Suzanne Z. Goodwin is an American photographer and painter based in Western Massachusetts. Her interdisciplinary practice—shaped by a background in abstract painting and color consulting for film and design—is guided by intuition and emotional resonance. Working across analog and digital media, she explores themes of vulnerability, intimacy, and the quiet power of liminal spaces. Drawn to a scene by instinct rather than analysis, Goodwin captures ordinary moments that pulse with ambiguity and emotional depth. Her painterly attention to color, light, and composition transforms these moments into a still out of a narrative, where meaning lingers rather than resolves. In post-production, she uncovers what first drew her in, allowing submerged feelings to surface through nuanced editing. Her images, marked by stillness and emotional complexity, offer viewers an invitation to pause—inhabiting the space between presence and absence, certainty and mystery. In this way, Goodwin’s work becomes less about what is shown, and more about what is felt.
She holds a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and completed a two-year post-baccalaureate painting program at Empire State College in New York City. Currently, she is expanding her lens-based practice through studies at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and the International Center of Photography.