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 of Ireland Visual Artist Bursary Award 2020 and the RHA Residency Award. She is currently artist- in-residence at the Draíocht Art Centre Dublin.
SELECTED GROUP AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Lismore & Beyond Exhibition, 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, (sculptural works selected by Sarah Browne for inclusion in Report to the Academy exhibition)
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 Hermione Exhibition, curated by Aisling Prior, Dublin
2017 Half Baked Exhibition, Eblana House, Dublin
2017 Detached Exhibition, 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 Exhibition, 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
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
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
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