Suzaan Boettger is an art historian and critic in New York City and Professor Emerita at Bergen Community College, New Jersey. Dr. Boettger has published over 360 articles and reviews of exhibitions and books and has lectured widely. As a scholar of environmental art, she wrote the extensively contextualized foundational history, Earthworks: Art and the Landscape of the Sixties. Turning to environmentalist art, her essays on artists’ engagement with degrading ecologies and the survey article “Within and Beyond the Art World: Environmentalist Criticism of Visual Art” have been widely read. 

After Dr Boetter discovered hidden aspects of Robert Smithson’s life and art, her intended monograph became the “compelling psychobiography” Inside the Spiral: The Passions of Robert Smithson. Also among the book's twenty reviews are acclaims for it as "a scholarly tour de force, suavely written, and loaded with quotations from artists, writers, his friends, eccentric books in his library and intellectuals that ‘influenced’ or ‘echoed’ his ideas;” and “full of startling revelations, scathing critiques of the New York art world, and examinations of Smithson’s entire body of work from art historical, philosophical, religious, psychoanalytical, and literary points of view.”

In recent reviews she has applied little-known biographical histories to enlarge understanding of Caspar David Friedrich and Marcel Duchamp. The texts of those and many other publications linked, as are the above quotations, at www.suzaanboettger.net