Susan Nichter

Research and Creative Interests

My practice is rooted in experimentation and interdisciplinary thinking, moving fluidly between traditional studio processes and emerging technologies while allowing each project to determine its own form. Through projected moving images, site-specific installation, digital compositing, sound, and immersive environments, I create poetic visual experiences that investigate impermanence, public space, identity, and collective experience. I am interested in transforming architectural spaces into moments of reflection and emotional connection where the boundaries between physical and virtual, material and immaterial, become fluid, encouraging viewers to pause, reconsider perception, and reflect on their relationship to the contemporary world.

Teaching Philosophy

An art and design education must balance skill-based discipline with experimentation, conceptual freedom, and the integration of analog knowledge with emerging digital tools. I teach across foundational studio courses and collaborative design-thinking environments, helping students develop confidence, resilience, strong technical skills with an authentic creative voice.

Professional Activities and Affiliations

"Echoes of Revolution," Five installations by Integrated Studio II Course 2026 in the Old State House and the Old South Meeting House for Revolutionary Spaces 250 Anniversary of the Revolution, Boston

Honors and Recognitions

Jasper Whiting Foundation Grant: Indonesia 2025

Scholarly and Creative Contributions

• 2025 Orquevaux Museum Collection, France: Election Day Charcoal Drawing and Sphere Moving Image
• 2024 You Should Have Seen It, Skowhegan Exhibition, 136 W 22nd St. New York
• 2024 Plant Life: NYC – Global Prime Produce, 424 West 54th St, New York City
• 2023 Square Donuts and the Hidden Camera, Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA
• 2023 FATE Panel Chair: Interdisciplinary Collaborations taken to the Metaverse
• 2022 Portraits of Leadership, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, on screen Visitors Center
• 2021 Marking Lives Covid19, Broad Institute, MIT & Harvard, Cambridge, MA
• 2020 Drawing on Love and Justice, ICA and MIT List Gallery online exhibition
• 2020 WHO Covid 19 Relief Campaign, Alphaainc.com, online gallery April -June
• 2019 FATE Panel Chair: International Interdisciplinary Collaborations

Personal Websites

[email protected]
landscapepaintingcourse.com

Education

Boston University MFA
Boston University BFA
Columbia University Choreography
UCLA Italian
MIT Professional Short Course: Gravity, Relativity, Cosmology