Susan Joy Krieg is an emerging Adelaide-based artist, who works in a multidisciplinary way to include woodwork, drawing, audio-visual work, and other forms of making and artifice in her practice.

SJK completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) at the National Art School, Sydney, 2010 - 2013. In 2013 she was awarded the William Fletcher Foundation Tertiary Grant, and the Basil and Muriel Hooper Foundation Scholarship from the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW). 2014-2018 she exhibited in Sydney's artist run initiatives, from studios based in Surry Hills and Redfern, Sydney. In 2020 she relocated to Adelaide, where she now runs her practice from her Bowden studio.

Her practice presents an ongoing inquiry into semiotics and linguistics. Her focus often settles upon the art-world context, addressing the relationship between artist and audience. Her work displays a preoccupation with the artist as semiotician, the artist's predicament, an interest in the threshold between illegibility and comprehension, and, increasingly, the socio-political aspects of language, semiotics, and gesture.

SJK's work aligns with a long history of semiotics in art, notably with regard to Joseph Kosuth, Lawrence Weiner, those of the Art & Language Group, Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer and John Baldessari. Contemporary influences include artists Simryn Gill, Tom Nicholson and Alejandro Cesarco.

Simultaneous to building her practice, Susan has gained over eight years experience working within museums and galleries. Museum experience was gained through the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW); Commercial gallery experience was gained through The Commercial, and OLSEN galleries, Sydney. Art fair experience was gained via OLSEN at Sydney Contemporary in 2015 & 2017, also with Spring 1883 in 2017; and via The Commercial at the Melbourne Art Fair in 2018 and Sydney Contemporary in 2018. Susan gained intern experience with Glenn Barkley and Holly Williams at The Curator's Department in 2017. 2016 - 2019 she completed her Master of Curating and Cultural Leadership at the University of New South Wales, Art & Design (UNSWAD).