SHADOW AND LIGHT (2023)
Witness, Memory, Solidarity, international exhibition of poetry/text and digital art at Artists’ Alley, 410 E Daniel St, Champaign, 9am-8pm daily. Part of the Boneyard Arts Festival, University of Illinois, supported by the Center for Advanced Studies and McKinley Foundation, Urbana, 4 April - 2 June 2023.
Named (2023)
Video installation, creative collaboration with Canadian composer Nicholas Fairbanks, produced in Canada.
OVid in the red Studio(2022)
Metamorphosis — Light Bending Walls. Digital art series. Red Studio Artist Residency, Britten Pears Arts Foundation, UK.
Eyewitness (2022)
Digital art and poetry in the Shadow and Light exhibition curated by Tamsin Smith. Arion Press Gallery, 1802 Hays Street, The Presidio, SF, US, 6th March-15th May 2022.
Why would we? The Film (2021)
A dialogue across centuries, with John Donne, about the island and the continent. Creative collaboration across continents. Premiered 26th November 2021, SOAS Concert Series.
WHO ARE YOU? the film (2021)
A meditation on the nature of identity/identities. Creative collaboration between artists from three continents. Premiered 4th November 2021, UK/Australia Season.
Polar self Portraits, the film
Polar self Portraits (PsP), the film, is an international art project produced by Creatives without Borders. PsP is about the self, polar landscape, and climate change. I invited artists from six continents to re-imagine the boundaries of 'landscape' and 'self-portrait' in the context of climate change. Audiences have seen the film in a wide variety of venues, including an art museum in the Arctic, research stations in Antarctica, contemporary concerts in NY, universities in Albania, England, Macedonia, an old watchtower in Croatia, a philosophers' salon in England, and an art gallery in Morocco. It is selected for screening and discussion for the featured programmes of the Florence Biennal, eARTh, in October 2017. Polar 3self Portraits_2, with music by J. Bostock, premiered at the Illulissat Art Museum in Greenland 11.2020, and was featured by the Big Freeze Art Festival at the SPRI Polar Museum University of Cambridge 4-14.3.2021. Polar self Portraits_3, with music by J. David, premiered on the eve of Earth Day, 6pm 21.4.2021 online and in the city of Lugano, city of 16 glaciers.
Art?Works!
Inside the creative process, amplified fluidity, obsession, flow. Images for Art?Works, a choral work based on my poem, premiered in Manhattan.
Shapeshifting soundscapes
Sounds shapeshifting, scores coming alive. Inspired by contemporary music making, German expressionism, Stravinsky and Matisse. C4 Artist in Residence, choral ensemble of composers and conductors, NYC.
Château Noir
Bauhaus meets medieval. A moated castle in the heart of France, re-imagined in Bauhaus language. Bellerive-sur-Allier, France (2016).
Mamucium, Mancunium, Manchester
Archeology of the Industrial Revolution, by the Rochdale Canals, in Manchester.
il castello e la carovana
A transfigured Sleeping Beauty, a castello dorme in Milan. And la carovana next to it, recharging it with life -- in the images. Photography fieldwork, exhibition, land art installation and talk in Milan, in collaboration with Agnese Bellagamba.
The curious case of the vanishing ice cap
Adore Noir, the fine art photography magazine features in its no 35 issue The Curious Case of the Vanishing Ice Caps, a selection from my Arctic expedition work, and an interview. Adore Noir champions, as the title suggests, black and white photography, featuring artists from around the world, publishing from Vancouver, Canada. Adore Noir is distributed as a digital product of the digital age, with minimal carbon footprint. Polar self Portraits_3, polar images from this series interlaced with polar self portraits, premiered on Earth Day 2021 In the city of 16 glaciers, Lugano, Switzerland.
Fin de l'histoire
A meeting, a departure; the beginning or the end of a story?
Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?
Freud's passage to London started here.
Urban identity reconstruction
Deutsche Börse Artist Residency at the Frankfurter Kunstverein. Germany.
Migrant identities
Public lecture at Deutsche Börse Frankfurter Kunstverein about the Migrant Identities photography project.
Chronos und Kairos
Chronological time versus supreme moment in time.
Exhibited at the 20th European Artists Symposium, Essen, Germany (8.2012)
Beduin days, desert nights
Desert days with Beduins of the Sinai. Working as a photographer, sleeping on sand, travelling on camels; burnt by the sun, caressed by the stars. Stars Touch the Sand, video installation at Queen’s College, Harley St, London (12.2.13).
Times Square
Ne-Yo, American musician in action. Contact sheets of concert in the streets of New York.
Creative realities – in the mind of the beholder
Exhibition commissioned by the European Commission, featured at its Madou HQ in Brussels.
Adoration of Mary
Photography exhibition and installation at the National Centre of Creativity, Valetta, Malta, Feb-March 2012.
André Kertész Photography Museum
Exhibition and Photography Competition Jury Chair. (2009)
Urban resonances
The urban urbane. Exhibition at the Cêntre de Pompidou in Paris, Europe Festival in Florence, Everyman Cinema Hampstead in London, André Kertész Photography Museum, Hungary. Moments of intimacy in urban living, private gestures in public spaces.
Balkans
Shot high up in the Macedonian mountain village Galičnik, overlooking the Balkan region. Featured at the Contemporary Art Museum of Macedonia in Skopje (2012), European Artists Conference (2014), Franklin University Switzerland (2021)..
Ecce homo
Photography assignment of Roma life in Romania, commissioned by Amnesty International. A series of different exhibitions from my work with Roma curated for exhibitions in various venues, including the Nehru Centre, 12 Star Gallery in London, IIC and IGNCA in Delhi, SEM in Slovenia, Pompidou Centre in Paris, European Commission Brussels, Roma Summit Cordoba, Milan, Budapest, Tehran. Published by The Guardian.
Allegro Barbaro (2002)
Screenings include Dudley Short Film Festival, Harvard, Boston(2002), London Screenwriters (2003), HAS Short FilmFest Hampstead Everyman Cinema London(2004), Experimental Narratives, Jesus College Cambridge (2004), LJCC FilmFest London (2005), Dudley House Harvard University Boston (2005), Nonmultiplex Relaunch Diorama 1 London (2005), Ráckeve SummerFest Savoy Palace2006), André Kertész Museum (2006) India International Centre New Delhi (2006), Mansion Gallery Piliscsaba (2006), Hungarian Cultural Centre New Delhi (2007), ArtsDepot London Dual Muse exhibition (2007), Cultural Centre Pécs (2007), Nehru Centre London (2007), StoryBank: Innovative Narratives University of Surrey (2007), Institute of Contemporary Art ICA London (2008), Gozo Contemporary Malta (2009), Creative Realities European Commission Brussels (2009)
posters and Graphic Design
Some of the art and design work created by Zsuzsanna Ardó | AtelierA can be viewed here and can be purchased by collectors through the Contact page.
Poster art and design commissions.