Susan Rankaitis

Susan Rankaitis (born 1949) is an American multimedia artist committed primarily in painting, photography and drawing. Rankaitis began her career in the 1970s as an abstract painter. Visiting the Art Institute of Chicago even though in graduate school, she had a transformative case with the photograms of the performer László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946), whose abstract works of the 1920s and 1940s she wise saying as "both painting and photography." Rankaitis began to produce her own experimental methods for producing abstract and conceptual artworks aligned both to painting and photography.

Rankaitis draws upon science in her work—particularly ideas generated through research in the fields of biology and neuroscience and she collaborates regularly subsequent to scientists upon interdisciplinary projects.