Susanne Kühn lives and works in Freiburg and Nuremberg. She earned her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig in 1995 and studied in New York on a DAAD postgraduate grant at the School of Visual Arts and Hunter College (1995–1996). She was a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow (2001–2002) and a Harvard Radcliffe Summer Fellow (2021). Since 2015, she has been Professor and Chair of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg.
Her work has been featured in major solo exhibitions including Turtle Quest at Bluerider Art, Taipei (2025), Susanne Kühn at Galerie der Stadt Backnang (2025), Profliferation – Vasa, Auginella & other Sprouts at Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Freiburg (2022), BOSCH & KÜHN at Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna (2019), and Susanne Kühn at Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (2008). Selected group exhibitions include From Sea To Sky at The Blue Axis, Bluerider Art, Los Angeles (2025) and Being a Woman Artist at Museum für Neue Kunst Freiburg (2023–2024).
Kühn’s work can be found in important public and private collections, including the Harvard Radcliffe Institute/Busch-Reisinger Museum Collection in Boston, the Kemper Museum in Kansas City, the Museum für Neue Kunst Freiburg, the Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden, and the Deutsche Bundesbank Collection in Frankfurt, among others.