Susan Salinger is a graduate of the Juilliard School in New York and has worked for more than 40 years as an artist, dancer, choreographer, and professional photographer. Her artwork, choreography, and installations have been exhibited and performed across the United States in museums, galleries, and performance art theaters such as MoMA P.S. 1, The Downtown Whitney Museum, and The Kitchen. After several years working as a photography assistant for Horst P. Horst and Sheila Metzner, she went on to open her own studio. Her photography clientele included Ferragamo, Cartier, J. Mendel, Bergdorf Goodman, and Takashimaya. Using a scanning electron microscope, Susan's ant portraits of extreme close-up imagery can be equated to both alien forms and our everyday, functional, living experiences. Susan also has a Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology. She is currently working on video / sculpture installations and a video/ photographic collaboration with the artist Carl George. She has received The Society of Publication Designers Award for Photography, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a NYSCA fellowship, and recently an Emily Harvey Foundation Residency in Venice.
the29.art, is a digital platform for self-identified women working in the arts - filmmakers, writers, poets, performance artists, gallery owners, painters, sculptors, dancers, auction house experts, and philanthropists - to present their work, proposals, ideas about the art-making process. An important component of the site is to create a network/ community of artists who support each other’s work by sharing information, studio opportunities, gallery spaces, collaborations, creating panel discussions, finding greater representation, funding, and equity in pay.
Susan designed and constructed the site in 2019, during the pandemic, as an experiment.
