About the artist

Susan Silton resides in Los Angeles. Her work is supported through diverse media, including photographic-based processes, video, installation, performative-based works, and offset lithography, and internet-based technologies, and has been exhibited nationally and internationally at Feigen Contemporary, New York; SolwayJones, Los Angeles; Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles; SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico; SFMOMA, San Francisco; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; bank gallery, Los Angeles; Natural History Museum, Los Angeles; Angles Gallery, Santa Monica; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Vassar College, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; ICA/Philadelphia; Hammer Museum, among others. Most recently she was one of twenty-one artists commissioned by the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles to conceive a billboard for the large-scale exhibition, How Many Billboards? Her work has been featured in Artforum, Art in America, X-TRA, ArtLies, Flash Art, Cabinet, and in noted art historian’s book, Self/Image. Silton’s latest multilayered project about whistling recently launched at LAXART in the debut performance of the women’s whistling group she has formed, the CROWING HENS.