For more than 40 years, Susan Rowland pursued an artistic path of bold experimentation and passionate expressivity. Born in 1940 in Boston, MA, she studied at Vassar College, the Art Students League of New York and with Richard Diebenkorn at the Santa Fe Institute. She received multiple accolades for her art including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Rowland's work is in major public and private collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Historical Society, Santa Fe’s Fine Arts Museum, and New Mexico’s Roswell Museum and Art Center.  Susan continued working until her death in 2019 at the age of 79.