Bio & CV
Susan D. Seaborn is a visual artist living and working in Denton, Texas. After careers in Information Technology, Sales and Italian Language Instruction, she returned to school in 2016 to study art. She has a BFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of North Texas, where she studied with Matthew Bourbon, Elaine Pawlowicz, Christian Fagerlund and Annette Lawrence. Susan received her Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from Texas Woman’s University in 2026, where she studied with Tanya Synar, Giovanni Valderas and Colby Parsons. She also owns and operates Anna Street Studios in Denton, where she curates pop up shows featuring DFW artists in every stage of their career, with the goal of bringing together the diverse and robust visual arts communities in Denton and beyond.
Education
2026 MFA Visual Art, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX
2020-2022 18 hrs/MFA program University of North Texas, Denton, TX Studio Art
2020 BFA Studio Art University of North Texas, Denton, TX Drawing & Painting
2016 MA Italian Studies Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
2008 BA Spanish University of North Texas, Denton, TX
1985 BS Computer Science Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX
Honors and Awards
2026
Dallas Contemporary Open University MFA Cohort
Named to the second annual DC NTX Graduate Student Program exhibition opening February 13, 2026, curated by Anna Katz, Senior Curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA). "The annual initiative, launched in 2024, invites a cohort of North Texas Master of Fine Arts students in their final year of graduate work to exhibit at Dallas Contemporary after being selected by a visiting national curator. Initiated by Executive Director Lucia Simek, the program aims to advance the early careers of emerging artists schooled in the region by fostering healthy interactions and connections between students and renowned curators."
2018
2018
Voertman's Student Competition, Honorable Mention
UNT College of Visual Arts and Design Student Project Funding Award, “Speak with your Hands: Gestures in Modern Italian Life”. Funding to assist in research of Italian gestures and production of a series of monotypes during a study abroad in Italy. The results of this project were presented to an audience of studio art and Italian language students at UNT in Fall, 2018.
Selected Exhibitions
May, 2026, “Frozen”, UNT CoLab, Denton, TX
May, 2026, Speedbump Lil d tour, “Habitat”, Anna Street Studios, Denton, TX
April, 2026, “Above and Around” MFA Thesis Exhibition, East Gallery, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX
February, 2026 “MFA Painting - A Survey of DFW Graduate Work”, UNT CoLab, Denton TX
January, 2026 “In The Works”, Dallas Contemporary Open University, Curator Anna Katz
October, 2025 “Habitat”: Susan Seaborn, Elaine Pawlowicz, Rachel Black. Goldmark Gallery, Dallas, TX
May, 2025 “Speedbump Little D” studio tour stop, Denton, TX
April, 2025 “Seep” Jeanette Kennedy Gallery, Dallas, TX. Curator Giovanni Valderas
March, 2025 “Art Friends 3” small works group show, Anna Street Studios, Denton, TX
January, 2024 “Art Friends 2” small works group show, Anna Street Studios, Denton, TX
December, 2024 “Painting is Alive and Well, A Survey of MFA Painting in DFW”, UNT CoLab, Denton, TX
November, 2024 “The Something Out of Nothing”, The Eclectika, Irving, TX. Curator MCAT Davis
October, 2023 “8 Hands” group show: Phil Samson, Marianna Seaton, Jim Wilson, UNT CoLab, Denton, TX
July, 2023 “Chaos 9!” group show, Ro2 Project Space, Dallas, TX
July, 2023 “Presence”, The MAC Member Show, Dallas, TX
October, 2022 “Art Friends” group painting exhibition, Anna Street Studios, Denton, TX
October, 2022 “Something Figurative This Way Comes”, Accrete Art Collective, Bloomington, IN
August, 2022 “Chaos 8”, Ro2 Gallery, Dallas, TX
April, 2022 “North Texas Graduate Collective Exhibition”, UNT CoLab, Denton, TX
April, 2022 “Denton Maker’s Fest Juried Show”, GDAC Appleton-Patterson Center, Denton, TX
July, 2021 “The MAC 23rd Annual Membership Exhibition, Together”, The MAC, Dallas, TX
February, 2021 “2021 TAC Small Works Show”, Fort Worth Comm Arts Center, juror Giovanni Valderas
January, 2020 “60th Annual Voertman Juried Student Art Competition”, UNT, juror Andrea Karnes
January, 2020 “20 in 2020”, Voertman’s, Denton, TX, curator Sarah Wuenscher
November, 2019 “Figure Drawing & Painting Fall 2019”, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
October, 2019 “Halloweird Art Show”, featured artist at the Wherehouse, Denton, TX
October, 2019 “Full Circle”, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
February, 2019 “Figure Drawing & Painting Spring 2019”, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
September, 2018 “Ciao, bella”, at University of North Texas , Denton, TX
August, 2018 “New York Academy of Art Residency II Exhibition”, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
August, 2018 “The Breast Show”, Echo Gallery, Johnson City, TX
July, 2018 “Dream”, juried show, Sly Cat Gallery, Cedar Hill, TX
April, 2018 “58th Annual Voertman Juried Student Art Competition”, UNT, Juror John Spriggins
September, 2017 “Single Fare 4”, New York City, NY
January, 2017 “Core Drawing Show”, University of North Texas, Drawing invitational
Residencies/Workshops
2025 Mixed Media Portrait Workshop, Christian Fagerlund, Denton, TX.
2021 Carl Dobsky, Process & Composition in Narrative Painting Workshop, online.
2021 Drawing the Hand, The Teaching Studios, Roberto Osti, online.
2020 Dorielle Caimi Conceptual Self Portrait Workshop, Santa Fe, NM.
2019 International Center for the Study of Painting, Figure Workshop, Orvieto, Italy. Figure painting workshop with Vincent Desiderio and Bernardo Siciliano.
2018 New York Academy of Art Summer Undergraduate Residency Program. Four-week intensive figure workshop and an exhibition.
2018 UNT Study Abroad, Florence, Italy. Courses: Advanced Figure Drawing (Fagerlund), Paper Sculpture & Monotypes (DeCaen)