Susan Matthews

Susan Matthews is a painter living in Oakland, California. She holds a BFA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA from San Francisco State University. She has exhibited throughout the greater SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, Los Vegas, Alaska, Cuba, Ghana, and Senegal. Matthews is an adjunct professor of Drawing and Painting at the College of San Mateo, San Mateo, California.

Susan Matthews’ work includes large and small paintings, drawings and hand gilded archival pigment prints on the subject of Afro-Cuban and African music, dance and folklore, life sized standing portraits, and images reflecting current events.