Zsuzsanna Ardó is human by inclination, humorous, curious and creative by nature — and an award-winning visual artist and writer by profession. Her work has received awards and been awarded artist residencies by various organisations, e.g. Arts Council England, High Arctic Expedition, ASL NY, Frankfurter Kunstverein, UNESCO. Jury-selected to represent the UK in UNESCO’s creative residency, with exhibition at UNESCO HQ in Paris. Her work has been exhibited internationally in mainstream and alternative spaces, from the British Film Academy, Westminster Palace, Institute of Contemporary Arts, European Commission, European Parliament to the Arctic and the Antarctic. A member of the Writers Guild and the International Council of Museums, her work is registered by Broadcasting Music, Inc. Her masterclasses, mentoring and portfolio reviews, workshops, talks and consultations and commissions can be requested via the contact form.

Some of her work can be viewed/heard on LinkendIn, Soundcloud, and Youtube.

Her writing is across genres, writing poetry, scripts, essays, journalism, articles and books published internationally. For stage, she has conceived a series of interconnected works about strong women of action and imagination across time and space, reality and mythology: Francesca Caccini, Frida Kahlo, Hannah Arendt, Rosa Parks, Maryam Mirzakhini, Eve, Aphrodite, Hekate and more.

Has been working as chair of several international juries, and curated international exhibitions internationally. Her own art collection includes art by artists from around the world, from Haiti to Japan. Masterclasses, workshops, talks and consultations with her can be requested via the contact form.

University of Cambridge creative project premiere, Fitzwilliam Museum. Arts and Humanities Research Council supported. Cambridge, June 2024.

Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris. May 2024.

Passa Porta, International House of Literature, Brussels. April 2024.

PlanetWoman premiere in North Carolina, September 2024. Poem by Zsuzsanna Ardó, music by Gwen McLeod Hall.

PlanetWoman premiere in California, 7pm 28th April 2024, Whittier Memorial Chapel. PlanetWoman concept and Blue Planet Blues poem by Zsuzsanna Ardó, music by Karen Sunabacka, Whittier College Choir conducted by Alexandra Grabarchuk.

PlanetWoman premiere in Stockholm opera house, 7pm 19th April 2024, New Music Festival. PlanetWoman concept and PlanetWoman poem by Zsuzsanna Ardó, music by Birgitta Flick, VoNo Ensemble conducted by Lone Larsen.

PlanetWoman premiere in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, 7pm 5th April 2024. Gradiva poem by Zsuzsanna Ardó, music by Karen Sunabacka, premiered by the Grebel Chamber Choir, conducted by Patrick Murray.

PlanetWoman premieres in NY, March 2024. PlanetWoman creative concept and three poems by Zsuzsanna Ardó, set to music by three NY composers.

Article published about PlanetWoman by Women’s Song Forum: https://www.womensongforum.org/2023/06/11/planetwoman-11th-century-meets-21st-part-1/

Featured writer, ‘Thresholds: Writers in a World on the Brink’, Poetry performance/discussion. Camden Art Centre, 2023.

Installations, exhibition and talks at the home of Bauhaus in France, 2023.

PlanetWoman exhibited in UNESCO exhibition in Andorra, 2022 and 2018, and in Paris in 2019.

Polar self Portraits_2, the second edition of her Polar project, premiered in November 2020 in Greenland, and in March 2021 in Cambridge at the SPRI Polar Museum. Bears in My Eyes, her polar self-portraits series, was part of the Big Freeze polar art exhibition at the University of Cambridge, 4-14.03.21. Polar self Portraits_3, third in the series curated by Ardó, is dedicated to glaciers around us. It premiered on Earth Day, in Lugano — city of 16 glaciers.

Decameron-9 is her painting series of 91 stories about the diverse human experiences during Covid19, through the London filter, inspired by Pepys’ diary, Boccaccio’s stories and Freud.

Zsuzsanna Ardó’s work is public and private collections internationally, including European Artists e.V Essen | Germany, UNESCO CNAU | Andorra, City Hall Ordino | Andorra, FEDA | Andorra, Hotel La Planada Ordino | Andorra, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts | India, National Photography Museum | Hungary, PromArt Port-au-Prince | Haiti, Foundacion Solaina de Piloño | Spain, Fundație Inter-Art Foundation Aiud | Romania, Karli Kevi Hotel Kapadokya | Turkey, SağKal Sağlıkta Kalite Derneği, Konak Izmir | Turkey, Fondazione Istituto Sacra Famiglia, Cesano Boscone Milano | Italy, Comune di Cesano Boscone Milano | Italy, CSV Centro Servizi per il Volontariato. Città di Milano | Italy, Centre for Fine Print Research UWE Bristol | UK, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library Columbia University NYC | US, George Mason University Virginia | US, Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition San Francisco | US, Brooklyn Art Library Sketchbook Library NY | US, Composers Conductors Choral Ensemble Auction NYC | US, Transcultural Exchange Boston | US, Contemporary Art Centre Šamorin | Slovakia, Boz’Art en Baz’Art Festival Bellerive | France, Art Colony Galichnik | N. Macedonia, Arka Hotel Skopje | N. Macedonia, Skopje City Museum | N. Macedonia, Silindart of N. Macedonia, The Polar Museum Cambridge | UK, Illulissat Art Museum | Greenland.

Her work has been published by Philosophy Now, Oxford University Press, Macmillan Prentice Hall, Biográf, Logos, openDemocracy, The Guardian. Her poems have been set to music and performed by contemporary ensembles e.g. Roomful of Teeth, C4 Ensemble NY, C3LA. Listen to some of her creative collaborations with composers on Soundcloud. Her play premiered at Harvard, and the opera she wrote libretto for premiered in NY and Chicago. Scheduled European premier in Oxford was scheduled, but due to pandemic cancelled. Zsuzsanna’s scripts feature strong women of imagination, agency and action, in solidarity, across time and space, mythology and history.

Balkans, a photography series shot high up in the Macedonian mountain village Galichnik, overlooking the rest of the Balkan. Video installation created for the National Gallery of N. Macedonia - Multimedia Center "Mala Stancia" in Skopje (2012). Screenings at the 22nd European Artists Conference, Essen, Germany (24.8..14), and Franklin University, Lugano, Switzerland (21.4.21).

Polar Self Portraits, an international curatorial arts project conceived on an expedition in the High Arctic.

Polar self Portraits screenings include the Florence Biennale, Antarctic research station, Moroccan art gallery, Croatian watchtower, NY concert and more.