Sue Havens
Associate Professor, Painting & Drawing
MFA, The Milton Avery Graduate School of The Arts at Bard College
Phone: (813) 974-2360
Email: havens@usf.edu
Office: FAH 255
Website: http://www.suehavensstudio.com
Sue Havens (born 1972 in Rochester, New York) is an artist based in New York and Tampa. Her interdisciplinary practice and unconventional approach, embodied in abstract painting and sculpture, is inspired by the spectacular and mundane of the world's visual vernacular as revealed in her surrounding environments. Her practice includes ceramics, sculpture, large-scale collage, monumental public wall works and installation.
Havens received her BFA in Art from The Cooper Union for The Advancement of Science and Art in 1995, and her MFA in painting from The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College in 2003. Havens is a 2008 Fellowship recipient in Painting from The New York Foundation for the Arts and a recipient of the 2017 McKnight Junior Faculty Development Fellowship. She is currently an Associate Professor of Art at The University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida.
Havens has exhibited internationally and nationally in venues such as The Painting Center and The Knockdown Center, Regina Rex, Jeff Bailey, PS 122, Postmasters, Frederich Petzel, Art in General, Momenta Art, Sara Meltzer, OK Harris, Pierogi, in New York, The Tampa Museum of Art, The Sarasota Art Museum, The Marjorie Barrick Museum, NV, The Galerie Nord in Berlin, The Museum of Drawings in Laholm, Sweden, and Mindy Solomon in Miami among others. Havens authored, designed and illustrated the book Make Your Own Toys (2010). Her work was featured in Warhol’s Interview Magazine, New American Painting Magazine, and the Korean International Ceramic Biennale.