Art and Art History

Specialization

Painting and drawing, installation, interdisciplinarity, mixed media, museum studies, public/participatory art 

Education

Masters of Fine Arts, University of California, San Diego with a concentration in Drawing and Public Practice 

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Macalester College, Studio Art, Anthropology, Psychology 

Susy Bielak’s art and writing responds to issues including migration, displacement, and the relationship between domestic life and disaster. In the process, she mines personal and political histories, texts, and archives to find the allegorical possibilities and poetics of people, places, and materials. Bielak works across drawing and painting, performance, photography, video, and writing. Her work has been collected and exhibited widely, including by the International Print Center, Museo Tamayo, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, and Walker Art Center, and published in Art Papers, Poetry Magazine, and New American Paintings. She frequently makes work with Fred Schmalz.