Susan Sollins lives and works in New York. Sollins is co-founder and executive director emerita of ICI (1975–96), and the founder and executive director of the art organization Art21 (1997- ongoing) and executive producer/curator of its PBS television series “Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century” (2001–ongoing). She was a member of the senior curatorial team at the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum early in her career, and was visual-arts consultant for Thirteen/WNET’s tv program City Arts. Among the exhibitions she has curated are Art in Landscape, (1976–77), New Sculpture: Icon and Environment, (1983–84), Points of View: Four Painters, (1985–86), Eternal Metaphors: New Art from Italy (1989–92), all of which widely traveled through the US, and TABAIMO, 601Artspace, New York (2010); and she has co-curated many exhibitions, including Supershow!, (1979–80), After Matisse, (1986–88), and Team Spirit, (1990–92) all of which traveled to different institutions in the US. She has also made a feature-length film on William Kentridge for broadcast on PBS (2010). Sollins currently serves on the boards of the MacDowell Colony and ICI. She has received a Peabody Award for “Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century” (2007) and the Skowhegan Governors Award for Outstanding Service to Artists (2008).