Susan Scafati
Austin, Texas US
Phone: 512-983-7171
Website: https://www.susanscafati.net/
Profile Type: artist
Susan Scafati is an Austin-based, American conceptual artist whose multidisciplinary practice centers around creating light metaphors to reflect on destabilizing archetypes and cultures in flux. She is known for large-scale plexiglass and photo-based installations. Her art has taken the form of sun-print, darkroom, and digital photo-based works; mixed-media installations (including of plexiglass, wood, textiles); performances; and videos. Scafati has exhibited in galleries and museums, as well as public spaces, and given art talks to many institutions and organizations. Recent major commissions include a 4-story installation featured at the Facebook office; a 2-story installation in Austin Central Library’s windows; and an 111-foot installation featured at the Texas Cultural Trust’s Texas Medal of Arts Awards biennial at The Long Center for the Performing Arts. She was selected by The Contemporary Austin to be the museum’s 2019 Contemporary Print Artist — a recognition that highlights outstanding artists and commissions a print for their collection. Exhibitions have included Unframed First Look at Sean Kelly Gallery, NY (curated by Cindy Sherman, Adam Fuss, and Jack Pierce); The Photo Review at Sol Mednick Gallery, PA (curated by Museum of Modern Art/ MoMA Curator Sarah Meister); Goya: Mad Reason at The Blanton Museum (curated by Douglas Cushing); t e x t s c a p e at Co-Lab Projects’ DEMO Gallery; and, with Lake Were Rivers, in Strange Pilgrims at The Contemporary Austin (curated by Heather Pesanti), Contemporary Photographic Practice and the Archive at Harry Ransom Center, and Texas Biennial at Blue Star Contemporary.