Artist profile
Suzanne Treister

The Escapist BHST/Hallucinatory Rays Of Infinite Super Intelligence Abound - Algorithm 19 (2019)
Oil on canvas
40 x 30 cm (ref:ST1329)

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)

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)

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)
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