About


Susan Field has worked as an artist for over 35 years. She devoted the first dozen years to working with colored pencils, then developed her skills with three-dimensional sculptures and installations. She is currently focusing on digital work using the iPad. Her artworks have been included in solo and group exhibits nationally and internationally and are featured in various collections. She has completed artist residencies in the U.S., as well as in New Zealand and France. She lives in northern California with her husband.


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Common Threads, Aratoi, Wairarapa Museum of Art and History (atrium), Masterton, New Zealand, 2006
Thread, Beads, Quills, Ink, KHN Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE, 2006
Stitches, and Other Connections, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2005
Grammar of the Hands, CSU/Stanislaus, Turlock, CA, 2005
What the Eye Can Touch, Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, OR, 2004


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Shelter, Art Works Downtown, San Rafael, CA, 2014
The Sketchbook Project 2014 (toured 20+ cities), 2014
The Lilliputians March, Purdue University Galleries, W. Lafayette, IN, 2014
The Last Hurrah, The Quicksilver Mine Co., Forestville, CA, 2012
10.-22.-38 Astoria, Fictilis/The Lab, San Francisco, CA, 2012
OMA Prayer Flag Project, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA, 2012
Here There Here, 2-person exhibit with Deborah Colotti, Lost Coast Culture Machine, Fort Bragg, CA, 2012
Uncommon Threads, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR, 2011
Outlandish, Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA, 2011
Drawing Resurfaced, Stewart Center Gallery, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN, 2011
Wings/Flugel, Westflugel Syke, Syke, Germany, 2011
In Material, 3-person exhibit with Brooke Holve and Elizabeth Sher, Quicksilver Mine Company, Forestville, CA, 2011
An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, Cabinet Magazine, Brooklyn, NY, 2011
TROYART — International Exhibition at MuBE, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2011
Warps and Wefts, Gualala Arts Center, Gualala, CA, 2009
cARTalog, University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, Iowa, 2006
An Array of Small Works, Crockett Contemporary Art, Crockett, CA, 2005
Subversive Stitch, Reynolds Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, 2005
California BLACK, WHITE & READ, Cabrillo Gallery, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA, 2005
United Net-Works on the Road, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA, 2005
United Net-Works Mobile Archive of Wonders, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA, 2004
Art=Start+, Middelburg, Holland
Three Women: Three Directions in Mixed Media, with Donise English and Amy Newell, Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, CA, 2004
Errata and Contradiction, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2004
Contemporary Perspectives, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Rosa, CA, 2004
The Museum of Temporary Art, Tubingen, Germany, 2003
The Board Show: The Art of Transforming Surf, Skate and Snow Boards, Off the Preserve!, Napa, CA, 2003
The Big Tree Project, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA, 2003
Painters and Poets, collaboration with poet Inda S. Shirley, Off the Preserve!, Napa, CA 2003
Dreams Aflight, Oakland International Airport/Oakland Museum Professional Services Division, Oakland, CA, 2002


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Around Here Somewhere: Poems and Pinhole Photographs, softcover, 28 pages with black & white photographs, self-published, 2020
Hyperallergic, “A View From the Easel During Times of Quarantine,” May 8, 2020
Or the Other Way Around, softcover, 40 pages with colored/black & white illustrations, self-published, 2020
Third Party: Self-portraits on an iPad, softcover, 164 pages with colored/black & white illustrations, self-published, 2018
Artwork featured in the Connecticut Review, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT, Spring 2001
Cover of Caesura, San Jose Center for Poetry and Literature, San Jose, CA, Winter 2000
Creative Colored Pencil, Rockport Publishers, Rockport, MA, 1995
Cover of The MacGuffin, Schoolcraft College, Livonia, MI, Spring 1995
Best of Colored Pencil 2, Rockport Publishers, Rockport, MA, 1994
Cover of The New Jersey Review, Matawan, NJ, Spring 1994

RESIDENCIES

AIR Le Parc, Pampelonne, France, April 2012
New Pacific Studio, Mt. Bruce, New Zealand, August/September 2006
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE, April 2005
Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula, CA, April 2004
The Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, Woodstock, NY, June 2002

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ, 1997, 1995
Ocean Co. Artists’ Guild, Island Heights, NJ, 1991-1995
The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, 1993

AFFILIATIONS

Board member, WORKS/San Jose, San Jose, CA, 2001-2003
Board member, Silicon Valley Visual Arts/Open Studios, Palo Alto, CA, 2001-2003
Board member, North Coast Artists’ Guild, Gualala, CA, 2001-2002