Susan Mastrangelo – Biography 2025 Susan Mastrangelo was born and raised in New York City and Washington, D.C. She studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and the New York Studio School, and earned her MFA from Boston University under the tutelage of Philip Guston. Based in New York since graduate school, she has exhibited nationally and internationally, and is the recipient of a Mercedes Matter Award, a Visiting Artist Rockwell Grant, and two Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants. Mastrangelo has been a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome, a guest at Civitella Ranieri, and a resident at Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Ragdale Foundation, the Triangle Workshop (as a student of Anthony Caro), and the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Ireland. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum by Barry Schwabsky, featured in The Woven Tale Press, profiled in Suboart Magazine (both online and in print), and she has been a guest on Brainard Carey’s Yale Radio program. Her practice has also been documented in three books: Heads in Limbo (2013), Safe at Home (2021), and Between the Line and the Curve (2024). Museum exhibitions include the Islip Art Museum in New York and the City Museum of Neuötting in Germany. She taught at Fisher College in Boston from 1977–1980, and at the Buckley School in New York City from 1991–2017, where she chaired the art department from 2000–2017. In the past eighteen months, Mastrangelo has had three solo exhibitions in New York City and Brooklyn. She now works full-time as a multidisciplinary artist at the Can Factory in Gowanus, Brooklyn, and continues to exhibit in New York City, Brooklyn, and the Hudson Valley. She was married to the journalist Tom Robbins until his passing in 2025.