Biography

Susan Bikoff (b. July 21, 1956, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA) is a representational artist and educator based in McLean, Virginia. Originally trained as a printmaker, she has spent more than four decades creating and exhibiting work across a range of media, including wax-resist drawings, painted woodcarvings, and layered landscape collages. Her work explores the interplay between abstraction and representation, often drawing inspiration from architecture, ancient ruins, botanical forms, and rural village life.

Bikoff studied at Brandeis University, including a formative year of study in Rome. She later earned her MA and MFA at the University of Iowa, where she studied with renowned printmaker Mauricio Lasansky. Her teaching career began in 1980 at the Fillmore Arts Center in Washington, D.C., and has included positions at the University of Cape Town, the Corcoran School of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and American University. She is also the founder of Artwork Studio B, a private art school in McLean, and served as director of the visual arts program at Hunter’s Woods Magnet School.

Since 2010, Bikoff has collaborated with painter Harriet Lesser on Dialogues in Layers, a series of tropical-inspired painted woodcarvings combining carving, painting, photography, and mixed media. Her A Nuanced Shading series, begun in 2018, continues her exploration of the expressive possibilities of wax-resist ink-wash drawing.

Bikoff’s work has been exhibited at venues including Studio Gallery, Gage Gallery, the Mansion at Strathmore, and the University of Iowa Museum of Art, as well as in exhibitions in Cape Town and Pretoria, South Africa. Her work is held in private collections throughout the United States and internationally.

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Biography