Susan Lapides is a photographic artist who creates time-based projects focusing on adolescence and place. She employs landscape and portraiture as a means to examine social, cultural and community issues.
A graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, with a BA in Art History, Lapides pursued an extensive career as an editorial photographer for national publications including Smithsonian, Life, Time, Forbes, New York Times, and People, among others. She won many awards from the American Society of Media Photographers and has photographed many luminaries including President Barack Obama and Rose Kennedy. Lapides has held solo exhibitions at Sunbury Shores (St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada), the Beaverbrook Art Gallery (Fredericton NB, Canada), and the Griffin Museum, (Boston, MA). Her work is also in many group exhibitions including New York's Foley Gallery, Newport Art Museum, Brand Library & Art Center in Los Angeles, the Boston Fence and San Diego's Oceanside Museum.
Among her award are a 2024 Critical Mass Top 200 Finalist, a 2019 Critical Mass Top 200 Finalist, the 2018 Beth Block Juried Membership Honoraria from the Houston Center for Photography. MA. Lapides is a member of Memory as a Verb, a collective of eleven women photographers. Her award-winning photographs are in the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fidelity Corporate Art Collection, Boston, MA and Cooke Aquaculture, in New Brunswick as well as other private and public collections.
She resides in Boston, Massachusetts, USA and St. George, New Brunswick, Canada
