Susan Metrican is an artist / curator that lives and works between Fairfield, IA and Boston via NYC, Toronto, and Bangkok. Metrican received an MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute, and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2014. Metrican’s work has been included in exhibitions nationally including: Able Baker Contemporary (ME), GRIN Contemporary (RI), Proof Gallery (MA), Boston Center for the Arts (MA), Field Projects (NY), Knockdown Center (NY), and Gallery Protocol (FL). She has been the Curator at the Kniznick Gallery at Brandeis University since 2014. In 2015, she curated Linda Bond’s solo exhibition “Reconnaissance” at the Kniznick Gallery.

Statement 
As a Thai American raised mostly in the midwest, I’m drawn to images and objects that resonate across disparate cultures and time periods. I’m interested in imagery that is “culturally familiar” through its connection to folktales and shared traditions, particularly imagery that evokes a reverence for rural life. The work acknowledges ideas that have translated across multiple formats; textiles, costumes, theater, and small useful objects which allow the symbols, characters and stories to continue “moving” through time and space. Within this context, my work attempts to engage with these traditions through the depiction of nameable things and scenarios that have the appearance of being “well-worn” or “inherited.” 

SELECT Exhibitions

• Voyaging Tales, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, 2024

• Who Cooks for You, Headstone Gallery, Hudson, NY, 2023

• No Head No Tail, Mazmanian Gallery, Framingham State University, Framingham, MA, 2023

• The Midnight Hour, The Hole, New York, NY, 2023

• Married to the Ground, Rivalry Projects, Buffalo, NY, 2022

• Love 2020: Perfect Vision, LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2020

• Susan Metrican | Neighbor Bridge Neighbor, Unity Gallery, Maharishi University, Fairfield, Iowa, 2019

• Form & Alterations, 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA, 2018

• The Den, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY, 2017

• Dog, Tree, Table, GRIN, Providence, RI, 2017