{"id":1580,"date":"2015-07-01T11:24:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T15:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2017-04-06T12:51:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T16:51:08","slug":"susan-silas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/susan-silas\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Silas"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2396\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1580-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/susansilas.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/susansilas.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/susansilas.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-1581 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Silas_IMG_2065.jpg?resize=267%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"the self-portrait sessions, 2010\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Silas_IMG_2065.jpg?resize=267%2C300&amp;ssl=1 267w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Silas_IMG_2065.jpg?resize=624%2C701&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Silas_IMG_2065.jpg?w=754&amp;ssl=1 754w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/>Susan Silas is a visual artist who\u00a0lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She is a\u00a0dual American and Hungarian national. Silas has been exhibiting her work in the US and in Europe since 1985, and has taught at New York University and Cooper Union. In 1990, she had her first solo exhibition at\u00a0<em>fiction\/nonfiction<\/em>\u00a0in New York, followed in 1991 by a solo exhibition in Paris at Galerie Antoine Candau. Her work has focused on landscape and memory for several decades. In 1997, she began working on\u00a0<em>Helmbrechts walk, 1998-2003<\/em>, a project in which she retraced the steps of an all-women historical death march that took place at the close of the Second World War, walking for 22 days and 225 miles in Eastern Europe. <em>Helmbrechts walk, 1998-2003 <\/em>is the subject of chapters in both <em>Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory<\/em> by Brett Ashley Kaplan and<em>Memory Affects; The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing<\/em> by Dora Apel.<\/p>\n<p>Silas\u2019s work has been included in exhibitions at White Columns, New York; New Langton Arts, San Francisco; Margo Leavin Gallery and CB1 Gallery, both in Los Angeles; The Renaissance Society, Chicago; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Hebrew Union College Museum, and The Jewish Museum, all in New York City; Studio 10 and Momenta Art, both in Brooklyn, NY; The Koffler Gallery, Toronto; Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Germany; Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna; and the Center for Contemporary Art, Slovenia.\u00a0She has been interviewed by the BBC, ArtonAir and Adult Magazine. She is an essayist, a regular contributor to\u00a0<em>Hyperallergic<\/em>, and co-editor of the artblog MOMMY. Her work has been featured in\u00a0<em>Anti-Utopias<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Camera Austria<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Fot\u00f3m\u00fav\u00e9szet<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Artnet Magazine<\/em>.\u00a0Her exhibitions have been reviewed in\u00a0<em>Artforum<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Art in America<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Village Voice<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The<\/em>\u00a0<em>New Yorker<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Hyperallergic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Silas has been awarded fellowships at Everglades National Park, New Space Arts Foundation in Hue, Vietnam, The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Ucross Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.susansilas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">her website here<\/a>. Two other sites have projects of hers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helmbrechtswalk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Helmbrechtswalk<\/a>, and also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiszariverproject.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tiszariverproject.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1582\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1582\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1582 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SILAS_IMG_0344.jpg?resize=625%2C937&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"the self-portrait sessions_Yaddo session, 2011\" width=\"625\" height=\"937\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SILAS_IMG_0344.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SILAS_IMG_0344.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SILAS_IMG_0344.jpg?resize=624%2C936&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SILAS_IMG_0344.jpg?w=1229&amp;ssl=1 1229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">the self-portrait sessions (Yaddo session), 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1583\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1583\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1583 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SILAS_IMG_0431.jpg?resize=625%2C417&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SILAS_IMG_0431\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SILAS_IMG_0431.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SILAS_IMG_0431.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SILAS_IMG_0431.jpg?resize=624%2C416&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SILAS_IMG_0431.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SILAS_IMG_0431.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">love in the ruins; sex over 50, ongoing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/susansilas.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listSusan Silas is a visual artist who\u00a0lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. 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