Vivian Suter Explained

Vivian Suter
Birth Name:Vivian Wild
Birth Place:Buenos Aires
Parents:Elisabeth Wild

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

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] 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.[5] 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,[6] the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw,[7] and the Kunstmuseum Luzern.

Exhibitions

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Vivian Suter: Forces of Nature . artreview.com . en.
  2. Web site: Thackara . Tess . A Painter Who Left the Art World in Order to Actually Make Art . The New York Times . 17 April 2019.
  3. Web site: Armitstead . Claire . Vivian Suter: the rainforest-dwelling artist who paints with fish glue, dogs and mud . The Guardian . en . 7 January 2020.
  4. Web site: Vivian Suter . www.documenta14.de . en.
  5. Web site: Family Trees: Elisabeth Wild and Vivian Suter Frieze . Frieze . en.
  6. Web site: Vivian Suter born 1949 . Tate.
  7. Web site: Vivian Suter - Untitled - Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw . artmuseum.pl . en.
  8. Web site: 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.
  9. Web site: Ayers . Robert . 'The Wind, the Rain, the Volcanoes': Vivian Suter Gives Nature Free Rein in a Seductive Show at the Jewish Museum . ARTnews.com . 6 June 2017.
  10. Web site: The Power Plant - Exhibitions – The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery – Harbourfront Centre . thepowerplant.org.
  11. Web site: Vivian Suter icaboston.org . www.icaboston.org.
  12. Web site: Lloyd . Joe . Vivian Suter . www.studiointernational.com.
  13. Web site: Luke . Ben . Vivian Suter: Tintin's Sofa review — Embracing the elements . www.standard.co.uk . en . 20 January 2020.
  14. Web site: Fullerton . Elizabeth . Vivian Suter's Painting-Based Installations Register the Volatility of Nature . ARTnews.com . 25 February 2020.
  15. Web site: Vivian Suter at Camden Arts Centre . www.artforum.com.
  16. Web site: Vivian Suter Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía . www.museoreinasofia.es . en.
  17. Web site: Vivian Suter. Retrospective. 25 October 2021. www.kunstmuseumluzern.ch.
  18. Web site: Vivian Suter: A Stone in the Lake . secession . Vereinigung bildender Künstler*innen Wiener Secession . 2 October 2023.

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