Susan Silton

Twister 8, 2003

Piezo pigment print, ed. 3/6

29 5/8 x 23 5/8”

Susan Silton was born in Los Angeles, California, and received a B.A. in English Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1978. Silton is a photographic and video-based artist living in Los Angeles. Her work explores how observations are shaped and distorted by socialization and by media, and how perception frames and limits our definitions of identity. This conceptual framework is supported by the use of diverse media—including photographic-based processes, video, installation, and offset lithography—which collectively challenge viewers’ assumptions about what and how they perceive. For the last several years, her work increasingly utilizes motion or the implication of motion as a strategy to elude categorization and defy definition. Silton’s work has been exhibited at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as well as internationally in Berlin and Frankfurt. She is the recipient of a Phelan Award in Photography and was an artist in residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada in 2001, and at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire in 2002. Silton is a grantee of the City of Los Angeles (COLA) individual artist award for 2002-2003.