Vivian Suter

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Vivian Suter
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Born
Vivian Wild

1949 (age 7374)
Buenos Aires
Nationality
  • Argentina
  • Switzerland
Parent Elisabeth Wild

Vivian Suter (born 1949) is an Argentine-Swiss painter.

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Early life

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]

Career

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.

Exhibitions

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 Thackara, Tess (17 April 2019). "A Painter Who Left the Art World in Order to Actually Make Art". The New York Times.
  3. 1 2 Armitstead, Claire (7 January 2020). "Vivian Suter: the rainforest-dwelling artist who paints with fish glue, dogs and mud". The Guardian.
  4. 1 2 3 "Vivian Suter". www.documenta14.de.
  5. 1 2 Lloyd, Joe. "Vivian Suter". www.studiointernational.com.
  6. "Family Trees: Elisabeth Wild and Vivian Suter | Frieze". Frieze.
  7. "Vivian Suter born 1949". Tate.
  8. "Vivian Suter - Untitled - Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw". artmuseum.pl.
  9. "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.
  10. 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.
  11. "The Power Plant - Exhibitions – The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery – Harbourfront Centre". thepowerplant.org.
  12. "Vivian Suter | icaboston.org". www.icaboston.org.
  13. Luke, Ben (20 January 2020). "Vivian Suter: Tintin's Sofa review — Embracing the elements". www.standard.co.uk.
  14. Fullerton, Elizabeth (25 February 2020). "Vivian Suter's Painting-Based Installations Register the Volatility of Nature". ARTnews.com.
  15. "Vivian Suter at Camden Arts Centre". www.artforum.com.
  16. "Vivian Suter | Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía". www.museoreinasofia.es.
  17. "Vivian Suter. Retrospective". www.kunstmuseumluzern.ch. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  18. "Vivian Suter: A Stone in the Lake". secession. Vereinigung bildender Künstler*innen Wiener Secession. Retrieved 2 October 2023.