Susana Valera Read (Susana Valera-Pukit), is a visual artist originally from the Dominican Republic. She uses various painting processes and printmaking techniques to create geometric inspired landscapes that sometimes suggest contemporary urban settings, and domestic spaces. Her work explores themes of memory and personal experience. 

Valera Read holds a AAS from Altos de Chavón School of Design, a BFA from Parsons-The New School and an MFA from Lehman College. She lives and works as a painter, ceramists, and teaching artist in Westchester, New York.