Suzanne Williamson

Biography

Suzanne Williamson grew up in the Northeast, exploring the woods with her mother’s camera. Williamson is a New York City-based artist who returned to the city in 2023 after a ten-year sojourn in Florida. She makes photographs and photographic installations focusing on history, place, and memory. Working primarily in the landscape, she creates works that illuminate layers of beauty and pain embedded in places over time. Florida became and continues to be a muse for Williamson’s aesthetic ideas.

Williamson has gratefully received fellowships to the pre-eminent artist retreats, MacDowell and Yaddo, serving on the Board of MacDowell when president of the Fellows Committee. She was also awarded Florida Creative Capital workshops. Suzanne’s photographs are in a number of museum and private collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.

Artist statement

DISRUPTION

My latest work is a reflection of the turbulence which has increased globally since the days of the pandemic. We witness the evidence of climate change and environmental degradation, along with social, political, and environmental stresses that feed our inaction as we drift above the waters of denial. 

I combine my photographs with elements of sky, earth, and water from the shorelines of Florida. Working with natural and augmented colors, images of dirty water, fish kills, and flowers, I find terrible beauty in these moments. The images express hardened lines and inner turmoil that so many of us feel in our uncertainty about life in the present day.

Suzanne Williamson 2024