About The Artist
Susan kae Grant is an inventive and influential artist, educator, and early proponent of photographic book arts. She lives in Dallas, Texas and is Cornaro Professor of Visual Art, Emerita, Texas Woman’s University. She is on the staff of the International Center of Photography (NYC) where she has taught, The Art of Photographic Bookmaking workshops each spring since 1994.

Grant’s innovative studio practice and distinct personal vision represent one of the mediums more sustained and recognizable contributions to fabricated photography and book art. She has lectured and exhibited throughout the United States and internationally, from Spain to Japan.

Her ongoing touring immersive installation of Night Journey and her curated exhibition Photographic Book Art in the United States (1991-1995) have traveled to over 30 venues between them.

Publications & Collections
Books and publications featuring Grant’s work are wide ranging, from periodicals to textbooks to group exhibition catalogs. Notable recent and upcoming titles:

• The Focal Press Companion to the Constructed Image in Contemporary Photography (by Marni Shindelman and Anne Leighton Massoni)

• Finding Your Audience: An Introduction to Marketing Your Photographs (by Mary Virginia Swanson) which includes a case study of the Night Journey project.

Selected Public Collections:

• George Eastman Museum

• J. Paul Getty Museum

• Minneapolis Institute of Art

• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

• Tokyo Photographic Museum

• Victoria & Albert National Art Library

• Center for Creative Photography

Teaching & Awards:
Starting in 1981, Susan kae Grant developed nationally recognized undergraduate and graduate photography and book art programs at Texas Woman’s University and was named Cornaro Professor of Art, Emerita in 2018.

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Education, Teaching & Awards
Susan kae Grant holds an MFA and BS in photography and book arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 1981-2017 she served as Head of Photography & Book Arts at Texas Woman's University where she developed nationally recognized undergraduate and graduate programs. In 2018 she was named Cornaro Professor of Art, Emerita.

Selected Teaching Awards

• Cornaro Professor, 2016
  (Texas Woman’s University)

• Honored Educator, 2014
  (National Society of Photographic Education, SPE)

• Mentor of the Year Finalist, 2014
  (Women of Visionary Influence)

• Honored Educator, 2007
  (South Central Regional SPE)

• TWU Redbud Award, 2007
  (Advisor to P.A.C. Organization)

• Excellence in PhotoTeaching, 2004
  (Santa Fe Center for Photo)

• Freestyle Crystal Apple Award
  (SPE 2003 & 2005)

• Who’s Who in Fine Arts Higher Ed, 2005
  (Academic Keys)

• Mary Mason Lyon Faculty Award, 1996
  (Texas Woman’s University)

Representation
Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Vamp & Tramp Booksellers, LTD Alabama
See+Gallery, Shanghai, China.