Bonnie Phelps Sucec was born in Midvale, Utah in 1942.  She is the creator of spiritual and imagist works and also an art educator.  She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Sucec first studied with Don Olsen at Jordan High School.  She then studied at Brigham Young University from 1960 to 1962; she studied further at California College of Arts and Crafts from 1962 to 1963.  She then attended Virginia Commonwealth University where she studied sculpture (1975–76).  Sucec earned an MFA in painting drawing from the University of Utah (1981–84).  Her work is nonrepresentational and her preferred medium is gouache.  The War and the World, Life Line, and Fluid Vision are examples of her work.

Sucec as served as an art educator, as an artist-in-school,  and as a project coordinator for Lallapalooza, the children’s art agency.

Sucec has received a visual arts fellowship from the Utah Arts Council (2003) and an individual artist grant from the Utah Arts Council (1997).  She was also a finalist for a visual artist fellowship from the Utah Arts Council (1993).  Her work is included in the collection of the Salt Lake Art Center, the Utah Arts Council, and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts.  The Phillips Gallery represents her work.

Biographical information on this page was adapted from Artists of Utah.