Susan Rostow
Born in Brooklyn, New York City-based artist Susan Rostow works primarily with printmaking, drawing, and sculptural books. She attended Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, and Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR.
Rostow has exhibited her work nationally and internationally at institutions such as Galleri Norske, Oslo, Norway; Tacoma Art Museum, Washington; Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, MT; Tempe Center for the Arts, AZ; Portland Art Museum, OR; and University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.
Her work is included in significant collections such as the Allan Chasanoff Bookwork Collection at Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, and the Library of Congress National Print Archives, Washington, DC. She received awards including an artist workspace in Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning from New York State Council on the Arts, and an artist residency at the New York Academy of Medicine Library, New York City. She is a New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts (NYSCA/NYFA) Artist Fellow in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant recipient.
In addition to her active career as an artist, Rostow creates art materials. She has made major contributions to the practice of safer printmaking by creating Akua soy-based inks, developing new printmaking methods, and teaching numerous workshops.
—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records
