Zsuzsanna Ardó is human by inclination, humorous, curious and creative by nature — and an award-winning visual artist and writer by profession. Her work has received awards and been awarded artist residencies by various organisations, e.g. Arts Council England, High Arctic Expedition, Arts Students League New York, Frankfurter Kunstverein Germany, Il Bisonte Florence Italy, Design Centre Boibouchet France, Britten Pears Arts UK, Tyrone Guthrie Centre Ireland, European Artists Germany, UNESCO. Jury-selected to represent the UK in UNESCO’s creative residency, with exhibitions in Andorra, Portugal, and at UNESCO HQ in Paris. Her work has been exhibited internationally in mainstream and alternative spaces, from the British Film Academy, Westminster Palace, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Classical Museum UCD, Royal Institution, India International Centre Delhi, Google HQ NY, Artists’ Gallery Skopje N. Macedonia, National Museum Slovenia, National Creativity Centre Malta, European Commission, European Parliament to the Arctic and the Antarctic. A member of the Writers Guild and the International Council of Museums, her work is registered by Broadcasting Music, Inc. Her masterclasses, mentoring and portfolio reviews, workshops, talks and consultations and commissions can be requested via the contact form.
Some of her work can be viewed/heard on LinkendIn, Soundcloud, and Youtube.
Her writing is across genres, writing poetry, scripts, essays, journalism, articles and books published internationally. For stage, she has conceived a series of interconnected works about strong women of action and imagination across time and space, reality and mythology: Francesca Caccini, Frida Kahlo, Hannah Arendt, Rosa Parks, Maryam Mirzakhini, Eve, Aphrodite, Hekate and more. Amor Mundi, commissioned by the University of Cambridge, supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, premiered at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, in 2024. She is the Artistic Director of the international choral, collaborative project, PlanetWoman.
Served as chair of several international juries, and curated international exhibitions internationally. Her own art collection includes a wide variety of art by fellow artists from around the world, from Haiti to Japan.
Masterclasses, workshops, talks and consultations with her can be requested via the contact form.
Zsuzsanna Ardó’s work is public and private collections internationally, including European Artists e.V Essen | Germany, UNESCO CNAU | Andorra, City Hall Ordino | Andorra, FEDA | Andorra, Hotel La Planada Ordino | Andorra, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts | India, National Photography Museum | Hungary, PromArt Port-au-Prince | Haiti, Foundacion Solaina de Piloño | Spain, Fundație Inter-Art Foundation Aiud | Romania, Karli Kevi Hotel Kapadokya | Turkey, SağKal Sağlıkta Kalite Derneği, Konak Izmir | Turkey, Fondazione Istituto Sacra Famiglia, Cesano Boscone Milano | Italy, Comune di Cesano Boscone Milano | Italy, CSV Centro Servizi per il Volontariato. Città di Milano | Italy, Centre for Fine Print Research UWE Bristol | UK, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library Columbia University NYC | US, George Mason University Virginia | US, Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition San Francisco | US, Brooklyn Art Library Sketchbook Library NY | US, Composers Conductors Choral Ensemble Auction NYC | US, Transcultural Exchange Boston | US, Contemporary Art Centre Šamorin | Slovakia, Boz’Art en Baz’Art Festival Bellerive | France, Art Colony Galichnik | N. Macedonia, Arka Hotel Skopje | N. Macedonia, Skopje City Museum | N. Macedonia, Silindart of N. Macedonia, The Polar Museum Cambridge | UK, Illulissat Art Museum | Greenland.
Her work has been published by Philosophy Now, Oxford University Press, Macmillan Prentice Hall, Biográf, Logos, openDemocracy, The Guardian. Her poems have been set to music and performed by contemporary ensembles e.g. Roomful of Teeth, C4 Ensemble NY, C3LA. Listen to some of her creative collaborations with composers on Soundcloud. Her play premiered at Harvard, and the opera she wrote libretto for premiered in NY and Chicago. Scheduled European premier in Oxford was scheduled, but due to pandemic cancelled. Zsuzsanna’s scripts feature strong women of imagination, agency and action, in solidarity, across time and space, mythology and history.
Balkans, a photography series shot high up in the Macedonian mountain village Galichnik, overlooking the rest of the Balkan. Video installation created for the National Gallery of N. Macedonia - Multimedia Center "Mala Stancia" in Skopje (2012). Screenings at the 22nd European Artists Conference, Essen, Germany (24.8..14), and Franklin University, Lugano, Switzerland (21.4.21).
Polar Self Portraits, an international curatorial arts project conceived on an expedition in the High Arctic.
Polar self Portraits screenings include the Florence Biennale, Antarctic research station, Moroccan art gallery, Croatian watchtower, NY concert and more.
