Suzanne Treister - bio/info

Suzanne Treister (b.1958 London UK) studied at St Martin's School of Art, London (1978-1981) and Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (1981-1982) and is based in London and the French Pyrennes, having lived in Australia, New York and Berlin. Initially recognized in the 1980s as a painter, she 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 organisations. Utilising various media, including video, the internet, interactive technologies, photography, drawing and watercolour, Treister's work has engaged 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 forces at work in the world. An ongoing focus of her work is the relationship between new technologies, society, alternative belief systems and the potential futures of humanity.

Recent solo and group exhibitions include:
14th Shanghai Biennale; Museion Bolzano, Italy; Centre Pompidou-Metz; Helsinki Biennial, Finland; ARoS Kunstmuseum, Denmark; P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York (2023-4), High Line, New York; Plateforme 10, Lausanne; Hayward Gallery Touring; Albertinum, Dresden; Somerset House, London; Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw (2022) 7th Athens Biennale, Greece; Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland; 34th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts; Kunstmuseum Appenzell, Switzerland (2021); Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Yerevan Biennial, Armenia (2020); Istanbul Biennial, Turkey; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (2019); Busan Biennale, Korea; CAPC, Bordeaux, France; EKKM, Tallinn, Estonia; CCCB, Barcelona; ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (2018); IMMA, Dublin; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada (2017); Liverpool Biennial, UK; V&A Museum, London; Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden; Bard Hessel Museum, NY, USA (2016); ICA, London, England; Centre Pompidou, Paris

Commissions and Awards include:
Digital Commission, Serpentine Galleries, London, England (2019); COLLIDE International Award, CERN Geneva/FACT UK (2018); The Spaceships of Bordeaux, Public art project - Commande artistique Garonne, Bordeaux, France (2013-21)

Published monographs include:
'Suzanne Treister: From Survivor (F) To The Escapist BHST (Black Hole Spacetime)', Serpentine Galleries and Koenig Books, London, 2019
'HFT The Gardener' Black Dog Publishing, London, 2016
'HEXEN 2.0' Black Dog Publishing, London, 2012
'HEXEN 2.0 Tarot' Black Dog Publishing, London, 2012
'NATO The Military Codification System for the Ordering of Everything in the World', Black Dog Publishing, London, 2008.
'Hexen 2039 - new military-occult technologies for psychological warfare', Black Dog Publishing, London 2006.
'No Other Symptoms - Time Travelling with Rosalind Brodsky' CD ROM with 124 page colour hardback book. Published by Black Dog Publishing, London 1999.

Website: http://www.suzannetreister.net

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Suzanne Treister - Biographie

Suzanne Treister est née en 1958. Elle vit et travaille entre Londres et les Pyrénées. Pionnière dans le domaine des nouveaux médias depuis 1989, Suzanne Treister travaille sur la frontière perméable qui sépare les limites de la recherche scientifique des révélations mystiques. Ses projets, qui s’étendent souvent sur plusieurs années, interrogent la relation entre les technologies émergentes, la société et les systèmes de croyance alternatifs pour suggérer des forces invisibles qui façonnent notre réalité actuelle et ont des implications pour l’avenir que nous commençons à peine à comprendre.

Ses œuvres ont été présentées dans de nombreuses institutions, notamment à la Tate Modern (Royaume-Uni, 2024), à la 14e Biennale de Shanghai (Chine, 2023), au High Line (New York, États-Unis, 2022), à la Serpentine Galleries (Royaume- Uni, 2019), au Centre Pompidou (France, 2015) et La commande artistique Garonne (Bordeaux, France, 2013-2022).