Suzanne Treister

© Claudia Marcelloni

Suzanne Treister (b.1958, London, UK) is based in London and the French Pyrenees. Initially recognized in the 1980s as a painter, she became a pioneer in digital and new media from the early 1990s, making work about emerging technologies, developing fictional worlds and international collaborative organisations. Working across video, internet, interactive media, 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. Recent solo and group exhibitions include: 5th Industrial Art Biennial, Croatia; 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale; The Warburg Institute, London (2025); Tate Modern, London; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; United Nations, New York (2024); 14th Shanghai Biennale; Museion, Bolzano; Centre Pompidou-Metz; Helsinki Biennial; ARoS Kunstmuseum, Aarhus; (2023–24); High Line, New York; Plateforme 10, Lausanne; Hayward Gallery Touring, London; Albertinum, Dresden (2022).