[3] She spent her elementary school years in Guayama, Puerto Rico, an industrial town with mainland American companies.
[6] Suárez is known for her installation of Memoria, which includes a pair matching Memory game of 108 mixed media paintings that discuss Latinization of U.S.
[6] In her paintings and drawings, Suárez addresses psychological, political, and social conditions of the immigrant experience in the United States of America.
Frito Lay hangs upside down at the top of the illustration, where he is smiling and has one hand directing straight and the other folded.
[8] From 1997 to 1998, this art piece contains the media of IRIA digital print on paper and flashe paint, prisma color, and graphite.
Suarez, as seen with previous works of hers depicting being part of two cultures,[4] connects political and psychological issues, by using religion and a past U.S. president.
[7] The background is red in company of the waving of lines that represent giant jellyfish surrounding the island.
[7] Suárez claims the island represents Puerto Rico by being invisible, dispensable, and ignored by the United States.
[6] She won the Illinois Arts Council Individual Visual Artist Fellowships Awards three times, in the years of 1991, 1994, and 1999.
[5] She also produced an essay and reproductions of work from the Memory series that were included in Dialogo, volume 15 in 2012, at the Journal of the Center for Latino Research, in DePaul University.