Spring Pink Oil on Linen 12" x 9" $465	Mary's Place Oil on Linen 8" x 10" $445
A Walk Around the Block Oil on Linen 9" x 12" $485
Heaven's Corner Oil on Linen 8" x 10" $445	Java Stop Oil on Linen 10" x 8" $445
Morning Shuffle Oil on Linen 12" x 9" $600	Pretty Woman Oil on Linen 12" x 9" $680
	Jasper's Oil on Linen 10" x 8" SOLD!

Education
Master of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, NY
Awards and Honors
Minnesota State Cultural Arts Board Grant, MN
LaGrange Art Gallery
Artist in Residence, The American School of Accelerated Learning, Monterrey, MX
Recognition of Excellence, Associacion de la Plastica, Garza Garcia,Monterrey, MX
Excellence in Arts and Education Award, National Academy of Alternative Education, NYC
Artist in Residence, Studio in a School Association, Inc., NYC
Critics Choic, Spring Invitational, Rolland Dille Arts Center, Moorhead, MN

Selected *Solo and Joint Exhibitions
2007 Emerging Artists, City Arts Gallery, Greenville, NC
2007 The Gold Medal Show, The Palette and Chisel Fine Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 Plein Air Painters Southwest, The Tavern Club, Chicago, IL
2006 Watercolor & Pastels, Palette and Chisel Fine Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 The Elites, Cambridge Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006 2006 Plein Air Painters of Chicago, Palette and Chisel Fine Art Gallery,
curated by Scott Tallman
2006 La Petite, Alder Fine Art Gallery, Coburg, OR curated by Candy Moffett
2006 The Best and the Brightest Juried National Show, Scottsdale Artists' School, Scottsdale, AZ
2006 Still Life to Snow Storms, LaGrange Art League, LaGrange, IL
*2005 Figure & Interiors, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
2005 From the Heartland, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
2005 Stevens Square Gallery, Binghamton, NY
2004 National Painting Show: 2004, New York Art Collection, director Hall Groat II
2004 Avenue Art Gallery, Endicott, NY
2004 Open Market, Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, AZ juror Harley Brown.
2004 Move, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN director B.J. Shigaki.

2004 Drawings & Prints, Minnetonka Center for the Arts, director Jack Becker.
2003 Trinidad National Fine Art Exhibition, A.R. Mitchell Museum, Trinidad Area Arts Council, Trinidad, CO., juror David A. Leffel
2003 Miniature Show, Abend Gallery, Denver, CO director Christine Serr.
2003 Beaux Art Gallery, Woodbury, CT., director Angie Schimpf
2003 Realism Revisited, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
*2003 Torsos, Ohio State University-Pearl Conard Gallery, Mansfield, OH, curated by Rebecca Langley.
2002 Exhibition of Small Works, New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA curated by James Carroll.
*2002 Figure Works, Rosewood Arts Gallery, OH curated by Chris Germann

Bibliography (*Reviews)
Southwest Artists, "The Best and the Brightest Nation Exhibition, 12/06
"Portraits - Real Things" Rochester Art Center Visual, Rochester, MN 12/04- 2/05
"Murals," Post Bulletin, Rochester, MN Feb. 26, 2004
Rebecca Donnelly, "Trinidad National Fine Arts Show," The Chronicle News, Trinidad, CO. Sept. 11, 2003
Diario, Mexio, Sept. 1999
Fernando Garza, "Pinturas," el Norte, Monterrey, MX Sept. 1999
El Norte, Jan. 1999
*Cindy Tiedemann, "Exhibition Begins," Kettering-Oakwood Times, October 7, 1998.
Kathy Whyde Jesse, "Light Adds Fire to Artist Works,"Dayton Daily News, Oct. 4, 1998
*"Art Ideas" 1997
*Marilyn J. fox, "A BIG Show For Small Art, " Eagle/Times, May, 1996
*Michelle Pekola, "Exhibit Opens at Art Center March 3," Rome Observer, Feb. 26, 1995
Janet Loudon, "Painters Dream," Glens Falls Times, March 10, 1995
*Kevin Lewis, "Art from Academia," The Ithacan, Oct. 1, 1992
Harriet Howard Heithaus, "Ancient Forms, New Ideas," The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, April 16, 1992
Alexis Jetter, "L.I.C./Art Exhibit Preserves China Massacre," New York Newsday, April 20, 1990

Teaching Experience and Public Lectures
Ithaca College, Ithaca NY
Dowling College, Oakdale, NY
San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Rochester Community and Technical College
LaGrange Art League and Fine Art Gallery
Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
The Gilded Start Gallery, Rochester, MN
American School of Accelerated Learning, Monterrey, MN
Studio In a School Association, Inc., NYC
Rourke Gallery, Moorhead, MN
*Mothers and More Inc.
*The Rochester Montessori School Staff Development Workshop
*Rome Art and Community Center, Rome, NY
*International Contact Club, Leuven, Belgium
Professional Affiliations and *Gallery Representation
Oil Painters of America
Plein Air Painters of Chicago
Allied Artists of America
*Cambridge Art Gallery
*City Art Gallery

Artist's Statement:

Susan Hong-Sammons' artistry pushes to exemplify the beauty in realism. Her subject matters, painted in oil from direct observation, are the still life, landscapes, and the human figure. The foundation and consistent theme behind all her paintings is to illuminate the beauty in everyday and often overlooked subjects. Her theme is intensified through the use of chiaroscuro, developing form from light and shadow. Hong-Sammons explains, "I seek to create art that goes beyond duplicating reality or merely displaying personal self-expression. My work is an extension of real space without obviously dividing art and reality." Her approach reveals the pure poetry in nature as she creates a meditative response that allows the eye to travel through her art so that none of the subtleties of painting go unnoticed.
Ms. Hong-Sammons has exhibited internationally as well as won national awards and grants. Exhibitions have included the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; The Institute of Contemporary Art P.S. 1 Museum, Artist Space, New York City; The Best and Brightest Exhibition, Scottsdale, AZ; The 2007 Gold Medal Exhibition, Chicago, IL. She is a recipient of the Minnesota State Arts Board Grant; received the Excellence in Arts and Education Award from the National Academy of Alternative Education, NYC; and was selected as Artist-in-Residence by the prestigious Studio in a School Association, NYC. Ms. Hong-Sammons holds a Master of Fine Art from Pratt Institute, NYC.