Susana Raab is an American fine art and documentary photographer^[1] based in Washington, D.C. She was born in Lima, Peru.^[2]

Education

Raab studied and earned a MA in Visual Communications from Ohio University,^[3] and also holds a BA in English Literature from James Madison University.^[3]

Photography

Raab's photographs have been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, Spain, the Pingyao Photo Festival, Noorderlicht Fotofestival^[4] in the Netherlands, and the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, D.C.^[5]

For the last decade,^[6][7] Raab has been pursuing the long-term documentation of the East of the Anacostia River communities^[7] in Washington, D.C. She also works as the photographer of the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum.^[8] In 2018, Politico Magazine described her photo essay^[9] about recent changes in demographics in Washington, DC as "a striking photo essay."^[10]

Awards and recognition

She has been twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize,^[11] and has been the recipient of the White House News Photographers' Project Grant,^[11] four DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowships.^[12]

• 1998 Nominee, Pulitzer Prize, The New York Times^[11]
• 2004 Finalist, Pulitzer Prize, The Palm Beach Post^[11]
• 2005 White House News Photographers' Association Project Grant^[11]
• 2008 Critical Mass Top 50, Portland, OR^[13]
• 2008 American Photography 24^[14]
• 2009 Finalist, GrandPrize, Fotofestiwal, Lodz, Poland^[15]
• 2009 Artist Fellowship, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities^[11]
• 2010 American Photography 26^[14]
• 2010 Photo District News Annual^[16]
• 2012 Forward Thinking Museum, New York, NY^[17]
• 2013 Nominee Prix Pictet^[18]
• 2014 American Photography 30^[19]
• 2015 American Photography 31
• 2015 Critical Mass Top 50^[20]
• 2016 Artist Fellowship, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities^[21]
• 2017 Artist Fellowship, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities^[22]
• 2018 Artist Fellowship, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities^[23]
• 2018 American Photography 34^[24]
• 2018 Peter S. Reed Foundation Award^[25]
• UMass Dartmouth Claire T. Carney Library Archives and Special Collections^[26]
• Puffin Grant^[27][28]

Collections

Raab's photographic work is held in the following permanent public collections:

• Washington, DC Public Art Bank^[29]
• Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History^[30]
• Library of Congress^[31]
• Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University^[32]
• Art Museum of the Americas^[33]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• 2010 Super-America, Kunstlicht Gallery, Shanghai, China^[34]
• 2010 American Vernacular, Irvine Contemporary, Washington, DC^[35]
• 2012 Consumed, SALT Gallery, Portland, ME^[36]
• 2015 The Invisible Wall, Spagnuolo Gallery, Georgetown University, Washington, DC^[2]
• 2016 East of the River, Honfleur Gallery, Washington, DC^[37]

Group exhibitions

• 2002 Eyes of History, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC^[38]
• 2009 Consumed, Shots, Look3 Festival of Photography, Charlottesville, VA^[39]
• 2010 Etc., Pingyao Photo festival, Pingyao, China^{[citation needed]}
• 2011 En Foco Fellowship Show, Blue Sky Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
• 2011 Corridor, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC^[5]
• 2011 A Sense of Place, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, GA^{[citation needed]}
• 2012 Contents: Love, Anxiety, Happiness and Everything Else, Rayko Photo, San Francisco, CA^[40]
• 2012 Contents: Love, Anxiety, Happiness and Everything Else, Newspace, Portland, OR^[40]
• 2012 Looking at the Land 21st-Century American Views, FotoDC, Washington, DC^[41]
• 2012 Looking at the Land 21st-Century American Views, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI^[41]
• 2012 Kaunas Photo Festival, Latvia^[42]
• 2013 Converging Cultures: Works by Latino Artists, UMW Gallery, Fredericksburg, VA^[43]
• 2013 Cotidiano USA, Embassy of Spain, Washington, DC^[44]
• 2013 Selections from Time Machine #2: Spectacle: Consumed, Belfast Photo Festival, BBC Screen^[45][46]
• 2013 FotoNovela, III Forum on Latin American Photography, São Paulo, Brazil^[47]
• 2014 LATINO/US Cotidiano, Instituto Cervantes, Chicago, IL^[48]
• 2014 Select 2014, WPA Project for the Arts, Washington, DC^[49]
• 2014 LATINO/US Cotidiano, King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, NY, NY^[48]
• 2014 Photo/Diary, Carroll Square Gallery, Washington, DC^[50]
• 2015 Select, Washington Project for the Arts, Artisphere, Arlington, VA^[51]
• 2016 The Invisible Wall, The Fence, Boston, MA;^[52] Brooklyn, NY;^[52] Atlanta, GA;^[52] Houston, TX;^[52] Albuquerque, NM^[52]
• 2016 Hickock Cole Art Night, Washington Project for the Arts, DC^[53]
• 2016 Unbound, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA^[54]
• 2016 Women Photojournalists of Washington 10-Year Anniversary Show, National Geographic Museum, Washington, DC^[55]
• 2017 Performing the Border, American University Art Museum at the Katzen, Washington, DC^[56]
• 2017 Hickock Cole Art Night, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC^[57]
• 2018 Southbound: Photographs about the New South, Halsey Institute of Art, Charleston, SC.^[18][58]
• 2018 Not an Ostrich and Other Powerful Images from America's Library, Annenberg Center for Photography, Los Angeles, CA^[59]
• 2019 Faces of the Planet, Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum^[60]
• 2020 Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN^[61]