Susan Wides

Susan Wides is a photographic and video artist whose work engages perception as a physical, emotional, and temporal act. Her images—immersive, abstract, and luminous—evoke the experience of being within a place rather than merely observing it. Working across ecological and urban environments, Wides explores how perception, memory, and transformation shape our connection to the world. Critic Carter Ratcliff writes that “Wides invites us to come alive to vision as a kind of inventiveness... connecting us to our surroundings and, ultimately, to one another.”

A survey at the Hudson River Museum presented major series on New York City, the Catskills, and the Hudson Valley. Wides’ work has been featured in over one hundred exhibitions internationally, including solo shows at Kim Foster Gallery (New York), the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, and Urbi et Orbi Galerie (Paris). Her photographs are held in more than twenty public collections, among them the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Brooklyn Museum; la Bibliothèque Nationale de France; and the Haifa Museum of Art.