Education
2016 Master of Fine Arts, School of Visual Art, New York, NY
2013 Bachelor of Fine Arts with Highest Honors, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
Solo Exhibitions
2020 today, I am . . ., Museum of Art and Culture, New Rochelle, NY
2019 Home Sweet Home (And Other Suchness), Lowe Mill A&E, Huntsville, AL
Select Group Exhibitions
2022 Modus Operandi, James Howe Gallery, Kean University, Union, NJ
Did You Too See It, Drifting, All Night, on the Black River?, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
Matrixes, Kate Oh Gallery, New Yor, NY
Among Friends 3, Equity Gallery, Manhattan, NY
A Conversation Between Women, Art Lives Here, Harlem, NYI
Intimacies, Mapspace, Port Chester, NY
Terrarium, Ice Cream Social, Port Chester, NY
2021 Straight Forward, Image Driven, The Painting Center, New York, NY
The Aftermath: Life After SVA MFA Fine Arts, SVA Gallery, NY – online only
Virtual Matters, The Hive Art Community, Brooklyn, NY – online only
2020 Touching Without Touch, The Hive Art Community, Brooklyn, NY
Sea Change, Odetta Digital – online only
Where’s the Remote, Sit Still Projects - online only
Deep Blue See, Ground Floor Gallery - online only
18th Street Women, Trestle Gallery - online only
Azul/Blue, The Gallery at Bloch Hall, Montevallo, AL
2019 Scavengers, Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, NY
Now and Then, El Patio de mi Casa, Harlem, NY
Our Bodies Ourselves, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
Among Friends, The Clemente, New York, NY
Blue Cuba Biennial, Conde Villanueva, Havana, Cuba
2018 Civil Discourse, Kibbee Gallery, Atlanta, GA
There Goes The Neighborhood, 107 Bowers Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
Traces, 184 Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
Among Friends, 55 Washington, Studio 257, Brooklyn, NY
Return to Light, Green Door Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Onward, Outsider Art Fair, New York, NY
2017 Creative Re-Use, Fish Bones, The Old Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY
Mapping Experience, Living and Learning Gallery, Burlington, VT
Blue, Curator Karen Graffeo, Lowe Mill, Huntsville, AL
Bigger, Bolder, Better, 470 Vanderbilt, Chashama, Brooklyn, NY
Wide Open 8, BWAC Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Black Box, Boeckercontemporary, Heidelberg, Germany
Greg Mort yOUR eARTH – The Art of Stewardship, Rosenberg Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2016 Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and the 4th R-Reimagine, Acumen Building, Brooklyn, NY
Breach, The Rabbit Hole, Brooklyn, NY
Popular Culture is Where the Pedagogy Is, Curator Jasmine Wahi, The Hole, New York, NY
The Tide, SVA Flatiron Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Haverstraw RiverArts Festival, Emeline Park, Haverstraw, NY
So Hot Right Now, SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY
Light Industrial Ecosystem, Garner Arts Center, Garnerville, NY
2014 Like No Other Sculpture Show on Earth, Pizza on Earth, Charlotte, VT
Material Disruption 2, Art Factory, Patterson Walk, Patterson, NJ
Material Disruption, Loft594, Brooklyn, NY
Select Bibliography
2020 In the Time of Now by Susan Luss, ROOM: A sketchbook for Analytic Action |6.20
access date: July 3, 2020.
http://www.analytic-room.com/art/in-the-time-of-now-susan-luss/
Susan Luss: In the Time of Now, Whitehot Magazine, access date: June 8, 2020
https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/susan-luss-in-time-now/4638
Susan Luss at the Museum of Art and Culture, Art Spiel, access date: February 7, 2020.
https://artspiel.org/susan-luss-at-the-museum-of-art-culture-in-new-rochelle/
Today, I am . . . A School, The Arts and Education, access date: January 31, 2020
https://theartsandeducation.wordpress.com/2020/01/31/today-i-am-a-school/
2018 Return to Light at The Green Door, Art Spiel, access date: February 10, 2018.
http://artspiel.org/return-to-light-at-the-green-door/
Signs of Creative Resistance at the 2018 Women’s March, Hyperallergic, access date: January 21, 2018.
https://hyperallergic.com/422528/signs-of-creative-resistance-at-the-2018-womens-march/
2017 Exhibitions, New York Rag, access date: September 14, 2017.
https://newyorkrag.com/2017/09/12/listing-julio-mejia-void-of-death-exhibit-at-city-college-center-for-the-arts/
Global Events, ArtSlant, access date: September 8, 2017.
https://www.artslant.com/global/events/show/454292-void-of-death
Artilade Magazine, Summer 2017, access date: August 2017.
https://artilade.com/issues/articles/weight-things
Visiting Artist, Presentations, Workshops, Panels
2022 Presentation, Art Department, Research 1, School of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, October 24.
Presentation, Art Department, Professional Practice, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, March 11.
2021 Presentation, Art Department, MFA Materials and Techniques, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, November 15.
Presentation, Art Department, Research 1, School of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, November 3.
Panel, Art Department, Professional Practice, Pratt Institute, Manhattan, NY, October 5.
2020 Presentation, Art Department, Professional Practice, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, May 6.
Presentation, Art Department, Color Theory in Practice, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, February 18.
2019 Visiting Artist, Art Department, New Rochelle High School, New Rochelle, NY, November 2019 – January 2020
Presentation, Art Department, Professional Practice, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, December 4.
Visiting Artist, Art Department, Painting Multi Level, School of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Il, October 2.
Presentation, Art Department Professional Practice, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, May 1.
Presentation, Continuing Education, Color Theory in Practice, Pratt Institute, New York, NY, February 11.
2019 Visiting Artist, Art Department, Painting Multi Level, School of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, October 2.
Presentation, Art Department, Professional Practice, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, May 1.
Presentation, Continuing Education, Color Theory in Practice, Pratt Institute, New York, NY, February 11.
2018 Visiting Artist, Art Department, The Allen-Stevenson School, New York, NY, January – May 2018.
Teaching Artist, Foundation Department, Light Color Design, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, January – May 2018.
Presentation, Continuing Education, Mixing Light and Subtractive Color, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, March 13.
2017 Workshop, Mythology and the Birth of the Ocean, COPE NYC A.I.R, Brooklyn, NY, November 17.
Presentation, Continuing Education, Mixing Light and Subtractive Color, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, October 3.
Workshop, Inside/Outside Summer Series, COPE NYC, Queens Museum, Queens, NY, August 3.
Panel, Juxtapositions, TransBorder Art, New York, NY, July 1.
Panel, Summer Art Talk Series, Craff House, New York, NY, June 16.
Presentation, Continuing Education, Mixing Light and Subtractive Color, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, June 13.
Panel Moderator, NYC Creative Salon, Structure, Studio CD, New York, NY, April 27.
Presentation, Continuing Education, Mixing Light and Transparencies, Pratt Institute, New York, NY, February 22.
2016 Workshop, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and the 4th R-Reimagine, COPE NYC A.I.R.,, Brooklyn, NY, November 16.
Presentation, Continuing Education, Additive Color, Color Theory for Artists and Designers, Pratt Institute, New York, NY, October 15.
Presentation, Summer Study Program, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York, NY, July 23.
2015 Presentation, Undergraduate, Art Worlds: UG Professional Practices, Pratt Institute, December 15.
Curatorial
2017 Primary Gesture, co-curated with Kelly Worman, Steuben Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Void of Death, Aaron Davis Hall, City University of New York, NY
2016 What’s In A Landscape, Fine Arts Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Remainder of 1, co-curated with Dakota Sica, Steuben Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Pluralism in Art, DeKalb Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Film/Performance
2017 Fish Bones, a collaborative performance and interactive installation in conjunction with COPE NYC A.I.R., The Old Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY
2016 The Forest Never Tells, Featured Extra, Charles Lee
2015 IN SITU: a project by Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong and Clifford Owens, SVA MCP Project Space, New York, NY