Bio
Susanna Bluhm is a queer landscape-based artist who makes semi-abstract paintings. Raised with her brother in a suburb of Los Angeles by a therapist mother and engineer father, her Mexican grandmother was the anchor of family culture and her gay artist uncle an early source of inspiration and affirmation. She earned her MFA in Painting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and her BA in Studio Art at Humboldt State University. After doing residencies at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin and the Karl Hofer Gesellschaft in Berlin, she moved to Seattle where she was a member of SOIL artist-run gallery for five years, was the 2014 recipient of the Neddy Artist Award in Painting, worked as a gallery director at a nonprofit gallery in West Seattle, and had a life human pulled out of her body (not in that order). She recently completed an MA degree in Comparative Religion at the University of Washington in Seattle, with a major in Judaism and a minor in German Studies. Her thesis was titled “Making Landscape: A Tradition of Collaboration with the More-than-Human World in the Hebrew Bible and Jewish Literature.” She is represented by J. Rinehart Gallery in Seattle. She lives in Seattle with her wife and teenaged son.