About
Susan Marie White (b. 1983) is an artist and mother. Raised in Connecticut, she spent her academic years studying mathematics, immersed in patterns and the abstract world. After a career in technology and data, she shifted her focus to more creative pursuits, earned a Director’s Fellowship and graduated from the Creative Practices program at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York City in 2021.
As a community member and parent of children with special needs, she works to support other families with similar challenges to navigate the public school system. In 2018, she earned a certificate in Family Empowerment Advocacy to deepen her support for her children and her community.
Her primary mediums are lens-based and organic materials (namely, hair). Her work investigates personal narratives surrounding family, identity, memory, and loss. Her work has been exhibited in the online group exhibition for 2021 ICP graduates, This Was The Year That Was (curated by Marvin Heiferman); Group Show 69: Photo for Non-Majors with Humble Arts Foundation (curated by Roula Seikaly and Jon Feinstein); Stories in Warsaw at the Centrum Wielokulturowe in Warsaw, Poland; and the inaugural Documentary Family Awards Exhibition 2017-2019 in Miami, FL. She has been featured in online publications including Vanity Fair: Italia and Scary Mommy. Most recently, she contributed to the project Huq: I Seek No Favor, founded and edited by Ashima Yadava.
Susan lives and works from her home studio in Pleasantville, NY with her family.