Susan Lichtman is a figurative painter of domestic spaces, working out of her home studio in southeastern Massachusetts. She is the Charles Bloom Professor of the Arts of Design at Brandeis University.

Lichtman received her undergraduate degree from Brown University and an MFA in painting from Yale University School of Art. A recipient of a 2018 fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, she also has awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. She was the Frances Niederer Artist-in-Residence at Hollins University in 2017 and has been a visiting critic and lecturer at studio art programs throughout the U.S. and Europe. Lichtman has recently had solo exhibitions at Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects in New York, at Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia, and the Wilson Museum of Hollins University in Roanoke, VA.