Susan Paterson

Susan Paterson was born in 1958 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.  She attended Mount Allison University, receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1980.  She continued her studies at Byam Shaw School of Art in London, England, NSCAD, Halifax, Academy of Realist Art, Toronto, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Grand Central Atelier, New Hampshire. Her studies have been supported by an Elizabeth Greenshields Grant, two Nova Scotia Arts Council grants and an Academy of Realist Art scholarship.  

Susan has exhibited extensively across Canada since the early eighties, presenting more than thirty solo exhibits and many more group shows including the 15th International Art Renewal Center Salon Exhibition, Sotheby's, New York, and MEAM, Barcelona, Spain, 2021; the 14th International Art Renewal Center Live Exhibition, MEAM, Barcelona, Spain, 2019 - 2020; “Capture 2014, Nova Scotia Realism,” juried by Tom Smart and Peter Dykuis which travelled throughout Nova Scotia, and “Terrior, a Nova Scotia Survey,” in 2016 at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.

Her work is in collections all over the world including Art Renewal Center, University of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia Art Bank, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Bell Canada, Husky Oil, Magna International, Oshawa Foods, Citibank, Bank of Detroit, Dofasco Ltd, Olympia and York Developments and K.K. Sakai, Tokyo, Japan.  She has been commissioned by IMAX, the Dept. of Medicine, Dalhousie University; Heritage Museum, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Sherbrooke Villae Museum and the Mount Allison University Football Program.

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