Suzanne Treister Overview

Suzanne Treister was born in London and studied at St Martin's and Chelsea Schools of Art. Treister has lived in Australia, New York and Berlin and is currently based in London. Primarily a painter through the 1980s, Treister was a pioneer... [more]

Suzanne Treister was born in London and studied at St Martin's and Chelsea Schools of Art. Treister has lived in Australia, New York and Berlin and is currently based in London. 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. Currently using various media including video, the internet, interactive technologies, photography, drawing and painting, Treister's practice deals with notions of identity, history, power and the hallucinatory. Her constructions, described by Art in America as 'One of the most sustained fantasy trips of contemporary art', belie a deeper mission: to explore how we make sense of history and the politics of war. [show less]