Suprina Troche
Found & repurposed materials, modeling, video, performance
Suprina studied sculpture at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia but gained the bulk of her knowledge of her craft from working in the field of promotional, prop making. Her clients included Annie Leibovitz, Apple, Bloomingdales, and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. After 9/11, having lived in the lower Manhattan neighborhood at the time, Suprina decided she would focus solely on her own artworks, which discuss environmental, social and political issues. While living in Manhattan she received grants from LMCC, NoMAA, and the Puffin Foundation.
She moved to the Hudson Valley in 2017 and has received numerous grants and awards, including the Dutchess County Executive’s Arts Awards for Art in Public Placesin 2021, and Individual and Community Decentralization Grants for 2021,2022 & 2023. Currently, Suprina has a micro gallery named CONVEY/ER/OR, on Main st in Poughkeepsie where she exhibits work by other artist’s that theme on these same issues. Her own workspace is behind the gallery.
Her recent works combine the female figure that loosely represents a self-portrait. This empath is set in thoughts/environs about our society, along with shared history’s, archetypes, humor, and meditation.
