Susan Vecsey was born in Somerville, New Jersey and currently lives and works in both New York City and East Hampton, New York. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, and her Master of Fine Arts from the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, studying under Graham Nickson. In 2012, Vecsey was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. In 2017, Susan Vecsey had a solo museum exhibition at the Greenville County Museum in South Carolina, featuring numerous large-scale paintings and a catalog with an essay by Phyllis Tuchman. In reference to Vecsey’s 2014 show at Berry Campbell Gallery, New York, Franklin Einspruch declared in Artcritical, “this is virtuoso painting.” Vecsey is widely held in both public and private collections including the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina, Nassau County Museum of Art, Rosyln Harbor, New York and Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York. Vecsey is represented by Berry Campbell Gallery in New York.
MUSEUM, CORPORATE AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Guild Hall Museum, Permanent Collection. East Hampton, NY.
Greenville County Museum of Art (GCMA). Greenville, SC.
Grand Hyatt, Presidential Suite. New York, NY.
Francis J. Greenburger Collection, New York, NY.
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY.
Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY
UT Southwestern University Hospital, Dallas. TX.
Numerous Private Collections.
EDUCATION
MFA in Painting, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture. Atelier: Graham Nickson. Additional study with Graham Nickson in ten 2-week Drawing Marathons.
Continued study at MoMA, The New School, and International Center of Photography.
BA, Barnard College, Columbia University.
HONORS
American Academy in Rome, Visiting Artist.
Rome, Italy. June 25 - July 25, 2012
Studio Visit in East Hampton, Day of Art, American Federation of the Arts (AFA)
East Hampton, NY. July 23, 2015
Collector Marika Herskovic Annual Artist Seminar, invitation to present recent work.
Franklin Lakes, NJ. May 2012.
Board Member, Stephen and Palmina Pace Foundation
New York, NY. June 2015 - 2019.
Bubu Residency. Budapest, Hungary,
November 2023
Maison de Simon. Normandy, France, 2024
TEACHING
Invited to teach figure drawing at the New York Studio School, New York, NY. 2015-2016.
