Susan Ker-Seymer is a visual artist working in painting, printmaking, and installation. Her work is centered around the dualities of temporality and impermanence, perfection and insufficiency. As a counterbalance to our culture that privileges consumption and polished resolution, Susan is drawn to visual languages that acknowledge instability, incompleteness, and change.
Rather than striving for fixed conclusions, her work embraces moments of transition—states where meaning remains open andunresolved.
Based in Atlanta and living part-time in London UK, her practice moves between the two cities and is shaped by an ongoing interchange between place, material, and lived experience. Ker-Seymer studied painting at the Atlanta College of Art and also holds degrees in Fashion Design and Graphic Design—disciplines that continue to inform her approach to working with color, surface, and structure. Ker-Seymer has exhibited in public and private venues in the United States and the United Kingdom, including in Atlanta, MOCAGA, Swan Coach House Gallery, Kai Lin Gallery, Mason Fine Art, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and in the UK, HyphaCurates, London, Horwood Arts, and Clementina Gallery, Somerset. Her work has also appeared in site-specific group projects with the Atlanta Beltline Art Program, and Brooklyn Waterfront Park (NY), as well as with Arete (UK), the annual Glastonbury
Banner Project in Somerset (UK).
Collaboration and community have been important to her work. As a member of artists groups Sixfold Collective and The Friendship Project, she has co-developed exhibitions and public works exploring relationship, place, and the shifting boundary between individual and collective experience. Her work has been supported through residencies and exhibitions at the Hambidge Center, Fulton County Arts & Culture funding, and juried awards.
A recent collaboration with writer Robert F. Barsky, The Beltline Chronicles, includes a poem with 35 paintings in book form, excerpts installed along the Atlanta Beltline, workshops, public events and exhibits, and the project is archived through MIT’s PubPub platform. Her work has been featured in publications focused oncontemporary art and interdisciplinary practice.
