SUSAN AURINKO – Brief Bio

Susan Aurinko, a photographer, writer, and curator, has shown her work in France, Italy, India, and Austria, as well as in the US. Her exhibition about India, entitled STILL POINT INDIA, opened at Kriti Gallery in Varanasi 2013 and is now available as a book. Aurinko’s work appears on several book covers, including The Stranger Among Us, Ariel, Scar Tissue, Slut Lullabies, and Bound and Broken, and four of her photographs are included in the Museum of Contemporary Photography’s permanent collection.  In addition, her work is in the permanent collections of Loyola University Museum of Art, and The Union League Club of Chicago, and many of her images hang in private collections in France, Italy, India, the UK, Monaco, and across the US.  In May of 2017, Aurinko’s SEARCHING FOR JEHANNE – THE JOAN OF ARC PROJECT was a solo exhibition at LUMA (Loyola University Museum of Art) for four months and also at St Mary of the Lake University, Mundelein for seven months, with plans to travel to several venues in the US and abroad.  SEARCHING FOR JEHANNE – THE JOAN OF ARC PROJECT is also available as a book.  Aurinko is represented by Kriti Gallery in India and Hilton Asmus Contemporary in the US.