Suzanne Anker (Day and Night)

Astroculture, 2018
Galvanized steel cubes, LED lights, live plants grown in the Museum

Suzanne Anker
Astroculture, 2018
Galvanized steel cubes, LED lights, live plants grown in the Museum

Suzanne Anker
Astroculture, 2018
Galvanized steel cubes, LED lights, live plants grown in the Museum

Biography
Suzanne Anker is a Bio Art pioneer, visual artist and theorist working at the intersection of art and the biological sciences. Her practice investigates the ways in which nature is being altered in the 21st century. Concerned with genetics, climate change, species extinction and toxic degradation, she calls attention to the beauty of life and the “necessity for enlightened thinking about nature’s ‘tangled bank’.” She works in a variety of media ranging from large-scale photography, sculpture and installation as well as live plants which grow by LED lights. Her work has been shown at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Daejeon Biennale, Korea; Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; Today Art Museum, Beijing, China; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.; Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; P.S.1 Museum, New York, NY; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité, Berlin, Germany; Center for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, Germany; Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey; Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; and International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. Her books include The Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age, co-authored with the late sociologist Dorothy Nelkin, published in 2004 by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, and Visual Culture and Bioscience, co-published by University of Maryland and the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. She is a member of the National Academy of Design, an honorary society of notable American artists. Chairing SVA’s Fine Arts Department in NYC since 2005, Ms. Anker continues to interweave traditional and experimental media in her department’s new digital initiative and the SVA Bio Art Laboratory.