Susan Bee

Susan Bee is a painter, editor, and book artist who lives in New York City. She has had five solo shows at A.I.R. Gallery in NYC and will have a solo show there in spring 2011. She has published six artist’s books with Granary Books, including collaborations with poets: Bed Hangings, with Susan Howe; A Girl’s Life, with Johanna Drucker; Log Rhythms and Little Orphan Anagram, with Charles Bernstein; and The Burning Babe and Other Poems, with Jerome Rothenberg. Her most recent book is Entre, with poems by Regis Bonvicino (Global Books 2009). Bee is the co-editor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artist’s Writings, Theory, and Criticism (Duke UP 2000), featuring writings by over one hundred artists, critics, and poets. She is the co-editor of M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online. She has a BA from Barnard College and a MA in Art from Hunter College. Her artist’s books are included in many public and private collections, including the Getty Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, Yale University, Clark Art Institute, New York Public Library, and Harvard University Library. She teaches Art Criticism and Writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her most recent book, Off-World Fairy Tales (Litmus, 2020), is a collaboration with Johanna Drucker.