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Rachel Sussman was born in 1975 and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland punctuated by stints in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Nicoya, Costa Rica. She received her B.F.A. in Photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1998. She is currently working on a project “The Oldest Living Things in the World,” where she is researching, working with biologists, and traveling to sites all over the world to photograph living things 2000 years old and older. She will create a book and corresponding exhibition of the work.

Sussman has been awarded artist's residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and the Vermont Studio Center. She was recently elected to the Macdowell Colony Fellows Executive Committee in addition to being named the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Fellow in 2005. She received an Artist’s Fellowship Award for her residency at VSC, and was presented with an ID Magazine Bronze design award in 1999, as well as the Arkin-Medo Excellence in Photography award in 1998. Sussman will serve as a Thomas P. Johnson Distinguished Visiting Artist at Rollins College this fall.

Over the past 10 years Sussman has exhibited in the US and Europe, as well as online. She has shown in New York in such venues as New Century Artists, Pierogi 2000, Jen Bekman Gallery, Christie’s auction house, Artists Space, Cue Art Foundation, Galapagos Art Space, Momenta, White Columns, and non-traditional venues like the RIDER Project mobile art gallery, amongst others. Her work was also shown recently at the LA Design Center, Vox Populi in Philadelphia, Photography 2005 at the Renaissance Society in Chicago, Stenersenmuseet in Norway, D21 Kunstraum and Pierogi, Liepzig, as well as a solo exhibition at Galerie Engler und Piper in Berlin.

Additionally, Sussman has worked as an Interactive Producer for 10 years and has managed large teams and interdisciplinary projects ranging from NBC.com’s Homicide and Saturday Night Live sites to educational software projects employing speech recognition technologies. She also performed trapeze as part of the duo The Amazing Siblings in venues throughout New York, though her acrobatic career was cut short when she was sidelined by a rotator cuff injury.

Sussman lives and works in Williamsburg, Brooklyn when she is not traveling.

clearing (arroyo seco, nm)

2005
photograph; digital fine art print
33 x 48 cm

untitled (nagoya, japan)

2004
photograph; digital fine art print
33 x 48 cm

jomon sugi (7000 years old)

2004
photograph; digital fine art print
33 x 48 cm

geothermal power (iceland)

2002
photograph; digital fine art print
33 x 48 cm

untitled (kyoto)

2004
photograph; digital fine art print
33 x 48 cm

rain (tanglewood)

2006
photograph; digital fine art print
33 x 48 cm

towards christiana (copenhagen)

2007
photograph; digital fine art print
various

yard (louis trichard, south africa)

2007
photograph; digital fine art print
33 x 48 cm

untitled (kerry, ireland)

2007
photograph; digital fine art print
81 x 107 cm