Susan Magnus is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores impermanence, temporality, and the instability of memory. She examines and draws inspiration from material culture, personal artifacts and archives. Using a wide variety of materials, she creates photo-based projects, sculptures, mixed media works, and installations.
Work by Susan Magnus is held in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive at the University of California, the Mills College Art Museum at Northeastern University, and the Oakland Museum of California. She is the recipient of a Regional Fellowship from the Western States Arts Federation and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as a Visual Arts Award from the Gerbode Foundation.
Magnus currently lives and works in Beacon, New York.