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1. Biography

Susan E. Evans is a conceptual artist working with photography, video and new media in order to explore ideas about identity, context, structure, information processing and categorization and has work appearing in galleries, museums and private collections worldwide.  Susan E. Evans is represented by WM Hunt from the Hasted Hunt Gallery in Chelsea, NY, and Gallery Lichblick in Koln, Germany. 

Born Juana Ramos, adopted and then re-named, Susan E. Evans started her photographic exploration at the age of eight in a small basement darkroom. Since then, Evans’ formal education yielded a BFA in both Photography and Holography from Goddard College in 1991 and a MFA cum laude from Cornell University in Photography in 1994.

Always up for photographic exploration Evans has employed a multi-disiplinary approach to her work throughout her career and whenever possible pulls content from a variety of sources, experiences and concepts. She is currently experimenting with contemporary content in large format wet-plate photographs (Ambrotypes) and researching different language theories, anthropology and memory.

Susan E. Evans is both Assistant Professor and Head of the Photography Area in the Art and Art History Department at Oakland University in Rochester Hills, where she teaches photography, digital imaging, digital video and time based media.  Evans is a member of The American Society of Media Photographers, the Society of Photographic Education, Michigan Photographic Historical Society and the College Art Association.