Bio

Susan Copich earned her BFA in dance and choreography at Ohio State University and later studied theater in New York at the Terry Schreiber School of Acting and Photography at the International Center for Photography. This performance training served as a foundation for the production and composition of her photography series, Domestic Bliss and then he forgot my name (thfmn), as well as the short film The Cupcake. After her break-out solo exhibition at Umbrella Arts in New York City (2014), Susan Copich’s stark take on being a woman in America became an instant internet sensation going viral and garnering press from Daily Mail, Huffington Post and Bored Panda as well as other international magazines. Copich has been featured in one-woman exhibitions, and has won recognition in numerous juried exhibitions including: a retrospective of 49 separate works of art at Ulrich Modern Museum of Art in Wichita, KS, PHOTOWORKS 2019, curated by James A. Ganz, Curator of Photography, J. Paul Getty Museum. She has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally: Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, TX; Art for Peace Festival in Tehran, Iran; Umbrella Arts in NY, NY; Moen Mason Gallery, Tucson AZ; Sohn Fine Art, Lenox, MA, Dama Galeria in Bogota, Columbia, Galerie Anita Beckers in Frankfurt, Germany. Copich has been an invited speaker at the Norman Rockwell Museum of Art, Ulrich Modern Museum in KS and Professional Women Photographers in NYC. Susan Copich has been the recipient of prestigious awards including the 2019 International Photography Awards, POLLUX award and semi-finalist for the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. Her work is sited in art periodicals, academic texts and is in private collections around the world.