Susy Bielak

Susy Bielak is an Assistant Professor of Art at Lake Forest College, specializing in painting, drawing, installation, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Her work explores themes of migration, displacement, and the intersection of domestic life with disaster through archives and participatory practices. She holds an MFA from the University of California, San Diego (concentration in Drawing and Public Practice) and a BFA from Macalester College in Studio Art, Anthropology, and Psychology.

• Teaches courses including ART 130 (Elements of Design), ART 230 (Painting), and ART 381 (Radical Women: Latina/x Artists)
• Exhibitions: International Print Center, Museo Tamayo, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, Walker Art Center
• Publications: Art Papers, Poetry Magazine, New American Paintings

Collaborates frequently with artist Fred Schmalz and integrates museum studies into her pedagogy, framing institutions as experimental spaces.