Susan Day
susandianeday@gmail.com
susandayceramics.ca
instagram: @susandayceramics
RESIDENCIES
1989- THE BANFF CENTRE, Banff, Alberta
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS
2024 - 2027
UNDISCLOSED CLIENT Transportation Realm, Mosaic Installation, Vancouver, British Columbia: Alexander’s Band
2025 - 2026
EDMONTON ARTS COUNCIL Public Art Committee, Mosaic Installation, Edmonton, Alberta: The Intuition Machine - collaboration with 8 Nina Haggerty Centre Artists
2025
VAN DER PLAS GALLERY, New York City, New York: Loonies ‘n’ Toonies: Three Canadians (with Devon Marinac and Jason McLean)
AFFORDABLE ART FAIR, New York City, New York: Van Der Plas Gallery
OUTSIDER ART FAIR, New York City, New York: Van Der Plas Gallery
2024
LONDON CHILDREN’S MUSEUM, Mosaic Installation, London, Ontario: Our World
CANADIAN CLAY AND GLASS GALLERY, Waterloo, Ontario: Resonance
VAN DER PLAS GALLERY, New York City, New York: Canadian Invasion
CRAFT ONTARIO, Toronto, Ontario: In The Wild
2023
MCINTOSH GALLERY, Western University, Regional HIV/AIDS Connection with Cornerstone Architects, London, Ontario: In Our Midst
VAN DER PLAS GALLERY, New York City, New York: Royal Flush
WESTLAND GALLERY, London, Ontario: Birds In Flight Exhibition
EMBASSY CULTURAL HOUSE, London, Ontario: 30th Anniversary Virtual Exhibition
MICHAEL GIBSON GALLERY, London, Ontario: Transfer Station
VAN DER PLAS GALLERY, New York City, New York: Les Winterfest
BIRCH CONTEMPORARY, Toronto, Ontario: Five Shapes (with Micah Lexier)
2022
LEGACY PARK Public Art Installation, Lethbridge, Alberta: The New Nature
VAN DER PLAS GALLERY, New York City, New York: (Group Exhibition) Rays of Light
VAN DER PLAS GALLERY, New York City, New York: Exterior Facade Installation
2021
MCINTOSH GALLERY, Western University, London, Ontario: Community Engaged Public Art Project
RESIDENTIAL EXTERIOR, (with Skinner Architects) London, Ontario: Mosaic House
VAN DER PLAS GALLERY, New York City, New York: Les Art Crawl
EMBASSY CULTURAL HOUSE, London, Ontario: (Virtual Exhibition) Stop Extinction! Restore the Earth
EMBASSY CULTURAL HOUSE, London, Ontario: (Virtual Exhibition) Go Rise and Strike
2020
LONDON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM, London, Ontario
EMBASSY CULTURAL HOUSE, London, Ontario: Online Pandemic Exhibition
2019
WESTLAND GALLERY, London, Ontario: (Group Exhibition) International Women's Day Show
2018
NORFOLK ART CENTRE, Simcoe, Ontario: Waterworks, (with Vicki Easton McClung)
CITY OF LONDON, London, Ontario: Exterior Mosaic Project
OLD EAST VILLAGE NEIGHBOURHOOD, London, Ontario: Exterior Mosaic Project
NANJING YOUTH CULTURAL CENTRE, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China: Canada Exchange Exhibition
2017
LONDON CLAY ART CENTRE, London, Ontario: Celebrate Canada 150 Mosaic
STRAND FINE ART SERVICES, London, Ontario: Group Exhibition
SUQIAN CULTURAL CENTRE, Soyu, Jiangsu, China: Canada Instructors Exhibition
2016
MUSEUM LONDON, London, Ontario: London Collects
STRAND FINE ART SERVICES, London, Ontario (with Bill Stelpstra)
JOHN LABATT ARTS CENTRE, Western University, London, Ontario (Faculty Group)
2010
JOHN LABATT ART CENTRE, Western University, London, Ontario: Pairings
1998
UNIVERSITE DE QUEBEC A CHICOUTIMI, Québec City, Québec
A SPACE, Toronto, Ontario
THEILSEN GALLERY, London, Ontario
1996
THEILSEN GALLERY, London, Ontario
1995
DIA ART FOUNDATION, New York City, New York (Embassy Cultural House Installation documentation)
OPEN SPACE GALLERY, Victoria, British Columbia (London Exchange, with Ron Benner, Jamelie Hassan, Kim Moodie, and Wyn Gelynse)
1993
MCINTOSH GALLERY, Western University, London, Ontario (with Micah Lexier)
1992
SATELLITE GALLERY, St. Thomas, Ontario: 4 From London (with Greg Curnoe, Murray Favro, and Walter Redinger)
LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE, Québec City, Québec
1990
EDMONTON ART GALLERY, Edmonton, Alberta: Dangerous Goods - Feminist Visual Textual Practices (with Natalka Husar, Jamelie Hassan, Elizabeth MacKenzie, Sandra Meigs, Cherie Moses, and Mary Scott)
1989
EMBASSY CULTURAL HOUSE, London, Ontario: The Body in Society (with Leon Golub, Nancy Spero, and John Brown)
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
BRONFMAN FOUNDATION, Montreal, Quebec
MUSEUM LONDON, London, Ontario
MCINTOSH GALLERY, Western University, London, Ontario
NUMEROUS WORKS HELD IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
AWARDS
1990, 1991, 1995
CANADA COUNCIL
1998, 2020
ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL
SELECTED REVIEWS, JOURNALS AND PRESS
2025
GALLERY & STUDIO MAGAZINE, Review, Christopher Heffernan: Susan Day Tells Her Story in Ceramics
WHITEHOT MAGAZINE, Review, Stephan Wozniak: Toonies ‘n’ Loonies: Vivid Visions from the Great North at Van Der Plas Gallery
2024
AKIMBO, Blog Post: Susan Day: In Our Midst
ROGERSTV, The Paint Box with Jane Roy, Video: Susan Day (PT 1), Susan Day (PT 2)
2023
WORDSFEST, London, Ontario: Transfer Station: Jason McLean & Susan Day in Conversation
VAN DER PLAS GALLERY, New York City, New York: Les Winterfest
BEATRIZ BALEEIRO, London Free Press, London, Ontario: Two From the Road
HELEN SIMPSON, Blog Post: Diary of a Tile Addict - You've Not Seen Tiles Like This
CALVI LEON: 12,000 Tiles One Goal - Mosaic Project Honours Lives Lost to Overdoses
ANDREW LUPTON: Mural to Convey Theme of Caring at Supervised Drug Treatment Site
2020
MCINTOSH GALLERY, Western University, London, Ontario: (Youtube Video) A Driving Force
CARA PIFCO: (Instagram) Rethinking Identity or The End of the Individual
MACKENZIE SMITH, Embassy Cultural House: Remembering the Embassy Cultural House
2019
DARLENE PRATT, Ceramics Monthly: A Cultural Mosaic
CBC RADIO, Rebecca Vanbergen
CBC RADIO, Jane Anoniack
1993
BEN BENEDICT: Rethinking Our Secret Biography: Works by Micah Lexier and Susan Day
1992
JANICE WILLIAMSON and BRIDGET ELLIOT: Dangerous Goods: Feminist Art Practices
1990
JAMES MILLER: Fluid Exchanges: Artists and Critics in the AIDS Crisis
Represented by Michael Gibson Gallery (MGG) London, ON, Canada and Van der Plas Gallery NYC, NY, USA