Susan has been actively exhibiting work in the United States and Canada for the past twelve years in juried shows and by invitation. Jurors who have selected her work for exhibition include curators from prominent American museums and institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian Institution, Rochester Institute of Technology, California State University at Long Beach, the University of California at Berkeley Art Museum, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design, the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the New York MOMA. In 2022 she was awarded a residency at the 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica, California. Her installation work was selected for publication in the Surface Design Journal in Fall 2021 and in Fiber Arts magazine in Spring 2024.
Susan grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. One of her favorite childhood activities was creating books that included spines, inside linings, and checkout pockets with library cards and imitation library seals. Her attention to detail continues to this day. At age 10 her mother enrolled her in a formal sewing class, and she has had a long-standing affinity for textiles ever since, something she also credits to the legacy of her grandfathers, both of whom were tailors.
