[1][2] Suzi was the eldest child of Ruth Epstein Susser and Samuel Nudelman, both second generation Austrian, Polish and Belarusian Jewish immigrants.

Sasha, as her parents referred to her, graduated from Jamaica High School, New York, in 1958, where she excelled and was active in the drama department.

[3] After graduating, Sasha married Puerto Rican Miguel A. Ferrer, whom she met while he was studying for his MBA at Cornell University.

In the late 1970s, she was hired to do a study of the physics and psychology of color to design the corporate image for the Vancouver Canucks hockey team.

In 1982, she created and directed the television pilot for young people, Smarkus and Company,[5] leading to her move to Los Angeles in 1983.

Drawing on her own experience, Ferrer wrote and produced the NBC documentary Destined to Live,[7] that chronicled the recovery journey of a hundred breast cancer patients, for which she received a 1990 Humanitas Prize.

However, 19 years after her initial cancer diagnosis, and after many periods of remission, she relapsed, passing away in Los Angeles in April 2006, just short of her 66th birthday.

[8] Parallel to her artistic career, in the early seventies she began graduate studies in psychology at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus.

That same year, Antonio Molina, art critic for the newspaper El Mundo, included Ferrer in the artist biographies section in volume VIII of the Gran Enciclopedia de Puerto Rico.

In the 1970s, Ferrer produced drawings, prints and complex, immersive art installations which used acrylic or Plexiglas, as support for her works.

Pop art became the ideal platform for navigating these issues: Ferrer juxtaposed comic book superhero images, catechism textbook illustrations, Chris Foss' drawings published in The Joy of Sex, illustrations by children’s author Richard Scarry, and art-historical references to create images critical of patriarchal society.

[1] Almost fifty years after her pieces were first exhibited in galleries in Puerto Rico, art historian Melissa M. Ramos Borges organized and curated the first retrospective of the artist.

1974 Inaugural exhibition, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Viejo San Juan, Puerto Mujeres Puertorriqueñas, La Galería, Viejo San Juan Puerto Rican Prints, organized by the Pratt Graphic Center, New York.

1973 Primavera, Galería Colibrí, Viejo San Juan, Puerto Rico[19] New York Artists WestBroadway, Rundetårn, Copenhagen, Denmark.

10 Best Dressed Women in Puerto Rico, The San Juan Star, 1969[26] Special Award Winner, 15th Annual Humanitas Prize, 1990[27] Bloch, Peter.

(includes plates and description of her 1973 installation Portrait in Six Dimensions) Fernández Méndez, Eugenio y Manuel Cárdenas Ruiz.

Ramos Borges, Melissa M. "Omisión O Censura: Una Revisión De La Vanguardia Artística En Puerto Rico, 1960-1970."

(Author analyses installation 'Portrait in Six Dimmensions' using Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex as theoretical framework) Rodríguez, Jorge.