The future of human communication and progress lies in making the subconscious conscious. In making the expansion of human art and knowledge exponential. In making our lucid dreams our reality.

My mission and art is

that human art and all that entails form technology.

that we are good teachers, collaborators, and learners as technology becomes its own artist.

that the dream of a common language becomes a work of art and not a dystopia.

Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Susannah has lived and worked in NYC since 2010. Her contemporary abstract expressionist paintings delve into lucid dreaming, inherited memory, split selves, and the relationship between our conscious and subconscious perspectives of ourselves and our world.

Susannah has painted and sculpted since childhood, and studied at Memphis College of Art and NYU Paris. While continuing her painting process, Susannah also got a journalism and data science degree from NYU, covered politics and music as a journalist (including at Vogue, The New Yorker and The New York Times), then got a law degree from University of Chicago and worked in private equity and later start-up law.

After her mother died in 2020 she began to re-evaluate her life, her relationship with her own mind and her mission in this world, ultimately inspiring her to create more paintings in three years than she had her entire life, curate her first group exhibit, So Brutal It Feels Like Home (March 2023), and try to figure out how making art can work.

EXHIBITS (Paintings)

Memphis College of Art, 2010

NYU Paris, 2012

So Brutal It Feels Like Home (550 West 29, NYC), 2023

Soho Art Walks, multiple, 2023

Not For Them NYC, multiple, 2023

Not For Them NYC / White Hot Magazine (Selina Hotel, Chelsea, NYC), Fall 2023

Letters from My Mother, Ideal Glass Studios, March 2024

PUBLISHED WORK (Writings)

The New Yorker (https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/susannah-griffee)

The New York Times (https://archive.nytimes.com/learning.blogs.nytimes.com/author/susannah-griffee/)

Mercer Street

I. Finding New York (https://cas.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu-as/casEWP/documents/griffeefinding05.pdf)

II. Trinity (On DH Lawrence and God) (https://cas.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu-as/casEWP/documents/griffeetrinityd08.pdf

Shoe Leather (https://shoeleathermagazine.com/2014/griffee/)