SUE HAVENS

UPCOMING : FIERY FURNACES

JANUARY 1 - 27, 2024

Butterfly, 2017, 17 x 16 x 3 in

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 from 1990-1995, 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 Associate Professor of Art at The University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida.

Havens has exhibited internationally and nationally in venues such as The Marjorie Barrick Museum, Galerie Nord in Berlin, The Museum of Drawings in Laholm, Sweden, The Painting Center, Regina Rex, Jeff Bailey, PS 122, Postmasters, Frederich Petzel, Art in General, Momenta Art, Sara Meltzer, OK Harris, Pierogi, The Houghton Gallery at The Cooper Union, The Parlour, Park Place Gallery, and Mindy Solomon in Miami among others. Havens was a 2008 Fellowship recipient in Painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts and most recently, a recipient of the 2017 McKnight Junior Faculty Development Fellowship. Havens authored, designed and illustrated the book Make Your Own Toys (2010). She holds a BFA from The Cooper Union, and a MFA from The Milton Avery Graduate School of The Arts at Bard College. Her work was most recently featured in Warhol’s Interview Magazine.

Fire, 2017, 13 x 13 x 6 in

Little Wing, 2017, 7 x 5 x 4 in

Round Dot, 2019, 14 x 10 x 3 1/2 in

Little Plaid, 2016, 10 1/2 x 8 x 4 in

Block Stack, 2020, Various sizes roughly 4" blocks

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