Background
Susan Anne Rankaitis was born on September 10, 1949, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
the University of Illinois
the University of Southern California
Susan Anne Rankaitis was born on September 10, 1949, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Susan Rankaitis earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of Illinois, Normal, in 1971, and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1977.
An instructor of photography at Orange Coast College in southern California since 1978, Susan Rankaitis has also taught painting and art history at Chapman College in Orange County since 1977. She began to develop her own experimental methods for producing abstract and conceptual artworks related both to painting and photography.
Susan Rankaitis draws on science in her work - particularly ideas generated through research in the fields of biology and neuroscience - and she collaborates regularly with scientists on interdisciplinary projects.