
2007 • If Then Else End If, Postmasters, New York, NY
2006 • circus me (a round), Portland Art Center, Portland, OR
2006 • No Show-Face Off, One Night Stand, Brooklyn, NY
2006 • Tax Day, Galapagos Artspace, Brooklyn, NY
2005 • Pierogi Flat Files, Brooklyn, NY
2005 • Color By Numbers, Westchester Community College Fine Arts Center, Valhalla, NY
2005 • Brooklyn Bridge, Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, NY
2004 • Vote With Your Art, OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2004 • Into The Woods, Morsel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2003 • Enchante, Bard College Exhibition Center, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2001 • Material Whirled, Art In General, New York, NY
2000 • Hole in One, Gallery 128, New York, NY
1998 • Imaginary Friends, PS122, New York, NY
1996 • Video Shag, The Shag Club, New York, NY (curated by Kristin Lucas)
1995 • Live Ladies, Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
Projects & Talks
CURATORIAL & COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
2019 • RULERS, Coco Hunday Gallery, Tampa, FL (co-curator Jason Lazarus)
2017 • POINTS OF DEPARTURE: Meditations on Mapping, advisor, Mercer Gallery, Rochester, NY (catalog)
2016 • Best Thang, video collaboration with Pegasus Warning (Guillermo Brown), New York, NY
2015–16 • Brooklyn Bridge II, Rochester Contemporary Arts Center, Rochester, NY (co-curator Bleu Cease, Director of RoCo)
2009 • The map is not the territory, curator, Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY (works by recipients of the 2008 New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship plus participants in the Artists Immigrant Outreach Program)
2005 • Brooklyn Bridge, curator, Rochester Contemporary Arts Center, Rochester, New York, NY
SELECTED LECTURES, PANELS, PRESENTATIONS & WORKSHOPS
2024 • “Art at Noon”, Skyway, Sarasota Art Museum, Sarasota, FL
2022 • “CULL+,” Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts, Pensacola State College, FL
2022 • “Digital Realms in Practice,” CAA 2022 Annual Conference, Chicago, IL
2021 • “Sue Havens: CULL,” workshop, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas, NV
2021 • “PICTURE BERLIN: In Conversation with Sue Havens,” online lecture, Picture Berlin, Germany
2021 • “Sue Havens: CULL,” online discussion with Sharon Butler, Two Coats of Paint, Clubhouse, New York, NY
2021 • “Sue Haves: CULL,” online discussion with the Marjorie Barrick Museum, Las Vegas, NV
2021 • “Sue Havens: CULL,” online lecture, Battery Journal, New York, NY
2021 • "Close Encounters," National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), 54th Annual Conference, Multivalent: Clay, Mindfulness, and Memory, Richmond, VA
2020 • “Uni-verse-Prints-Proofs by Visionary Humans,” online panel presentation, Battery Journal, New York, NY
2019 • Artist lecture, Stetson University, FL
2018 • “Sue Havens: Massive,” workshop, Knockdown Center, New York, NY
2018 • “Brick and Mortar,” artist lecture, Kunsthaus Kule, Berlin, Germany
2018 • “Brick and Mortar,” artist lecture, UMass at Amherst, MA
2018 • Artist Lecture Series, artist lecture, New York, NY (paired with Carl D’Alvia)
2017 • “Family Day” workshop: Paper Construction Sculpture, Tampa Museum, FL
2017 • Girl Scout Troop 2508, workshop, Coco Hunday, Tampa, FL
2012 • Artist Lecture Series, Brooklyn, NY
Awards, Grants, & Fellowships
2020 • Creative Scholarship Grant, USF
2017 • McKnight Junior Faculty Fellowship Award
2011–2015 • Regina Rex Artist Registry
2011 • Drawing Center Curated Artist Registry
2008 • New York Foundation for the Arts, artists fellowship in painting
2006–present • White Columns Curated Artist Registry
2005–present • Pierogi Flat Files
1990 • Full four-year tuition scholarship, The Cooper Union
Selected Bibliography
PUBLICATIONS
2023 • Posit Journal, Vol. 32.
2021 • NCECA Journal, Rivers and Reflections Reinventions, Vol. 41.
• Sue Havens: CULL, exhibition catalog, curatorial essay by Jason Lazarus (Las Vegas: Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art).
2020 • Chloe Bernardo (ed.), “A Drawing a Day Keeps the Pandemic Away,” Vol 1, (Las Vegas: Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art).
• Anna Ehrsam and Katherine Jackson (eds.), Uni-verse Poetry-Prints-Proofs by Visionary Humans (New York: Battery Journal Publishing).
• Marcus Brownlow, Großkreisentfernung Great Circle Distance, An Exhibition of Mail Art, 46 Artist, 12 Countries, 66,678 km , catalog
(Berlin: Brownlow).
2019 • The 10th Korean International Ceramic Biennale, catalog, Gyeonggi, South Korea, 2019.
• “RULERS,” PDF catalog, Coco Hunday, Tampa, FL.
2017–18 • Skyway: A Contemporary Collaboration, catalog, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, and Tampa Museum of Art, FL.
2016 • PDF OBJECTS, catalog, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL.
2015–16 • Prime Matter, catalog, Teckningsmuseet, The Museum of Drawings, Laholm, Sweden.
2013 • Seeing with Fingers, Barbara Walters Gallery, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY.
• Sue Havens, Drawing and Constructions, Greenwich Academy, Luchsinger Gallery, CT.
REVIEWS & MEDIA COVERAGE
2026 • Jacob Schermerhorn, “Creating art across generations,” Rochester Beacon, March 13
2024 • David Warner, “Get Schooled at Sarasota Art Museum’s ‘Skyway’ Installation,” Creative Loafing, October 8
• Tom Hall, “Sarasota Art Museum one of five museums hosting 'Skyway 2024: A Contemporary Collaboration',” WCGU, September 5.
2023 • Andrea K. Scott, “Drawings by Sculptors,” The New Yorker, January 17.
• Martha Schwendener, “Drawings by Sculptors,” The New York Times, January 26.
2021 • Sharon Butler, “Encoding History,” Two Coats of Paint, June 24.
• Etty Yaniv, “In Dialogue with Sue Havens,” ART SPIEL, June 14.
• “‘Sue Havens: CULL,’ Curated By Jason Lazarus at Marjorie Barrick Museum,” April 20.
2020 • Lori Waxman, “COVID Reviews: Maria Gaspar, Sue Havens, Tony Tasset,” Quarantine Times, June 26.
• Will Heinrich, “2 Art Gallery Shows to Explore From Home,” New York Times, June 24.
2019 • Dana Tyrrell, “A Small Venue Biennial,” Cornelia, Dec. 9.
• Andrea K. Scott, “Fur Cup,” The New Yorker, Oct. 8.
• SK West, “‘RULERS’ explores measurements and leaders at Coco Hunday in Tampa,” Creative Loafing Tampa Bay, June 2.
• “DIY Index: Coco Hunday in Tampa, Florida,” Burnaway, March 28.
• New American Paintings, No.142, Southern Issue.
2018 • Cassidy Dawn Graves, “Black Art Matters and More Exhibitions This Week,” Bedford + Bowery, Aug. 28.
• Sarah Cascone, “Editors’ Picks: 15 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week,” Artnet, Aug. 27.
2017 • Lennie Bennett, “Three-museum ‘Skyway’ exhibit unites Tampa Bay through art Tampa Bay Times, Nov. 10.
• Artplanner, Tampa Bay Times, June 22.
• Maggie Duffy, “The coolest exhibits this week: 'Skyway' opens at three museums, and photos explore the female gaze,” TBO Tampa
Bay, June 21.
• James Chapin, “Skyway show unites: Major museums open their doors to the talent in their backyard,” Creative Loafing Tampa Bay,
June 20.
• Emily Burns, “Issue 5,” Maake Magazine (curated by Yevgenia Baras).
2016 • Chris Reeves, “Artists Play With Objectified Ideas,” Newcity Art: Visual Art Culture of Chicago and Beyond, July 21.
• Jenny Lam, “10 Art Gallery Exhibitions to See in June,” TimeOut Chicago, June 3.
2015 • Katie Killary, “Beat Nite Pick,” Bushwick Daily, Feb. 26.
2013 • Etty Yaniv, “Sue Havens: Recent Work at Schema Projects,” Arts In Bushwick, June 19.
INTERVIEWS
2020 • “Meet Sue Havens: Artist,” Shoutout Miami, July 29.
2018 • “Conversations with the Inspiring Sue Havens,” VoyageMIA, Dec. 6.
• Bradley Rubenstein, Battery Journal, Aug. 27.
• “In Conversation: Matthew Sharpe and Sue Havens,” Fields Magazine, July 21.
• Catherine Davis, “Sue Havens Turns Ceramic Art into Pieces of Pop Culture,” Interview Magazine, April 26.
2017 • Interview with Franklin Evans, Coco Hunday, Tampa, FL, Sept.
Visiting Artist Lectures and Critiques
2022 • Artist lecture, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, WI
2022 • Artist lecture, Keene State College, NH
2021 • Artist lecture, Hudson Community College, NY
2020 • Guest critic for BFA thesis students, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, WI
2013 • Guest lecturer/visiting artist at Greenwich Academy, Greenwich, CT
2012 • Visiting critic/Painting, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
2012 • Visiting artist, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2009 • Mentor in Immigrant Artist Mentorship, New York Foundation for the Arts, Program, New York, NY
2008 • Undergraduate thesis guest critic, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2008 • Visiting critic/Painting, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Collections
The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas, NVThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD
Private collection, Durham, NCPrivate collection(s), Las Vegas, NV
Private collection(s), New York, NY
Residencies
2018 • Picture Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Education
2003 • MFA, Painting, The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
1995 • BFA, Studio Art, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art, New York, NY