About

Susan Anne Russell is an artist who has sold her work to collectors in Italy, Chicago California, and Florida. She is an author and Professor of the Arts and Humanities. She has exhibited in galleries throughout Chicago since the age of twenty. Her studio is located on a lake which she draws her inspiration. She has been written up and reviewed by major papers such as The Chicago Tribune, Daily Herald, The Chicago Reader and the Illinois Entertainer. Shows include: 2024-2023-RED DOT Miami- Mecenavie Gallery-France -Paris, France Art Week 2024, NY Art Expo 2024,  The Other Art Fair- by Saatchi  2022, Spectrum Miami (Basel) Art Week 2022, 

2017-Judge- Libertyville Festival of the Arts-Adler/Cook Mansion.

 Susan Anne Russell's paintings were listed in the Look Book sponsored by Redwood Art Media, introducing cutting edge artists. Brazilian Falls was featured in ArtBlend Magazine 2022.

I live, breathe and feel art everyday. Art is my inner world of dreams, fantasies and exploration.” Art is everywhere. Being an artist is learning how to see, perceive, enlighten, and evoke. She is author of the textbook: Exposing Yourself to the Performing Arts published by BVT 2013. The paintings : Beatrice and Aphrodite are printed in the book. Her new Book set for publication release is BOLD and DARING WOMEN OF THE ARTS- Kendall Publishing 2025 The book is in many international libraries, including: Oxford University Bodleian Library, Harvard University Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Yale University Sterling Memorial Library, Columbia University Music and Arts Library Dodge Hall, Cornell University- Sidney Cox Library, Rutgers Douglass Library, The RADA- Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, University of Chicago Regenstein Library, Oberlin College Library, The Spertus Museum Library, Jewish Theological Seminary Library, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni Venice, Italy, UCLA Music library, University of Tel Aviv -Buchamann Mehta Music Library, Rijksmuseum Research Library, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Fondazione Maxxi Museum, Rome, Italy, The Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, Musee d’orsay, Paris, France, The MCA Sydney, Australia, The Jewish Museum in Prague, Lake Forest Library, Eastman School of Music Library, St. Mark's Bookstore, NYC Orwig Music Library at Brown University, New York University Library, and the Art Institute's Ryerson Burnham Library.

In 2021 Susan Anne Russell was selected as Judge of The Deerpath Art League Show “Art Fair on the Square” in Lake Forest. In 2017 Susan was selected as Judge of the Annual Cook Mansion for the Festival of The Arts in Libertyville. In May-June 2019 Susan had a Solo Show at The North Shore Arts League in Winnetka titled Ethereal Dreams. In 2018  and 2022 Susan granted a Solo Show at the Woodstock Opera House. In 2018 she exhibited at The Marin MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art in Novato, California. In 2020 Susan exhibited her painting at The Elmhurst Art Museum in the show- Beyond The Surface. In the same year, Sacred Falls was selected for the Art and Soul Poster and in 2018 Spirit Messenger was the featured artwork for the Artists on the Bluff Spirit Poster. Other Solo shows include 2012 at the Adler Mansion and 2008 at Oxala Gallery of Fine Art in Pilsen. Susan's work appeared at the Miami Spectrum 2015 show concurrent with the International Miami Art Basel show. In 2016 Exhibited in a 3 person Show titled: Mixed Palettes and a 3 person show at Deer Path Gallery- titled Deck the Walls. Susan was selected for the NY Biennale Art Show 2009, receiving international recognition and accepted in New York’s Agora Gallery located in the Chelsea District From 2009-2011 she exhibited at Gallerie MK in the River North District and at Robert Wayner’s Black Walnut Gallery located in the Fulton Market Gallery District. Aphrodite was given the honor of being printed in the Chicago Reader’s Art section accompanying the Oxala solo show. In 2019 Susan became an official member of Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago. Susan is an Art and Humanities professor since 2005 teaching Art History, History of Performing Arts, and studio art classes.  Susan Anne Russell's art is published internationally in compilation books, poetry books and textbooks. Susan has been recognized for her televised interviews, work in film and her live performances. “My work stems predominantly from dreams that are orchestrated and filtered through the vehicle of pigment, achieving perspectives with light and atmosphere. I consider art an evolving process and feel my art comes from an exterior muse that enters and inspires."

EDUCATION

Education : School of the Art Institute BFA, Columbia MA

Columbia College                        Chicago, IL     MA   1999
School of the Art Institute            Chicago, IL     BFA  1996
Bennington College                     Bennington, Vermont
New York University                     New York             NY

PROFESSIONAL

2021 -Judge-Lake Forest- Deerpathartleague
2017-Libertyville Festival of the Arts-Judge
2005- 2024 present– College of Lake County Adjunct faculty Instructor of Art - and Humanities 
Art Studio Classes-
Painting Instructor: Adler Center-Bon Voyage,Impressionism
Painting Instructor: Highland Park Art Center-TAC-POP Art, Impressionism
2008 Film class Instructor- Facets Multimedia Film School
2009- 2013 McHenry County College-Adjunct faculty Instructor of Art

Author: Textbook: Exposing Yourself to the Performing Arts-BVT publications

Areas of Concentration: Fine Artist, Performance Artist, Television and Film Actress, Interviewer, Professor, Author, Promoter of the Arts

2018:Painting: Spirit Messenger, featured on Poster- Artists on the Bluff Spirit Show

2024- LG Gallery- Lake Geneva

2024 Solo Show- Meet The Artist Lake Geneva Library

2023- Lake Forest Pop Art Gallery

2021-19 North Shore Art League-Landscape/City Show

2022 -Bloomingdale Museum

2021- Highland Park Art Stroll

2020-Elmhurst Museum- Beyond The Surface

2021-17 Artists on The Bluff-Lake Forest

2020-12 Adler Mansion

2020-19 Ice House Gallery- Evanston

2021-19 Highland Park Art Center 

2020- S. Kroeger- Interior Design- Winnetka 

2019-Rochester Contemporary Art Center-NY-SOLD-pop art

2019-17-Frame Forum-Lake Forest- Solo Display

2018 Marin Moca Museum of Contemporary Art-Novato California

2018 Woodstock Opera House 

2019-10 -Morpho Gallery-Chicago

2017-The Gallery-Lake Forest-Artists on the Bluff
2017-05 Wright Gallery
2015-Miami Spectrum 2015
2015-Contemporary Art Projects-Miami
2014-15 Deer Path Gallery Lake Forest

2014-Reinvent Gallery, Lake Forest

2019-13 Saatchi Gallery London, England

2013 Desdimi Gallery Chicago, IL

2013 She Art Gallery Chicago, IL
2012 Robert T. Wright Gallery, Faculty Show Grayslake, IL
2012 Adler Mansion Solo show, Libertyville, IL
2018-12 The Art Store and Gallery, Lake Forest, IL
2012 The Frame Forum, Lake Forest, IL
2012 Richard Mark Fine Art Gallery, Lake Forest, IL
2012 Reinvent Gallery Lake Forest, IL
2012-BF Gallery Lindenhurst, IL

2009-2011 Gallerie MK, SUHU District, Chicago, IL\

2008-Oxala Gallery Chicago

2011-MCC Faculty Show
2010-2013 Morpho Gallery Chicago, IL
2009 Rowland Gallery, Grayslake, IL
2009 The Attic Gallery, Crown Point, IND
2009 Antioch Fine Arts Foundation Gallery
2009 Pandora's Box Gallery,  Wilmette, IL
2008 Agora Gallery, Chelsea,  NYC, New York
2008 Robert Wayner Black Walnut Gallery,  Chicago, IL
2008 Omar Valencia Gallery,  Pilsen, Chicago
2008 Karen Solem Gallery,  Elmhurst, IL
2008 Maison Rouge Gallery,  Chicago, IL
2006-2008  High Risk Gallery,  Chicago, IL
2005 Gallery Munoz,  Long Grove, IL
2005 Home SH Gallery,  Grayslake, IL,
2005 Art and Blooms,  Grayslake, IL,
2004 Cassandra Gallery,  Long Grove, IL
2004 Amers Gallery,  Long Grove, IL,
2004 Pegasus Gallery, Vernon Hills, IL
2002-2006 Fine Arts Foundation,  Antioch, IL
2002 Moonstone Gallery,  Lake Geneva, WI
2002 Matisse Gallery ,Lake Geneva, WI
2001 Lake County Art League Gallery, Waukegan, IL
Millenium Art  Gallery,  Libertyville, IL
Gallery and Frame Ltd., Winnetka, IL
Gallery,  Evanston, IL
Burgess Hill Ltd.,  Chicago, IL
The Art Store and Gallery,  Lake Forest, IL
One Hundred Gallery Annex,  Chicago, IL
Art Werk Gallery,  Chicago, IL
Waller Boldenweck Gallery,  Chicago, IL

2022- The Other Art Fair- by Saatchi -Fulton Market

2022- Miami Spectrum- Solo Booth

2024 LG Gallery Lake Geneva 

2023 Adler Member Show

2022-Bloomingdale Museum- Variations show