Susan Worsham grew up in Richmond, Virginia. She often describes her idyllic childhood, peppered with the deaths of her family as being Bittersweet. Her work is both poetic and deeply personal, drawing inspiration in equal parts from the artist’s memories of family, from the Southern landscape, and from the commingled confusion of sadness and beauty. Named one of the Oxford American’s “New Superstars of Southern Art,” her work has been widely exhibited in the United States, as well as internationally, and is held in private and public collections including the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, The High Museum, Atlanta, The Chrysler Museum, and the Do Good Fund Southern Photography Initiative. She has been an artist-in-residence at Light Work in Syracuse, New York, where her work was published in Contact Sheet 168: Bittersweet/Bloodwork.
