Original Oil Paintings by Artist Suzanne Poursine Massion - "Professional Information"

Professional Information

AWARDS:

  • Best of Show - DuPage Art League 1992 - 2013
  • Special Merit & Merit Awards - DuPage Art League 1991-2013
  • Elgin Image Award
  • $1,000 Purchase Award - Arts Infusion Show
  • Best of Show - Creative Catalyst Exhibit

CORPORATEĀ  & PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

  • Corporate America Federal Credit Union
  • CCI Communications, Inc.
  • Elmhurst Art Museum
  • Hines Company
  • Elgin Area Historical Society & Museum
  • Hemmens Cultural Center Permanent Collection
  • Larkin Center
  • Gail Borden Public Library

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS IN:

Illinois, Connecticut, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, New Mexico, Texas, Alaska, Colorado, California, New York and Great Britain.

JURIED SHOWS:

  • Oil Painters of America, Premier, 3rd, and 11th Annual National Exhibitions
  • Oil Painters of America, 5 Midwest Regional Exhibitions
  • Women's Works, 9th, 13th, and 15th Annual Exhibits
  • Liturgical and Sacred Art Exhibit, Springfield Illinois.
  • Creative Catalyst Exhibit
  • Paint DuPage Exhibit, DuPage Art League, Wheaton, Illinois

MEMBERSHIPS:

  • DuPage Art League
  • Illinois Artisans Program
  • Oil Painters of America
Suzanne at her easel
Suzanne in her studio hard at work!

EXHIBITS - ONE WOMAN SHOWS:

  • DuPage Art League, 1992, 1998, 2013, 2014
  • Elmhurst Art Museum, 1993
  • Campbell House, Geneva, Illinois, 1994
  • Hemmens Cultural Center, 1995, 1996 & 1997
  • Elgin Area Historical Society, 1993 & 1997
  • Art in Public Places, 1997 First artist selected for this series
  • Marmion Abbey and Academy, 1998
  • Theosophical Society's Olcott Center, 2001 & 2002
  • The Great Frame Up , 2004
  • ONE - Geneva, Gallery Show, 2004
  • Gallery 57 - Highwood, IL - Gallery Show, 2007
  • Gallery 28 - Geneva, IL First Friday Featured Artist, 2009
  • Independence Grove Visitors Center - Libertyville, Illinois, 2009
  • Elgin Garden Walk - AAUW Featured Artist, 2012, 2014
  • The Healing Gallery - Presence Saint Joseph Hospital, April-June, 2013

EDUCATION:

  • Graduated Michigan State University, B.A.
  • Major, Art Practice
  • Extended Study 1991 and 1994 with professor Chang Li of Bejing, China