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Born | Vivian Wild 1949 (age 73–74) Buenos Aires |
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Parent | Elisabeth Wild |
Vivian Suter (born 1949) is an Argentine-Swiss painter.
Suter 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]
In 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.
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