Scholarship and Biography

I am a figurative painter of domestic spaces, working in a home studio in southeast Massachusetts. I construct compositions from a variety of sources: from direct perception of people and objects, from photographs I take and find, from distilled recollections of geometry and light. As a painter I have focused on the household realm as territory where the familiar becomes strange, and formal alterations enhance perception of every-day things. www.susanlichtman.com

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Honors

Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship
Yale Norfolk Summer School, 1978
Louis Comfort Tiffany Award
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, 1988
Richard & Hinda Rosenthal Award for "young painter fo distinction who has not yet received due recognition"
American Academy of Arts & Letters, 1988
Creative Arts Achievement Award
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2010
Theodore and Jane Norman Fund Research Award
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2013
Artist-in-Residence
International School of Painting and Sculpture, 2013
Guest of Honor
Jerusalem Studio School, 2015-2016
Theodore and Jane Norman Fund Research Award
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2017
Frances Niederer Artist-in-Residence
Hollins University (United States, Roanoke), 2017
Award in Painting
Massachusetts Cultural Council, 2018-2019
Theodore and Jane Norman Award for Faculty Research
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2019

Organizational Affiliations

Charles Bloom Chair in the Arts of Design, Emerita, Department of Fine Arts, Brandeis University

Education

Yale University
M.F.A.
Brown University
B.A.