Susannah Ray was born in 1972 in Washington, D.C., United States. She studied photography as an undergraduate at Princeton University and completed her MFA in 1997 at the School of Visual Arts MFA Program in Photography and Related Media. In 2017, she will exhibit "A Further Shore" at The Bronx Museum of the Arts. "What are the Wild Waves Saying" (a collaboration with WNYC audio producer Jen Poyant), was the subject of a 2013 solo exhibition at Bonni Benrubi Gallery and was also featured in the exhibition “Rising Waters” at the Museum of the City of New York. Susannah Ray has shown in numerous group exhibitions, notably at Bonni Benrubi Gallery, the Alice Austen House, The Princeton University Museum of Art, the NYC Parks Department Arsenal Gallery, the Queens Museum, and the Bronx Museum. Her work is in major collections including the Museum of the City of New York, the Princeton Museum, and the Bronx Museum. She is an Associate Professor of Photography at Hofstra University and lives in Rockaway Beach, Queens.
