EDUCATION
  San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
   
GRANTS & AWARDS
2003 AIID Design Award for SouthCentral Foundation, with NBBJ team – Stacey Bender
2002 AIA Design Award, with R/B/F Architecture for "Grassblades"
2000 Sculpture Space, Utica, NY (Residency)
1999 GAP Grant Fellowship, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA
Pilchuck Glass School, Dale and Doug Anderson Award Scholarship
1998 Artist In Residence at Centrum Foundation, Port Townsend, WA
1996 PONCHO Artist-in-Residence at Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA
   
PUBLIC ART & OUTDOOR INSTALLATIONS
2010 Kenmore City Hall, Kenmore, WA. Suspended sculpture, interior/exterior
2008 Auburn Municipal Golfcourse, Auburn WA
2007

Novelty Hill/Janiuk Winery, Woodinville, WA, Entry sculpture

2007 "Wave Wall". Seattle Aquarium. Sculptural wall and donor sculpture
2006 "Samsara". Laurelhurst Community Center, Seattle, WA. Entry Sculpture
2004 "Bloom". Metro/King Co. Atlantic Central Base, Seattle, WA. 5 story wall sculpture
2003 "Grass Blades". Seattle Center, Harrison St. sculptural fence. With r/b/f Architects
2002 "Panacea", Art Outside, Port Angeles Art Center
2001 Seattle Center, Light sculpture for Winterfest at International Fountain
2001 ATL Ultrasound, Redmond,WA, Site specific installation
1998 "Albus", HorseHead Int'l, Seattle, WA Site specific outdoor installation
1996 Bench pad for Southeast Effective Development, Seward Park, Seattle, WA
   
SELECTED PRIVATE COMMISSIONS
(Numerous residential & commercial on request)
 
CHURCHES & HOSPITALS
2008 Valley Medical, Kent WA. Family Center. With NBBJ
2004 Valley Medical, Kent, WA NICU. With NBBJ
2004 Overlake Hospital Medical Center, with NBBJ Architects, Paintings for 18 patient rooms & reception area.
2003 SouthCentral Foundation Hospital, Anchorage, AK
2001 Mercer Island Presbyterian, Mercer Island, WA 3000 sq. ft floor treatment & goldleafed chapel wall
1998 Overlake Hospital Critical Care Unit, Bellevue, WA, NBBJ Architects
1998 Chapel of St. Ignacius, Seattle University, Seattle, WA, Stephen Holl Architect, Olson Sundberg project managers Gold leafed & patinaed altar with Betsy Eby
1996 Salvation Army Chapel, Seattle, WA, Axis Architects
   
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & INSTALLATIONS
2008 "New Directions", Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA
2007 "Crud" Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA
2007 "Couplings", Ouch My Eye Gallery, Seattle, WA
2007 Group Show, Winston Wächter Gallery, Seattle,WA
2006 "Isolated Reflections 2", Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland CA , video & sound installation with Ellen Fullman
2005 "Isolated Reflections", Consolidated Works, Seattle. Video Installation for performance by Ellen Fullman LSI & dance
2003 "Well-Heeled", Kirkland Arts Center
2002 "Art Outside", Port Angeles Fine Arts Center
" Natural Causes", Gallery One, Ellensburg, WA
2000 "Biomorphic", O'Kane Gallery, University of Houston, Texas
" A Gift of Light and Time", Bank of America Gallery, Seattle, WA
" Vinculum Opus", Broadway Performance Hall, Seattle, WA
"Abstraction From Nature", Seattle Art Museum Rental Sales Gallery
1999 "Albus", HorseHead International, Seattle, WA Outdoor Installation
" Phresh", Pacific NW Arts Council of Seattle Art Museum, Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA
" Pacific Northwest Annual", Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
1998 "Looking to Nature", Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
"Panacea', Window Installation, SAM Rental Sales Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Shoes As Muse", Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA
Lorinda Knight Gallery, Spokane, WA Two-person Exhibition
"Putting On the Dog", Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland, WA
1997 "Pure Form: The Intensity of Process", Marylhurst College Art Gym,Portland
Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, OR
"Pacific Northwest Annual", Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
"Printworks", Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland, WA
"Pratt Artists-In-Residence", Center On Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
"Beeswax", SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA
"PONCHO Invitational", Seafirst Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Art Works For AIDS", Seattle Center Pavilion, Seattle, WA
"Works on Paper", SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA
1996 William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA Solo Exhibition
1995 "Pacific Northwest Annual", Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
"Folie a Deux", Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
91-94 "True Stories: Pleas & Thank Yous", Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA;Cheney Cowles: Memorial Museum; Spokane, WA, Port Angeles Fine Art Center, Port Angeles, WA; Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID; Galleria Potatohead, Seattle, WA; Western Gallery, Western WA University, Bellingham, WA; Clatsop Community College, Astoria, OR; Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC; Steensland Gallery, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN; Art Dept. Gallery, University of Nebraska; Omaha, NE
1994 "The Bridge", Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland, WA
1993 O.K. Hotel, Seattle, WA
" Artist Made Building Parts" American Institute for Architects, Seattle, WA
1991 "War In the Gulf: An Artists Perspective" William Traver Gallery, Seattle,WA
1988 Art In Form, Seattle,WA
1987 "Modern Madonnas", Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle, WA Multi-media installation
   
ARTS RELATED EXPERIENCES
2008 Guest Curator, "3 Dimensional Line". Drop CIty Gallery, Seattle, WA
94-08 Selected for 4Culture Artist Made Building Parts and Site Design Roster
04-08 Selected for Seattle Arts & Culture Public Art Roster
05-08 Selected for Washington State Arts Commission Roster
1997 Guest Curator: “Sutures and Other Handwork”, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
1992 Assisted Ann Hamilton with installation “accountings”, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
   
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
  ART
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, "'Crud' artists capture…", Nate Lippens, June 29, 2007 p.33
The Seattle Times, "Hothouses of Imagination", Gayle Clemans, June 22, 2007 p.47
The Stranger, "Crud", Jen Graves, June 21, 2007 p.64
Seattle Weekly, "On the Pull", Adriana Grant, June 20-26, 2007 p.45
ARCADE Architecture/Design in the NW, "Seattle Artist Susan Zoccola…", Kent Greene, Summer 2003 p.45
Asian Art Magazine, Lundin Liu, Li, 1999
Sculpture Magazine, Matthew Kangas, Dec. 1999, pp. 78-9
The Seattle Times, "HorseHead..", July 19, 1999
Eastsideweek, "Through the Eye of the Needle", Aug. 27, 1997
The Oregonian, "PICA...", Jan. 17, l997
The Seattle Times, "Susan Zoccola’s exhibit: Fragments of visual poetry", Nov. 19, 1996
Seattle Post -Intelligencer, Regina Hackett, Nov. 22, l996
The Seattle Times, Nov. 28, l996, photo etc.
Art Access, "Body Conscious at Pratt... ", Sept. 1996
Journal American, "The BAM Annual", July 29, l995
DESIGN
Interior Design, January 2004 'Healing Properties", p. 187+
Northwest Home & Garden, Fall 2003, p. 20
Women’s Day Decorator Edition, August 2000
Seattle Homes & Lifestyles, Jan/Feb. 1997
   
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
  Valley Medical Center, Renton, WA
Overlake Hospital Medical Center, Bellevue, WA; City of Seattle;
Cancer Care Alliance of Fred Hutchinson Research Inst. & University Medical Center
   
PROFESSIONAL PANEL ASSOCIATIONS
2000 Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA Artist Advisory Panel
SPACES, Seattle, WA Artist Charrette Panel
98-00 Vice-president of the Contemporary Art Council Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
1990 Festival of Films by Women Directors, Seattle, WA Director
88-93 Festival of Films, Seattle, WA Executive Programming Board Member