Artist profile

Suzanne Treister

The Escapist BHST/Interplanetary Spacetime Algorithm (2019)

Oil on canvas
213 x 152 cm (ref:ST1385)

The Escapist BHST/Hallucinatory Rays Of Infinite Super Intelligence Abound - Algorithm 19 (2019)

Oil on canvas
40 x 30 cm (ref:ST1329)

SURVIVOR (F)/The Reverie of Mass Teleportation (2019)

Oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm (ref:ST1299)

SURVIVOR (F)/Museum of Machine Telepathy (2019)

Oil on linen
46 x 33 cm (ref:ST1366)

The Escapist BHST/Ancient Wandering Algorithm (2018-19)

Archival giclée print on Hahnemuhle paper
29.7 x 21 cm, edition of 15 (ref:ST1362)

The Escapist BHST/Astrophysical Black Hole (2018-19)

Archival giclée print on Hahnemuhle paper
29.7 x 21 cm, edition of 15 (ref:ST1339)

The Escapist BHST/Beyond Dark Matter (2018-19)

Archival giclée print on Hahnemuhle paper
29.7 x 21 cm, edition of 15 (ref:ST1358)

The Escapist BHST/Black Hole Spacetime/A Time Before the Beginning of Time (2018-19)

Archival giclée print on Hahnemuhle paper
29.7 x 21 cm, edition of 15 (ref:ST1360)

SURVIVOR (F)/One Million Years Before And After The Internet (2017)

Oil on canvas
213 x 152 cm (ref:ST1042)

SURVIVOR (F)/Red Algorithm Apocalypse (2017 )

Oil on canvas
30 x 30 cm (ref:ST1288)

SURVIVOR (F)/Dress for Space Travel (2017)

Oil on linen
35 x 27 cm (ref:ST1291)

HFT The Gardener/Diagrams/Key Diagram (2014-15)

Pencil and watercolour on cartridge paper/digital print
42 x 29.7 cm, edition of 15 (ref:ST0840)

HFT The Gardener/Diagrams/69 Banks (2014-15)

Archival giclee prints on Hahnemuhle Bamboo paper
42 x 29.7 cm, edition of 15 (ref:ST1092)

HFT The Gardener/Outsider artworks/Argyreia nervosa (Woodrose) (2014-15)

Pencil and watercolour on cartridge paper/digital print
21 x 29.7 cm, edition of15 (ref:ST0860)

HFT The Gardener/Outsider artworks/Boletus kumeus (Nonda) (2014-15)

Pencil and watercolour on cartridge paper/digital prints
21 x 29.7 cm, edition of 15 (ref:ST0864)

HFT The Gardener/Shaman Visions/A Zapotec shaman in San Bartolo Yautepec, Mexico, preparing an infusion of Ipomoea violacea (2014-15)

Watercolour on cartridge paper/digital print
21 x 29.7 cm, edition of 15 (ref:ST0948)

HFT The Gardener/Shaman Visions/Maria Sabina, Mazatec shaman, performing Velada (2014-15)

Watercolour on cartridge paper/digital print
21 x 29.7 cm, edition of 15 (ref:ST0952)

HFT The Gardener/Video stills and photo works/NASDAQ Trading vision 6 (2014-15)

Digital print
21 x 29.7 cm, edition of 15 (ref:ST0987)

HFT The Gardener/Video stills and photo works/US Embassy, Nine Elms, London, UK (2014-15)

Digital print
29.7 x 42 cm, edition of 15 (ref:ST0976)

ALGORITHM 1 (2013)

Venus pencil on paper
100 x 70 cm (ref:ST0760)

ALGORITHM 3 (2013)

Gouache on Fabriano paper
100 x 70 cm (ref:ST0761)

ALGORITHM 5 (2013)

Rotring ink on Fabriano paper
100 x 70 cm (ref:ST0762)

In The Name Of Art (2012-13)

Archival giclée print on Hahnemuhle Bamboo paper
180 parts: each 21 x 29.7 cm (ref:ST0754)

CAMOUFLAGE/DoD_IEA_V2_2012_P10 (2013)

Inkjet and watercolour on Hahnemuhle Bamboo paper
29.7 x 21 cm (ref:ST0752)

CAMOUFLAGE/Prism_2013_SlideUpstream (2013)

Inkjet and watercolour on Hahnemuhle Bamboo paper
21 x 29.7 cm (ref:ST0751)

CAMOUFLAGE/Prism_2013_Slide2 (2013)

Inkjet and watercolour on Hahnemuhle Bamboo paper
21 x 29.7 cm (ref:ST0749)

Orchis Militaris (2013)

Watercolour on Arches paper
overall: 124 x 189 cm (ref:ST0705)

ALCHEMY / The Guardian, Tuesday 5 June 2007 (2007)

Rotring ink on paper
21 x 29.7 cm (ref:ST0694)

ALCHEMY / Berliner Zeitung, 16 November 2007 (2007)

Rotring ink on paper
21 x 29.7 cm (ref:ST0693)

The U.S. National Security Agency on Fire (2010)

Venus pencil on watercolour paper
63 x 122 cm (ref:ST0167)

CIA BLACK SITES #1 - 20 (2010)

Pencil on paper
20 parts, each: 29.7 x 21 cm (ref:ST0144)

Alchemy/The Sun 18 July 2007 (2007)

Watercolour on paper
152.5 x 122 cm (ref:ST0082)

Alchemy/The Times 7 August 2007 (2007)

Watercolour on paper
152.5 x 122 cm (ref:ST0084)

SURVIVOR (F)/The Sky Was The Colour Of The Death Of The Internet (2019 )

oil on linen
41 x 33 cm (ref:ST1462)

An ongoing focus of Treister's work is the relationship between new technologies, society, alternative belief systems and the potential futures of humanity. 

Suzanne Treister studied at St Martin’s School of Art, London (1978–81) and Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (1981–82). She is now based in London having lived in Australia, New York and Berlin. Primarily a painter through the 1980s, Treister was a pioneer in the digital/new media/web based field from the beginning of the 1990s, developing fictional worlds and international collaborative organisations. Utilising various media, including video, the internet, interactive technologies, photography, drawing and watercolour, Treister has evolved a large body of work which engages with eccentric narratives and unconventional bodies of research to reveal structures that bind power, identity and knowledge.

Biography

1958
Born in London
1977–78
Studied at Brighton Polytechnic
1978–81
Undergraduate studies at St Martins School of Art, London
1981–82
Postgraduate studies at Chelsea School of Art, London

Selected exhibitions

2019
The Escapist BHST (Black Hole Spacetime), Digital Commission, Serpentine Galleries, London
2019
From SURVIVOR (F) to The Escapist BHST (Black Hole Spacetime), Annely Juda Fine Art, London
2019
SURVIVOR (F)/The New Planet, Sunset Digital Billboards project, IF Innovation Foundation, LA
2018
Le voyage à Bordeaux de Suzanne Treister - Histoires parallèles et récits excentriques, CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux
2017
Works from SURVIVOR (F), IMT Gallery, London
2016
HFT The Gardener, Exhibition Research Lab (ERL)/Liverpool Biennial 2016, Liverpool
2016
HFT The Gardener, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
2015
HEXEN 2.0, Fig-2, ICA, London
2014
Supper for Snowden, Supper Club, Die AU café/restaurant, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
2013
In The Name of Art and Other Works, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
2013
HEXEN 2.0, Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA), Cleveland, Ohio
2013
HEXEN 2.0, P.P.O.W, New York
2012
HEXEN 2.0, Science Museum, London
2012
HEXEN 2.0, Hartware MedienKunstverein, Dortmund
2011
HEXEN 2.0, DEATH BE KIND, Melbourne
2009
MTB [Military Training Base], Alma Enterprises, London
2008
3 Projects, Annely Juda Fine Art, London

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