Susan Jahoda is an artist, educator, writer, and organizer whose work includes video, photography, text, performance, installation, and research-based collaborative projects. Her individual and collaborative work has been exhibited in national and international museums and galleries including venues in London, Paris, Basel, New York, Seoul, Canada, and Moscow. Jahoda is a core member of BFAMFAPhD, a collective of socially engaged artists and educators based in New York City.
As a member of BFAMFAPhD, Jahoda has been in artist residencies at Pioneer Works Artist Residency, Brooklyn, NY. (2019), Project Third, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. (2018), NEW INC, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY. (2016-17), and Triangle Arts Association, Brooklyn, NY. (2015-16). In 2019 BFAMFAPhD organized a series of eight events at Hauser and Wirth Bookstore, New York, NY. focusing on themes in Making and Being: Embodiment, Collaboration, and Circulation in the Visual Arts, Pioneer Works Press, (2019) co-authored by Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard, two core members of the collective.
Jahoda has organized exhibitions and screenings including Documents from the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, Interference Archive, Brooklyn, (2014-15) and Susan Kleckner and Documents from the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, (2013), The Martha Rosler Library, and Beyond the Instance of an Ending, (2009), Setting in Motion (2006), Global Priority (2002), and This is My body: this is my Blood, (1992) at the Herter Art Gallery, UMass, Amherst. Jahoda has published short stories and essays in Class and its Others, University of Minnesota Press, (2000) and Deviant Bodies, Indiana University Press, (1995), and her projects have been reviewed in journals, podcasts, and books.
In 1993, Jahoda joined the collective and journal, Rethinking Marxism, where she continued to serve as arts editor until 2014. She is currently a Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and resides in Amherst and New York City.
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