Suzie Buchholz grew up in the heart of Kansas farmland, where clothes were made by hand, meals were hearty and people made do with what they had. Mining those rich memories while deconstructing modern life, Suzie's work has evolved into a joyous explosion of color, movement and light. Her mixed media abstract paintings play vibrant colors against deeply layered artifacts. Her mixed media sculptures employ found objects (such as plaster and metal reconstruction debris from a 15th century Italian monastery) and pristine white paper, creating a tension between belief and physics, burden and freedom. Suzie studied painting in Aix-en-Provence, France and received a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute.

Solo Exhibitions
2009 Hay Barn Gallery, Napa, CA
2008 Deborah Young Gallery, Sausalito, CA
2007 Bay Model Gallery, Sausalito, CA
2007 "Flight," installation, SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 "Aquilones," Spin Gallery, San Rafael, CA
2006 "pARTicipate," SOMArts gallery, San Francisco, CA

Juried and Group Exhibitions
2010 "7," Blue Mountain Gallery, NewYork
2010 "Paper," Monterey Peninsula Airport Galleries, Monterey, CA
2009 "The White Show," Blue Mountain Gallery, New York
2009 "Red," Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2009 Juried exhibition, 2cc Gallery, Long Beach, CA
2009 "Art: It's Alive!" auction exhibition, di Rosa, Napa, CA
2009 "De-construct" juried exhibition, Gallery 111, Sausalito, CA
2008 "Wild Things" auction exhibition, di Rosa, Napa, CA
2006 "Absolutely Abstract," juried exhibition, Artisans Gallery, San Rafael, CA
2004 "Fare, Disfare, Rifare," Galleria di Biblioteca, Pienza, Italy
2004 Sant' Anna in Camprena, Pienza, Italy
2004 "Remains of the Day" public mural, Sycamore St., San Francisico
2004 ArtSF, San Francisco, CA
2004 Walter and McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Juried artists' book exhibition, SF Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2003 "Bread > Circus," The Lab Gallery, San Francisco
2003 Cell Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 Friday the 13th Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 Ascending Gallery, SF Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2002 Zedd Fine Art + Design, San Francisco, California
2002 Juried exhibition, Sight/Insight Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
2002 Juried exhibition, SF Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1998 Atelier du Soleil, Aix en Provence, France

Curatorial
2009 "De - Construct," Gallery 111, Sausalito, CA
2008 "Does Size Matter," Gallery 111, Sausalito, CA
2006 "Jimmy Lee Sudduth at 96," Spin Gallery, San Rafael, CA
2005 "Modern Man," Josh Pavlick, Spin Gallery, San Rafael, CA
2005 "Lost & Found," Fernando Ribero, Spin Gallery, San Rafael, CA
2005 "Modern Women," Spin Gallery, San Rafael, CA
1998 "Three Women and a Little Art," B&R Studios, Carmel, CA
1997 "From Prague with Love," Vaclav Matejicek, B&R Studios, Carmel, CA
Teaching & Professional
2004 – 2006 Gallery Director, Spin Gallery, San Rafael, CA
2003 Instructor, California College of the Arts

Education
San Francisco Art Institute BFA
Atelier du Soleil, Aix en Provence, France

Affiliations
di Rosa & di Rosa Foundation – board of directors
ICB Artists Association - board member, former president
Sausalito Arts Commission - Public Art Advisory Group
International Academy of the Visual Arts - member
Marin Arts Council - member
Oxbow School - former trustee and vice chair

Commissions & Collections (partial list)
Pacific American Services
Virgin America
Chartres Lodging
Peter Sullivan Associates
Pacific American Group
Louis C Burnett
Christine Glastonbury MD
Karen Cleary
Keith Leimbach
Michelle Sarti
Roy Grekin MD
Patricia Walker MD
Douglas and Julie Childs
Michelle Comeau
Grover Meyrose
Margaret Shore
Sharon Miller
Max Firstman
Russell Shaw
Linda Hothem
Michael and Sarah LeValley
Richard and Tina Valenzuela
Susan Reeves
Chuck Jennings
Susan Wright
Marjorie Hennessy
Michael and Jan McCutcheon
Alan Roberts
Sandra Becker
Amanda Peydon
Alex Beltramo
Stuart Sheldon
Gerald Levine MD
Ipek Sarasify
Christine Glastonbury
Brent and Patsy Dickens
Millie Amis