Susan D’Amato is interested in the visual and conceptual relationships between the body and universal forms.  The recipient of numerous national and international awards, she most recently has exhibited her work at the Drawing Center and Ceres Gallery in New York City.  In 2005 she received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Drawing and a Mid Atlantic Arts Fellowship in Drawing/Works on Paper.   She is a fellow of the Millay Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, and the Nantucket Island School of Design and the Arts.

Professor D’Amato teaches Foundation Drawing and Figure Drawing.  She received her B.F.A. in Painting with a concentration in Anthropology from the University of Connecticut, and her M.F.A. in Drawing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.