Susan Coyne

Susan Coyne is a writer and illustrator in New York (and often other places). From 2016 to 2020, Coyne contributed weekly illustrations to the podcast Open Source with Christopher Lydon, which airs on WBUR, Boston’s public radio station. Coyne’s illustration of James Baldwin for the show was featured in American Illustration. She has written and illustrated for Hyperallergic, Artnet News, Radcliffe Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Toast, Bowdoin Magazine, and Lenny Letter, among others.

In 2022, Coyne received a public arts grant from the Cambridge Arts Council to document older residents of the city through painting, video, audio and prose. That work is all gathered here.

Coyne exhibited paintings and writing in the “Women and Other Wild Creatures: Matrilineal Lines” exhibition at Sapar Contemporary art gallery in Manhattan.

In 2026, she exhibited at The Other Art Fair (partnered with Saatchi Art) in Shoreditch, London.

Bowdoin College (B.A.)
Sarah and James Bowdoin Scholar Award
Camberwell College of Arts
School of Visual Arts (Master of Fine Arts)
Alumni Award 2016

“Wild Women: Matrilineal Lines” at Sapar Contemporary in TriBeca, New York