ABOUT THE ARTIST
Susan Harby was born in Los Angeles in 1949. La Verne and George Harby supported her art early on
by giving her painting lessons from age 10 through high school. She later received degrees from Boston
University and Stanford University. Teachers Reid Kay, Morton Sacks, James Weeks, Frank Lobdell and Nathan
Oliviera informed her early work. Harby has traveled extensively in Africa, Europe and Mexico. In 2001,
she received a grant to attend an artist residency program at the Vermont Studio Center. There, Christopher
Brown inspired her to create crude monotypes which can be viewed in the Bird Gallery of this site. She exhibits
her work in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work is included in private collections in Japan, Korea, U.S. and Europe.
Since 1991, she has been advising and teaching for Cogswell Polytechnical College in the Digital Arts program.
Along with Artist Marguerite Fletcher, Harby co-founded The Next Step Art Studies. Harby is currently painting
in the Santa Cruz mountains and coastline.
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