Susan Dupor

Susan Dupor lives in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin where she paints in her studio and teaches art at the Wisconsin School for the Deaf.

She was born deaf and has an older hard of hearing brother. She grew up in Madison, Wisconsin. In Madison, she attended "hearing-impaired" mainstream programs from kindergarten through twelfth grades.

She enrolled in the Rochester Institute of Technology majoring in Illustration. She later transferred to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she earned her BFA. She then worked for a year in an animation studio before going on to earn a Masters of Science in Deaf Education and Art Education through a joint program at the University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology.

Her work has been included many group exhibitions such as the national touring exhibition, "Elements of a Culture: Visions by Deaf Artists"; "20 Deaf Artists: Common Motifs" at Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland, CA; "Work by Deaf Women" at Ceres Gallery in New York; and "A Deaf Perspective of Deaf Culture Through Art" in Haverhill, Massachusetts. She also had a solo exhibit at the Washburn Art Gallery at Gallaudet University. Her work made appearances at the Switzer Gallery in Rochester, New York in 1993, 1995, 1996,and 2000 and at the Deaf Artists of America Gallery, in Rochester, New York.

The first four years of my life create the foundation for my artwork--my visual imprints from a time when I had not yet acquired a formal language. The people and land of the remote northern Wisconsin wilderness nourished my first internal language, which was both visual and emotional. My young eyes ceaselessly scoured my surroundings, while noctural dreams thrilled and haunted me. Colors, shapes, movements, symbols, and signs become my interpretation of life. Nature still plays a strong role in my artwork. Since those formative years I have had a personal and spiritual connection with the skies, flora and fauna, which speak to me each day and even through the night.

My art is a narrative interplay between the existence of nature and the dreams it evokes. My primal visual language has carried me into adulthood, where I continue to express it through my paintings, sculptures, and prints. My body of work reflects the intensity of my visual and enigmatic world.

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