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Vivian Suter

Vivian Suter

Argentine-Swiss artist

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

References

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    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.
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