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 over 35 years making and exhibiting work across media such as wax-resist drawings, painted woodcarvings, and layered landscape collages. Her art explores the balance between abstraction and representation, often inspired by architecture, ancient ruins, and rural village life.

Bikoff studied at Brandeis University and spent a formative year in Rome before earning her MA and MFA at the University of Iowa, where she worked with master printmaker Mauricio Lasansky. Her teaching career began in 1980 at the Fillmore Arts Center in Washington, D.C., and later included positions at the University of Cape Town, the Corcoran School of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and American University. She also founded Artwork Studio B, a private art school in McLean, and directed the visual arts program at Hunter’s Woods Elementary.

Since 2010, Bikoff has collaborated with painter Harriet Lesser on A Walk on the Wild Side, a series of tropical-inspired woodcarvings. Her A Nuanced Shading series, initiated in 2018, has continued to develop as she explores new possibilities within the wax-resist ink-wash drawing technique.

Her work has been shown in venues including Studio Gallery, Gage Gallery, the Mansion at Strathmore, and the University of Iowa Museum of Art, as well as in Cape Town and Pretoria, South Africa. Her art is held in private collections across the U.S. and abroad.

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Biography