Vivian Suter (born 1949) is an Argentine-Swiss painter.
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| Born | Vivian Wild 1949 (age 74–75) Buenos Aires |
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| Parent | Elisabeth Wild |
Early life
editSuter was born in Buenos Aires. Her mother, Elisabeth Wild, was a noted collage artist. At the age of 12, Suter moved to Basel, Switzerland with her family.[1]
Career
editIn the 1970s she exhibited in a group show at Stampa gallery in Basel, Switzerland.[2] In 1981, she was part of a group exhibition at the Kunsthalle Basel.[2] In 1982 she moved to a former coffee plantation in the rainforest of Panajachel, Guatemala.[3][4][5] Suter attracted little critical attention between until 2011, when the curator Adam Szymczyk contacted her to recreate the 1981 group show at the Kunsthalle Basel.[2] Since 2011 she has held numerous significant solo shows in European and North American galleries and museums.[2] Vivian Suter has been awarded the Swiss Grand Award for Art / Prix Meret Oppenheim 2021 by the Federal Office of Culture.
Suter paints in a wall-less open air studio attached to her home.[6] She has been known to use non-traditional materials in her paintings, such as fish glue, volcanic material, soil, botanical matter, and house paint, some of which are reflective of her local environment.[3][4]
Her work is included in the collections of the Tate,[7] the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw,[8] and the Kunstmuseum Luzern.
Exhibitions
edit- 2017: Jewish Museum, New York[9][10]
- 2017: Documenta 14, Kassel[4]
- 2018: Vivian Suter and Elizabeth Wild, The Power Plant, Toronto[11]
- 2019: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston[12]
- 2019: Tate Liverpool[5]
- 2020: TinTin's Garden, Camden Arts Centre[13][14][15]
- 2021: Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid[16]
- 2021: Kunstmuseum Luzern[17]
- 2023: Secession Building, Vienna[18]
References
edit- ^ "Vivian Suter: Forces of Nature". artreview.com.
- ^ a b c d Thackara, Tess (17 April 2019). "A Painter Who Left the Art World in Order to Actually Make Art". The New York Times.
- ^ a b Armitstead, Claire (7 January 2020). "Vivian Suter: the rainforest-dwelling artist who paints with fish glue, dogs and mud". The Guardian.
- ^ a b c "Vivian Suter". www.documenta14.de.
- ^ a b Lloyd, Joe. "Vivian Suter". www.studiointernational.com.
- ^ "Family Trees: Elisabeth Wild and Vivian Suter | Frieze". Frieze.
- ^ "Vivian Suter born 1949". Tate.
- ^ "Vivian Suter - Untitled - Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw". artmuseum.pl.
- ^ "First U.S. Presentation of Work by Vivian Suter Opens in May as Part of the Series Using Walls, Floors, and Ceilings". The Jewish Museum.
- ^ Ayers, Robert (6 June 2017). "'The Wind, the Rain, the Volcanoes': Vivian Suter Gives Nature Free Rein in a Seductive Show at the Jewish Museum". ARTnews.com.
- ^ "The Power Plant - Exhibitions – The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery – Harbourfront Centre". thepowerplant.org.
- ^ "Vivian Suter | icaboston.org". www.icaboston.org.
- ^ Luke, Ben (20 January 2020). "Vivian Suter: Tintin's Sofa review — Embracing the elements". www.standard.co.uk.
- ^ Fullerton, Elizabeth (25 February 2020). "Vivian Suter's Painting-Based Installations Register the Volatility of Nature". ARTnews.com.
- ^ "Vivian Suter at Camden Arts Centre". www.artforum.com.
- ^ "Vivian Suter | Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía". www.museoreinasofia.es.
- ^ "Vivian Suter. Retrospective". www.kunstmuseumluzern.ch. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
- ^ "Vivian Suter: A Stone in the Lake". secession. Vereinigung bildender Künstler*innen Wiener Secession. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
