Susan Kae Grant

Susan kae Grant is an influential force in photography as an artist, educator, mentor, and early proponent of photographic book arts. Her innovative studio practice and distinct personal vision represent one of the medium’s most sustained and recognizable contributions to fabricated photography and book art. With an interest in art and science, Grant uses the shadow as a metaphor to create fabricated narratives that explore dreams, memory, and the subconscious in her ongoing series titled Night Journey.

Two of her limited-edition artists’ books include Radioactive Substances, a tribute to Marie Curie for the Smithsonian Institution, and Shadowed Memory, created at the Visual Studies Workshop while she was in residence. Grant’s touring immersive installation of Night Journey and her curated exhibition Photographic Book Art in the United States have traveled to over 30 venues combined.

Grant has lectured, taught book art workshops, and exhibited internationally. Public collections representing her photographs and bookworks include the George Eastman Museum, J. Paul Getty Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Tokyo Photographic Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Victoria & Albert National Art Library.

From 1981 to 2017, Grant served as Head of Photography in the Department of Visual Arts at Texas Woman's University and was named Cornaro Professor of Art Emerita in 2018. Her numerous teaching awards include the 2014 Society for Photographic Education Honored Educator, recognizing her distinguished tenure at TWU and her 30 years of annual photographic bookmaking workshops at the International Center of Photography in New York City. She holds an MFA in Photography and Book Arts and a BS in Art and Art Education from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is represented by Conduit Gallery and lives in Dallas, Texas.