Susan Lakin is currently an Associate Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California and a Master of Fine Arts in Art Studio from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Before arriving to RIT, Susan worked commercially in Los Angeles and Australia; some of her clients included Adidas, Avon, Harper's Bazaar, LA Times Magazine, Nordstrom, OCA Architects, Sebastian, Shape Magazine, Southern California Edison, and Syncor International Corp. In addition to her commercial work, she owned and operated a professional retail photographic supply store in Burbank, CA. In her current artwork she is examining our interaction with mass communication through electronic screens in our homes and looking at how these displays frame our lives.
Her artwork has received many awards and is part of the permanent collection at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Oakland Museum of California, Griffin Museum of Photography, and the Photography Museum of Lishui China. Her exhibitions include: New York at the Memorial Art Gallery, Gallery @49 NYC, Germany at the Fotografie Forum International, Texas at Houston Center of Photography, Boston at the Photographic Resource Center and the Griffin Museum of Photography, Canada at Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, California at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the University Art Museum Santa Barbara, as well as, the Robert V Fullerton Art Museum.
