Susy Bielak

Susy Bielak is an artist and writer who draws upon encounters in daily life to speak to larger concerns including migration, displacement, and disaster. With a practice centered in drawing, painting and text, she also works in installation, photography, printmaking, and video. Her projects have ranged from drawings made with her breath to videos staged in sites of scientific testing, and from town hall meetings to sculptures transforming domestic furniture. Her collaborators include writers in exile, bus drivers, social workers, choreographers, engineers, and musicians. Bielak’s work has been collected, exhibited, and published widely, including by the Museo Tamayo, New American Paintings, Poetry Magazine, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, and Walker Art Center. Bielak received her MFA from the University of California San Diego, and is an Assistant Professor of Art at Lake Forest College, where she is currently a Mellon Fellow. Bielak regularly collaborates with Fred Schmalz, with whom she has been in residence at Grand Central Art Center, participated in the binational festival Lit & Luz, and performed at the MCA Chicago.

Visit her site at www.susybielak.com