Born in Edinburgh (UK) in 1956. Lives and works in London (UK).
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Des Moines Art Center, Iowa (USA) (upcoming)
2018
All this falling, Seventeen, London (UK)
2017
When we loved you best of all, Touchstones Rochdale, Rochdale (UK)
2016
Plinth, Ikon space, 44 Great Russel Street, London (UK)
2014
I would like to invite the viewer, Laura Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas (USA)
2013
This was here, Espacio Minimo, Madrid (Spain)
The Price of Nails, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
2012
That way and this, Seventeen Gallery, London (UK)
Rein, Honigbrot Gallery, Köln (Germany)
2011
So it goes, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas (USA)
2010
I Miss You, Seventeen, London (UK )
Works on paper, Seventeen, London (UK)
I don’t love you anymore, galerie frank elbaz, Paris (France )
Since I fell for you, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (UK)
Sculpture Show, Torrance Art Museum, CA (USA)
Commissioned artist of the Armory Show
2009
Twice removed, Espacio Minimo Gallery, Madrid (Spain)
For all the things we thought we’d love forever, SEVENTEEN, Solo presentation, Frieze Art Fair (with catalogue), London (UK)
2008
Why did I think this was a good idea, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas (USA)
Susan Collis, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (UK)
Sweat, SEVENTEEN, London (UK)
2007
The grand scheme of things, The City Gallery, Leicester, UK
Don’t get your hopes up, Seventeen, London (UK)
2004
I know all about you, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth (UK)
2003
Engineer, Beaconsfield Gallery, London (UK)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
The Unending Gift, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
2017
[Re]construct, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield (UK) (with Arts Council England)
Humble as hell, Merz Barn, Cumbria (UK)
Five Easy Pieces, Large Glass, London (UK)
2016
All the best/your sincerely: Radical Positions in London Painting, Galeria Alegria, Madrid (Spain)
Full Moon, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (The Netherlands)
Material Issue, KMAC Museum, Louisville, Kentucky (USA)
In the Making Ruskin, Creativity and Craftsmanship, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield (UK)
2015
A.N.T.H.R.O.P.O.C.E.N.E, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
Art_Textiles, The Whitworth, Manchester (UK)
Extra/Oridnary, The Whitworth, Manchester (UK)
The Needle’s Eye, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design Oslo, Oslo (Norway)
The Needle’s Eye, KODE, Bergen (Norway)
2014
Lifelike, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix (USA)
Saint Jerome, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro (USA)
The Needle’s Eye, Kode, Art Museum of Bergen, Bergen (Norway)
What Marcel Duchamp taught me, The Fine Art Society, London (UK)
The Artist’s Chair, Large Glass, London (UK)
Small Rome, Frutta, Rome (Italy)
2013
L’origine des choses, Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels (Belgium)
Testing Ground: Disappearing into one, 176 Gallery, London (UK)
Lifelike, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans (USA)
Lifelike, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (USA)
Lifelike, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin? Texas (USA)
Make Believe, Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham (UK)
2012
Lifelike, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis (USA)
Into the wood, curated by Daria de Beauvais, Galerie des Galeries, Paris (France)
Meanwhile II, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (UK)
Look closely now, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW (Australia)
Passage, Blindarte Contemporanea, Napoli (Italy)
2011
La Vie Mode d’Emploi (Life A User’s Manual), Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
Mystics or Rationalists?, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland)
L’art contemporain et son exposition, Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris (France )
A new Hook. Re-thinking needlework, Museum Bellerive, Zürich (Switzerland)
The Workers, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Massachusetts (USA)
De-building, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch (New Zealand)
2010
Les Elixirs de Panacée, Palais Bénédictine, Fécamp (France) curated by Ami Barak
Les compétences invisibles, Maison Populaire de Montreuil (France )
Lean, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York (USA)
Look again, Marlborough Chelsea, New York (USA)
Nod Nod Wink Wink, Taos Museum, New Mexico (USA)
2009
Souvenir, Leeds Metropolitan Gallery, Leeds (UK)
The Sculpture Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham (UK )
Out of the Ordinary, Tullie House, Carslile (UK )
No Show, Nicholas Robinson Gallery, NY (USA )
Susan Collis, Ane Mette Hol and Toril Johannessen, Lautoum (Norway )
Bizarre Perfection, The Isreal Museum, Jerusalem (Israel )
Apparently Invisible, The Drawing Center, NY (USA)
At Your Service, The David Roberts Foundation, London (UK)
2008
Out of the Ordinary, Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead (UK)
Lure, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris (France )
Presque Rien, Laure Genillard, London (UK) curated by Gavin Turk
2007
Isobar, Fieldgate Gallery, London (UK )
Business as Usual, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham (UK )
Citadel 1, Front Room/Killing Room, David Risley Gallery, London (UK )
Ultrasonic International II, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica (USA)
Out of the Ordinary, The V&A, London and touring (UK )
An Archaeology, Project Space 176, The Zabludowicz Collection (with publication), London (UK)
2006
Until it makes sense, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (France )
Until it makes sense, SEVENTEEN, London (UK )
Seventeen Presents…, SEVENTEEN, London (UK)
Brownfield, Lounge Gallery, London (UK)
2005
The Vinyl Project, Cork (Ireland) curated by Simon Cutts for Cork City of Culture
Drawing 200, The Drawing Room, London (UK )
Oriel Mostyn Open 2005, Llandudno, Wales (Winner) (UK )
Arttextiles3, Touring Exhibition Thy Neighbours Ox II, Space Station 65 Gallery, London (UK )
Taking a line for a walk, The Place, Letchworth, UK
Chronic Epoch, Beaconsfield Gallery, London (UK)
2004
Free From the Itch of Desire, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin (Ireland)
Emergency, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth (UK)
2003
40 White Chairs, Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, London (UK )
Gobbledygook, The Centre of Attention Gallery, London (UK)
2002
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Touring Exhibition
Notably, Pump House Gallery, London (UK )
Arcadia In the City, Marble Hill House and Grounds, Twickenham (UK)
Bibliography
2010
Les élixirs de Panacée, Palais Bénédictine
Susan Collis Since I fell for you, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
2009
For all the things we thought we’d love forever, Seventeen
The Bizarre Perfection, Suzanne Landau, The Israel Museum
2008
Susan Collis and Kay Rosen, Art Monthly, James Clegg, Oct 2008
The Times, The Knowledge, p. 26-28, Nancy Durrant, 26th July 2008
Susan Collis, Art World, Paul Carey Kent, Aug/Sept 08
2007
Out of the Ordinary, Laurie Briton Newell, V&A Publications
Don’t get your hopes up, Seventeen
An Archaeology, Zabludowicz Collection
Bon Magazine, Spring 2007, Friere Barnes
The Drawing Book: A Survey of Drawing, Ed. Tania Kovats
2006
Memorabilia, Maxime Thieffine, Paris-art.com
Public collections
France Fonds national d’art contemporain
Israël Museum of Israel
UK The Arts Council Collection
UK The David Roberts Foundation
UK Zabludowicz Collection
NZ Christchurch Art Gallery