Susie Brandt is based in Rockland, Maine and in the Southern Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. She works across textile and other media to investigate color, time, utility, civic engagement and myths surrounding landscape and identity. Her artwork recasts lost and found material culture into textile objects, performances, and installations.  

During much of the 90’s, she made large scale installation works with her artist/sister, Betsy Brandt and she continues to collaborate with others. Most recent projects involve communal raffle quilts and postcards.

Brandt has curated and co-curated exhibitions of other artists including Warren Seelig, Lenore Tawney, Sandra Brownlee, and Rowland Ricketts. 

Her art is in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of International Folk Art  in Santa Fe, and the Albany Institute of History and Art, among others.

Brandt is the recipient of awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Maryland State Arts Council and Creative Capital.

She is a Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) emeritus professor.

For two years, over the course of the pandemic, she worked remotely with 75 others to stitch 14 quilts to raffle for various causes. Many of those quilts comprised the exhibition Quilting in the Age of the Pandemic at Lake George Arts Project in Lake George, NY (2022) and Praxis Gallery in Cleveland, OH (2023) before they were raffled.

Recent solo exhibitions include the upcoming, Whereabouts?  at SPEEDWELL Contemporary in Portland, ME (Summer 2024) — Disposition at Stevenson University in Maryland (2020) — Value Added at the International Fiber Art Fair at the Hangaram Art Museum in Seoul, Korea (2017) — Paradise at Grizzly Grizzly Gallery in Philadelphia, Schweinfurth Art Center in Auburn, NY and Project 1628, Baltimore, MD (2015) — Five Stumps was shown at The Delaware Center for Contemporary Art in Wilmington (2011)

In 2016 Brandt staged Ropewalk at the Anna Leonowens Gallery in Halifax, Nova Scotia. 

Recent group exhibitions include Amplify at Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA (2021) — Remnants at the Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts in Cedarburg, WI (2021) — Hidden Paths at Cardinal Space Gallery in Baltimore, MD (2019) — Reverence to the Thread at Lewis Gallery, Portland Public Library in Portland, ME (2018) —Current Reflections on the Natural and Man Made at Texas Tech University in Lubbock (2017) —  ‘Merica at School 33 Arts Center in Baltimore (2017).