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 design and film—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. Goodwin is drawn to ordinary moments that pulse with ambiguity and interior life. With a painterly attention to color, light, and form, she renders each moment as a fragment of an unwritten narrative, where meaning lingers rather than resolves. Her images 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.