Suzanne Bean is GlogauAIR resident from October 2025 to December 2025. (Q4)
Suzanne Bean is an artist from Victoria, Canada. Her artwork allows the viewer to see a visible representation of transformation within the human psychological experience. Using her own body as subject, she reflects on themes of individuality, denial, illusion, and isolation. Her art becomes a vehicle for questioning the nature of personal reflection, evolution and how our experience is shared and felt on a collective level.
Meet the Artist
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Statement
Suzanne Bean is an artist from Victoria, BC, Canada. Her artwork allows the viewer to see a visible representation of transformation within the human psychological experience. Suzanne’s main subject is the human figure in both full or fragmented images, engaging the viewer and enhancing an emotional response. In her latest work, she uses her own body as the subject matter, developing a more personal response to identity, individuality, denial and illusion. The ideas of isolation, distortion, dissolving create a feeling of unease, while developing a deeper conversation with Self. Her Art becomes a vehicle for questioning the nature of personal reflection, evolution and how our experience is shared and felt on a collective level.
GlogauAIR Project
In 2025, my Art took a different direction from realistic painting to a more expressive response to paint and how it wants to be communicated. I still work with the figure, but now mark making, movement and paint dictate the way; I have embraced a more organic dialogue.
My project will be focused around the body and how our interaction in the digital world has left many people feeling disconnected and isolated from themselves. Through painting and drawing, I’d like to develop a stronger narrative on this topic, delving deeper into the psychological state of fragmentation and distortion of self, using form, space and colour to intensify the viewers experience.
CV
Suzanne Bean is an artist from Victoria, BC, Canada whose work focuses on the human figure, transformation, and psychological themes such as identity, individuality, denial, illusion, isolation, and distortion. Her work includes full and fragmented images of the human figure, and in her latest work she uses her own body as subject matter.
Education
- 2014-2009. BFA in Visual Arts, Honours and Distinction, University of Victoria
Exhibitions
- 2008 — Framed: Breaking through the Traditional boundaries in painting, Fifty Fifty Arts Collective Gallery, Victoria, BC
- 2009 — (re)Gifted, Group Show, Deluge Gallery, Victoria, BC
- 2010 — Transitory by-products, Xchanges Artist’s Gallery, Victoria, BC
- 2023 — Finding Middle Ground, Solo Show, Artsea Community Art, Sidney, BC
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