About the artist
Sue Wrbican lives and works in the Washington, DC metro area in Alexandria, Virginia. Recently she curated female artists to create predictions via QR code on her sculpture Buoyant Force. In the Fall of 2022 and Spring of 2023 these same artists exhibited their physical works at Mason Exhibitions and Tephra ICA’s Signature Gallery. She is part of an international art collective Atlantika who has exhibited at the Ryniker - Morrison Gallery at Rocky Mountain College and Mason Exhibitions.
During the Summer and into the Fall of 2021 she presented work featuring her brother Matt Wrbican in two exhibitions entitled The Iridescent Yonder at Riverviews Art Space in Lynchburg, Virginia and This Iridescent Era at VisArts Center in Rockville, Maryland. In 2020 her work Buoyant Force was installed at Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art in Reston, Virginia. In the Fall of 2017 she presented her extensive artistic exploration into the work of Kay Sage at the Greater Reston Art Center in Virginia (now Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art) In 2015 her site specific sculpture “The Eventual Outcome of an Instant” was constructed at the Seligmann Center in Sugar Loaf, NY. Her video "Back Roof" is part of Miranda July's Joanie 4 Jackie Archive at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA. In 2014 she presented her installation and lecture “Continue the Temporary and It Becomes Forever” at the Zizek Studies conference at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Art, Architecture and Planning.
Wrbican has held residencies at the Robert Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva, Florida, Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, California, The Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida and STUD Residency in Catlett, Virginia. She is a founding member of the Floating Lab Collective whose projects have been exhibited widely in venues such as ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany and the Nathan Cummings Foundation, NYC, NY. In 2008 she worked with Mary Carothers on a project addressing gas consumption and the environment entitled The Frozen Car.
Her studio is located in the Monroe Street ArtsWalk in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington, DC. Sue Wrbican teaches in the School of Art at George Mason University and her education includes an MFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design and BA in English Writing with a concentration in poetry from the University of Pittsburgh.