Suzy Stroet is an emerging artist whose work focuses on people and how they interact with, and inhabit the spaces they create. She received her BFA from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in 2003. She also studied art at the Universidad Polytechnica de Valencia as an exchange student in 2002. In 2005 she graduated from UBC with a Masters in Library and Information Studies. Most recently Suzy has exhibited in the group show “Queertopia” as part of the Queer Arts Festival at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre. In 2009 she coordinated and participated in a show entitled “Resilience: Out of the Shadows” at the Organizing Centre for Social and Economic Justice. Suzy has also shown work at Rhizome in 2007, at the Queering Femininity Conference in Seattle in 2003 and at the Universidad Politechnica de Valencia in 2002. Her paintings are representational to varying degrees. Her figurative work focuses on how people present and view themselves within their communities and the larger communities that they are a part of. Her representations of spaces are of human made places but act as landscape by creating a space for viewers to imagine themselves inhabiting. Along with building her art career, Suzy works as a librarian for the Vancouver Public Library and lives in East Van with her wife and cat.