Buttner is an artist of emphatic morphology. Her artistic practice is a delicate evaluation of power relations, revealing tensions and forces by combining static elements, while highlighting the borderless, transgressive aspect of institutional critique. Working in sculptural form, painting, performance and film, a recent recipient of the Arts Council Ireland Visual Arts Bursary Award, PLATFORM 31 Bursary Award, Draíocht Incubate Residency Award, RHA Residency Award.
SELECTED GROUP AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Love You My Sweaty, curated by Sara Muthi, The Library Project, Dublin
2022 Court House Gallery Annual Exhibition, Clare
2022 RHA 192nd Annual Exhibition, Dublin
2022 Recognition of the Connections Between Events, SIM Seljavegur, Iceland
2021 Orphaned from Belonging, curated by Carmel Duffy, Luan Gallery, Athlone
2021 RHA 191st Annual Exhibition, Dublin
2021 PLATFORM 21, Worlds of Their Own, curated by Sharon Murphy, Draíocht Gallery, Dublin
2020 Lismore & Beyond, curated by Paul McAree, Lismore castle Arts, Waterford
2020 Royal Ulster Academy 139th Annual Exhibition, Belfast
2020 Highlanes Gallery Open Submission Exhibition, curated by Joy Gerrard, Sean Kissane, Jerome ODrisceoil, Drogheda
2019 ARRANGEMENTS (Orphans6), curated by James Merrigan, Pallas Projects Studios, Dublin
2019 Cairde Visual, The Model, Sligo
2019 RHA 189th Annual Exhibition, Dublin
2018 Periodical Review #8, curated by James Merrigan, Aisling Prior, Gavin Murphy, Mark Cullen, Pallas Projects Studios, Dublin
2018 PeripheriesOpen, Gorey School of Art, Wexford
2018 Strange Foreign Bodies, Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow
2018 RDS Visual Art Awards Exhibition, curated by Amanda Coogan, Dublin
2018 Royal Ulster Academy 137th Annual Exhibition, Belfast
2018 Architecture, Spaces of Interaction and Everyday Power, MFA Exhibition NCAD, Dublin
2017 Half Baked, Eblana House, Dublin
2017 Detached, curated by Niamh McCann, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan
2017 Untitled, live installation/performance by Celina Muldoon, curated by Roisin Bohan, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin
2017 Hermione Exhibition, curated by Aisling Prior, Dublin
2017 Report to the Academy, Marabouparken Show, Stockholm
2016 RDS Visual Art Awards Exhibition, curated by Alice Maher, Dublin
2016 Royal Academy of Arts, Summer Exhibition, curated by Richard Wilson, London
2016 Social Exercise, Marrowbone Lane Gallery, Dublin
2016 Collapse of Narrative, Live Performance Solo Exhibition, Eblana House Gallery, Dublin
2015 Royal Ulster Academy 134th Annual Exhibition, Belfast
2015 Coyote Versus Roadrunner, Live Performance Solo Exhibition, NCAD, Dublin
2015 Road Runner, Re-position, Exhibition, The Mart, Dublin
2014 Something Close to Nothing, Studio & Beyond Exhibition, Marrowbone Lane, Dublin
2014 Cairde Visual, Sligo
2014 Socially Constructed Looking, Fifteen Exhibition, The Joinery, Dublin
2013 Royal Ulster Academy, 132nd Annual Exhibition, Ulster
2012 Socially Constructed Looking, NCAD, Dublin
SELECTED GROUP AND SOLO LIVE PERFORMANCE
2022 Response to Place, Outward Looking, Live Performance by Susan Buttner, SIM, Iceland
2021 Orphaned from Belonging, Live Collaborative Performance, Luan Gallery, Athlone
2019 Sirens Part III, Live Performance by Celina Muldoon, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2018 Floats in the Aether, Live Performance by Amanda Coogan, National Gallery of Ireland
2018 Architecture, Spaces of Interaction and Everyday Power, Live Performance by Susan Buttner, ICFE, Inchicore, Dublin
2017 Untitled, Live Performance by Celina Muldoon, curated by Roisin Bohan, TBG/S, Dublin
2017 Authoritarian Architecture, Body in Movement, Live Performance by Susan Buttner, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan
2017 A Star Called Henry, 1916, A Boy Called Paddy, Live Performance by Susan Buttner, NCAD Dublin
2016 Collapse of Narrative, Solo Exhibition/Live Performance by Susan Buttner, Eblana House, Dublin
2015 Coyote Versus Roadrunner, Solo Exhibition/Live Performance by Susan Buttner, NCAD, Dublin
EDUCATION
2016 - 2018 MFA Fine Art Sculpture (Distinction), NCAD
2013 - 2016 BA (Hons) Fine Art Sculpture (First class honours), NCAD
2009 - 2010 Diploma in Fine Art and Design (H21), NCAD
2007 - 2008 Certificate in Visual Art Practice (H21), NCAD
PUBLIC COLLECTION
Arts Council Collection, Dublin
Department of Defence, Headquarters, Phoenix Park, Dublin
Visual Artists Ireland, Dublin
Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow
The artist's work is held in Corporate and Private collections in Ireland, Britain, throughout Europe and the USA
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2023 Fingal Artist's Support Scheme Award
2022 Carlow Arts Festival Bursary Award
2022 PLATFORM 31 Bursary Award
2022 Fingal County Council Bursary Award
2022 SIM Residency Award, Iceland
2021 Arts Council Ireland Visual Artists Bursary Award
2021 Arts Council Ireland, Agility Award
2021 Fingal County Council Bursary Award
2021 Fingal County Council Loughshinney Residency Award
2020 Arts Council Ireland Visual Artists Bursary Award
2020 Inaugural Janet Mullarney Prize Award (Highly Commended)
2020 Fingal County Council Bursary Award
2020 Arts Council Ireland Bursary Award, Covid Response
2020 Draíocht Incubate Studio Residency Award
2019 RHA Peer Residency Award
2018 RDS Visual Art Awards
2018 Selected for the RHA student access class, Mark Clare
2017 Selected for the Apprentice Master, Kunstodium T
2016 Shortlisted for the Basic Space Artist Residency Award
2016 RDS Visual Art Awards
2016 Selected for the RHA student access Master Class, Blaise Smith
2015 Fingal County Council Bursary Award