Susan Magnus is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores impermanence, temporality, and the instability of memory. She investigates and draws inspiration from material culture, personal artifacts, and archives. Using a wide variety of materials, she creates photo-based projects, sculptures, works on paper, 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. Her work is also held in distinguished corporate collections, including the Bank of America Corporation, the Microsoft Corporation, and the Oracle Corporation. Magnus earned an MFA from Mills College in Oakland, California, and a BFA from Parsons School of Design in New York City. 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. She currently lives and works in Beacon, New York.