Susan Weil was part of the New York School of artists who were active in the 1950s. She was educated the Académie Julian in Paris and the renowned Black Mountain College under the tutelage of Josef Albers. Weil has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Guggenheim Fellowship and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her work is in several prominent museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. She has exhibited internationally at the Smithsonian Museum, Washington D.C.; National Museum, Stockholm; Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki; Bayerischen Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich; and Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid. Weil continues to live and work in New York City.

Susan Weil's mixed-media works address the plastic quality of time and space through processes of cutting, crumpling and refiguring her compositions. In allowing the viewer's eye to contemplate a series of moments and perspectives at once, Weil generously gives an almost omniscient power to the viewer, as well as a sense not of fractured time but of a more truthful depiction of genuine experience. Weil has influenced many in the Abstract Expressionist movement- especially her ex-husband, Robert Rauschenberg, with whom she collaborated on many projects, most notably the Blueprint paintings of 1950. Her work is in many major museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; The Museum Of Modern Art, New York, New York; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California.