SUSAN LEWIS was born in Chicago in 1948.  She lives and works in New York City and in the Hudson Valley.

She has exhibited in the United States and abroad and her work is included in the collections of Chase Bank, Bryn Mawr College, the Rauschenberg Foundation and private collections.  She has an MFA degree in painting from Yale University (1972) and a BFA from Indiana University (1970).  She worked for Robert Rauschenberg in New York City from 1977 to 1981, and at Christie's, New York, from 1988 to 2009 where she was a vice president and specialist in Japanese modern and contemporary art, and Japanese prints.  Her reviews of Japanese modern art exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum may be found in the 2014 and 2017 issues of Impressions, The Journal of the Japanese Art Society of America.  

EXHIBITIONS

Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY, 2017

Red Hook Community Arts Center, Red Hook, NY, 2012, 2013

Art Advisory Services (representation), New York, NY, 2000-2003

Umbrello, New York, NY, 1990

Penine Hart, New York, NY, 1988

Bali Miller, New York, NY, 1988

Grace Borgenicht, New York, NY, 1986

Anca Colbert, Los Angeles, CA, 1986

John Davis, Akron, OH, 1985

John Davis, SOLO EXHIBITION, Akron, OH, 1984

Brooklyn Academy of Music, exhibition, program cover, Brooklyn, NY, 1983

Bennington College, Bennington, VT, 1983

Castelli Gallery (for the Trisha Brown Dance Company), New York, NY, 1981

Galleria Schema, Florence Italy and Galleria Trisorio, Milan Italy, "New American Artists," curated by Ileana Sonnabend, 1980

Artists Space, New York, NY, 1977

Brown University, TWO PERSON exhibition, Providence, RI, 1976

Aldrich Museum of Contempoary Art, Ridgefield, CT, 1976

Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA, 1975

PUBLICATIONS AS AUTHOR  

"Yasuo Kuniyoshi at the Smithsonian," Impressions, The Journal of the Japanese Society of America, Number 38, 2017: 197-206

"Gutai at the Guggenheim," Impressions, Number 35, 2014: 260-273