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Susan Sellers

Susan Sellars
Location

New York City, USA

Field

Design

Susan Sellers is a founding partner and executive creative director of 2x4, where she leads projects across the cultural and commercial sectors, from brand strategy and identity to brand experience and exhibition design. Her clients include Samsung, Hyundai, Google, Lincoln Center, and the Fondazione Prada. From 2012 to 2016, Susan was head of design at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she led design initiatives across the museum from brand identity and visitor experience to exhibition design and permanent gallery installation.

A senior design critic at Yale School of Art, she has taught and lectured widely, including at Rhode Island School of Design; Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; SCI-ARC; Harvard Graduate School of Design; and the Scuola Politecnica di Design in Milan, Italy. Susan is on the board of the art and technology magazine Triple Canopy; and on the advisory board of The World Around, a global platform for architecture and design, advancing the critical ideas and voices of our time. She holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MA in American Studies from Yale University. In 2023, she was resident at the American Academy in Rome.

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