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Biography

Susu Attar believes art is a form of magic. Rooted in painting and in her experience as an Iraqi Angeleno, both Attar’s individual and communal practices explore themes including mourning, hospitality, healing and renewal. Her work across mediums often documents and reimagines struggles for self-determination, from the level of the individual to the family; from local communities to transnational diasporas. Through her wide-ranging and holistic approach, Attar examines existing frameworks within both everyday life and political movements and creates new contexts that center the notion of art as a means of transformation and a space of interconnection.


Attar’s work has appeared in exhibitions across California, as well as in Montreal, Mexico City, and Dubai, among other cities. Her commitment to building narratives that open up future possibilities for both individual and collective agency have led her to extend her practice to theatrical production, curating, art direction and world building. As an educator, she has produced and facilitated programs and workshops in the US and abroad, utilizing art practices to expand communal imagination. She is a member of SEPIA Collective, a WOC art collective whose work includes a traveling exhibition, ICONIC: Black Panther. Attar holds a BA from San Francisco State University in Painting and Conceptual Information Art and was a member of the Founding Cohort for the Civic Media Fellowship at the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab in 2019.