About

I use the physicality of paint, color and gesture to create multi-layered lush landscape abstractions drawn from my observations and experiences in nature. Bridging the abstract and the realistic, this work describes a sublime floating world, simultaneously chaotic and unsettled, exalted and sublime. Traces of a human presence can be felt or implied, but these entities are never fully illustrated. What remains in the work is beauty, mystery and ambiguity. - Suzanne Onodera

For over a decade, Onodera worked in the art departments of LucasArts and Electronic Arts, envisioning and realizing fantastical environments for video games set in the Star Wars, Star Trek, James Bond and Lord of the Rings universes. In 2004, she left the digital game industry, returning her focus to fine art.

She has been a practicing, full-time studio painter since 2004, cultivating relationships with galleries, designers and commissioned work for private clients on both coasts. Over the last 25 years, Onodera has worked professionally with galleries Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco, Lanoue in Boston, Seager Gray in Mill Valley, CA and others.

She is currently represented by Donna Seager Fine Art in San Rafael, CA, Costello Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ, Pryor Fine Art in Atlanta, GA, Argazzi Art in Lakeville, CT and Corbeau Gallery in Jackson Hole, WY.

Suzanne Onodera was born in Berkeley, California. She holds a BFA in painting from the California College of the Arts, and attended the School of The Art Institute in Chicago for painting. Artist Residencies include Millay Arts, Caldera, Virginia Center of Creative Arts (VCCA), Vermont Studio Center (VSC), Brush Creek and Acadia National Park. She has been awarded grants from New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA); National Endowment for the Arts (NEA); New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) and the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County, NY.

A SF/Bay Area native, Suzanne lives and paints in Northern California.