Olga Suchanova Studio
Olga Suchanova is a Slovakian emerging visual artist and curator, living and working in London. Olga's studio is based at the Thames Side Studios, where she is also the keyholder of the Thames Side Print Studio. Through her journeys, she is inspired by the nature, properties of matter and energy; and quantum mysticism, which are translated into light, colour, pattern and form with the use of experimental photography, printmaking, and painting. In her work, she is questioning the concept of space, time, illusion and reality.
2016 - 2018. MA Art and Science. University of the Arts. Central Saint Martins. London. UK.
2011 - 2015. BA (Hons) in Photography. The University of Westminster. London. UK.
2009 - 2011. BTEC HND in Photography. The city of Westminster College. London. UK.
Exhibitions / Workshops / Collaborations
2022
September: Totally Thames Festival. Creative workshops facilitator. Thames Side Studios. London.
August - September: ReImagine Joya. Curator, visual artist and creative workshops facilitator. Thames Side Studios Gallery. London.
August: Thames Lens Exhibition at Camera Club. London.
June - August: Summer Exhibition. Royal Academy of Arts. London.
June: Print Fair. Fitzrovia Gallery, London.
June: Battersea Power Station Solargraph published in the Le Document magazine.
June: 'Nocturne' painting exhibited at the Thames Side Studios Gallery. London.
June: Open Studios. Thames Side Studios. London.
October 2021 - June 2022: Photographer for the Slovakian Theatre in London.
May: Thames Lens Exhibition. Museum of London. Docklands.
April: Shortlisted for the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
April: UAL Sustainability Alumni Network workshop: Tea tasting and Solargraphy workshop. Thames Side Studios. London.
March: Solargraphy workshop as part of Earthshapes in collaboration with Becky Lyon and Alisa Ruzavina. London.
March: Inside Job Collective Biennale Group Show, Tate Modern. London.
March: Overall winner of The Thames Lens 2021.
January: In Conversation with photographer Harry Fricker MA. Online.
January: Solargraphy Workshop. Online.
2021
December: Thames: Stream of consciousness. Mural commission.
November: Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair. London.
October/November. Solargraphy Workshop in collaboration with the Photofusion and TFL.
October. Cyanotype Workshop in collaboration with the Photofusion and TFL.
October - December. The Pinhole Photography Festival. Poland.
September 2021 - August 2022. The Astronomy Photographer of the Year. The National Maritime Museum. London.
June. Shortlisted for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year. London. UK.
June. Solar Solstice. Group Exhibition. Fronteer Gallery. Sheffield.
May - June. Journeys: 99 Suns. Solo exhibition. Lounge at the Thames Side Studios. London.
May. Starlight. Art science virtual residency. Mayes Creative in collaboration with The Royal Astronomical Society.
May. Watching the Sun. Book publication.
April. Off The Mainstream. Book publication.
March. Solargraphy workshop. Mayes Creative. Zoom class.
March. Solargraphy tutorial. AIR Gallery. Online.
January - December. New Enterprise Allowance Programme. London.
2020
December. Mayes Creative. Watching the Sun: Virtual Art - Science Residency.
November - December. Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair. London. Online.
October Leading action for healthy rivers course. Thames21. London.
August. Experimental Photography Workshops. Thames Side Studios. London.
July. Shortlisted for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year.
May. Lockdown Lumen – Artists around the World printing with Sunlight. Collaboration.
February. Solargraphy Exhibition. Curator, artist. Lumen Crypt Gallery. London.
February. Solargraphy Workshop. Lumen Crypt Gallery. London.
January. New Moon Exhibition. Lumen Crypt Gallery. London.
2019
November. Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair. London.
October/November. OFFO 2019. Poland.
October. CERN. CMS Hall, Geneva.
September. Joya : AiR, an art residency in Spain.
August. Tate Modern. 'ObjectSelf' workshop in collaboration with artist Kelise Franclemont.
August. Tate Modern. 'Solargraphy' workshop.
July. KASK University Ghent, Belgium.
June - July. Rosielee Cafe, London.
June. Thames Side Studios Lounge, London.
June. CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
June. 'ObjectSelf' workshop, Collaboration with artist Kelise Franclemont. Thames Side Studios, London.
June. 'Solargraphy' workshop, Thames Side Studios.
May. 'Solargraphy' workshop and built camera obscura at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory (UCL).
2018
October. Joya: AiR art residency in Spain where I collaborated with artist Tere Chad on the sculpture Re-Enlightenment.
September.October. Photo Fringe Festival in collaboration with LAPC, Brighton.
August. September. Collaboration with Prof Sasi Conte, Dr Andreww Atkinson and three artists on the commission to create an artwork for NMR Centre at the King's College, London Bridge in London.
June. Joya : AiR art residency in Spain.
June. Fields. MA Art and Science Degree Show. King's Cross. London.
April. Modual: Workshop. Somerset House. London.
March. Biochemical Society workshop. Archway. London.
January. Built Camera Obscura, Tate Modern. London.
January. Crypt Gallery. Euston Road. London.
2017
December. Cryptic. The Crypt Gallery. London.
November. Imaging CERN Symposium and exhibition. London.
August. Lumen art residency. Atina. Italy.
June. CSM x CMS. Entangled. Four Corners Gallery. London.
March. Here's where you and I collide. Mangle. London.