Susan Osborn

Susan J. Osborn taught art at The Bishops School in La Jolla for seventeen years. Keeping a studio at home, she works in assemblage, drawing and painting. Her work reveals a love of energy through line, texture and color.
Ms. Osborn’s work is in collections in the United States, Denmark, Japan and Spain. She is listed in Who’s Who of American Women (25th edition.) Among her many awards, she has received a Visual Artists Assistance Award from the State of California, awards at the San Diego Museum of Art, the San Diego Art Institute, the Bonita Museum and the Small Image Show. She is a member of the National Collage Society, Artist Alliance (OMA), San Diego Museum of Art and President of West Coast Drawing.

“As I put things together to make my art, I laugh. The
memories evoked when putting old objects together
can be humorous and surprising. There is something
very special about the process. Something old becomes
new - a reverse metamorphosis like our lives. The parts
that go into a piece have had lives as something else.
Now they are given a second life in a magical way.
The mundane becomes more whimsical!


M.A. Visual Art and
M.A. Education, San Diego State University

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS include:
2018 “Survival is Insufficient,” Oceanside Museum of Art
“Art Walls,” O’side Bakery Exhibit, Oceanside, CA
2017 “Fields of Color,” Mission Trails Regional Park Visitor’s Center, San Diego
“Wings and Whimsey,” Encinitas Library and Community Center
2016 “Part and Parcel,” San Diego Art Institute
2015 “Colorful Marks,” Girard Gourmet, La Jolla, CA
“She Says…,” Next Door Gallery, San Diego, CA
2012 “Wings and Whimsey,” San Diego Art Department
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2020 “Paisanos MEX/USA/ESP - trashumantes, creadores anacrónicos..de origen disímil,” Sala D’Expositions Del Palau Falguera, Barcelona, Spain
“Go Figure,” West Coast Drawing, Cuyamaca College, El Cajon, CA
“Read Through Viewing,” Feminine Image Group, San Diego Central Library
“Our Fragile Planet,” Fallbrook Library, Fallbrook, CA