Installation view, Vivian Suter with Elisabeth Wild: La Canícula, The Power Plant, Toronto, 2018.
Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid.

About

Vivian Suter (b. 1949, Buenos Aires, Argentina) studied in Basel, Switzerland and lives and works in Panajachel, Guatemala. Solo exhibitions of the artist’s work have been held at numerous international institutions, including: Museom of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal; Fundación Cervieri Monsuárez, Maldonado, Uruguay; Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy; Vleeshal, Middleburg, Netherlands; Kunstmuseum Basel Gegenwart, Switzerland; Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Brücke Museum, Berlin; Camden Arts Centre, London; Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boson, Massachusetts; Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg; The Power Plant, Toronto; Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; Jewish Museum, New York; Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; Kunstmuseum Olten, Switzerland; and Kunstmuseum des Kantons Thurgau, Kartause Ittingen, Warth, Switzerland.

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Publications

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Vivian Suter’s Paintings Breathe With Life

Hyperallergic

Anna Souter

November 11, 2024

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Artist Vivian Suter’s Guatemalan jungle hideaway

Financial Times

Hannah Williams

November 7, 2024

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A worm in a glass of water

HART Magazine

April 1, 2022

Vivian Suter

Artforum

Daniel Birnbaum

January 1, 2022

We Had Every Meal Together: Artist Vivian Suter on the Close Artistic Bond She Forged With Her Late Mother

ARTnews

Kate Brown

September 25, 2020

Vivian Suter

Artforum

Ren Ebel

March 23, 2020

Vivian Suter’s Painting – Based Installations Register the Volatility of Nature

Art in America

Elizabeth Fullerton

February 25, 2020

The Untamed Jungles of Vivian Suter’s Abstract Paintings

Hyperallergic

Naomi Polonsky

February 17, 2020

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