Born in Essex, England, susan pui san lok lives and works in London. She graduated with a first in Fine Art from Bretton Hall, University of Leeds (1994), followed by an MA with distinction in Feminism and the Visual Arts, again from the University of Leeds (1996). She took up a doctoral research post with Aavaa, the African and Asian Visual Artists Archive co-directed by David A. Bailey and Sonia Boyce, at the University of East London, going on to complete a combined practice/theory Phd in Fine Art (2004). She is currently Research Fellow in Visual Culture in the School of Arts and Education at Middlesex University.