susan roden

Albuquerque multidisciplinary artist Susan E. Roden, attended the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Houston Art Institute. Her art, painting and sculptures, is exhibited nationally and recipient of awards including Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club’s 1994 Medal of Honor for pastels (NY). She attended residencies at Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park (2009), California’s Desert Dairy Farm (2021, 2022, 2024) and Mission Street Arts, Jemez (2023).

Roden was featured on the Pastel Artist International Magazine (2002) cover with an accompanying article of her technique. She was an artistic collaborator with Albuquerque’s Theatre Aux Dog and playwright Mark Dunn’s production, Diptych (2019), which featured 32 pieces of Roden’s art representing the Daughter / Artist’s character.

She has taught at the UC San Diego Extension, San Diego Museum of Art, New Mexico Art League, and Oasis / Albuquerque and is a juried member with the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club (NY), Distinguished Pastelist and Past President of the Pastel Society of New Mexico.

As a multidisciplinary artist, Susan E Roden’s range of genres and mediums are varied with the commonality of portraying the subtleties of life. Emotion-based art amplifies and touches humanity within a setting through the composed visual elements of movement, shadow and color and with cropped compositions to draw one’s eye into the scene.