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Born in Chicago, Suzanne Stryk currently lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwest Virginia. She has shown her conceptual nature paintings in solo exhibits throughout the United States, including the Morris Museum of Art (GA), the United States Botanic Garden (DC), The Eleanor B. Wilson Museum (VA) and Gallery 180, The Illinois Institute of Art in Chicago. In 2005 a mid-career survey of the artist’s work, “Second Nature: The Art of Suzanne Stryk” was organized by the William King Museum, an affiliate of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

In addition to creating cover art for the books of her husband Dan Stryk and other contemporary American writers, her images have appeared in numerous publications, with full portfolios in Shenandoah, Ecotone, and Orion. Collections including her paintings are the Smithsonian (DC), The David Brower Center (Berkeley, CA), The National Academy of Sciences (DC), and the Taubman Museum of Art (Roanoke, VA). Her series of drawings "Genomes and Daily Observations" appears in the Viewing Program at The Drawing Center (NY, NY). She is the recipient of a 2007 George Sugarman Foundation grant and a 2010-11 Virginia Commission for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship for her project, “Notes on the State of Virginia.”

To learn more about the artist, please visit www.suzannestryk.com