Artist Bio
Susie Callista Suh (b.Oct. 31) is an emerging Korean American artist from Philadelphia, PA. She attended the University of the Arts and has BFA with honors in Interdisciplinary art and a concentration in art therapy. Suh uses her art to address her Korean American experience and the Asian American Diaspora. Her work sheds light on microaggressions and overt racism that she and her family faced and internalized. The themes of her work include: identity, memory, history, and grief. Her work format is inspired by narratives by authors like Amy Tan and Sandra Cisneros. Her work is a collection of visual vignettes, which are categorized into three chapters: her personal memories, moments in Korean American history, and stories from her family’s past in Korea. Her art style is inspired by contour drawing, minimalism, and artist Louise Bourgeois. Her mediums are muslin fabric, paint, and thread. The mixed media approach to her work relates to her interdisciplinary art background and the sewing aspects of her practice are an homage to her family’s seamstress and textile lineage. The motivation behind her work is to address the Asian American diaspora and serve as an opportunity for personal reflection and catharsis.
Her work has been exhibited at: The CICA Museum (Czong Institute of Contemporary Art, South Korea), The Atelier Gallery (Philadelphia),The Sketch Book Society’s: Plastic Art's Club (Philadelphia). She has been featured by Vice Magazine’s: Creator’s Project, Surface Design Association, and Bored Panda. She was awarded the Sachs grant for Innovation, University of the Arts Dean’s list scholarship, Scholastic Honors from PAEP, Stuart M. Engal Prize in painting, and most recently, placed first-runner up in the Fleisher Memorial Wind Challenge.