Susan Mikula is one of the most popular and richest American artist who was born on March 7, 1958 in New Jersey, United States.
Susan Mikula was born in New Jersey before relocating to New Hampshire at a young age. She taught herself photography at an early age. She attended Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts graduating in 1976.
Mikula spent several years in the art industry, including a stint on an art jury. In 1998, she landed her first solo exhibition. Her published landscape photography collections have been displayed in both solo and group exhibitions in New York City, Miami, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Mikula exhibited “large-scale digital Duraflex prints” at the New York State House in 2007. In 2008, she opened her first show in New York. Mikula had an exhibition in 2009 at the TJ Walton Gallery in Provincetown with Rachel Maddow and Suzanne Westenhoefer attending. In 2010, Mikula had her first photography show, American Device Recent Photographs, in San Francisco. A year later, Mikula released a three part industrial landscape series titled American Bond. These American vistas spanned images of America from Texas to California to Massachusetts. Her 2013 series, u.X, were inspired by the Lascaux cave paintings. In 2015, Mikula released a series of psychologically enigmatic pigment prints titled Photo Book. Mikula’s more Pittsfield focused photograph galleries were also on display at the Ferrin Gallery. Since 2017, Mikula has been a part of the Art in Embassies program for United States Consulate in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico doing site specific works for the organization. Some of Mikula’s works were purchased by the United States Embassy Art in Embassies (Nuevo Laredo Mexico) for their Permanent Collections.
