Biographical Sketch
Susan Laufer lives and works in Soho, New York City. Born in New York, she received a BFA from Boston University School of Fine Arts and an MA in Painting at New York University.
Susan has work in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; The Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY; The Denver Museum of Art, CO; The New Museum, NY; Carnegie Art Museum, CA: The Tufts University Art Museum, MA; Greenville County Art Museum, SC; Northern Illinois University Museum, Ill; The Rahr-West Museum, WI; Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, MN; The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American Art NEA Fellowship Archive, Wash DC and other major public and private collections. She has shown extensively in one person and group shows in the United States and abroad.
Noteworthy group exhibitions include The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, NY curated by William Lieberman; Spencer Art Museum, KA/ Seattle Art Museum, WA curated by Kay Larson; Greenville County Museum Of Art, SC curated by Tom Styron; Albright-Knox Museum, NY; Edith Blum Art Institute Bard College, NY; Denver Art Museum CO, curated by Dianne Vanderlip; Muscarelle Museum Of Art, VA; Nassau County Museum Of Art, NY; Collection of the Metropolitan Museum Of Art; Cleveland Center For Contemporary Art, OH; Queens Museum Of Art, NY curated by Barbara Matilsky;The High Museum, GA; Montclair Art Museum, NJ, curated by Janice Oresman; The Aldrich Museum, CT, curated by D. Maxwell; Rahr-West Museum, WI; Frederick R. Weisman Museum Of Art, MN; California Museum Of Art, Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, CA.
Susan is the recipient of two National Endowment of the Arts Awards in Painting and other grants and awards. She has printed with PACE Editions in New York and Experimental Workshop in California. Susan's work is in many books and publications including History of Modern Art by H.H. Arnason, Harry N. Abrams Publisher.
After college, Susan traveled in Afghanistan, Iran, Morocco, Egypt and across Europe. The indigenous ancient architecture, artifacts and layers of eroding landscapes became significant influences in her work. Her process has been described as a psychological excavation connected to a long history of painterly abstraction.
