Sue Havens was born in 1972 in Rochester, New York.

She has exhibited with Postmasters, Jeff Bailey, PS 122, Fredrich Petzel, Art in General, Momenta Art, Sara Meltzer, OK Harris, Pierogi, Portland Art Center (Portland), And/Or (Dallas), and The Cooper Union, among others.

Havens is a 2008 fellow in Painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She holds a BFA from The Cooper Union, and an MFA from The Milton Avery Graduate School of The Arts at Bard College.

She is the author of "Make Your Own Toys," 2010, with Random House (Potter Craft).

She currently works in a studio in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches at Pratt Institute and Montclair State University, and paints figures at Madame Tussaud's.