Suzanne Anker was born on August 6,1946 and is an American visual artist and theorist.
19 Facts About Suzanne Anker
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Suzanne Anker's practice investigates the ways in which nature is being altered in the 21st century.
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Suzanne Anker was born in Brooklyn, New York on August 6,1946.
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Suzanne Anker completed independent Studies with Ad Reinhardt and studied at the Brooklyn Museum Art School.
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Suzanne Anker started papermaking in 1974 on the basis of reading Dard Hunter's and Claire Romano's books.
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From a background as a printmaker, Suzanne Anker initially worked with cast paper, made in latex molds.
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Suzanne Anker is considered "one of the pioneers in the broader field of art, science, and technology", particularly in the burgeoning field of bioart.
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From 2004 to 2006, Suzanne Anker hosted twenty episodes of the Bio-Blurb Show, a 30-minute-long internet radio program originally broadcast on WPS1 Art Radio, in collaboration with MoMA.
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In 2006, Suzanne Anker co-curated the exhibition Neuroculture: Visual Art and the Brain, at the Westport Arts Center with Giovanni Frazzetto.
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Suzanne Anker curated the exhibition Fundamentally human: contemporary art and neuroscience at the Pera Museum in Istanbul in 2011.
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Suzanne Anker previously chaired the SVA BFA Art History Department.
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In 2011, Suzanne Anker founded the SVA Bio Art Lab, the first Bio Art laboratory in a Fine Arts Department in the United States.
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Suzanne Anker co-authored The Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age with the American sociologist of science Dorothy Nelkin.
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In 2008 Suzanne Anker co-edited with JD Talasek Visual Culture and Bioscience: Issues in Cultural Theory, No 12, a publication organized by the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland Baltimore County and Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC.
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Suzanne Anker's essay is focused on the pictorial practices employed by both artists and scientists to produce knowledge.
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In 2011 Suzanne Anker contributed to Interspecies, Social Text issue 106, published by Duke University Press.
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Suzanne Anker wrote the foreword to the book Bio Art: Altered Realities, authored by William Myers in 2015.
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Biota is a sculptural installation by Suzanne Anker composed of porcelain sculptures and silver-leaf figurines.
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Suzanne Anker uses local grocery items and manufactured products, as a way to understand specific cultures in the global economy.