You Should Never Be a Redhead Painting

Suzanne Scott (b. 1973, New Jersey) is a New York City-based artist working in oil on canvas. She attended Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, and later studied human anatomy at The Art Student’s League of NY in the late 1990s. Scott’s work focuses on non-traditional portraiture based on fingerprints informed by her education and interest in anatomy and forensics. Her subjects, whom she knows personally, are fingerprinted and interviewed. Beginning with observation, their fingerprints are reevaluated, reformulated, and retranslated through a painting process rooted in abstraction and intuitive decision making. The subject’s print acts as the scientific basis to develop a psychological, emotional “portrait”. Since 2017, Scott has completed three advanced, post-graduate residencies in painting and lithography; Le Festival de Bargemon, France, The Meeting House in NY, and Chateau Orquevaux, France. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently with a solo exhibition in New York City at Art of Our Century Gallery, as well as group shows in Art Basel Miami, Aqua Art Fair, the Beddington Gallery in Bargemon, France, and the GemLuc Art Exposition in Monaco. Scott is currently represented in the South of France, New York City, Austria and Massachussets. She was nominated three times for the Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome, and was proposed for an award through the Academy of Arts and Letters in 2017. Scott is currently a board member for the non-profit Artistic Realization Techniques (A.R.T.), President of the board for the non-profit, HealthMatr, and served a year tenure as Vice President of the board for The Rare Disease Foundation from 2018-19. She has recently been interviewed and published by Blanc Magazine, Brooklyn Rail, Portray Magazine, and Conception Arts; SmartArt Business.