Suzanne Mallouk is best known for her role within a core of East Village creatives in the 1980s and for her relationship with artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, much of which her friend Jennifer Clement chronicled in Widow Basquiat: A Memoir.
20 Facts About Suzanne Mallouk
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Suzanne Mallouk was involved in the pursuit of justice for the death of Michael Stewart, a boyfriend of hers and a fatality of police brutality in 1983.
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In 1985, Suzanne Mallouk had a one-woman show at the Vox Populi Gallery in the East Village.
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Suzanne Mallouk had a brief music career as singer and songwriter, performing under the stage name Ruby Desire.
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Suzanne Mallouk was born in Orangeville, Ontario, Canada, on September 10,1960.
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Suzanne Mallouk arrived in Manhattan on Valentine's Day in 1980 and spent the night at the Seville Hotel before relocating to the Martha Washington Hotel.
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Suzanne Mallouk worked as a waitress at Max's Kansas City, then as a cigarette girl at the Ritz.
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Suzanne Mallouk had moved into her apartment in 1981, and she supported him financially while he focused on painting.
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Suzanne Mallouk was dating aspiring artist and model Michael Stewart at the time of his death from police brutality in 1983.
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Suzanne Mallouk went to the hospital with Stewart's family; she took photos of him as he lay in a coma and gave them to the press.
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Suzanne Mallouk posed for the Italian painter Francesco Clemente, and three of the paintings were shown at Galerie Bruno Bischofberger in Zurich for Collaborations: Basquiat, Clemente, Warhol in 1984.
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Suzanne Mallouk was photographed by Andy Warhol and these photographs are in the Andy Warhol Museum Archive.
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Suzanne Mallouk's work is held in private collections internationally and at the Nakamura Keith Haring Collection in Hokuto, Japan.
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Suzanne Mallouk was signed to Les Disques Du Crepuscule and released a cover of Donna Summer's "Bad Girls" in 1987.
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Suzanne Mallouk co-wrote the song "Like This Like That" by Madagascar, which was released on Capitol Records in 1988.
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The death of Basquiat in August 1988 and the AIDS epidemic were catalysts for Suzanne Mallouk to leave the East Village.
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Suzanne Mallouk went on to receive a bachelor's degree in psychology and chemistry from Hunter College in New York.
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Suzanne Mallouk completed her internship in internal medicine and residency in general psychiatry at Beth Israel Medical Center.
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Suzanne Mallouk is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and became a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association after completing psychoanalytic training at the William Alanson White Institute, in New York City.
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Suzanne Mallouk continues to paint, and has a private practice in New York City as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.