Biography

Susan Blight (Anishinaabe, Couchiching First Nation) is an interdisciplinary artist working with public art, site-specific intervention, wearable art, film and social practice. Her solo and collaborative work engages questions of personal and cultural identity and its relationship to space. Susan is co-founder of Ogimaa Mikana, an artist collective working to reclaim and rename the roads and landmarks of Anishinaabeg territory with Anishinaabemowin. Susan received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography. a Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies from the University of Manitoba, and a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of Windsor in Integrated Media.

She is currently a PhD candidate in Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (UofT) and her dissertation looks at the visual and spatial formations of Anishinaabeg geographies of resistance.  Susan served as Chair in Indigenous Visual Culture at OCAD University from 2019-2025 and at The Capilano Review as Associate Editor of the publication's Indigenous Places and Names series. In 2025, Susan joined the School of Art, Media, Performance and Design as an Assistant Professor in Visual Art and Art History at York University. Most recently, Susan is the recipient of a Governor General’s Meritorious Service Award (Civil Division) for her work with Ogimaa Mikana.