Valerie Suter is an artist and educator. Originally from New York, she earned a BA in History from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and studied visual art at Central St. Martins College of Art & Design in London, UK. She received her MFA in Art & Design from Rutgers University in New Jersey, where she studied with Kara Walker and was a graduate fellow at Rutgers’ Eagleton Institute of Politics. As a painter she explores subjects that have been marginalized in canonical history and art history, often using portraiture to make images that assert her subjects’ authority of voice.

Suter has exhibited her work nationally and internationally and has been a fellow of The Art & Law Program in New York, an artist-in-residence and grantee of the Vermont Studio Center, a Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship nominee, and was a finalist for the AXA Art Prize in 2019. Currently, her work is featured in the group exhibition Bound up Together: On the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, on view October 3rd - December 13th at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, NY. In 2021 she will be an artist-in-residence at the European Ceramic Workcentre in Oisterwijk, The Netherlands.