Suzanne Treister
Initially recognized in the 1980s as a painter, Suzanna Treister became a pioneer in the digital/new media/web based field from the beginning of the 1990s, making work about emerging technologies, developing fictional worlds, and international collaborative organization. Utilizing various media, including video, the internet, interactive technologies, photography, drawing and watercolor, Treister has evolved a large body of work that engages with eccentric narratives and unconventional bodies of research to reveal structures that bind power, identity, and knowledge. Often spanning several years, her projects comprise fantastic reinterpretations of given taxonomies and histories that examine the existence of covert, unseen forces at work in the world, whether corporate, military or paranormal.
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Treister's extensive body of work has been featured in a number of solo shows, most recently at P.P.O.W. in New York, Annely Juda Fine Art in London, Exhibition Research Lab (ERL)/Liverpool Biennial 2016, Acting Out Festival in Nottinham, England, Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA), Ohio, Science Museum in London, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Insitute of Modern Art in Brisbane as well as countless group shows. Some of her current and forthcoming group shows and events include the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Haus der Kulturen der …
Initially recognized in the 1980s as a painter, Suzanna Treister became a pioneer in the digital/new media/web based field from the beginning of the 1990s, making work about emerging technologies, developing fictional worlds, and international collaborative organization. Utilizing various media, including video, the internet, interactive technologies, photography, drawing and watercolor, Treister has evolved a large body of work that engages with eccentric narratives and unconventional bodies of research to reveal structures that bind power, identity, and knowledge. Often spanning several years, her projects comprise fantastic reinterpretations of given taxonomies and histories that examine the existence of covert, unseen forces at work in the world, whether corporate, military or paranormal.
Courtesy of the artist.
Treister's extensive body of work has been featured in a number of solo shows, most recently at P.P.O.W. in New York, Annely Juda Fine Art in London, Exhibition Research Lab (ERL)/Liverpool Biennial 2016, Acting Out Festival in Nottinham, England, Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA), Ohio, Science Museum in London, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Insitute of Modern Art in Brisbane as well as countless group shows. Some of her current and forthcoming group shows and events include the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, Tenderpixel in London, Fridman Gallery in New York, IMMA-Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, and Drawing Biennial 2017 Drawing Room in London. Treister's work can also be found in a number of public collections such as the Arts Council of England, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, EMI Paris, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA,) Science Museum London, and the Tate Britain.
